About

The Bureaucrat, Inc. - Board of Directors

Patrick Mendis

Patrick Mendis teaches in the Graduate Program in Diplomacy at Norwich University. Before returning to academia, Dr. Mendis served as an American diplomat at the U.S. State Department where he chaired a number of U.S. interagency working groups, managed the Department’s international educational and cultural programs, advised the U.S. Delegations to the United Nations, and served as vice chairman of the Secretary’s Open Forum. After his diplomatic assignment, Dr. Mendis served as a consultant and economist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Center for Global Security Research at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He also lectured at the U.S. Foreign Service Institute and graduated from a NASA leadership program at the Federal Executive Institute. Dr. Mendis was a visiting professor of economics and public policy at the University of Pittsburgh’s Semester at Sea program and authored a book, Freedom on the March, exploring globalization in the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. A fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, Dr. Mendis is a governing board member of the USDA Graduate School and a member of the editorial board of The Public Manager and Energy & Environment.

He earned his PhD in geography and applied economics from the University of Minnesota, MA in international development and foreign affairs from the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, and BS in business administration/economics from Sri Lanka. He completed postdoctoral training at Columbia, Harvard, and Yale Universities. Dr. Mendis has received the State Department’s Meritorious Honor Award and the Benjamin Franklin Award; the University of Maryland’s Stanley Drazek Teaching Excellence Award; the Hubert Humphrey Award for Outstanding Leadership; the Harold Stassen Award for UN Affairs; and the University of Minnesota President’s Leadership and Service Award.