Kenneth J. Meier is Distinguished Scholar in Residence in the Department of Public Administration and Policy, School of Public Affairs at American University and holds faculty appointments as a professor of public management at the Cardiff University School of Business (Wales) and professor of public administration (Chair in Bureaucracy and Democracy) at Leiden University, the Netherlands. A Fellow of the Danish Centre for Social Science Research, Meier has published widely on topics of race, politics, public management and public policy.