Dr. Lenneal Henderson is currently Distinguished Professor of Government and Public Administration and Senior Fellow at the William Donald Schaefer Center for Public Policy and a Senior Fellow in the Hoffberger Center for Professional Ethics at the University of Baltimore where he was formerly a Henry C. Welcome Fellow. In 2005, he was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. In April 2006, he received the University System of Maryland Regents Faculty Award for Public Service. In August 2006, he was named the recipient of the $5,000 President’s Faculty Award at the University of Baltimore.

 

He is a Fulbright Senior Specialist through the Council on the International Exchange of Scholars and the U.S. Department of State.

 

He served as a Policy Analyst in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy and Evaluation at the United States Department of Energy from 1977-79 working on both the International Energy Agency and on small scale renewal energy projects in Guyana, Trinidad-Tobago, Barbados and Jamaica; and as Vice President for Energy Management and, subsequently, Vice President for Science and Technology at the Ronson Management Corporation of Alexandria, Virginia, managing contracts with the Bonneville Power Administration, the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Agency for International Development.

 

He has been a Kellogg National Fellow and a Rockefeller Research Fell. He received his A.B., M.A. and PhD degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and has conducted additional postdoctoral study at the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.