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The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
 (also known as Harvard Kennedy School and HKS) is a public policy
Public policy school

Public policy schools teach students policy analysis, policy studies, public policy, political economy, urban planning, public administration, and public management....
 and public administration school, and one of Harvard's graduate and professional schools. It offers master's degrees in public policy
Public policy

Public policy can be generally defined as the course of action or inaction taken by government entities with regard to a particular issue or set of issues....
, urban planning
Urban planning

Urban, city, and town planning is the integration of the disciplines of land use planning and transport planning, to explore a very wide range of aspects of the built and social environments of urbanized municipalities and communities....
, public administration
Public administration

Public administration can be broadly described as the development, implementation and study of branches of government public policy. The pursuit of the public good by enhancing civil society and social justice is the ultimate goal of the field....
, and international development
International development

International development is a concept that lacks a universally accepted definition, but it is most used in a holistic and multi-disciplinary context of human development - the development of livelihoods and greater quality of life for humans....
, grants several doctoral degrees
Doctorate

A doctorate is an academic degree that in most countries represents the highest level of formal study or research in a given field. In some countries it also refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder to practice in a specific profession ....
, administers executive programs for senior government officials, and conducts research in subjects relating to politics
Politics

Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions. The term is generally applied to behaviour within civil governments, but politics has been observed in all human group interactions, including corporation, academia, and religion institutions....
, government
Government

Government is the body within any organization that has the authority to make and the power to enforce laws, regulations, or rules. Typically, the government refers to a civil government -- local, provincial, or national -- but commercial, academic, religious, or other formal organizations are also administered by governing bodies....
, and economics
Economics

File:Ballard Farmers' Market - vegetables.jpgEconomics is the Social sciences that studies the Production theory basics, Distribution , and Consumption of Good and Service ....
.

The School's primary campus is located on John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States, serving from 1961 until John F....
 Street in Cambridge
Cambridge

The city status in the United Kingdom of Cambridge is a College town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies about 50 miles north of London....
, Massachusetts
Massachusetts

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States. It borders Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north....
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The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
 (also known as Harvard Kennedy School and HKS) is a public policy
Public policy school

Public policy schools teach students policy analysis, policy studies, public policy, political economy, urban planning, public administration, and public management....
 and public administration school, and one of Harvard's graduate and professional schools. It offers master's degrees in public policy
Public policy

Public policy can be generally defined as the course of action or inaction taken by government entities with regard to a particular issue or set of issues....
, urban planning
Urban planning

Urban, city, and town planning is the integration of the disciplines of land use planning and transport planning, to explore a very wide range of aspects of the built and social environments of urbanized municipalities and communities....
, public administration
Public administration

Public administration can be broadly described as the development, implementation and study of branches of government public policy. The pursuit of the public good by enhancing civil society and social justice is the ultimate goal of the field....
, and international development
International development

International development is a concept that lacks a universally accepted definition, but it is most used in a holistic and multi-disciplinary context of human development - the development of livelihoods and greater quality of life for humans....
, grants several doctoral degrees
Doctorate

A doctorate is an academic degree that in most countries represents the highest level of formal study or research in a given field. In some countries it also refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder to practice in a specific profession ....
, administers executive programs for senior government officials, and conducts research in subjects relating to politics
Politics

Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions. The term is generally applied to behaviour within civil governments, but politics has been observed in all human group interactions, including corporation, academia, and religion institutions....
, government
Government

Government is the body within any organization that has the authority to make and the power to enforce laws, regulations, or rules. Typically, the government refers to a civil government -- local, provincial, or national -- but commercial, academic, religious, or other formal organizations are also administered by governing bodies....
, and economics
Economics

File:Ballard Farmers' Market - vegetables.jpgEconomics is the Social sciences that studies the Production theory basics, Distribution , and Consumption of Good and Service ....
.

The School's primary campus is located on John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States, serving from 1961 until John F....
 Street in Cambridge
Cambridge

The city status in the United Kingdom of Cambridge is a College town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies about 50 miles north of London....
, Massachusetts
Massachusetts

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States. It borders Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north....
. The main buildings overlook the Charles River
Charles River

The Charles River is a river in Massachusetts, United States. It travels through 22 cities and towns in eastern Massachusetts, from Hopkinton, Massachusetts to Boston, Massachusetts on the Atlantic Ocean....
, southeast of Harvard Yard
Harvard Yard

Harvard Yard is a grassy area of about twenty-five acres , adjacent to Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which constitutes the oldest part and the center of the campus of Harvard University....
 and Harvard Square
Harvard Square

Harvard Square is a large triangular area in the center of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue , Brattle Street, and John F....
, on the site of a former MBTA Red Line
Red Line (MBTA)

The Red Line is a rapid transit line operated by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority running roughly north-south through Boston, Massachusetts into neighboring communities....
 trainyard. The School is adjacent to the public, riverfront John F. Kennedy Memorial Park.

Since 2004, the School's Dean has been David Ellwood
David T. Ellwood

David T. Ellwood has served as Dean of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government since July 1, 2004. Ellwood joined the Kennedy School faculty in 1980 and served two separate terms as the School's Academic Dean....
, who is also the Scott M. Black Professor of Political Economy at HKS. Previously, Ellwood was an assistant secretary in the Department of Health and Human Services in the Clinton
Bill Clinton

William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He was the fifteenth Democrat elected to that office....
 administration.

History


Graduate School of Public Administration

Harvard Kennedy School was originally the Harvard Graduate School of Public Administration (GSPA), and was founded in 1936 with a $2 million gift from Lucius N. Littauer
Lucius N. Littauer

Lucius Nathan Littauer was a United States House of Representatives from New York.Born in Gloversville, New York, Littauer moved with his parents to New York City in 1865....
, a graduate of Harvard College
Harvard College

Harvard College is the undergraduate section and oldest school of Harvard University, a private university in the United States founded in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature....
. The School drew its initial faculty from Harvard's existing government and economics departments, and welcomed its first students in 1937.

The School's original home was in the Littauer Center north of Harvard Yard, now the home of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

The Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences is the largest of the seven faculties that comprise Harvard University. The FAS instructs five schools , while the other faculties each instruct one, accounting for the total of nine schools that comprise Harvard University....
 (FAS) Economics Department. The first students at the Graduate School were so-called "Littauer Fellows," participating in a one-year course listing which later developed into the school's mid-career Master of Public Administration
Master of Public Administration

The Master of Public Administration degree is one of several Master's degree level Professional degree Public policy degrees that provides training in public policy and project and program implementation ....
 program. In the 1960s, the School began to develop today's public policy degree and course curriculum in the Master of Public Policy
Master of Public Policy

The Master of Public Policy , one of several public policy degrees, is a master degree level professional degree that provides training in policy analysis and program evaluation at public policy schools....
 program.

Renaming and move

In 1966, the School was renamed for President John F. Kennedy. By 1978, the faculty—notably presidential scholar and adviser Richard Neustadt
Richard Neustadt

Dr. Richard Elliott Neustadt was an United States politics scientist specializing in the President of the United States. He also served as advisor to several presidents....
, foreign policy scholar and later dean of the School Graham Allison, Richard Zeckhauser
Richard Zeckhauser

Richard Jay Zeckhauser is an United States economist and the Frank P. Ramsey Professor of Political Economy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University....
, and Edith Stokey—had orchestrated the consolidation of the School's programs and research centers in the present campus. Under the terms of Littauer's original grant, the current HKS campus also features a building called Littauer.

In addition to playing a critical role in the development of the School's modern era, Neustadt, who at the time served as the Assistant Dean, was also the founding Director of the Harvard Institute of Politics (IOP), created in 1966 in honor of President Kennedy. The IOP has been housed on the Kennedy School campus since 1978, and today the Institute puts on a series of programs, speeches and study groups for Harvard undergraduates and graduate students. The John F. Kennedy, Jr. Forum in the new Littauer building is both the site of IOP forums as well as a major social gathering place between HKS courses.

Academics


Degrees

Currently, Harvard Kennedy School offers five master's degree programs. The Master of Public Policy
Master of Public Policy

The Master of Public Policy , one of several public policy degrees, is a master degree level professional degree that provides training in policy analysis and program evaluation at public policy schools....
 (MPP) program focuses on policy analysis
Policy analysis

Policy analysis can be defined as "determining which of various alternative policies will most achieve a given set of goals in light of the relations between the policies and the goals" ....
, economics
Economics

File:Ballard Farmers' Market - vegetables.jpgEconomics is the Social sciences that studies the Production theory basics, Distribution , and Consumption of Good and Service ....
, management
Management

Management in business and human organization activity is simply the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals. Management comprises planning, organizing, staffing, leadership or directing, and Control an organization or effort for the purpose of accomplishing a goal....
 in the public sector, and policy design. The Master in Public Policy and Urban Planning
Urban planning

Urban, city, and town planning is the integration of the disciplines of land use planning and transport planning, to explore a very wide range of aspects of the built and social environments of urbanized municipalities and communities....
 (MPP/UP) program adds to the MPP track with HKS courses in urban design
Urban design

Urban design concerns the arrangement, appearance and functionality of towns and cities, and in particular the shaping and uses of urban public space....
 and affairs, as well as required studio coursework at Harvard's Graduate School of Design.

