Schnurer “engaged a spellbound audience during the deliberative dialogues”

– Gregory Payne, Co-Director,

Emerson-Blanquerna Center of Global Communication

Eric speaks frequently at events and conferences in the United States, around the world, and virtually.  He has spoken before national audiences such as The AtlanticLive “Reinventing the War on Poverty,” Governing Magazine’s annual conference on “Governing the States and Localities,” the National Association of Attorneys General constitutional law conference, the Center on State Innovations’ annual gathering of gubernatorial policy directors, the Council of State Governments’ Eastern Regional Conference, the CFO [Chief Financial Officers] Forum consisting of the finance officers of the nation’s 25 largest cities, the National Governors Association annual meeting, the annual policy conference on the nation’s Blue Cross/Blue Shield plans, and to political leaders and their advisors at international conferences in Washington (DC), Brussels, Paris, Cape Town, Mexico City and Izmir (Turkey).  

A frequent guest lecturer at universities around the country, and as a scholar-in-residence as a national Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Schnurer has taught graduate- and undergraduate-level courses on “The Future of Government” at the University of Chicago, and on public policy and law at Brown University, the University of Pennsylvania, the Colin Powell School at CCNY, Drexel University, and Temple Law School.

Eric is available to speak, participate in or lead discussions on:

• Our joint future, how we got here, and what we can do about it
• Current world affairs
• Technological and social change
• The future of government, politics and economics
• Government administration
• Efficiency and budgeting 
• Constitutional law
• Most areas of public policy including health care, education, workforce development, economic strategy, regulatory reform, and service delivery.