Summary
Sebastian Jilke is a Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor at Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy and co-director of the Better Government Lab, combining rigorous academic research with hands-on public-sector collaboration. With a Ph.D. in Public Administration and eight years of experience at the intersection of policy evaluation and experimental governance, he has served as an academic affiliate across multiple federal agencies including GSA, OPM, and DHS. His work emphasizes evidence-based public administration and behavioral experiments to improve government services, translating scholarly insight into operational improvements for agencies. Notably, he directs interdisciplinary teams that bridge academia and practice, a role reflected in ongoing partnerships and applied projects rather than traditional lab-focused publishing alone.
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