Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley was appointed as a visiting professor at the Carey Business School following his two terms as governor, which ended on Jan. 21.
He will begin teaching graduate courses on government, business and urban issues starting Feb. 2.
“Gov. O’Malley’s wealth of experience and leadership will be a welcome addition to our faculty and in the classroom. We are delighted to have him,” Carey Business School Dean Bernie Ferrari said in a statement.
As a visiting professor, O’Malley will not teach the courses on his own, but rather participate in classes and collaborate with the students and faculty members on management in government.
“I do not have any information on his immediate schedule; however, we expect that Gov. O’Malley will be brought into classrooms in multiple courses and seminars to contribute his expertise on topics such as management in government and urban issues,” Tim Parsons, Carey’s director of communications, wrote in an email to The News-Letter.
Before beginning his first gubernatorial term in 2007, O’Malley served as mayor of Baltimore from 1999 to 2007. He created CitiStat and StateStat, two statistically-based systems designed to allow officials working in the fields of government, taxation and law to see data online. He also served as Chairman of the Democratic Governors Association from 2010 to 2012.
“As both a mayor and governor, I’ve worked to make government work better for all of our citizens through a relentless focus on data and transparency,” O’Malley said in a statement. “Our efforts got results — driving violent crime down to record lows, recovering 100 percent of the jobs lost during the recession and restoring the health of the Chesapeake Bay for generations to come. I look forward to sharing management insights from these past two decades with the next generation of leaders at Johns Hopkins.”
Parsons believes O’Malley will be an important member of the Carey faculty.
“Governor O’Malley is an expert and innovator in public sector management. His perspectives on leadership and on management of state and local government can be invaluable for management students at the Carey Business School,” Parsons wrote.
University President Ronald J. Daniels also released a statement expressing his excitement to have O’Malley as a visiting professor.
“Gov. O’Malley has devoted his career to bringing data-driven decision-making to tackling our city’s and state’s most complex challenges. His insights and experience will be of enormous benefit to our students and faculty,” President Daniels said in the statement.
O’Malley appeared at Hopkins as a speaker in the Foreign Affairs Symposium of 2014 last spring.
According to The Washington Post, O’Malley will also be working with the Washington Speaker Bureau to speak to a variety of audiences and is still considering whether to run for the Democratic nomination for president in 2016. A Rasmussen poll conducted on Jan. 18-19 shows O’Malley polling at 2 percent for the Democratic primary contest in 2016, compared to frontrunner former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 59 percent.
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