Spiro Maroulis is Associate Professor and Director of the Master in Public Administration (MPA) and Master in Public Policy (MPP) programs in the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University. He is a computational social scientist with a particular focus on public administration, public policy, innovation, and social networks. He joined ASU from the Northwestern University, where he was Visiting Assistant Professor of Social Enterprise in the Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences in the Kellogg School of Management, and a member of the Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling and Northwestern Institute for Complex Systems. His professional experience prior to entering academia includes developing enterprise software products and managing consulting teams at Red Hat Software and Accenture, and cofounding PracticeFields, a corporate education and consulting company that creates computer simulations and interactive board games of business problems.