Mark W. Huddleston is Chairman of the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware, where he has taught since 1980. He has written extensively in the field of public administration, especially in the area of executive personnel management. He was rapporteur for the Twentieth Century Fund's study of the Senior Executive Service and author of its subsequent book The Government's Managers (1987); he is also the co-author of The Higher Civil Service in the United States: Quest for Reform (1996).

In addition to teaching courses at the University of Delaware, in recent years Professor Huddleston has conducted public administration training and served as a consultant in several interesting overseas settings, including Bosnia, Slovenia, Kazakstan, Mexico, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. He described his work in Bosnia in detail in a recent article entitled "Innocents Abroad" published in Public Administration Review (59, 2 March/April 1999).

Professor Huddleston is a graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo (B.A., 1972) and the University of Wisconsin Madison (M.A., 1973; Ph.D., 1978).