W. Bartley Hildreth, Dean & Professor
Dean Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
Professor of Public Management and Policy
Ph.D., University of Georgia
M.P.A., Auburn University at Montgomery
Vita (pdf)
Specialties:
Municipal Securities
Public Financial Management
Public Budgeting
Tax Policy
Dr. Bart Hildreth became Dean on July 1, 2009.
Previously, at Wichita State University, Hildreth was the Regents Distinguished Professor of Public Finance with joint appointments in the public administration faculty of the Hugo Wall School of Urban and Public Affairs and the finance faculty of the W. Frank Barton School of Business. Hildreth served as interim dean of the Barton School of Business in 2007-2008.
As director of the Kansas Public Finance Center from 1994-2009, governors appointed him to high-level tax and infrastructure financing assignments, and he led several research teams on significant state-wide policy issues.
Hildreth’s prior tenured academic positions were in the business schools at LSU and Kent State University. Hildreth served on the National Advisory Council on State and Local Budgeting and the Governmental Accounting Standards Advisory Council, and as Director of Finance for the City of Akron, Ohio.
Hildreth is editor-in-chief of the only referred journal devoted to municipal securities and state and local financing, the Municipal Finance Journal. His numerous journal articles and publications include the State and Local Government Debt Issuance and Management Service (with yearly updates), the co-edited Handbook on Taxation, and the co-authored Politics, Power and the Budget (forthcoming from Oxford University Press).
Hildreth received the 2008 Aaron B. Wildavsky Award for lifetime scholarly achievement in the field of public budgeting and financial management. As a Fulbright Scholar in 2005, Hildreth served as visiting research chair in public policy at McGill University in Montreal. In 2002, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars selected him as the only academic member of its delegation to China on environmental infrastructure financing.
