Rate My Professor Kimberly Moloney

Dr. Kimberly Moloney served as Senior Lecturer in Global Public Administration and Public Policy in the School of Management and Governance at Murdoch University from 2017 to 2021. Her academic background includes a PhD in Public Administration from the School of Public Affairs at American University, awarded in 2011 for her dissertation titled 'The World Bank's Use of Country Procurement Assessments.' She also holds an MA in International Affairs with a focus on Latin America from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in 2005, an MPA from Syracuse University's Maxwell School in 2004, and a BSc in Economics and International Relations with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1996. Prior to Murdoch University, she was Assistant Professor at Kyung Hee University in South Korea from 2012 to 2014, Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Miami from 2014 to 2016, and Lecturer at the University of the West Indies at Mona in Jamaica from 2009 to 2012.

Moloney's research centers on the administrative life of international organizations, encompassing personnel management, whistleblowing, stakeholder power, transnational administration, global policy, policy challenges of small states, social equity, and international administrative law related to multilateral development banks. Key publications include her monograph Who Matters at the World Bank? (Oxford University Press, 2022), which examines public sector policy advocacy by the World Bank; the co-edited Oxford Handbook of Global Policy and Transnational Administration (Oxford University Press, 2019) with Diane Stone, a comprehensive 40-chapter volume; and the co-edited Routledge Handbook on Crisis, Polycrisis, and Public Administration (Routledge, 2025). Other significant works feature articles such as 'Actors, Alterations, and Authorities: Three Observations of Global Policy and its Transnational Administration' in Policy and Society (2024), 'The Flawed Foundations of Social Equity in Public Administration: A Racial Contract Theory Critique' in Perspectives on Public Management and Governance (2023), and 'Methodological Americanism: Disciplinary Senility and Intellectual Hegemonies in (American) Public Administration' in Administrative Theory & Praxis (2022). She was elected Chair of the American Society for Public Administration's Section on International and Comparative Administration and co-edits the Book Series on Transnational Administration and Global Policy with Bristol University Press. Her editorial roles include Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Australian Journal of Public Administration and Associate Editor for Public Administration Review, Administrative Theory & Praxis, and the Asia Pacific Journal on Public Administration, underscoring her influence in advancing global public administration scholarship.