There are also three separate Master of Public Administration
Master of Public Administration

The Master of Public Administration degree is one of several Master's degree level Professional degree Public policy degrees that provides training in public policy and project and program implementation ....
 (MPA) programs: a one-year "mid-career program" (MC/MPA), intended for professionals more than seven years from college graduation; a two-year MPA program intended for professionals that have an additional graduate degree and are more recently out of school; and a two-year International Development track (MPA/ID) focused on development studies, and with a strong emphasis on economics and quantitative analysis. Among the members of the mid-career MPA class are the Mason Fellows, who currently serve as public and private executives.

In addition to the master's programs, HKS also administers four doctoral programs. PhD degrees are awarded in Political Economy
Political economy

Political economy originally was the term for studying production, buying and selling, and their relations with law, custom, and government. Political economy originated in moral philosophy....
 and Government, Public Policy, and Social Policy
Social policy

Social policy primarily refers to guidelines and interventions for the changing, maintenance or creation of living conditions that are conducive to Quality of life....
, in conjunction with the Departments of Government and Sociology
Sociology

Sociology is a branch of the social sciences that uses systematic methods of Empiricism and critical theory to develop and refine a body of knowledge about human social structure and activity, sometimes with the goal of applying such knowledge to the pursuit of social welfare....
 in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, as well as in Health Policy, in conjunction with FAS and the Harvard School of Public Health
Harvard School of Public Health

The Harvard School of Public Health is is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Longwood Medical and Academic Area of the Boston, Massachusetts neighborhood of Mission Hill, Boston, Massachusetts, next to Harvard Medical School and Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, HSPH is considered one of the mos...
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Joint and concurrent degrees

Harvard Kennedy School has a number of joint and concurrent degree programs, within Harvard and with other leading universities, which allow students to receive multiple degrees in a reduced period of time. Joint and current students spend at least one year in residence in Cambridge taking HKS courses. At Harvard, HKS joint degree programs are run with Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School is a business school in the United States. It is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University.Founded in 1908, Harvard Business School started with 59 students....
 and Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, it is the United States' oldest law school in continuous operation....
, and concurrent programs are offered with Harvard Divinity School
Harvard Divinity School

Harvard Divinity School is one of the constituent schools of Harvard University, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States of America....
 and Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University and currently the #1 medical school in America, as ranked by U.S. News and World Report....
.

Beyond Harvard, HKS has concurrent degree arrangements with other selective law, business, and medical schools throughout the country. These include: Columbia Business School
Columbia Business School

Columbia Business School is the business school of Columbia University in New York, New York. It was established in 1916 to provide business training and professional preparation for undergraduate and graduate Columbia University students....
; Kellogg School of Management
Kellogg School of Management

The Kellogg School of Management is the business school of Northwestern University located in Evanston, Illinois, Chicago Loop Chicago, Illinois and Miami, Florida....
 at Northwestern University
Northwestern University

Northwestern University is a non-sectarian private university research university located in Evanston, Illinois and downtown Chicago, Illinois, United States....
; MIT Sloan School of Management
MIT Sloan School of Management

The MIT Sloan School of Management is one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, in the United States....
; Stanford Business School; Tuck School of Business
Tuck School of Business

The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration is the Graduate school business school of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America....
 at Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College is a private university, coeducational university located in Hanover, New Hampshire, New Hampshire. Incorporated as "Trustees of Dartmouth College,"...
; The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania is a private research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is America's first university and is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States....
; Columbia Law School
Columbia Law School

Columbia Law School, located in New York City, is one of the professional schools of Columbia University, a member of the Ivy League. David Schizer is the dean....
; Duke University School of Law
Duke University School of Law

The Duke University School of Law is the law school and a constituent academic unit of Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States....
; Georgetown University Law Center
Georgetown University Law Center

Georgetown University Law Center is Georgetown University's law school, located in Washington, D.C. According to the 2009 edition of U.S. News & World Report, Georgetown Law is the #14 ranked law school in the nation overall, and is #1 in clinical programs, #4 in environmental law, #5 in trial advocacy, #8 in healthcare law, #4 in inter...
; New York University School of Law
New York University School of Law

The New York University School of Law is the law school of New York University. Established in 1835, the school offers the Juris Doctor, LL.M., and J.S.D....
; Northwestern University School of Law
Northwestern University School of Law

The Northwestern University School of Law is a private American law school in Chicago, Illinois. The law school was independently founded in 1859 as the Union College of Law and is one of eleven academic entities at Northwestern University....
; Stanford Law School
Stanford Law School

Stanford Law School is a graduate school at Stanford University located near Palo Alto, California, United States, in Silicon Valley. The Law School was established in 1893 when former POTUS Benjamin Harrison joined the faculty as the first professor of law....
; University of California, Berkeley School of Law; University of Michigan Law School
University of Michigan Law School

The University of Michigan Law School is the law school of the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Founded in 1859, the school has an enrollment of about 1,200 students, most of whom are seeking Juris Doctor or Master of Laws Academic degree....
; University of Pennsylvania Law School
University of Pennsylvania Law School

The University of Pennsylvania Law School is the law school in the United States of the University of Pennsylvania, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
; Yale Law School
Yale Law School

Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1843, the school offers the Juris Doctor, Master of Laws, Doctor of Laws#United States, and Master of Studies in Law degrees in law....
; and UCSF Medical Center
UCSF Medical Center

The UCSF Medical Center is a world renowned hospital in research and teaching hospital in San Francisco, California, California. It is one of the leading hospitals in the United States and with the UCSF School of Medicine has been the site of various breakthroughs in all specialities of medicine....
.

Taubman Building, John F

HKS courses

HKS courses are divided into the following listing of policy areas: Analysis of Policies and Institutions; Strategic Management of Public Organizations; Political Advocacy and Leadership; Business and Government Policy; Crime and Criminal Justice
Criminal justice

Criminal justice is the system of practices, and organizations, used by national and local governments, directed at maintaining social control, Deterrence and controlling crime, and sanctioning those who violate laws with criminal penalties....
; Environment and Natural Resources; Health Care
Health care

File:Ear surgery on a patient.jpgFile:Monoclonal antibodies3.jpgHealth care, or healthcare, refers to the treatment and management of illness, and the preservation of health through services offered by the Medicine, pharmaceutical, Dentistry, clinical laboratory sciences , nursing, and allied health professions....
 Policy; Human Resources, Labor and Education; Housing, Urban Development, and Transportation; International and Global Affairs; International Trade
International trade

International trade is exchange of Capital , goods, and services across international borders or territories. In most countries, it represents a significant share of gross domestic product ....
 and Finance; Nonprofit Sector; Political Economy and Development; Press, Politics, and Public Policy; Science, Technology, and Public Policy.

The school divides the HKS course listing into five areas, each headed by a faculty "area chair." The areas and chairs for HKS courses are:

Management and Leadership - Prof. Mary Joe Bane
International Relations, Science, and Security - Prof. Ashton Carter
Ashton Carter

Ashton B. Carter is a United States national security professional. He is Co-Director of the , a research collaboration of Harvard and Stanford Universities....

Democratic Institutions and Politics - Prof. Alex Keyssar
Social Policy - Prof. Jose Gomez-Ibanez
Markets and Methods - Prof. Christopher Avery

In addition to offerings in the HKS course listing, students are eligible to cross-register for many courses at the other graduate and professional schools at Harvard. Students are also able to sample beyond the Harvard and HKS course listing, at the MIT Sloan School of Management
MIT Sloan School of Management

The MIT Sloan School of Management is one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, in the United States....
, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, also called simply The Fletcher School, is the oldest school in the United States dedicated solely to graduate studies in international relations....
 at Tufts University
Tufts University

Tufts University is a private research university in Medford, Massachusetts/Somerville, Massachusetts, near Boston, Massachusetts, United States....
, and in urban planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private university research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States....
.

