Yuan (Daniel) Cheng is currently an Assistant Professor in Leadership & Management Area in the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. He was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington from 2017 to 2018. 

Daniel's research agenda is focused on a range of theoretical and managerial questions lying at the nexus of governance, government-nonprofit relationships, co-production, and the distributional and performance implications of cross-sector collaboration. He is particularly interested in how government agencies, nonprofits and citizens interact in joint public service provision, and the performance implications of alternative service provision mechanisms. 

As a public and nonprofit management scholar, Daniel has published in Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, American Review of Public Administration, Public Performance & Management Review, Nonprofit Policy Forum, and VOLUNTAS:: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations. His research has been supported by the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and the Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis.

Please feel free to contact Daniel at: cheng838@umn.edu