NYU Wagner

Roy Sparrow, Professor of Public Management, has been a member of the Wagner faculty since 1973. He received his BA from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and holds a doctorate in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has served as acting Dean and Associate Dean of the Wagner School and from 1995-2000 headed the management program at Wagner. Currently he co-directs the Program in Nonprofit Management and Judaic Studies. He specializes in public transportation policy and management with a particularly interest in strategic change in organizations that design and deliver urban infrastructure services. He teaches four courses at Wagner: Managing Public Service Organizations, Strategic Management, Developing Management Skills, and the Seminar on Jewish Communal Organization and Management (the Taub Seminar).