Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), officially the John F. Kennedy School of Government, is the school of public policy and government of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The school offers master's degrees in public policy, public administration, and international development, four doctoral degrees, and various executive education programs. It conducts research in subjects relating to politics, government, international affairs, and economics. As of 2021, HKS had an endowment of $1.7 billion. It is a member of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA), a global consortium of schools that trains leaders in international affairs.
David Richmond Gergen is an American political commentator and former presidential adviser who served during the administrations of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. He is currently a senior political analyst for CNN and a professor of public service and the founding director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. Gergen is also the former editor at large of U.S. News & World Report and a contributor to CNN.com and Parade Magazine. He has twice been a member of election coverage teams that won Peabody awards—in 1988 with MacNeil–Lehrer, and in 2008 with CNN.
Wendy Sue Kopp is the CEO and co-founder of Teach For All, a global network of independent nonprofit organizations working to expand educational opportunity in their own countries and the Founder of Teach For America (TFA), a national teaching corps.
Established by Rita Hauser and her husband Gustave M. Hauser in 1997, the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University was formed with the goal of expanding understanding and accelerating critical thinking about civil society among scholars, practitioners, policy makers, and the general public, by encouraging scholarship, developing curriculum, fostering mutual learning between academics and practitioners, and shaping policies that enhance the sector and its role in society.
Carr Center for Human Rights Policy is a research center at Harvard Kennedy School founded in 1999. The center's scholars address issues related to human rights, including human security, global governance and civil society, economic justice, and equality and discrimination.
Karen Irene Tse. She is Swiss and American, of Chinese descent, and lives in Geneva. Tse is a human rights defender and social entrepreneur, and the founder and CEO of the global non-profit International Bridges to Justice, that fosters legal rights in more than 50 developing countries, building systematic early access to legal representation, in order to avoid the use of torture by law enforcement, and prevent other due process rights violations around the world.
Wendy Ruth Sherman is an American diplomat who served as the United States deputy secretary of state from April 2021 to July 2023. She was a professor of the practice of public leadership and director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, a senior counselor at Albright Stonebridge Group, and a senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
Jennifer S. Lerner is an American experimental social psychologist known for her research in emotion and decision theory. She is the first psychologist at the Harvard Kennedy School to receive tenure. At Harvard, her titles include Professor of Public Policy and Management, Professor of Psychology, Faculty Director in the Graduate Commons Program, co-founder of the Harvard Decision Science Laboratory and co-director of the Harvard Faculty Group on Emotion, Decision Making, and Health. Her research interests include the effects of accountability on judgment and choice. She founded and directs the Leadership Decision Making program within Harvard Kennedy School's executive education program.
Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, formerly known as the Ash Institute, was established in 2003 and is part of the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States.
Iris Bohnet is a Swiss behavioral economist, and the Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government and the Academic Dean at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Her work focuses primarily on issues of gender, trust, and social preferences.
The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy is a Harvard Kennedy School research center that explores the intersection and impact of media, politics and public policy in theory and practice.
The Harvard Graduate Council(HGC) (formerly known as the "HGSG" [defunct]), and originally founded as the HGC is the centralized student government organization for the twelve graduate schools of Harvard University. Representing the interests of more than 15,000 Harvard graduate students, HGC is responsible for advocating student concerns to the University administrators, including the President of Harvard University, as well as the Provost and the Deans. HGC is also tasked with organizing large university-wide initiatives and events, managing and providing funding for university-wide student groups (USGs), as well as representing the Harvard graduate student population during conferences with other Ivy League universities and external organizations. In addition, HGC collaborates with its undergraduate counterpart, the Harvard Undergraduate Council (UC). The HGC Seal is formed by 13 different Harvard seals. At the center is the main Harvard University seal, which itself is surrounded by the 12 smaller seals of individual graduate schools.
Jeffrey C. Walker worked from 1984 to 2005 as CEO and co-founder of CCMP Capital, and JPMorgan Partners, JPMorgan Chase & Co's global private equity, vice chairman of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and chairman of the JPMorgan Chase Foundation. He has subsequently been active in many non-profit and education areas, including Harvard University. He is known as a positive advocate for meditation, yoga and related practices. He graduated from University of Virginia and Harvard Business School. In 2009, Walker completed Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government as a David Bohnett LGBTQ Victory Institute Leadership Fellow.
The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) is a research center at Harvard University, located at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. The Center is presently under the leadership of Lawrence H. Summers, Weil Director, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, and Charles W. Eliot University Professor and John A. Haigh, Co-Director, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, and Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.
Tanya Tull is a leading expert in family homelessness in America. In 1980 she founded Para Los Ninos, in reaction to an article she read in the Los Angeles Times concerning children living in Skid Row hotels. Para Los Ninos began as a childcare center that blossomed into a full range family service center utilizing renovated warehouses in Skid Row, Los Angeles. Today Para Los Ninos also operates charter schools in Central Los Angeles.
Todd Rogers is an American behavioral scientist and Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is the co-founder of the Analyst Institute and EveryDay Labs. At Harvard University, he is faculty director of the Behavioral Insights Group and the director of the Student Social Support R&D Lab. He is also an Academic Advisor at the UK's Behavioral Insights Team and a Senior Researcher at ideas42.
Alice Chen is an American physician who is an assistant clinical professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She has previously been a Hauser Visiting Leader at Harvard Kennedy School Center for Public Leadership and assistant clinical professor position at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Chen was a founding member and former director of the nonprofit organization Doctors for America.
Marla Malcolm Beck is an entrepreneur based in the United States. She co-founded the beauty company Bluemercury in Washington, D.C. alongside her husband, Barry J. Beck in 1999. Bluemercury was acquired by Macy's in 2015. Beck retained her position as CEO until 2021.
Scott C. Ratzan is an American academic working as a distinguished lecturer at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy. He is also the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Health Communication.
John A. Haigh is the Co-Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and a Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). He was Executive Dean of Harvard Kennedy School from 2005 through 2017. He previously served as Senior Vice President for Emerging Initiatives at AT&T Wireless, and as President of AT&T's International Ventures. A graduate of Grinnell College (1976) and Harvard Kennedy School (1982), Haigh began his professional career as a research associate at Resources for the Future and later served as a research associate in the Energy and Environmental Policy Center at Harvard.