Notable HKS faculty

  • Alberto Abadie
    Alberto Abadie

    Alberto Abadie is a Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, born in the Basque Country , Spain....
  • Graham Allison
  • Alan Altshuler
  • Matthew Andrews
  • Christopher Avery
  • Mary Jo Bane
  • Bob Behn
  • Rand Beers
  • Jacqueline Bhabha
    Jacqueline Bhabha

    Jacqueline Bhabha is an attorney and lecturer in law at the Harvard Law School and a lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Her research and legal practice has focused on citizenship and rights of aliens, refugee law, trafficking and smuggling....
  • Linda Bilmes
  • Robert D. Blackwill
  • Robert J. Blendon
  • Derek Bok
    Derek Bok

    Derek Curtis Bok is an United States lawyer and educator, and the former president of Harvard University.Bok was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Stanford University , Harvard Law School , and George Washington University ....
  • George Borjas
  • R. Nicholas Burns
    R. Nicholas Burns

    R. Nicholas Burns is a retired USA diplomat. Burns was the United States Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs within the United States Department of State....
  • Ashton Carter
    Ashton Carter

    Ashton B. Carter is a United States national security professional. He is Co-Director of the , a research collaboration of Harvard and Stanford Universities....
  • Bill Clark
  • Richard Clarke
    Richard A. Clarke

    Richard Alan Clarke was a U.S. government employee for 30 years, 1973–2003. He worked for the United States Department of State during the presidency of Ronald Reagan....
  • Pepper Culpepper
  • David Cutler
    David Cutler

    David Matthew Cutler is Dean of the Social Sciences and Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics at Harvard University. He holds a joint appointment in both the economics department and in Harvard's Kennedy School of Government....
  • John D. Donahue
  • David Ellwood
    David T. Ellwood

    David T. Ellwood has served as Dean of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government since July 1, 2004. Ellwood joined the Kennedy School faculty in 1980 and served two separate terms as the School's Academic Dean....
  • Jeffrey Frankel
    Jeffrey Frankel

    Jeffrey Alexander "Jeff" Frankel is the James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at Harvard University Kennedy School of Government....
  • Archon Fung
  • David Gergen
    David Gergen

    David Richmond Gergen is best known as a Political consulting and presidential advisor during the administrations of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton....
  • Jose Gomez-Ibanez
  • Edward Glaeser
    Edward Glaeser

    Edward Ludwig "Ed" Glaeser is an economist at Harvard University. He was educated at The Collegiate School in New York City before obtaining his B.A....
  • Robert R. Glauber
  • Steven Goldsmith
  • Merilee Grindle
  • Ricardo Hausmann
    Ricardo Hausmann

    Ricardo Hausmann is a former Venezuelan Minister of State and Head of the "Presidential Office of Coordination and Planning" and current Director of Harvard's Center for International Development and a Professor of the Practice of Economic Development at John F....
  • Ronald Heifetz
  • Swanee Hunt
    Swanee Hunt

    Swanee Grace Hunt , Eleanor Roosevelt Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, is the founding director of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School, and former Ambassadors from the United States to Austria....
  • Sheila Jasanoff
  • Christopher Jencks
  • Alex Jones
    Alex Jones (journalist)

    Alex S. Jones is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has been director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University's John F....
  • Dale Jorgenson
  • Marvin Kalb
    Marvin Kalb

    Marvin L. Kalb is an United States journalist, a Senior Fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and Faculty Chair for the John F....
  • Elaine Kamarck
  • Nancy Katz
  • Juliette Kayyem
  • Barbara Kellerman
  • Steven Kelman
  • Alexander Keyssar
  • William Kristol
    William Kristol

    William Kristol is an United States Politics of the United States analyst and commentator. He is the founder and editor of the political magazine The Weekly Standard, a regular commentator on the Fox News Channel, and a former conservative op-ed for the New York Times....
  • Robert Z. Lawrence
    Robert Z. Lawrence

    Robert Zachary Lawrence , a former South African national, is the current Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment at John F....
  • Christine Letts
  • Richard Light
  • Jane Mansbridge
  • Tarek Masoud
  • Ernest May
  • Mark Moore
  • Pippa Norris
    Pippa Norris

    Pippa Norris is the McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University....
  • Joseph Nye
    Joseph Nye

    Joseph S. Nye, Jr. is the co-founder, along with Robert Keohane, of the international relations theory Neoliberalism in international relations developed in their 1977 book Power and Interdependence....
  • Thomas Patterson
  • Roger B. Porter
    Roger B. Porter

    Roger B. Porter is an United States professor currently serving as the IBM Professor of Business and Government at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University....
  • Samantha Power
    Samantha Power

    Samantha Power is an Irish American journalist, writer, academic, and government official. She is currently affiliated with the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government....
  • Robert Putnam
    Robert Putnam

    Robert David Putnam is a political science and professor of public policy at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is also visiting professor and director of the Manchester Graduate Summer Programme in Social Change, University of Manchester ....
  • Dani Rodrik
    Dani Rodrik

    Dani Rodrik is a prominent Turkey economist and Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, teaching in the School's MPA/ID Program....
  • John Ruggie
    John Ruggie

    John Gerard Ruggie is the Evron and Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of International Affairs, and former Frank and Denie Weil Director of the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University....
  • Mary Ruggie
  • Anthony Saich
  • Sarah Sewall
    Sarah Sewall

    Sarah Sewall is the Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University....
  • Edith Stokey
  • Lawrence Summers
    Lawrence Summers

    Lawrence Henry "Larry" Summers is an American economist and the head of the White House's National Economic Council for President Barack Obama....
  • Monica Toft
  • Dennis Thompson
    Dennis Frank Thompson

    Dennis Frank Thompson is a political science and professor at Harvard University, where he founded the university-wide Center for Ethics and the Professions based at the John F....
  • Stephen Walt
    Stephen Walt

    Stephen Martin Walt is a professor of international relations at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In 1983, he received a Doctor of Philosophy in political science from the University of California, Berkeley....
  • John P. White
    John P. White

    Dr. John P. White BS, MA, PhD is the Robert and Renee Belfer Lecturer at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University....
  • Julie Wilson
  • William Julius Wilson
    William Julius Wilson

    William Julius Wilson is an United States sociology. He worked at the University of Chicago 1972-1996 before moving to Harvard.William Julius Wilson is Lewis P....
  • Richard Zeckhauser
    Richard Zeckhauser

    Richard Jay Zeckhauser is an United States economist and the Frank P. Ramsey Professor of Political Economy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University....


Centers

Harvard Kennedy School is home to 15 centers, several of which are located at HKS but University-wide.

  • Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation
  • Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
    Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

    The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs is a permanent research center located within the John F. Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts....
  • Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
    Carr Center for Human Rights Policy

    The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy is research center concerned with human rights. It is located at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University....
  • Center for International Development
    Center for international development

    The Center for International Development at Harvard Kennedy School performs basic and applied research with the goal to advance human well-being and social progress in the developing world....
  • Center for Public Leadership
    Center for Public Leadership

    The Center for Public Leadership was established in 2000 through a generous gift from the Wexner Foundation. Since its founding, the center has grown to provide teaching and research as well as training in the practical skills of leadership for people in government, nonprofits, and business....
  • Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
    Hauser center for nonprofit organizations

    The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, located in Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, promotes teaching, scholarship, and service to the nonprofit sector across the university....
  • Institute of Politics
    Harvard Institute of Politics

    The Kennedy family and its friends founded Harvard's to serve as a living memorial to President John F. Kennedy shortly after his death. The Institute seeks to inspire Harvard students into careers in politics and public service, much as President Kennedy was inspired during his days as a student at Harvard....
  • Edmund J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics
  • Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy
  • Mossavar Rahmani Center for Business and Government
  • Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston
    Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston

    The Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston is a research and policy center housed at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts....
  • Taubman Center for State and Local Government
  • Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
  • Joint Center for Housing Studies
    Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies

    The Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies was formed in 1959 to address "intellectual and policy issues confronting a nation experiencing widespread demographic, economic and social change....
  • Women and Public Policy Program


Student life


Ksg 1996 Women
There is an active student life at HKS, despite the fact that most students are at the School for two years or less. Most of the activities are centered around interest-driven student 'caucuses,' the student government (Kennedy School Student Government, known as KSSG), a student newspaper (The Citizen), student-edited policy journals, and a number of athletic groups.

Elections for HKS student government are among the most lively of the activities at the School, as one might expect for a school of government. The KSSG is led by a President, Executive Vice President, functional Vice Presidents and Class Representatives. The KSSG is also responsible for overseeing the interest caucuses at the School.

The courtyard nestled between the main Kennedy School buildings is a key attraction for students who gather there to work on their assignments, have lunch, or relax. During the warmer months, the School frequently sponsors beer and barbecue events which give students the opportunity to socialize. During the colder months, "Quorom Calls" are held in one of the indoor atriums, to celebrate the end of each week of HKS courses with friends.



Rankings

Harvard Kennedy School receives high rankings in the U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report

U.S. News & World Report is an influential United States newsmagazine published in Washington, D.C. Along with Time and Newsweek, it was for many years a leading news weekly, although it focused more than its counterparts on political, economic, health and education stories....
 listing of top graduate schools of public affairs. In the 2008 rankings, HKS is ranked second overall, and is ranked first in the subcategories of public policy analysis, health policy & management, and social policy.

