Spiro Maroulis, Ph.D.

Professor, Director of Martin School of Public Policy and Administration

Spiro Maroulis is Professor and Director of the Martin School of Public Policy and Administration. He is a computational social scientist with a particular focus on public management, public policy, innovation, and social networks. His research contributions span multiple disciplines and have been published in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Organization Science, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, and Science.

Spiro joined the Martin School from Arizona State University's School of Public Affairs, where he held multiple leadership positions including director of undergraduate programs, director of master's programs, and associate director for academic affairs. Prior to ASU, Spiro was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Social Enterprise in the Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. 

Before entering academia, Spiro worked in the technology and consulting sectors, developing enterprise software products and managing consulting teams at Red Hat Software and Accenture. He also cofounded PracticeFields, a corporate education and consulting company that creates computer simulations and interactive board games for business problems.

A first-generation college graduate, Spiro earned a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Duke University, a Master in Public Policy from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in Learning Sciences from Northwestern University, where he was a member of the Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling and the Northwestern Institute for Complex Systems.