Professor Michael Lipsky
Senior Program Director at Demos
Michael Lipsky is Senior Program Director at Demos, a public policy research and advocacy organization based in New York. Before coming to Demos in October, 2003, he served for twelve years as a Senior Program Officer in the Ford Foundation’s Peace and Social Justice Program, where he worked on issues of government performance and accountability. He is also an affiliated faculty member of the Georgetown Public Policy Institute of Georgetown University.
Lipsky has taught at the University of Wisconsin, Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, and for 21 years was a professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His publications include Protest in City Politics; the award-winning Street Level Bureaucracy; and Nonprofits for Hire: The Welfare State in the Age of Contracting (with Steven Rathgeb Smith). He is a graduate of Oberlin College and received an MPA and PhD (in politics) from Princeton University.
