- Stephen Walt
Stephen Martin Walt (born July 2, 1955) is a professor of international affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In 1983, he received a Ph.D., in political science, from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Walt developed the 'Balance of Threat' Theory, which defined threats in terms of aggregate power, geographic proximity, offensive power, and aggressive intentions.
- Joseph Nye
Dr. Joseph Nye Jr.is the Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy and Dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Previously, he was the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, winning two Distinguished Service medals, and the chair of the National Intelligence Council. Dr. Nye joined the Harvard faculty in 1964, serving as director of the Center for International Affairs and associate dean of Arts and Sciences.
- David Gergen
David Gergen is a professor of public service and Director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He served in the Clinton administration from 1993 to 1995, first as Counselor to the President and then as Special Adviser to the President and the Secretary of State. He served as director of communications for President Reagan and also held positions in the administrations of Presidents Nixon and Ford.
- Samantha Power
Samantha Power 's 'A Problem from Hell' is a broad attempt to document the major acts of genocide/human rights violations of the 20th century paired with the international community's subsequent negligence in each case. She reports on the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, and especially her major areas of research- Rwanda and Serbia.
- Calestous Juma
Calestous Juma is Professor of the Practice of International Development and Director of the Science, Technology, and Globalization Project. He holds a Ph.D. in science and technology policy studies and has written widely on science, technology, and the environment.
- Marvin Kalb
Marvin Kalb (born June 9 1930) is an American journalist. Marvin Kalb is a Senior Fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and Faculty Chair for the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Washington programs. Kalb was the Shorenstein Center's Founding Director and Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press and Public Policy (1987-1999). The Shorenstein Center and the Kennedy School are part of Harvard University.
- Robert Kagan
Robert Kagan is a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he specializes in issues of U.S. leadership and foreign policy. He is co-founder with William Kristol of the Project for a New American Century. Before joining the Carnegie Endowment, he worked in the State Department as a member of the Policy Planning Staff and as principal speech writer for Secretary of State George P. Shultz during the Reagan Administration.
- Swanee Hunt
Swanee Hunt (born May 1, 1950) is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government, director of its Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP), and former United States Ambassador to Austria. A daughter of oil tycoon H. L. Hunt, she grew up in Dallas, Texas and then lived in Denver, Colorado for many years, where she was active in many community and philanthropic activities. She was appointed as ambassador to Austria in 1993, …
- Ricardo Hausmann
Ricardo Hausmann is a former Venezuelan Minister of State and Head of the "Presidential Office of Coordination and Planning" (1992-1993) and actual Director of Harvard's Center for International Development and a Professor of the Practice of Economic Development at John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
- Jeffrey Frankel
Jeffrey Frankel is Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He directs the program in International Finance and Macroeconomics at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he is also a member of the Business Cycle Dating Committee, which officially declares recessions. Appointed to the Council of Economic Advisers by President Clinton in 1996 and subsequently confirmed by the Senate, he served until 1999.
- Robert Zoellick
Robert Zoellick also serves or has served as a board member on a number of private and public organizations: Alliance Capital , Said Holdings , and the Precursor Group ; a member of the advisory boards of Enron and Viventures , a venture fund; as a Director of the Aspen Institute 's Strategy Group, Council on Foreign Relations , the German Marshall Fund of the United States , and the World Wildlife Advisory Council ; and a member of Secretary William Sebastian Cohen 's Defense Policy Board .
- Richard N. Haass
R. Haass : In case that wasn't all sober enough, let me add, too, a little bit of analysis, and then we'll open it up for your questions. ... R. Haass : Let me answer the second part of your question about humanitarian intervention and what this says for other areas. I think what we're seeing here in international relations is the evolution of a new doctrine.
- John Ruggie
John G. Ruggie is the Evron and Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of International Affairs, and 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. From 1997 to 2001 he was Assistant Secretary-General and chief advisor for strategic planning to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
- Andrew Natsios
Andrew S. Natsios served as Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the lead US government agency for international economic development and humanitarian assistance, from 2001 until 2006. During this period, Mr. Natsios managed the agency's reconstruction programs in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Sudan, which totaled more than $14 billion over four years.
- Edward Glaeser
Edward L. Glaeser (born May 1, 1967) is an economist. He was educated at The Collegiate School in New York City before obtaining his B.A. in economics from Princeton University and his PhD in economics from the University of Chicago. Glaeser joined the faculty of Harvard in 1993, where he is currently Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor at the Department of Economics and Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, …
- Lant Pritchett
Lant Pritchett is an American developmental economist. He was born in Utah in 1959 and raised in Boise, Idaho. He graduated from Brigham Young University, majoring in Economics, after serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Argentina (1978-1980). He was a contributor to the first Copenhagen Consensus. He currently works for the World Bank.
- Rashid Khalidi
Rashid Khalidi Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University and the author of The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood on the Israeli invasion of Gaza. What does Israel hope to achieve? Khalidi was in Palestine in November and early December of last year and says that Hamas and the Palestinian Authority were losing support.
