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 has routinely ranked as the best,or among the best,of the world's public policy graduate schools. Harvard Kennedy 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.
John Thomas Dunlop was an American administrator,labor economist,and educator. Dunlop was the United States Secretary of Labor between 1975 and 1976 under President Gerald Ford. He was Director of the United States Cost of Living Council from 1973 to 1974,Chairman of the United States Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations from 1993 to 1995,which produced the Dunlop Report in 1994. He was also arbitrator and impartial chairman of various United States labor-management committees,and a member of numerous government boards on industrial relations disputes and economic stabilization.
Sir Geoffrey John Mulgan CBE is Professor of Collective Intelligence,Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College London (UCL). From 2011 to 2019 he was chief executive of the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA) and visiting professor at University College London,the London School of Economics,and the University of Melbourne.
Gross National Happiness,sometimes called Gross Domestic Happiness (GDH),is a philosophy that guides the government of Bhutan. It includes an index which is used to measure the collective happiness and well-being of a population. Gross National Happiness Index is instituted as the goal of the government of Bhutan in the Constitution of Bhutan,enacted on 18 July 2008.
The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is the public health school of Harvard University,located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston,Massachusetts. The school grew out of the Harvard-MIT School for Health Officers,the nation's first graduate training program in population health,which was founded in 1913 and then became the Harvard School of Public Health in 1922.
The Center for Public Leadership (CPL) is an academic research center at Harvard University that provides teaching,research and training in the practical skills of leadership for people in government,nonprofits,and business. The center works to prepare its students to exercise leadership in a world responding to a rapidly expanding array of economic,political,and social challenges. Located at Harvard Kennedy School,CPL was established in 2000 through a gift from the Wexner Foundation.
Robert Irwin Rotberg is an academic from the United States who served as President of the World Peace Foundation (1993–2010). A professor in governance and foreign affairs,he was director of the Program on Intrastate Conflict,Conflict Prevention,and Conflict Resolution at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government (1999–2010),and has served in administrative positions at Tufts University and Lafayette College.
Glyn Conrad Davis is an Australian academic and public servant. He was appointed the Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet on 6 June 2022,and as of December 2024 serves in the role. From January 2005 until September 2018,he served as vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne. He was previously a Distinguished Professor at the Australian National University's Crawford School of Public Policy.
Michael Robert Kremer is an American development economist currently serving as University Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago and Director of the Development Innovation Lab at the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics. Kremer formerly served as the Gates Professor of Developing Societies at Harvard University,a role he held from 2003 to 2020. In 2019,Kremer was jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences,together with Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee,"for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty."
Arthur C. Brooks is an American author,public speaker,and academic. Since 2019,Brooks has served as the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Nonprofit and Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and at the Harvard Business School as a Professor of Management Practice and Faculty Fellow. Previously,Brooks served as the 11th President of the American Enterprise Institute. He is the author of thirteen books,including Build the Life You Want:The Art and Science of Getting Happier with co-author Oprah Winfrey (2023),From Strength to Strength:Finding Success,Happiness and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life (2022),Love Your Enemies (2019),The Conservative Heart (2015),and The Road to Freedom (2012). Since 2020,he has written the Atlantic’s How to Build a Life column on happiness.
Arnold M. Zack has served as an arbitrator and mediator of labor management disputes since 1957. Born on October 7,1931,in Lynn Massachusetts,he is a graduate of Tufts College,Yale Law School and the Harvard University Graduate School of Public Administration. He was a Fulbright Scholar,a Wertheim Fellow,President of the National Academy of Arbitrators and member of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. He served as a judge of the Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal and was President of the Tribunal since 2010. He also served and taught as senior research associate at the Labor and Worklife Program of Harvard Law School and the Harvard Trade Union Program since 1985.
Aneesh Paul Chopra is an American executive who served as the first Chief Technology Officer of the United States. He was appointed in 2009 by President Barack Obama and was at the White House through 2012. Chopra previously served as Virginia's Secretary of Technology under Governor Tim Kaine. Chopra was a candidate in 2013 for the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. He is the author of Innovative State:How New Technologies Can Transform Government (2014) and co-founder and president of CareJourney. In 2015 he joined Albright Stonebridge Group as a senior advisor.
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.
Tshering Tobgay is a Bhutanese politician,environmentalist,and cultural advocate who is the Prime Minister of Bhutan since 28 January 2024 and also served in office from July 2013 to August 2018. Tobgay is the leader of the People's Democratic Party,and was also the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly from March 2008 to April 2013.
Dr. Ramaswami Balasubramaniam,known as Dr R Balu,is a development scholar,author,public policy advocate,leadership trainer known for his development work with rural and tribal people in Saragur and Heggadadevana kote Taluks of Mysuru in Karnataka,India. He founded Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement (SVYM),a development organization based in Saragur when he was 19. He is also the founder and chairman of the Grassroots Research And Advocacy Movement (GRAAM),a public policy think tank in Mysuru. After spending 26 years in development work among rural and tribal people,he pursued academic degrees in leadership,organisational development and public policy. He was the Frank T Rhodes professor at Cornell University between 2012 and 2014,and has held academic positions in Cornell and other universities. His books Voices from the Grassroots and I,the citizen (2015) are compilation of narratives and reflections of a development expert. He published Power Within:The Leadership Legacy of Narendra Modi in 2024.
Olajumoke Omoniyi Oduwole is a Nigerian Jurist,an academician and the Minister of Industry,Trade and Investment. She was the Prince Claus Chair holder from 2013 to 2015.
John F. Helliwell is a Canadian economist,professor emeritus of Economics at the University of British Columbia. senior fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) and co-director of the CIFAR Programme on Social Interactions,Identity,and Well-Being;Board Director of the International Positive Psychology Association,and editor of the World Happiness Report.
Solomon Areda Waktolla is an Ethiopian lawyer who had served as the Deputy Chief Justice/Vice President of the Federal Supreme Court of Ethiopia from 2018 to 2023. Solomon is a prominent lawyer with 26 years of experience in the practice of law,public administration and policy research who is committed for seeing a free and independent judiciary in Ethiopia. Justice Waktolla served in the Ethiopian Judiciary mainly as a judge for 20 years on different levels of the court in both regional and federal positions. In addition,he has been appointed to the membership of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) at The Hague,Netherlands for a six-year term to serve as an Arbitrator. Justice Solomon Waktolla was appointed on 15 November 2022 by the UN General Assembly as a Half-time Judge of the United Nations Dispute Tribunal for a mandate starting on 1 July 2023 and ending on 30 June 2030.Furthermore,he has been appointed by the Board of Directors of the African Development Bank as a Judge of the Administrative Tribunal of the African Development Bank,effective from November 2023. Justice Waktolla is an accomplished judge and jurist with many years of legal and judicial work experience at both national and international levels.
Sujeet Kumar is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party party and a former Member of Lok Sabha,representing Odisha in the Rajya Sabha,from 2020 to 2024. He is also a Lawyer and trained Arbitrator,and practicing in the Supreme Court of India,various High Courts and Tribunals. He also was the Chairman of the Committee on Petitions of Rajya Sabha,one of the youngest ever to chair a Parliamentary Committee. He earlier served as the Advisor,in the rank of Chief Secretary,to the Special Development Council (SDC) of Government of Odisha and as the Special Secretary of Odisha State Planning Board,very senior policy planning positions with Government of Odisha.
Joseph P. Kalt is an American economist and the Ford Foundation Professor (Emeritus) of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. His research focuses on governance and economic development,particularly in American Indian reservations and Indigenous communities worldwide.