HKS degree program alumni


Government and politics


  • Jonathan S. Adelstein ('87) - commissioner of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission
    Federal Communications Commission

    The Federal Communications Commission is an Independent agencies of the United States government, created, directed, and empowered by United States Congress statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President of the United States....
  • Adolfo Aguilar Zínser
    Adolfo Aguilar Zínser

    Adolfo Aguilar Z?nser was a Mexico scholar, diplomat and politician who served as a National Security Advisor to President Vicente Fox and as a UN Security Council Ambassador in the midst of the 2003 invasion of Iraq....
     (MPA ’78) – former Mexican
    Mexico

    The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
     National Security Adviser and Ambassador to the United Nations
    United Nations

    The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
  • Ami Ayalon
    Ami Ayalon

    Amihai "Ami" Ayalon is an Israeli politician and a former member of the Knesset for the Israeli Labor Party. He was previously head of the Shin Bet, Israel's secret service, and commander-in-chief of the Israeli Navy....
     (MPA ’92) – member, Israeli
    Israel

    Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
     Knesset
    Knesset

    The Knesset is the legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem....
  • Nisrin Barwari
    Nisrin Barwari

    Nesreen Barwari is a contemporary Kurdish people politician. She was born in Baghdad to a Kurdish family and was imprisoned at age fourteen due to her involvement with the Kurdish movement....
     (MPA ’99) – Iraqi
    Iraq

    Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros Mountains, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
     Minister of Municipalities and Public Works
  • Doug Bereuter
    Doug Bereuter

    Douglas Kent "Doug" Bereuter is a retired Republican Party politician from Nebraska. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1979 until 2004....
     (MPA '73) - former U.S. Congressman, Nebraska
    Nebraska

    Nebraska is a U.S. state located on the Great Plains of the Midwestern United States and Western United States.Nebraska probably gets its name from the archaic Chiwere language words ?? Br?sge or the Omaha-Ponca language N? Bth?ska meaning "flat water," after the Platte River that flows through the state....
  • J. Richard Blankenship (MPA '08) - former U.S. Ambassador to The Bahamas
    The Bahamas

    The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an independent, sovereign, English language-speaking country consisting of two thousand cays and seven hundred islands that form an archipelago....
  • André Boisclair
    André Boisclair

    Andr? Boisclair is a politician in Quebec, Canada. He was the leader of the Parti Qu?b?cois, a social democratic and Quebec sovereignty movement party in Quebec....
     (MPA ‘05) - former leader of Parti Québécois
    Parti Québécois

    The Parti Qu?b?cois is a sovereignist provincial political party that advocates nationalism Quebec sovereignty movement for the Canadian province of Quebec and secession from Canada....
    ; former Quebec
    Quebec

    Quebec , in French language, Qu?bec , is a Provinces and territories of Canada in the Central Canada and Eastern Canada regions of Canada....
     Minister of Citizenship and Immigration
  • Felipe Calderón Hinojosa (MPA ‘00) - President of Mexico
    President of Mexico

    The Constitutional Citizen President of the United Mexican States is the head of state of Mexico. Under the 1917 Constitution of Mexico, the president is also the head of government and the Commander-in-chief of the Mexican Military of Mexico....
  • Andrew Card
    Andrew Card

    Andrew Hill "Andy" Card Jr. is a Republican American politician, former United States Cabinet member, and head of President George W. Bush's White House Iraq Group....
     (’80) - White House Chief of Staff
    White House Chief of Staff

    The White House Chief of Staff is the highest ranking member of the Executive Office of the President of the United States and a senior aide to the President of the United States....
     under President George W. Bush
    George W. Bush

    George Walker Bush served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 2001 to 2009. He was the 46th List of Governors of Texas from 1995 to 2000 before being United States presidential inauguration as President on January 20, 2001....
  • Frank Chikane
    Frank Chikane

    Frank Chikane is a South African civil servant, writer and cleric. He is a member of the African National Congress....
     (MPA ‘95) - member, African National Congress
    African National Congress

    The African National Congress has been South Africa's governing party, supported by its tripartite alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party , since the establishment of non-racial democracy in May 1994....
    ; South African adviser to the President
  • Henry Cisneros
    Henry Cisneros

    Henry Gabriel Cisneros is an Politics of the United States, businessman, and community leader. He was the first person of Hispanic background elected as mayor of a large American city, and later served as the 10th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1993 to 1997....
     (MPA '73) - former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
  • Frances D. Cook (MPA '78) - former U.S. Ambassador tkro Oman
    Oman

    Oman , officially the Sultanate of Oman , is an Arab country in southwest Asia on the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It borders the United Arab Emirates on the northwest, Saudi Arabia on the west and Yemen on the southwest....
  • Gerry Connolly
    Gerry Connolly

    Gerald E. 'Gerry' Connolly is a member of the US House of Representatives from . A Democratic_Party_, Connolly first assumed office following the United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2008, where he defeated Republican_Party_ Keith Fimian with 55% of the vote to Fimian's 43%....
     (MPA '79) - member, U.S. House of Representatives, 11th District of Virginia
  • David Cunliffe
    David Cunliffe

    David Richard Cunliffe is a New Zealand politician. He is a member of the New Zealand Labour Party, and the sitting member of parliament for New Lynn , West Auckland....
     (MPA ’95) - member, Parliament of New Zealand
    Parliament of New Zealand

    The Parliament of New Zealand consists of the Monarchy in New Zealand and the New Zealand House of Representatives and, until 1951, the New Zealand Legislative Council....
  • Božidar Đelic
    Božidar Đelic

    Bo?idar ?elic , is a Serbian economist and politician. He was the Serbian Minister of finance in the first post-Milo?evic Government of Serbia of Zoran ?indic in 2001-2003, and vice-president of the government since May 2007, from the list of Democratic Party ....
     (MPA, MBA '91) - former Minister of Finance, current Vice-President of the Government of Serbia
    Serbia

    Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a country in Central Europe and Balkans Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central part of the Balkans....
  • John R. Davis, Jr. (MPA '65) - former U.S. Ambassador to Poland
    Poland

    Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
  • Henry DeSio (MPA '01) - Deputy Assistant to U.S. President Obama for Management and Administration; former COO, Obama for America '08
  • Shaun Donovan
    Shaun Donovan

    Shaun L.S. Donovan serves as United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the cabinet of President of the United States Barack Obama....
     (MPA '95) - U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
  • Tsakhiagiyn Elbegdorj
    Tsakhiagiyn Elbegdorj

    Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj is a Mongolian politician. He has been one of the principal leaders of the peaceful democratic revolution in 1990 that ended nearly 75 years of communism rule....
     (MPA ‘02) - former Prime Minister of Mongolia
    Prime Minister of Mongolia

    The Prime Minister of Mongolia is the highest member of the Mongolian government's executive arm, and heads the Mongolian Cabinet . The Prime Minister is appointed by Parliament of Mongolia, and can be removed by a vote of no confidence....
  • Theodore L. Eliot, Jr.
    Theodore L. Eliot, Jr.

    Theodore Lyman Eliot, Jr. was the Ambassadors of the United States to Afghanistan . He is a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy.Eliot graduated from Harvard College in 1948 and received a Master of Public Administration from Harvard's John F....
     (MPA '56) - former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan
    Afghanistan

    Afghanistan , officially the Islamic republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country that is located approximately in the center of Asia....
  • Anna Escobedo Cabral
    Anna Escobedo Cabral

    Anna Escobedo Cabral served as the 42nd Treasurer of the United States from December 13, 2004 to January 20, 2009. Cabral's signature will continue to be printed on U.S....
     (MPA ‘90) - former U.S. Treasurer
    Treasurer of the United States

    The Treasurer of the United States is the only position within the United States Department of the Treasury older than the Department itself. It should not be confused with the far more powerful United States Cabinet level position of Secretary of the Treasury....
  • José María Figueres
    José María Figueres

    Jos? Mar?a Figueres Olsen , politician, businessman and international expert on Sustainable Development and Technology. President of Costa Rica from 1994 to 1998, Minister of Foreign Trade 1986-1988, and then Minister of Agriculture 1988-1990....
      (MPA ‘91) - former President of Costa Rica, CEO of the World Economic Forum
    World Economic Forum

    The World Economic Forum is a Geneva-based non-profit foundation best known for its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland which brings together top business leaders, international political leaders, selected intellectuals and journalists to discuss the most pressing issues facing the world including health and the environment....
  • Robert S. Gelbard
    Robert S. Gelbard

    Robert S. Gelbard is a diplomat and former Ambassadors of the United States to Bolivia and Indonesia . He is a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy, and is a 1979 graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School, where he received a Master of Public Administration....
     (MPA '79) - former U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia
    Indonesia

    The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
     and Bolivia
    Bolivia

    The Republic of Bolivia , named after Sim?n Bol?var, is a landlocked country in central South America. It is bordered by Brazil on the north and east, Paraguay and Argentina on the south, and Chile and Peru on the west....
  • Hector Gramajo
    Hector Gramajo

    H?ctor Alejandro Gramajo Morales was a general in the Guatemalan Military of Guatemala who served as Ministry of Defence from 1987 to 1990. He also ran unsuccessfully as the Frente de Unidad Nacional's candidate for the President of Guatemala in 1995....
     (MPA ‘95) – former Defense Minister of Guatemala
    Guatemala

    Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize and the Caribbean to the northeast, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast....
  • Alan Grayson
    Alan Grayson

    Alan Mark Grayson is the Democratic Party U.S. House of Representatives in . The district includes just over half of Orlando, Florida, as well as Celebration, Florida, Walt Disney World and part of Ocala....
     (MPP/JD '83) - member, U.S. House of Representatives, 8th District of Florida
  • Katherine Harris
    Katherine Harris

    Katherine Harris is an American Republican Party politician and former Secretary of State of Florida and a former member of the United States House of Representatives....
     (MPA ‘97) – member, U.S. House of Representatives, 13th District of Florida; former Florida Secretary of State
  • Keith Hennessey
    Keith Hennessey

    Keith Hennessey is the former Assistant to the U.S. President for Economic Policy and Director of the U.S. National Economic Council. He was appointed to the position in November 2007 by President George W....
     (MPP '94) - former director, White House National Economic Council
    National Economic Council

    The National Economic Council is a United States government agency in the Executive Office of the President. Created by President Bill Clinton in 1993 by Executive order , its functions are to coordinate policy-making for domestic and international economic issues, coordinate economic policy advice for the President, ensure that policy deci...
  • Brian Higgins
    Brian Higgins

    Brian Higgins , a Democratic Party from New York, has been a member of the United States House of Representatives since 2004, representing the state's New York's 27th congressional district....
     (MPA '96) - member, U.S. House of Representatives, 27th District of New York
  • Stephen Horn (MPA '55) - former U.S. Congressman, California
    California

    California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
  • Rafael Hui
    Rafael Hui

    Rafael Hui Si Yan, Grand Bauhinia Medal Hong Kong honours system Justice of the peace was the former Chief Secretary for Administration of Hong Kong and a former career civil servant....
     (MPA ‘83) – former Chief Secretary for Administration
    Chief Secretary for Administration

    The Chief Secretary for Administration , commonly known as Chief Secretary and abbreviated as CS, is the second highest position of the Hong Kong Government....
     of Hong Kong
    Hong Kong

    Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....
  • Vuk Jeremic
    Vuk Jeremic

    Vuk Jeremic is the current Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Government of Serbia of Serbia. He was sworn in on May 15, 2007 and reelected on July 7, 2008....
     (MPA/ID ’03) - Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia
    Serbia

    Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a country in Central Europe and Balkans Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central part of the Balkans....
  • Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
    Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf

    Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is the current President of Liberia of Liberia. She served as Minister of Finance under President William R. Tolbert, Jr....
     (MPA ‘71) - President of Liberia
  • Shane Jones
    Shane Jones

    Shane Geoffrey Jones is a New Zealand politician, and was a cabinet minister in the Fifth Labour Government of New Zealand.Jones is Maori, of Te Aupouri and Ngai Takoto descent, as well as having Dalmatia ancestry....
     (MPA '91) - member, Parliament of New Zealand
    Parliament of New Zealand

    The Parliament of New Zealand consists of the Monarchy in New Zealand and the New Zealand House of Representatives and, until 1951, the New Zealand Legislative Council....
    , and chair of finance committee
  • Raymond W. Kelly
    Raymond W. Kelly

    Raymond Walter Kelly is the current NYPD Commissioner of the New York City Police Department and the first person to hold the post for two nonconsecutive tenures....
     (MPA '84) - New York City
    New York City

    The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
     Police Commissioner
    New York City Police Commissioner

    The New York City Police Commissioner is the head of the New York City Police Department, appointed by the Mayor of New York City. Governor Theodore Roosevelt, in one of his final acts before becoming Vice President of the United States in March 1901, signed legislation replacing the Police Board and office of police chief with a single polic...
  • Lim Hng Kiang
    Lim Hng Kiang

    Lim Hng Kiang is the Ministry of Trade and Industry and a member of the Cabinet of Singapore of Singapore. He is a Member of Parliament representing West Coast Group Representation Constituency....
     (MPA ‘85) - Minister for Trade and Industry of Singapore
    Singapore

    Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country microstate located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. It lies 137 kilometres north of the equator, south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of Indonesia's Riau Islands....
    ; member of the Cabinet of Singapore
    Cabinet of Singapore

    The Cabinet of Singapore forms the executive and is headed by the prime minister, who is the head of government. The prime minister is a member of parliament appointed by the president, who in his or her view is likely to command the confidence of the majority of the parliament....
  • Ban Ki-moon
    Ban Ki-moon

    Ban Ki-moon is the current Secretary-General of the United Nations of the United Nations.Before becoming Secretary-General, Ban was a career diplomat in South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and in the United Nations....
     (MPA ‘84) – United Nations Secretary General
  • Jim Langevin (MPA '94) - member, U.S. House of Representatives, 2nd District of Rhode Island
  • John P. Lewis (MPA '43) - former Chairman, White House
    White House

    The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., it was built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the late Georgian architecture and has been the executive residence of every U.S....
     Council of Economic Advisers
    Council of Economic Advisers

    The Council of Economic Advisers is a group of three respected economists who advise the President of the United States on economic policy. It is a part of the Executive Office of the President of the United States, and provides much of the economics policy of the White House....
  • Joseph Limprecht (MPA '81) - former U.S. Ambassador to Albania
    Albania

    Albania , officially the Republic of Albania , is a country in Balkans. It is bordered by Greece to the south-east, Montenegro to the north, Kosovo to the northeast, and the Republic of Macedonia to the east....
  • Lee Hsien Loong
    Lee Hsien Loong

    Lee, Hsien Loong is the third and current Prime Minister of Singapore of Singapore. Lee Hsien Loong is married to Ho Ching, who is the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the government-owned Temasek Holdings....
     (MPA ‘80) - Prime Minister of Singapore
    Prime Minister of Singapore

    The Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore is the head of government of the Republic of Singapore . As outlined in the recent constitutional amendment in 1991, the prime minister is appointed by the President of Singapore from sitting members of Parliament, who, in the opinion of the president, is most likely to command the confidence of...
  • Leopoldo Lopez
    Leopoldo López

    Leopoldo L?pez Mendoza is a Venezuelan politician. From 2000 until 2008, L?pez was the mayor of the Chacao Municipality, Miranda of Caracas. A Los Angeles Times article describes L?pez as an immensely popular leader of the opposition to President of Venezuela Hugo Ch?vez, as well as a social activist working for "grass-roots judicial r...
     (MPP ’96) - mayor of Chacao
    Chacao

    Chacao may refer to the following articles:*Chacao Municipality - a municipality of Caracas, Venezuela*Chacao Channel*Chacao Channel bridge...
     municipality, Caracas
    Caracas

    Caracas is the Capital and largest city of Venezuela. It is located in the north of the country, following the contours of the narrow Caracas Valley on the Coastal Range, Venezuela....
    , Venezuela
    Venezuela

    Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a country on the northern coast of South America.The country comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea....
  • Stephen F. Lynch (MPA ‘99) – member, U.S. House of Representatives, 9th District of Massachusetts
  • Miguel de la Madrid
    Miguel de la Madrid

    Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado is a Mexico politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party who served as President of Mexico from 1982 to 1988....
     (MPA ‘65) - former President of Mexico
    President of Mexico

    The Constitutional Citizen President of the United Mexican States is the head of state of Mexico. Under the 1917 Constitution of Mexico, the president is also the head of government and the Commander-in-chief of the Mexican Military of Mexico....
  • Dan Maffei
    Dan Maffei

    Daniel B. "Dan" Maffei is an United States United States Democratic Party politician from DeWitt, New York, currently serving as the United States US House of Representatives for the New York's 25th congressional district....
     (MPP '95) - member, U.S. House of Representatives, 25th District of New York
  • Nabiel Makarim
    Nabiel Makarim

    Nabiel Makarim was Indonesia's State Minister of the Environment from 2001 to 2004.As minister, Makarim developed the Good Environmental Governance program, which rates the environmental performance of cities and local environmental agencies....
     (MPA '84) - former Minister of the Environment of the Republic of Indonesia
  • Jamil Mahuad
    Jamil Mahuad

    Jorge Jamil Mahuad Witt was List of heads of state of Ecuador of Ecuador from August 10, 1998 to January 21, 2000. He was forced to resign after a week of demonstrations by indigenous Ecuadorians and a military revolt led by Lucio Guti?rrez....
     (MPA '89) - former President of Ecuador
  • John T. McCarthy (MPA '73) - former U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia
    Tunisia

    Tunisia , officially the Tunisian Republic , is a country located in North Africa. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and Libya to the southeast....
  • Mark McClellan
    Mark McClellan

    Mark Barr McClellan is currently the Director of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, Senior Fellow in Economic Studies and Leonard D....
     (MPA ‘91) – former Commissioner of the U.S. FDA; former administrator of Medicare
    Medicare (United States)

