Dr. Kevin C. Gottlieb

Dr. Gottlieb holds two positions currently: Professor in the Department of Public Administration at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School and President of Kevin Gottlieb & Associates, Inc, a Maryland corporation formed in 1981.

During a continuing academic career, Dr. Gottlieb taught political science, social science, public policy and public administration at Syracuse University, Michigan State University and Georgetown University. Since 1978, he has been faculty director for legislative policy at The Washington Campus, a consortium of seventeen universities, nationwide, formed to teach public policy process to graduate business school students and private sector executives. Dr. Gottlieb’s international academic work includes teaching and research assignments in England, Sweden, Yugoslavia, Canada and Mexico.

As Director of Congressional Programs at The Brookings Institution, 1996-98, Dr. Gottlieb designed and directed a variety of seminars for government executives at federal, state and local levels. These seminars assist Senior Executive Service (SES) and GS 14 and 15 level public servants in their efforts to understand the procedures and policies of Congress and the legislative branch of government. Guest lecturers in these seminars include senior officials from Congress, the executive branch, corporations and media.

Dr. Gottlieb formed Kevin Gottlieb and Associates, Inc. in 1981. The firm’s work focuses on public policy analyses, executive education and grassroots constituency development. Clients and programs are domestic and international in scope.

For ten years, Dr. Gottlieb worked in the U.S. Senate as a senior aide to four senators. He served as Energy Advisor to a Member of the Senate’s Energy and Natural Resources Committee during the formation of America’s first national energy policy (NEPA I), 1977-78. On January 2, 1989, Gottlieb became Chief of Staff for the Senate’s Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. He directed the staff effort leading to passage of the 1989 savings and loan industry reform legislation known as “The Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act”, signed into law by President Bush on August 9, 1989. Dr. Gottlieb earned his Ph.D. from the Maxwell School in 1970. His areas focus on legislative process, energy policy, grassroots advocacy, voting behavior.