David Alan Heslop (born 1938) is an American academic and government consultant[1] and advisor.
He was born in 1938 in England and gained BA and MA degrees from Magdalen College, Oxford.
Heslop taught for four decades at Claremont McKenna College, where he served as Executive Vice President and Dean of the Faculty, and was the founding director of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government.
His current academic appointment is as a senior research fellow in the School of Politics and Economics at Claremont Graduate University.
In June 2014, Heslop was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to one count of felony conspiracy to commit bribery for his role in a kickback scheme that bilked the Twentynine Palms Band of Mission Indians out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.