Malcolm Russell-Einhorn

Malcolm Russell-Einhorn is an international and comparative law and public administration specialist with over two decades of experience in international development and graduate teaching, including work in international legal and regulatory reform, public administration capacity building, administrative justice, open policymaking processes, decentralization, legislative development, and monitoring and evaluation.  He is currently a Lecturer in International Relations and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Peace, Democracy, and Development in the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies.  He teaches courses on Democratic Governance, Decentralization, and Development, and Theory and Content of Comparative Public Administration.  At the Center for Peace, Democracy, and Development, he is leading a 3-year, $943,000 USAID-funded initiative aimed at improving administrative decision-making and citizen legal awareness in Rwanda. The initiative includes the collection of extensive survey and interview data from both citizens and local officials. Previously, he served for six years as Research Professor of Public Administration and Director of the Center for International Development in the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the State University of New York at Albany, where he oversaw a global staff of 80 and various consultants working on parliamentary development, local government, and civil society strengthening projects.  He has a B.A. and M.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from Harvard University.