Alberto Asquer

Dr Alberto Asquer is Senior Lecturer of Public Policy and Management at the School of Finance and Management of SOAS University of London, where he acts as Director of the Centre for Financial and Management Studies and Director of the Centre for Water and Development. He is convenor of the MSc Public Policy and Management and MSc Public Financial Management programmes. After a degree in economics and a doctorate in Italy, he attained a MSc Management and a PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

His research interests are in the areas of regulation, organisational change, and public-private partnerships. His recent works include the books Public Sector Management (with Norman Flynn, SAGE, 2017) Public Sector Revenue (Routledge, 2017), and Regulation of Infrastructure and Utilities (Palgrave, 2018). He published research articles in journals such as Public Management Review, Governance, International Public Management Journal, Water Resources Management, and Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics.

Research interests

• Public management
• Public Policy
• Public financial management
• Regulation

Research projects

• The design, management and politics of public-private partnerships.
• How Do Physician Executives Understand Performance Review and Assessment? A Longitudinal Q-methodology Analysis in a Public Health Organization.
• Subjective Understandings in Agile Software Development: A Q Methodology Study in an Italian ICT District.
• Theorizing Regulatory Parsimony of Emerging Technologies: Decentralized Cryptocurrencies (2009-2019) and CRISPR Gene Editing (2012-2019).