Our Guest Speakers

Our Guest Speakers

Robert J. O'Neill, Jr.

Executive Director,
International City/County Management Association (ICMA)

Bob O'Neill was widely recognized for his "reinvention" of the government of Hampton as city manager from 1984 to 1997. He is currently executive director of the International City/County Management Association (ICMA), a membership organization dedicated to creating excellence in local government through professional management. Prior to joing ICMA, Bob served as president of the National Academy of Pulic Administration (NAPA).

Bob's accomplishments include a downtown and waterfront revitalization initiative and development of a nationally-recognized youth-at-risk program. He is the recipient of several prestigious awards, including the Spirit of Public Service award presented by the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, and the National Public Service Award from the National Academy of Public Administration and the American Society for Public Administration, where is also an Academy Fellow.

William Schneider, PhD

Author, scholar and
former Senior Political Analyst for CNN

Bill Schneider was born in Portsmouth and attended Woodrow Wilson High School. He is one of the country's foremost political analysts, having been CNN's senior political analyst from 1990 to 2009. Bill is Hirst Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University and Distinguished Senior Fellow and Resident Scholar at Third Way, a Washington think tank.

He is also a contributing editor to National Journal and The Atlantic Monthly. Bill has been labeled "the Aristotle of American politics" by The Boston Globe. The Washington Times called him "the nation's election-meister." Campaigns and Elections Magazine called him "the most consistently intelligent analyst on television".

Bill has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brandeis University and a doctorate in political science from Harvard University, where he later taught in the Government Department.

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