    Medicare is a social insurance program administered by the United States government, providing health insurance coverage to people who are aged 65 and over, or who meet other special criteria....
     and Medicaid
    Medicaid

    Medicaid is the United States American health care system program for eligible individuals and families with low incomes and resources. It is a means-tested program that is jointly funded by the states and federal government, and is managed by the states....
  • David Medina - (MPP '93) - Deputy chief of staff, U.S. First Lady
    First Lady

    First Lady is a term used in the United States to describe the wife of an elected male head of state. It originated in 1849, when President of the United States Zachary Taylor called Dolley Madison "First Lady" at her state funeral while reciting a eulogy written by himself....
     Michelle Obama
    Michelle Obama

    Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama is the wife of the forty-fourth President of the United States, Barack Obama, and the first African-American First Lady of the United States....
  • Francis J. Meehan (MPA '57) - former U.S. Ambassador to East Germany
  • Toshimitsu Motegi
    Toshimitsu Motegi

    is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party , Tsushima Facation, and a member of the House of Representatives of Japan in the Diet of Japan ....
     (MPP '83) - Financial Services Minister of Japan
    Japan

    Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
  • Jim Moody
    Jim Moody

    James Powers "Jim" Moody is a U.S. politician. Moody represented the State of Wisconsin in the U.S. Congress from 1983 to 1993.Moody was born in Richlands, Virginia, Tazewell County, Virginia....
     (MPA '67) - former U.S. Congressman, Wisconsin
    Wisconsin

    Wisconsin is one of the fifty U.S. state in the United States of America, located in the north central part of the United States. It borders two of the five Great Lakes and four U.S....
  • Daniel Mudd
    Daniel Mudd

    Daniel H. Mudd is the former President and CEO of Fannie Mae, a post he held from 2005-2008.He is the son of News presenter, Roger Mudd. He holds a B.A....
     (MPA '86) - former president and CEO of U.S. Fannie Mae
  • George Muńoz
    George Muńoz

    George Mu?oz is currently President of Mu?oz Investment Banking Group, LLC, a Washington, D.C. based firm focused on emerging markets and the U.S....
     (MPP/JD '78) - former CFO of the U.S. Department of Treasury; former president and CEO of OPIC
  • Elizabeth (Betsy) Myers (MPA ’00) – chief operating officer, Obama for America '08
  • Andrew Natsios
    Andrew Natsios

    Andrew S. Natsios is an United States civil servant who has served in a number of Massachusetts and high level U.S. government positions. From 2001 to 2005 he has served as Administrator of the U.S....
     (MPA '79) former U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan
    Sudan

    Sudan is a country in northeastern Africa. It is the largest in the African continent and the Arab World, and List of countries and outlying territories by total area by area....
    , and administrator of U.S. Agency for International Development
  • Christine Nixon
    Christine Nixon

    Christine Nixon is the head of the Victorian Bushfire Reconstruction and Recovery Authority. She was the 19th Police commissioner of Victoria Police, sworn in on 23 April 2001....
     (MPA ’85) - Chief Commissioner of Victoria
    Victoria (Australia)

    File:Map Victoria Aboriginal tribes .jpgVictoria is a States and territories of Australia located in the southeastern corner of Australia. It is the smallest mainland state in area but the most Population density and urbanised....
     Police
  • Herbert S. Okun
    Herbert S. Okun

    Herbert Stuart Okun is a former Ambassadors of the United States to East Germany and the United Nations . He is a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy, and a 1959 graduate of Harvard's John F....
     (MPA '59) - former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
    United Nations

    The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
  • Francis Pangilinan
    Francis Pangilinan

    Francis Nepomuceno Pangilinan , also known as Kiko Pangilinan, is a Senator in the Philippine Government since 2001. He was the former Senate Majority Leader until 2008, replaced by Juan Miguel Zubiri.....
     (MPA ’98) - Senator and the Majority Leader of the Senate of the Philippines
    Senate of the Philippines

    The Senate of the Philippines is the upper chamber of the bicameral legislature of the Philippines, the Congress of the Philippines. The Philippine Senate is composed of 24 senators who are elected at-large....
  • Marcus Peacock
    Marcus Peacock

    Marcus C. Peacock is a former Deputy Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency . He served from August 8, 2005 to January 20, 2009....
     (MPP ’86) - former Deputy Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
    United States Environmental Protection Agency

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is an List of United States federal agencies of the federal government of the United States charged to Regulation of chemicals and protect human health by safeguarding the natural environment: air, water, and land....
  • Cao Duc Phat (MPA'95) - Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam
    Vietnam

    Vietnam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam , is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by People's Republic of China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea to the east....
  • Larry Pressler (MPA ’66) - former U.S. Senator from South Dakota
    South Dakota

    South Dakota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States of the United States of America. It is named after the Lakota people and Sioux Sioux Native Americans in the United States tribes....
  • William Proxmire
    William Proxmire

    Edward William Proxmire was a member of the Democratic Party , who served in the United States Senate for the state of Wisconsin from 1957 to 1989....
     (MPA '48) - former U.S. Senator from Wisconsin
    Wisconsin

    Wisconsin is one of the fifty U.S. state in the United States of America, located in the north central part of the United States. It borders two of the five Great Lakes and four U.S....
  • Jack Reed
    Jack Reed

    John Francis "Jack" Reed is the Seniority in the United States Senate United States senator from Rhode Island and a member of the Democratic Party ....
     (MPP ’73) - U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
    Rhode Island

    Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, more commonly referred to as Rhode Island , is a U.S. state in the New England region of the United States....
  • Angelo Reyes
    Angelo Reyes

    Angelo Tomas Reyes was the Department of National Defense of the Philippines under President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo from 2001 to 2003. He is currently the Secretary of the Department of Energy....
     (MPA ’90) - Secretary of the Department of Energy of the Philippines
    Philippines

    The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
    ; former Secretary of National Defense of the Philippines
  • Eduardo Rodríguez
    Eduardo Rodríguez

    Eduardo Rodr?guez Veltz? is a former List of presidents of Bolivia of Bolivia; prior to that appointment he was the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Bolivia....
     (MPA '88) - former President of Bolivia
    President of Bolivia

    The President of Bolivia is the head of state of Bolivia. According to the current constitution, the president is elected by popular vote for a single non-renewable five year term....
  • Pete Rouse
    Pete Rouse

    Pete Rouse is Senior Adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama, having served as a co-chairman of the Obama-Biden Transition Project.Rouse had been chief of staff to South Dakota Senator Tom Daschle, the former majority leader, and was planning to retire after Daschle lost in 2004....
     (MPA '77) - Senior Adviser to President Barack Obama
    Barack Obama

    Barack Hussein Obama II is the List of Presidents of the United States and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office....
    ; former co-head of the Obama-Biden Transition Project
  • Carlos Salinas de Gortari (MPA ’73, Phd ‘76) - former President of Mexico
    President of Mexico

    The Constitutional Citizen President of the United Mexican States is the head of state of Mexico. Under the 1917 Constitution of Mexico, the president is also the head of government and the Commander-in-chief of the Mexican Military of Mexico....
  • Joe Sestak (MPA '84) - member, U.S. House of Representatives, 7th District of Pennsylvania
  • Yasuhisa Shiozaki
    Yasuhisa Shiozaki

    is a Japanese politician who served as Chief Cabinet Secretary to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe until September 2007.Born in Matsuyama, Ehime, Ehime Prefecture, he was an American Field Service exchange student in high school, graduated with a liberal arts degree from the University of Tokyo and attended the John F....
     (MPA ‘82) – former Chief Cabinet Secretary, Japan
    Japan

    Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
  • Rob Simmons
    Rob Simmons

    Robert Ruhl Simmons , United States politician, was a Republican Party member of the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2007, representing the United States House of Representatives, Connecticut District 2....
     (MPA '79) - former U.S. Congressman, Connecticut
    Connecticut

    Connecticut is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States. The state borders New York to the west and south , Massachusetts to the north, and Rhode Island to the east....
  • Frederick Sumaye (MPA '07) former Prime Minister of Tanzania
  • Nancy Sutley
    Nancy Sutley

    Nancy Helen Sutley leads the White House Council on Environmental Quality.Prior to being confirmed by the Senate to lead the CEQ, she served as the Deputy Mayor for Energy and Environment for the city of Los Angeles, California, and as Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's appointment to the Board of Directors for the Metropolitan Water District of...
     (MPP '86) - Director of White House
    White House

    The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., it was built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the late Georgian architecture and has been the executive residence of every U.S....
     Council on Environmental Quality
    Council on Environmental Quality

    The Council on Environmental Quality is a division of the White House that coordinates federal Natural environmental efforts in the United States and works closely with agencies and other White House offices in the development of environmental and energy policies and initiatives....
  • Syahrir
    Syahrir

    Syahrir was a prominent Indonesian political economist. He was officially appointed by President of the Republic of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as Economic Adviser in the Council of Presidential Advisers on 11 April 2007....
     (MPA ’80, PhD ‘83) - Economic Adviser in the Republic of Indonesia's Council of Presidential Advisors
  • William B. Taylor, Jr.
    William B. Taylor, Jr.

