Pamela Bloomfield

Pamela Bloomfield, Vice President of Clarus Group, has more than 25 years of experience in public management, public policy analysis, corruption prevention, and government oversight.  She has designed, conducted, and overseen numerous evaluations of the performance, governance, and accountability of state and local governmental organizations and programs.  She has authored many reports on diverse public management issues, including public contracting systems and procedures, public-private partnerships, state regulatory policy, charter school management and governance, and alternative project financing.  Her articles have been published in Public Administration Review, Public Productivity & Management Review (now Public Performance & Management Review), The Journal of School Business Management, and other publications.  Her 2006 article, "The Challenging Business of Long-Term Public-Private Partnerships: Reflections on Local Experience," won the 2007 Louis Brownlow award for the best Public Administration Review article written by a practitioner.  She has been a guest lecturer at the McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, the Latvian School of Public Administration, and the Latvia University of Agriculture.  She has also presented her work at numerous national conferences. 

Prior to co-founding Clarus Group, Pamela served as the Deputy Inspector General for Management in the Massachusetts Office of the Inspector General, an independent state agency mandated to prevent and detect fraud, waste, and abuse in government.  She has also been the Assistant Director of Finance and Administration for Washington County, Oregon; a management consultant with an urban transportation consulting firm in Menlo Park, California; an independent consultant to private and nonprofit clients in California and Oregon; and a course assistant at the Harvard Business School.