• Ph.D. in Public Finance and Policy Analysis at Indiana University - Bloomington, 1998

MAJOR FIELDS OF EXPERTISE

• Performance measurement and budgeting

• Applied public finance research

• Information technology management and e-government

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Associate Professor, School of Public & Environmental Affairs, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, 2004-now

• Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Iowa State University, 1998-2004

• Research Assistant and Associate, Center for Urban Policy and the Environment, 1992-1998

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• American Society for Public Administration

• Association for Budgeting and Financial Management

• Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management

• National Tax Association

MAJOR FIELDS OF EXPERTISE

• Performance measurement and budgeting

• Applied public finance research

• Information technology management and e-government

INTELLECTUAL CONTRIBUTIONS

• Ho, Alfred Tat-Kei, Kurt Thurmaier, and Lilly Lu (2006). "Testing the Reluctant Professor's Hypothesis: Evaluating a Blended-Learning Approach to Distance Education." Journal of Public Affairs Education, 12(1), 81-102.

• Ho, Alfred Tat-Kei (2006). "Accounting for the Value of Performance Measurement from the Perspective of City Mayors." Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory, 16(2), 217-237.

• Premkumar, G., Alfred Tat-Kei Ho, and Pallavi Chakraborty (2006). "E-government evolution - an evaluation of online services." International Journal of Electronic Business, 4(2), 177-190.

• Ho, Alfred Tat-Kei, and Paul Coates (2006). "Public Participation in Performance Measurement & Budgeting." Handbook of Public Financial Management, edited by Howard Frank. NY: Taylor & Francis, 545-566.

• Ni, Anna and Alfred Tat-Kei Ho (2005). "Lessons for IT Managers from Two Information Kiosk Projects," Government Information Quarterly, 22:58-74.

• Ho, Alfred Tat-Kei and Anna Ni. (2005). "Have Cities Shifted to Outcome-Oriented Performance Reporting? A Content Analysis of City Budgets," Public Budgeting & Finance, 25(2), 61-83.

• Ho, Alfred Tat-Kei, and Anna Ni (2004). "Explaining the Progressiveness of E-Government: A Case Study of Iowa County Treasurers' Offices." American Review of Public Administration, 34(2), 164-180.

• Coates, Paul, and Alfred Tat-Kei Ho (2004). "One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward -- A Consolidation Attempt Without Power Deflation," Reshaping the Local Government Landscape, vol. II, edited by Suzanne Leland and Kurt Thurmaier. M. E. Sharpe.

• Ho, Alfred Tat-Kei, and Paul Coates (2004). "Citizen-Initiated Performance Assessment - the Initial Iowa Experience," Public Performance & Management Review, 27(3), 29-50.

• Ho, Alfred Tat-Kei (2003). "Perceptions of Performance Measurement and the Practice of Performance Reporting by Small Cities," State and Local Government Review, 35(3), 161-173.

• Ho, Alfred Tat-Kei (2002). "Reinventing Local Governments and the E-Government Initiative," Public Administration Review, 62(4), 410-420.

COURSES TAUGHT

• SPEA V560 Public Budgeting and Finance

• SPEA V526 Financial Management for the Non-for-Profit Sector

• SPEA V372 Public Budgeting and Finance

• SPEA V361/H352 Financial Management

SERVICE

• Invited presentations before the Indiana Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Affairs, the Local Government Efficiency Financing Commission of the Indiana Legislature, the Guangdong Finance Department (People's Republic of China)

• Board of editors and reviewer, Public Performance and Management Review, 2003-now

• Reviewer, American Review of Public Administration, 2000-present

• Board of Directors, Iowans for a Better Future, 2001

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

• Recipient of the IBM Business of Government Grant. Report topic: "Partnerships

with Citizens in Performance Measurement of Government."

• Iowa State Foundation Award for Early Achievement in Teaching

• Pi Alpha Alpha inductee