Steven Lux

Currently the Director of Executive Education at the Maxwell School, Steve is responsible for overseeing the School’s mid-career graduate degree programs (roughly 150 full and part-time students from thirty countries around the world) and developing and managing various executive management training for both domestic and international audiences. Steve also teaches graduate level courses at the Maxwell School on subjects related to non-governmental organizations and civil society. Prior to his work with the Maxwell School, Steve spent 12 years designing and managing development programs in South East Asia across a range of topics including health (i.e. family planning, maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, nutrition) and rural development (i.e. agricultural production, microcredit, small business development). Starting as a World Teach volunteer in Thailand in 1991, Steve’s career path allowed him to live and work also in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam and to become fluent in Thai and Vietnamese. Steve’s last assignment before returning to Syracuse University full-time in 2004 was as Regional Director of a Thai NGO, the Population and Community Development Association. Steve also has experience as an information systems analyst while working for Computer Science Corporation (CSC) from 1989 – 1991. Steve is a graduate of Jamesville-Dewitt High School and his wife and three children are residents of DeWitt since 2003. Steven Lux has an AB degree in Econcomics from Harvard College (1989) and a MPA from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University (1997).

Publications

Lux, Steven J. and Bruno-van Vijfeijken, Tosca. (2013). From Alliance to International: The Global Transformation of Save the Children.

Kristine Greenaway and Steven Lux (2007). Scaling up effective partnerships: A guide to working with faith-based organisations in the response to HIV and AIDS. Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance, Geneva.

Lux, Steven (2006). Excellent Coverage, a review of Nonprofit Organizations: Theory, Management, Policy by Helmut K. Anheier. New York: Routledge, 2005. Nonprofit Management & Leadership.

Lux, Steven (2006). The Nature of Transnational Networks: Wild and Complex. Review of William E. Demars NGOS and Transnational Networks: Wild Cards in World Politics for International Studies Review.

Lux, S. and Straussman, J. 2004. Searching for Balance: Vietnamese NGOs Operating in a State-led Civil Society.Public Administration and Development. Vol.24: 173 – 181.

Voices, (reflections from disadvantaged communities in Vietnam and Thailand on their health status) – for a project sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation (2003).

Training Needs Assessment, Government Committee for Organization and Personnel, SR Vietnam. UNDP Public Administrative Reform project VIE 2001.

Lessons Learned, Vietnam Family Planning Project, June 1997. Contributing editor to PDI-Hanoi publications: 1) Limited Equality: Contradictory Ideas about Gender and the Implications for Reproductive Health in Rural Vietnam (2002), 2) Contraceptive Choice and Men’s and Women’s Perceptions of Reproductive Tract Infections: Findings from a Qualitative Study in Southern Vietnam (1998).

Advising

Najah Zaaeed (2010). Assessment of Faith-Based Organizations Financial Resources & Recommendations.

Kostyantyn Krasovsky (2009). New Perspectives in Relations between the State and NGOs: General Problems and Case of Russia.

Chen, Bingxian (2006), Capacity Building of Professional Trade Societies in Fujian Transportation Trade:

Liwei Zhang (2006), Challenges and Recommendations for International NGO Development in Yunnan, PR China.

Quy Kim Nguyen, Masters Candidate, Public Administration.

Zaklina Bogdanic, Visiting Fellow, Localization of International Programs