    William B. Taylor is the current United States ambassador to Ukraine.He was confirmed in this post by the United States Senate on May 26, 2006 and was sworn in on June 5, 2006....
     (MPP '77) - U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine
    Ukraine

    Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
  • James D. Theberge (MPA '65) - former U.S. Ambassador to Chile
    Chile

    Chile, officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean....
  • Peter G. Torkildsen
    Peter G. Torkildsen

    Peter Gerard Torkildsen is the Massachusetts Republican State Committee Chairman and is also a former member of the United States House of Representatives....
     (MPA '90) - former U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts
    Massachusetts

    The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States. It borders Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north....
    ; former chair of Massachusetts Republican Party
    Republican Party (United States)

    The Republican Party is one of the two major party contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party . It is often called the Grand Old Party or the GOP....
  • Robert Torricelli
    Robert Torricelli

    Robert Guy Torricelli , nicknamed "the Torch," is an Politics of the United States from the U.S. state of New Jersey. Torricelli, a Democratic Party , served 14 years in the United States House of Representatives before being elected to the United States Senate....
     (MPA '80) - former U.S. Senator from New Jersey
    New Jersey

    New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north by New York, on the east by the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean, on the southwest by Delaware, and on the west by Pennsylvania....
  • Pierre Elliott Trudeau (MA '45, GSPA) - former Prime Minister of Canada
    Prime Minister of Canada

    The Prime Minister of Canada is the primary Minister of the Crown, chairman of the Cabinet of Canada, and thus head of government of Canada. The office is not outlined in any of the documents that constitute the written portion of the constitution of Canada; executive authority is formally vested in the Monarchy of Canada and exercised on hi...
  • Donald Tsang
    Donald Tsang

    Sir Donald Tsang Yum-Kuen, Hong Kong honours system, Order of the British Empire is the current Chief Executive of Hong Kong and Head of Government of Hong Kong....
     (MPA ’82) - Hong Kong
    Hong Kong

    Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....
     Chief Executive
    Chief Executive of Hong Kong

    The Chief Executive of Hong Kong is the head of government of the government of Hong Kong and the principal representative of Hong Kong. The position was created to replace the Governor of Hong Kong, who was the head of the Hong Kong government during British rule....
  • Paul Tsongas
    Paul Tsongas

    Paul Efthemios Tsongas was a United States Senate from Massachusetts and a one-time candidate for the United States Democratic Party presidential nomination....
     ('73) - former U.S. Senator from Massachusetts
    Massachusetts

    The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States. It borders Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north....
  • Chris Van Hollen
    Chris Van Hollen

    Christopher "Chris" Van Hollen, Jr. is a United States Democratic Party member of the United States House of Representatives, representing since 2003....
     (MPP ’85) - member, U.S. House of Representatives, 8th District of Maryland
  • Paul Volcker
    Paul Volcker

    Paul Adolph Volcker is an American economist. He was the Chairman of the Federal Reserve under President of the United Statess Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan ....
     (MA ‘51, GSPA) – former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve; economic advisor to President Barack Obama
    Barack Obama

    Barack Hussein Obama II is the List of Presidents of the United States and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office....
  • Earl Anthony Wayne (MPA '84) - U.S. Ambassador to Argentina
    Argentina

    Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
  • Kevin White (MA '57, GSPA) – Boston, Massachusetts
    Boston, Massachusetts

    Boston is the State capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region, and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England." Boston city proper had a 2007 est...
     former mayor
  • David Wilhelm
    David Wilhelm

    David Wilhelm is an American political leader and businessman. Wilhelm is best known for managing campaigns for President Bill Clinton, Senator Paul Simon, Senator Joe Biden and Chicago Mayor Richard M....
     (MPP '90) - campaign manager, Clinton/Gore '92
    United States presidential election, 1992

    The United States presidential elections of 1992 featured a battle between incumbent President of the United States United States Republican Party George H....
    ; former chair, Democratic National Committee
    Democratic National Committee

    The Democratic National Committee is the principal organization governing the Democratic Party on a day to day basis. While it is responsible for overseeing the process of writing a platform every four years, the DNC's central focus is on campaign and political activity in support of Democratic Party candidates, and not on public policy....
  • Anthony A. Williams
    Anthony A. Williams

    Anthony Allen "Tony" Williams is an United States politician who served as the fifth List of mayors of Washington D.C. of the District of Columbia for two terms, from 1999 to 2007....
     (MPP/JD ’87) – Washington, D.C.
    Washington, D.C.

    Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
     former mayor
  • Robert Zoellick
    Robert Zoellick

    Robert Bruce Zoellick is the eleventh president of the World Bank Group, a position he has held since July 1, 2007. He was previously a managing director of Goldman Sachs, United States United States Deputy Secretary of State and Office of the United States Trade Representative, from February 7, 2001 until February 22, 2005....
     (MPP/JD '81) - President of the World Bank
    World Bank

    The World Bank is a bank that provides financial and technical assistance to developing countries for development programs with the stated goal of reducing poverty....
    ; former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, and U.S. Trade Representative
  • Miomir Žužul
    Miomir Žužul

    Miomir ?u?ul is a Croatian diplomat and politician.?u?ul obtained a doctorate in psychology at the University of Zagreb as well as a doctorate in conflict management at the John F....
     (PhD '99) - former Foreign Minister of Croatia
    Croatia

    Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a Central European country at the crossroads of Pannonian Plain, Balkans, and the Mediterranean Sea....
    ; former ambassador to the United Nations
    United Nations

    The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....


Non-profit

  • Nicholas Boles
    Nicholas Boles

    Nicholas Edward Coleridge "Nick" Boles is a United Kingdom Conservative Party activist and former Director of Policy Exchange, a policy think tank based in Westminster and a former City of Westminster councillor....
     (MPP ‘89) - former director of Policy Exchange
    Policy Exchange

    Policy Exchange is a British think tank based in London. It is the largest centre-right think tank in the UK. The Daily Telegraph has described it as "the largest, but also the most influential think tank on the right"....
  • Lester R. Brown
    Lester R. Brown

    For the Canadian football player of the same name see Lester Brown .Lester R. Brown is an American environmentalist and author of over 50 books on global environmental issues....
     (MPA '62) - founder and President of the Earth Policy Institute
    Earth Policy Institute

    Earth Policy Institute is an environmental organization based in Washington DC in the United States. It was founded by in 2001 Lester R. Brown....
  • Robert Kagan
    Robert Kagan

    Robert Kagan is an United States historian and foreign policy commentator and widely regarded as a leading intellectual of the neo-conservative school of foreign policy....
     (MPP '91) - co-founder, Project for a New American Century
  • Nancy LeaMond
    Nancy LeaMond

    Nancy LeaMond currently serves as Executive Vice President of Social Impact at the AARP. She was formerly CEO/President for five years of the Congressional Economic Leadership Institute, a public policy group founded in 1987 to identify and research emerging international economic, trade, technology, tax and workforce issues....
     (MCP '74) - Executive Vice President, AARP
    AARP

    AARP, formerly the American Association of Retired Persons, is a United States-based non-governmental organization and interest group. According to its mission statement, it is "a nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organization for people age 50 and over ......
  • Nancy Lindborg (MPA ’92) - President of Mercy Corps
    Mercy Corps

    Mercy Corps is a non-profit organization engaged in humanitarian aid and development activities. Since 1979, Mercy Corps has provided more than US$1.5 billion in assistance to people in 106 nations....
  • Michelle Rhee
    Michelle Rhee

    Michelle A. Rhee is the chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools system. In 1997 she founded The New Teacher Project , which in ten years has recruited 10,000 teachers in twenty states....
     (MPP ’97) - founder of The New Teacher Project
    The New Teacher Project

    The New Teacher Project is a U.S.-wide non-profit organization dedicated to increasing the number of outstanding individuals who become public school teachers and to creating environments for all educators that maximize their impact on student achievement....
    ; Chancellor of the Washington, D.C. public school system


Military

  • Christopher C. Ames (MPA '91) - U.S. Navy, Rear Admiral
  • Charles Hooper (MPA '89) - U.S. Army General
  • Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr. (MPA '80) - United States Army, Lt. Col.; author of The Army and Vietnam
  • Guy C. Swan III
    Guy C. Swan III

    Major General#United States Guy C. Swan III of the United States Army is the Director of Operations , United States Northern Command , based out of Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado....
     (MPA '86) - U.S. Army Major General, Commanding General of the Military District of Washington and Joint Force Headquarters National Capital Region


Academia


  • William Alonso
    William Alonso

    William Alonso was an United States economist.William Alonso was born in 1933 in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina. He began his career with a bachelor's degree in architectural science from Harvard University in 1954....
     (MCP ’56) – economist, former director of Harvard Center for Population Studies
  • Douglas Anderson (MPA ’76, PhD ’78) – Dean, Utah State University
    Utah State University

