Pamela Bloomfield
Vice President
Pamela Bloomfield, Vice President of Clarus Group, has more than 35 years of experience in public management and oversight, public policy analysis, report writing, and professional training. She has designed, conducted, and overseen numerous evaluations of the performance, governance, and accountability of state and local governments as well as nonprofit organizations and programs.
She has authored many public reports providing detailed analyses and practical recommendations to public managers on diverse public management topics, including public contracting systems and procedures, public-private partnerships, charter school management and governance, construction project delivery and oversight, and alternative project financing.
Her articles have been published in State and Local Government Review, Public Administration Review, Public Productivity & Management Review, The Journal of School Business Management, and other publications. She won the Louis Brownlow Award in 2007 for the best Public Administration Review article written by a practitioner. She later served on the board of editors of Public Administration Review and reviewed articles for State and Local Government Review.
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. She served on the board of directors of a local nonprofit organization for 18 years.
Prior to cofounding 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 Crain & Associates, a transportation consulting firm that conducted studies for federal, state, and local governmental agencies; and a course assistant at the Harvard Business School.
Pamela is a Massachusetts Certified Public Purchasing Official and a former Certified Inspector General and Certified Government Financial Manager. She holds a Master of Public Administration degree from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Smith College.
