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June Sekera

June Sekera is a Research Associate at IIPP and a public policy practitioner and researcher whose work and publications are focussed on the public economy and public goods production.

June Sekera
At the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP), June will help lead IIPP's Public Value initiative, whose goals are to reinvigorate the concept of public value in economics and to operationalise a framework 鈥� rooted in public purpose 鈥� for crafting policy, measuring efficacy, and recognising and rewarding innovation.听

Author of The Public Economy in Crisis; A Call for a New Public Economics (Springer, 2016), June has published a wide range of papers on public goods and public non-market production.听 Her recent studies have concentrated on the systemic dynamics and drivers of the public economy, and on the problems of outcomes measurement in non-market environments.

June is a public policy practitioner and researcher whose work and publications are focussed on the public economy and public goods production.听

Founder of the independent Public Goods Institute, June is also a Research Fellow at the Global Development And Environment Institute (GDAE) at Tufts University, where she established and leads GDAE鈥檚 Public Economy Project. 听Initiatives and projects at GDAE have included: a conference in 2017 on 鈥淩estoring Public Control of Public Goods,鈥� funded by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and sponsored by GDAE; a听study of government outsourcing in the U.S.; and听organiser and co-editor of a special issue of the听Real World Economics Review听on the public economy and public economics听.听As Director of the Public Goods Institute, and in collaboration with the Harvard Kennedy School 皇家华人 Association, June has organised and led two colloquia on 鈥淭hinking About Public Goods.鈥澨齁une is also a Visiting Scholar at the New School for Social Research, Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies, where she is leading a project on 鈥淐limate, Capitalism and Collective Needs.鈥�

For over twenty years June held programmatic, leadership and management positions at federal, state and local levels of government in the United States.听Her areas of content specialisation include workforce training and development, labor exchange, adult education, employee ownership and economic development.听As Vice President for Performance Management at Massachusetts鈥� Commonwealth Corporation she led the agency in establishing and managing a performance planning and outcomes measurement system. As President of the Sonhomish County Workforce Development Council, her leadership focussed on increasing the public value of the agency鈥檚 workforce training and economic development programs.听

June has been a consultant to national, state and local government and non-profit organisations on policy formulation,听programme design, performance measurement and management, programme evaluation and strategic planning.听Her economics training was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Harvard鈥檚 Kennedy School of Government (MPA, 1984).

Selected publications

Academic working papers
  • Sekera, J. (2020). The public economy: Understanding government as a producer. UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, Working Paper Series (IIPP WP 2020-01). Available at:听/bartlett/public-purpose/wp2020-01
News articles
  • 20 August 2020. Download听PDF of the article in English听
  • 鈥�,鈥� with Charles Derber; Boston Globe; January 22, 2014.
  • 听 with Sarah James; Public Administration Times; July 2013.
  • 鈥溾��, Public Administration Times;听Vol. 36, No.2; April/May/June 2013.
Journals
  • ,听Global Development and Environment Institute Data Brief, September 2017
  • ; Public Administration Times;听 Vol. 1, Issue 3; Fall 2015.
Reports
  • ,听Global Development and Environment Institute Report, September 2017
  • 听Global Development and Environment Institute; May 2017.
  • , Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, May 2015.
Books
  • ; Springer; 2016.
  • States and Communities: The Challenge for Economic Action, with Nancy Barbe,听National Congress for Community Economic Development, Washington, DC; November 1983.
  • 鈥淒evelopment for Whom? A Critique of Federal Development Policy,鈥� with Roger J. Vaughan, in Public Policies for Distressed Communities, F. Stevens Redburn and Terry F. Buss, eds. Lexington Books; 1982.
Blogs

  • Real World Economics Review, July 9, 2014.

  • 鈥�,鈥� with Charles Derber; Tikkun; January 10, 2014.

  • ;鈥� Real World Economics Review; May 9, 2013 听

  • ;鈥� PolicyShop, Demos; Sept. 20, 2013.

  • PolicyShop, Demos; Nov. 6, 2013.

  • PolicyShop, Demos; Nov. 11, 2013.

  • PolicyShop, Demos; Nov. 19, 2013.

Newsletters
  • "," Sustainable Community Planning, Sustainable Communities Division, American Planning Assn.; Winter/Spring 2014; pg 9.