    Utah State University is a Public university land-grant university whose main campus is located in Logan, Utah.It was established in 1888, after Anthon H....
     Huntsman School of Business
  • Lawrence S. Bacow
    Lawrence S. Bacow

    Lawrence S. "Larry" Bacow has been president of Tufts University since September 1, 2001. A lawyer and economist whose research focuses on Environmental economics, he holds faculty appointments in five departments at Tufts....
     (MPP '76, PhD '76) – President of Tufts University
    Tufts University

    Tufts University is a private research university in Medford, Massachusetts/Somerville, Massachusetts, near Boston, Massachusetts, United States....
  • Steve Charnovitz
    Steve Charnovitz

    Steve Charnovitz is a scholar of public international law, living in the United States. He teaches at The George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC, and is best known for his writings on the linkages between trade and environment and trade and labor rights....
     (MPP '83) - Associate Professor at George Washington University
    George Washington University

    The George Washington University is a Private university, Mixed-sex education university located in Washington, D.C. The school was chartered on February 9, 1821 as The Columbian College in the District of Columbia by an Act of Congress and since that time has developed into a nonsectarian research institution....
  • Jose Gomez-Ibanez (MPP '72, PhD '74) - Derek Bok Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, Harvard University
    Harvard University

    Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
  • Stephen Horn (MPA '55) - former president of California State University, Long Beach
    California State University, Long Beach

    California State University, Long Beach is the largest campus of the California State University system and the second largest university in the state of California by enrollment....
  • Ira Jackson (MPA ‘86) – Dean, Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management
    Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management

    The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, also known as the Drucker School of Management, is a member of the Claremont Colleges, which is a unique consortium of 7 colleges based on the Oxford model....
     at Claremont Graduate University
    Claremont Graduate University

    Claremont Graduate University is a private graduate-only university. CGU is a member of the Claremont Colleges....
  • Mark Lilla
    Mark Lilla

    Mark Lilla is an essayist and intellectual history living in New York City.A frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, the New Republic, and the New York Times, he is best known for his books The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics and The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West....
     (MPP ’80) – Professor of humanities at Columbia University
    Columbia University

    Columbia University in the City of New York , is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia's main campus lies in the Morningside Heights, Manhattan neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City....
  • Mark Moore (MPP '71, PhD '74) - Hauser Professor of Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard Kennedy School
  • Joan Parrott-Fonseca (MPA '98) - Dean, School of Business, Medger Evers College, CUNY
  • Henry Richardson (MPP '81) - Professor of philosophy at Georgetown University
    Georgetown University

    Georgetown University is a Society of Jesus private university located in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Father John Carroll founded the school in 1789, though its roots extend back to 1634....
  • Donald M. Stewart (MPA '69) - former president of Spelman College
    Spelman College

    Spelman College is a four-year Liberal arts colleges in the United States Women's colleges in the United States located in Atlanta, Georgia, Georgia , United States....
  • Stephen Joel Trachtenberg
    Stephen Joel Trachtenberg

    Stephen Joel Trachtenberg is a former President of The George Washington University and currently holds the title of President Emeritus and University Professor of Public Service....
     (MPA '66) - former president of George Washington University
    George Washington University

    The George Washington University is a Private university, Mixed-sex education university located in Washington, D.C. The school was chartered on February 9, 1821 as The Columbian College in the District of Columbia by an Act of Congress and since that time has developed into a nonsectarian research institution....
  • Jonathan Zittrain
    Jonathan Zittrain

    Jonathan L. Zittrain is an United States professor of cyber law at Harvard Law School and a faculty co-director of Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet & Society....
     (MPA/JD '95) - professor, Harvard Law School
    Harvard Law School

    Harvard Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, it is the United States' oldest law school in continuous operation....
    ; co-founder Berkman Center at Harvard


Journalism


  • Mark A. R. Kleiman (MPP, PhD '85) - author of Marijuana: Costs of Abuse, Costs of Control and Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results
  • Beth Knobel (MPP '87, PhD '92) - CBS News
    CBS News

    CBS News is the news division of American television and radio network CBS. Its current president is Sean McManus who is also head of CBS Sports....
     Moscow correspondent
  • Bill O'Reilly
    Bill O'Reilly (commentator)

    William James "Bill" O'Reilly, Jr. is an United States presenter/radio personality, author, syndicated columnist and self-described "traditionalist" political commentator....
     (MPA ’96) - host, the O'Reilly Factor
  • Andrew Sullivan
    Andrew Sullivan

    Andrew Michael Sullivan is a British people blogger, author, and political commentator.Sullivan is a public speaking at universities, colleges, and civic organizations in the United States, and a guest on national news and political commentary television shows in the United States and Europe....
     (MPA, PhD '90) – journalist, The Atlantic Monthly
    The Atlantic Monthly

    The Atlantic is an United States magazine founded in Boston in 1857. Originally created as a literature and culture commentary magazine, its current format is of a general editorial magazine....


Business

  • Gregory C. Carr
    Gregory C. Carr

    Gregory C. Carr is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist. His most notable philanthropic venture is the restoration of Mozambique's famous Gorongosa National Park, which has been ravaged by civil war and environmental destruction....
     (MPP '86) - founder, Boston Technology
  • Leonard S. Coleman, Jr.
    Leonard S. Coleman, Jr.

    Leonard S. Coleman, Jr. was the last, non-honorary president of the National League. He held the office until 1999 when it was eliminated by Major League Baseball....
     (MPA '75) - former president of the National League
    National League

    The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the National League , is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball, and the world's oldest existent professional team sports league....
  • Gregory B. Kenny (MPA '82) - CEO of General Cable
  • Bruce Kovner
    Bruce Kovner

    Bruce Stanley Kovner is an United States businessman. He is the founder and Chairman of Caxton Associates, LLC, a hedge fund that trades a global macro strategy and is considered amongst the worlds top and largest 10 hedge funds with an estimated $14 billion under management ....
     (’71) – founder and Chairman, Caxton Associates
  • Debra L. Lee
    Debra L. Lee

    Debra L. Lee is an United States businesswoman. Currently, she is the President and Chief Executive Officer of BET Holdings, Inc., the parent company for Black Entertainment Television....
     (MPP/JD '80) - President and CEO, Black Entertainment Television
    Black Entertainment Television

    Black Entertainment Television is an American cable television based in Washington, D.C. and targeted towards young black people and urban audiences in the United States....
  • Daniel N. Mendelson (MPA '90) - President, Avalere Health
  • David Morehouse (MPA '99) - President, Pittsburgh Penguins
    Pittsburgh Penguins

    The Pittsburgh Penguins are a professional ice hockey team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League ....
  • Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani (MPA '82) - Chairman, Mondoil Enterprises
  • Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg
    Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg

    Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg is a Venezuelan-born business woman and the current president and Chief Executive Officer of Strategic Investment Group , which designs and implements investment strategies for individual and institutional investors....
     (MPA '71) - founder, President, CEO of Strategic Investment Group
  • Judith C. Pelham (MPA '75) - former CEO of Trinity Health
    Trinity Health

    Trinity Health is an United States healthcare provider headquartered in Minot, North Dakota, North Dakota. Trinity is a non-profit organization....
  • Jerome Rappaport (MPA '63) - founder and Chairman, the New Boston Fund
  • Klaus Schwab
    Klaus Schwab

    Klaus Martin Schwab is a Switzerland economics and businessman, best known as the president and founder of the World Economic Forum. His wife and former secretary, Hilde, works with him on some of his projects....
     (MPA ’67) – founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum
    World Economic Forum

    The World Economic Forum is a Geneva-based non-profit foundation best known for its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland which brings together top business leaders, international political leaders, selected intellectuals and journalists to discuss the most pressing issues facing the world including health and the environment....
  • Mark Schwartz (MPP '79) - former CEO of Soros Fund Management
    Soros Fund Management

    Soros Fund Management LLC, founded by George Soros, is a privately held corporation providing financial services and investment strategies for various funds including some controversial hedge funds such as the Quantum Group of Funds....
  • Faryar Shirzad
    Faryar Shirzad

    Faryar Shirzad is a former White House Deputy Assistant for International Economic Affairs to President George W. Bush and the Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs, serving in this role from 2004 to 2006....
     (MPP' 89) - managing director, Goldman Sachs
    Goldman Sachs

    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., or simply Goldman Sachs , is a bank holding company that engages in investment banking, Security services, and investment management....
    , former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor
  • George Williams (MPA '75) - Williams Partners, Inc.


Arts


  • Hill Harper
    Hill Harper

    Hill Harper is an United States film, television and Stage actor....
     (MPA/JD ‘92) - Actor


See also

  • Listing of Harvard University people
    List of Harvard University people

    The list of Harvard University people includes notable graduates, professors and administrators affiliated with Harvard University. For a list of notable non-graduates of Harvard, see notable non-graduate alumni of Harvard....


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