Water Rights

Climate Policies

Emergency Response

Education

• Ph.D., Public Policy and Administration, Virginia Commonwealth University
• M.P.A., Public Administration, Murray State University
• Certificate in Community Environmental Studies, Tufts University
• B.A., Economics, Berea College

Research Interests

• International water rights
• Climate, disasters and emergency response
• Comparative climate policies

Select Publications

• Okoth, Simon H. The MENA Powers and the Nile Basin Initiative (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
• Okoth, Simon H. Responding to Black Swans: Why Ordinary Citizens Matter (Westbow, 2017)
• Okoth, Simon H. A Review of State of the Art of Public Administration in Western Academia: Lessons for the Gulf States. Middle Eastern Journal of Public Policy and Administration, 2015
• Okoth, Simon H. Public Policy Making in the United Arab Emirates. In A. Dawoody (2015), Public Administration and Policy in the Middle East (Springer)
• Okoth, Simon H. Prosecute and punish: Curbing political and administrative corruption in Kenya. In G.M. Mudacumura & Gotkug Morcol (2013), Challenges to democratic governance in developing countries (Springer)

Courses

• Government and Politics of the Middle East
• Politics of Developing Nations
• Public Administration
• Black Political Thought
• International Political Economy

Awards

• Black History in the Making, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2020
• Research Incentive Funding (RIF Grant-$6000) for field studies on Water Rights in Egypt and Ethiopia (Zayed University), 2014
• Leigh Grosenick Award for Best Doctoral Paper, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2005
• U.S. Embassy Nairobi/Department of State Leadership Award, 2003
• Peace Corps Meritorious Cash Award for Initiatives in Gender and Information Technology, 2000