Thomas D. Lynch is currently a Professor of Public Administration, Public Administration Institute, College of Business Administration, Louisiana State University. He earned his M.P.A. and Ph.D. from Rockefeller College, State University of New York at Albany. He is involved in editorial responsibilities for several journals including The Public Manager Public Administration Quarterly, Public Administration Revew, and International Review of Administrative Sciences. Lynch participates in such organizations as the American Society for Public Administration, Government Finance Officers Association, The Bureaucrat, International Institute of Administrative Sciences. He has published over thirty books with the most recent being The World of the Light and Organization Theory and Management: A Philosophical Approach. He has also participated in numerous international conferences such as International Speyer Workshop in the Political and Judicial Implications of New Public Management, International Conference on a Comparative Study of Policy Making Structures, and the International Seminar on the Role of Public Administration in the Integration Process.