Co-sponsored by American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) and the Chinese Public Administration Society (CPAS), School of Public Administration of UESTC has been dedicated to annual International Conference on Public Administration (ICPA) since 2005, which “has gradually developed into a worldwide academic event with large scale, high level influence in the international field of public administration” (cited from PA Times January 2011 by ASAP). ICPA has served as an important platform for PA scholars, practitioners and students globally, whose proceedings have been collected by ISI Web of Knowledge since 2005 ICPA annually.

Over the past years, we have alternated the ICPA venue: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014), University of Warwick in United Kingdom (2006), University of Minnesota in USA (2008), Australian National University in Australia (2010),  Osmania University in India (2012), Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) in South Africa (2013), Padjadjaran University in Indonesia (2015), University of Ghana & Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) in Ghana(2017). These conferences have witnessed developments both in the theory and practice of public administration and their extensive application across the globe.