Laurence E. Lynn Jr. (June 10, 1937-January 1, 2023[1]) was the Sid Richardson Research Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin and Professor of Public Management at the University of Manchester's Business School.
[2] In 1975, Lynn served as a consultant to the Murphy Commission, which reviewed the formulation of U.S. foreign policy, and suggested improvements.
Lynn is also the Sydney Stein Jr., Professor of Public Management Emeritus in the Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies and the School of Social Service Administration (SSA) at the University of Chicago, where he was a member of the faculty from 1983 until 2002 and Dean of SSA from 1983 until 1988.
[2][4] Lynn was also elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.
His most recent book, co-authored with Carolyn J. Hill of Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute, is a textbook, Public Management: A Three-Dimensional Approach, published in 2008.