Mayor's Technology Summit:
Homeland Security, Safety and Economic Development
Simon Hakim, PhD
Director of The Center for Competitive Government
The Fox School of Business and Management
Temple University
Professor
of economics Simon Hakim has taught at Temple University since 1974. His
research focuses on analysis of criminal behavior, police operations, and
privatization of police and correctional institutions.
He is co-author of Securing Home and Business: A Guide to the Electronic Security Industry and co-editor of 11 books, mostly on privatization of state and local government. He is an editor for a book series published by Kluwer Academic Publishers on innovations in government. He has published over 50 scientific articles on crime and security in leading economic and criminology academic journals and more than 60 articles in trade magazines for government, and the security and insurance industries.
Hakim is often interviewed, and his research findings quoted, on national TV and in major newspapers throughout the nation. He has conducted funded research projects for numerous government agencies and for major international companies.
He holds a BA in economics from Hebrew University, an MS in city and regional planning from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, and earned MA and PhD degrees in regional science from the University of Pennsylvania.