Eric M. Patashnik is Julis-Rabinowitz Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University.

Patashnik is also Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. Patashnik previously held faculty positions at University of Virginia, UCLA and Yale University.

Patashnik is the author and editor of several books including Unhealthy Politics: the Battle over Evidence-Based Medicine (with Alan S. Gerber and Conor M. Dowling, Princeton University Press, 2017), which won both the Louis Brownlow Book Award of the National Academy of Public Administration and the Don K. Price Award of the American Political Science Association, and Reforms at Risk: What Happens After Major Policy Changes Are Enacted (Princeton University Press, 2008), which received the Louis Brownlow Book Award of the National Academy of Public Administration.

Patashnik received both his MPP and PhD from the University of California at Berkeley.