James Korku Agbodzakey is a Professor of Public Leadership and the Director of the Urban SERCH Institute at the University of North Texas, Dallas (US). Dr. Agbodzakey has over a decade of instructional, research, and service experience across local, regional, national, and international domains. He has taught extensively in the various subfields of public administration and championed management, health, economic, sustainable development, and public affairs efforts in general through his work with the United Nations, International Monetary Fund/Kelly Services, the College of the Bahamas/University of the Bahamas, Nova Southeastern University, and Florida Atlantic University’s Public Procurement Research Center.