Dwight Ink
Interviewer: “What exactly did President Johnson ask you to do? Dwight: “Rebuild Alaska after the earthquake . . . It had to be done!”
Dwight Ink, president emeritus of the Institute of Public Administration, served more than 35 years in the Federal government working in top policy and management positions under seven presidents, from Eisenhower to Reagan.
Positions included leading federal government efforts to rebuild Alaska after the 1964 earthquake, assistant general manager of the Atomic Energy Commission during negotiations of the nuclear test ban treaty, first assistant secretary of administration at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), assistant director for management of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), general services administrator (twice), executive director of President Carter’s Civil Service Reform Project in 1978, administrator of the Community Services Administration, and assistant administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) for economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Ink was president of the American Society for Public Administration and has been a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration since 1968.