Lenneal Henderson is a distinguished professor of government and public administration and a senior fellow at both the Schaefer Center and the Hoffberger Center for Professional Ethics at the University of Baltimore. He has also served as a faculty member at the School of Human and Organizational Development and at the School of Educational Leadership and Change at the Fielding Graduate Institute. He received his A.B., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.

Henderson was recently selected as a Fulbright Senior Specialist by the Council on the International Exchange of Scholars and the U.S. Department of State. He is an internationally recognized urban scholar and has lectured and consulted on housing issues, energy management, environmental policy and public management for federal, state and local government and the corporate and nonprofit sectors for more than 30 years. He completed a study of the Baltimore CitiStat program and his CitiStat monograph was published in 2005 as a chapter in the book Managing for Results. Henderson was recently admitted into the National Academy of Public Administration.