The heart of NYU Wagner's programs is our faculty. An amalgam of full-time, clinical/research/visiting, and adjunct professors, they are outstanding teachers, expert researchers and committed practitioners.
The heart of NYU Wagner's programs is our faculty. An amalgam of full-time, clinical/research/visiting, and adjunct professors, they are outstanding teachers, expert researchers and committed practitioners.
The Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service is home to research and policy centers, institutes, and initiatives that focus on solving urban problems and strengthening public policy and public service nationally and around the world.
Ranked #6 in Public Affairs by U.S. News & World Report, the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service educates the future leaders of public, nonprofit, healthcare and private sector organizations addressing the world's critical issues.
Students arrive at NYU with the desire to serve the public. They leave with the skills and experience to bring about change. Combining coursework in management, finance and policy with cutting-edge research and work experience in urban communities, the NYU Wagner education will enable you to transform your personal commitment into public leadership.
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Kieke Okma received a Ph.D. from the Medical Faculty at the University of Utrecht and a master's degree in economics from Free University, Amsterdam. She has worked as a senior policy advisor at the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport in the Netherlands. In 1999-2002 she also held a part-time position as an associate professor at the School of Public Policy Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Prior to that she was a visiting professor at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver (1995-1998); executive secretary to the Steering Committee on Health Care Reforms in Ministry of Welfare, Health and Cultural Affairs, the Netherlands (1989-1993); adviser to the Parliamentary Investigative Committee on Decision-Making in Health Care (1994); executive secretary to the Advisory Committee on Budgeting Health Insurers (1993); executive secretary to the Advisory Committee on the Position of Nursing Professionals (1990-1991); deputy director of the Netherlands Foreign Trade Office (1987-1989); adviser on the Investigative Committee on Housing Subsidies, Dutch Parliament (1987); second economic secretary to the Netherlands Embassy, Washington, D.C. (1984-1987); and technical assistant to the executive director of the World Bank, Washington, D.C. (1982-1984). She also worked at the Department of International Financial Relations, Ministry of Finance, The Hague (1980-1982) and was a research fellow at the Center for World Food Studies, Free University, Amsterdam (1977-1980). Since 1995 she has been the chair, rapporteur, and member of the steering committee of the annual Four Country Conference of Health Care Policies and Health Care Reforms.
She took early retirement from her job at the Dutch Ministry of Health in 2004. In 2004 she was Visiting Research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Canada at McGill University in Montreal, and in 2005, Research Fellow at the Hanse Institue of the University of Bremen. In 2006, she started to teach as a Visiting Professor at the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University (a international comparative course on health politics). She started as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Wagner School of Public Service in 2006.
