E. S. Savas is professor of public affairs at Baruch College, CUNY. He is the (co)author/(co)editor of more than a dozen books, including: Privatization in New York: If You Can Do It Here, You Can Do It Anywhere; The New Public Management: Lessons from Innovating Governors and Mayors; and Privatization and Public-Private Partnerships. He has contributed to dozens of books and written dozens of scholarly articles. Professor Savas has been named one of the "Great Contributors to Public Administration" by Public Administration in the New Century and Grover Starling's classic, Managing the Public Sector, lists Savas' work as one of 41 "Highlights in the Intellectual History of American Public Administration."