Dr. Nancy C. Roberts Professor of Defense Analysis and Co-Director, CORE Lab Department of Defense Analysis Naval Postgraduate School Contact nroberts@nps.edu

Research/Teaching Interests
Social Networks, Stabilization and Reconstruction, Coping with Wicked Problems, Research Methodologies

Biography
Nancy Roberts is a Professor of Defense Analysis in the Graduate School of Operational and Information Sciences at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. She received a PhD from Stanford University, a MA and BA from the University of Illinois, and a Diplome Annuel, from the Cours de Civilization Francaise at the Sorbonne. Her previous faculty appointments have been at the Graduate School of Business at the Naval Postgraduate School, the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, and the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University as a visiting associate professor.

Dr. Roberts has published extensively in the areas of public entrepreneurship and innovation, strategic management and planning, leadership, stakeholder collaboration, complex networks, dialogue and deliberation. Her recent work focuses on "wicked problems" such tracking and disrupting terror networks and the organizational challenges of peace operations and post-conflict reconstruction. She is the co-author of Transforming Public Policy: Dynamics of Public Entrepreneurship and Innovation (1996) and editor of two books—The Transformative Power of Dialogue (2002) and Direct Citizen Participation (2007). Dr. Roberts is also a co-editor of a book series on Research on Public Management for Information Age Publishing, an Associate Editor of PAR, and serves on the editorial boards of Public Management, The American Review of Public Administration, International Public Management Journal, and International Public Management Review.

Her current teaching assignments include courses Planning and Organizing in Complex Networks and Coping with Wicked Problems. Dr. Roberts also serves as the co-director of the CORE (Common Operating Research Environment) Lab which investigates the geospatial, temporal, and relational dimensions of STTR, counterinsurgency and counterterrorism.