Dr. Berhanu Mengistu
Department Chair, Professor

Contact
2092 Constant Hall
College of Business and Public Administration
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA 23529-0218
(757) 683-3961
bmengist@odu.edu
Education
Undergraduate:
Bachelor of Arts
Walla Walla College
Graduate:
Master of Public Administration
Arizona State University
Post-Graduate:
Doctor of Philosophy
University of Delaware
Research Areas
Current research areas include: alternative dispute resolution, privatization & public policy and administrative theory & practice.
Teaching Areas
Public Budgeting and Finance
Conflict Analysis
Negotiation
Mediation
Recent Publications
Mengistu, Berhanu and Samuel Adams. 2008. The "ABC" of Intercultural Negotiation. Pentvars Business Journal. 2(1): 115-126.
Cann-Tamakloe, Ralph and Berhanu Mengistu. 2008. The Impact of External Debt and Democracy on Private Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa. International Journal of Business and Economics Perspectives. 3(2): 13-26.
Adams, Samuel and Berhanu Mengistu. 2008. The Political Economy of Privatization in Sub-Saharan Africa. Social Science Quarterly. 89(1): 78-94.
Adams, Samuel and Berhanu Mengistu. 2007. Privatization and Income Inequality in Developing Countries. Journal of Global Awareness. 8(5): 73-93.
Mengistu, Berhanu and Samuel Adams. 2007. Foreign Direct Investment, Governance and Economic Development in Developing Countries. The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies. 32(2): 223-249.
Mengistu, Berhanu and Elizabeth Vogel. 2006. Bureaucratic Neutrality Among Competing Bureaucratic Values in an Ethnic Federalism. Public Administration Review. 66(2): 205-216.
Mengistu, Berhanu and Elizabeth Vogel. 2006. Theoretical Approached to Bureaucratic Neutrality: Application in an Ethnic Federalism. Northeast African Studies. 9(2): 49-65.