- George L. Kelling
George L. Kelling is a Professor at Rutgers University, a Research Fellow at Harvard University, and an Adjunct Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He previously taught at Northeastern University. Dr. Kelling earned his Ph.D. in Social welfare from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1973 under Dr. Alfred Kadushin. Kelling also received an M.S.W. degree from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a B.A. degree in Philosophy from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.
- Peter Dobkin Hall
Peter Dobkin Hall, historian, author, and educator, is Hauser Lecturer on Nonprofit Organizations at the Kennedy School of Government, and Lecturer in the Department of History, Harvard University. He was born on February 22, 1946 in New York City, to David Hall and Bernice (Dobkin) Hall.
- Rick Doblin
Rick Doblin is the president and founder of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). Born November 30, 1953, he obtained a psychology degree from New College of Florida in 1987 and later earned a doctorate in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He organized MAPS in 1986 with the goal of making MDMA (or Ecstasy) an FDA-approved medicine, …
- Yang Jianli
Yang Jianli (b. 1963) is a Chinese dissident with U.S. residency. Yang Jianli, a Tiananmen Square activist in 1989, came to the United States, earned two Ph.D.s (Ph.D., Political Economy, Harvard University and Ph.D. Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley), and then founded the Foundation for China in the 21st Century. Given his political activism, he was blacklisted by the Chinese who also refused to renew his passport.
- Linda Greenhouse
Linda Greenhouse is the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for "The New York Times", covering the United States Supreme Court. She has covered the Court since 1978, with the exception of two years during the mid-1980s during which she covered the Congress. She has also been a regular guest on the PBS program "Washington Week" since 1980.
- Hendrik Hertzberg
Hendrik Hertzberg (b. 1943) is an American journalist, best known as the principal (and left-leaning) political commentator for "The New Yorker" magazine. He has also been a speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter and editor of "The New Republic", and is the author of "Politics: Observations & Arguments". The son of Sidney Hertzberg, a journalist and political activist, and Hazel Whitman Hertzberg, …
- Ira Jackson
Ira A. Jackson is the dean of Claremont Graduate University's Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management. Before coming to Claremont, Jackson was the president and CEO of the Arizona State University Foundation. He also was appointed in August 2002 as the first president of The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation. From 2000-2002, he was the director of the Center for Business and Government at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
- Kathleen Matthews
Kathleen Matthews (born 9 Aug 1953) is an award-winning producer, reporter, and news anchor who has covered news in Washington, D.C., USA for more than 25 years. A San Francisco native, Matthews is a 1975 honors graduate of Stanford University. she was a teaching fellow at Harvard University's Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government in 2004. Since 1980 she has been married to Chris Matthews, …
- Nathaniel Fick
Nathaniel Fick is a Fellow at the Center for a New American Security in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining CNAS, he served as a Marine Corps infantry and reconnaissance officer, including operational assignments in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq. Fick led a Marine infantry platoon into Afghanistan only weeks after the 9/11 attacks, and then commanded a Marine Recon platoon during the opening months of the Iraq war in 2003.
- Howard Raiffa
Howard Raiffa is the Frank P. Ramsey Professor (Emeritus) of Managerial Economics, a joint chair held by the Business School and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is an influential Bayesian decision theorist and negotiation theorist. *His book "Applied Statistical Decision Theory" with Robert Schlaifer introduced the idea of conjugate prior distributions.
- Anthony A. Williams
Anthony Allen "Tony" Williams (born July 28 1951, in Los Angeles, California) is an American politician who served as the fifth elected mayor of the District of Columbia from 1999 to 2007. He also served as Chief Financial Officer for the United States Department of Agriculture and held a variety of executive posts in cities around the country prior to his service in the D.C. government.
- James Lee Witt
James Lee Witt (born 6 January 1944) was Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) during the administration of President Bill Clinton. James Lee Witt was born in Paris, Arkansas and was raised in Dardanelle, Yell County, Arkansas. Witt started his own construction business in 1968. At age 34 he was elected County Judge of Yell County. Witt was reelected to the post 6 times and was recognized by the National Association of Counties for his work.
- William Arkin
William M. Arkin (b. 1956) is an American political commentator, activist, journalist, blogger, and former United States Army soldier.
- Lee Hsien Loong
Lee Hsien Loong (born February 10 1952) is the third and current Prime Minister of Singapore. He also serves as the Minister for Finance. Lee Hsien Loong is the eldest son of Singapore's first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and is married to Ho Ching, who is the Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the government-owned Temasek Holdings.
- Michelle Rhee
Michelle Rhee is the founder and President of The New Teacher Project, a non-profit organization which partners with high-needs school districts to recruit and train new teachers. She founded the program in 1997, and it has since expanded to forty programs in twenty states, having recruited more than 10,000 teachers. On June 12th, 2007, Washington, DC mayor Adrian Fenty announced that he had chosen her to replace Superintendent of DC Public Schools, …
- Richard Garwin
Richard L. Garwin was born in 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned a B.S. in physics from Case Institute of Technology in 1947, and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago in 1949. Garwin began his work with nuclear weapons technology in 1950 and continues to be an influential voice in national security issues today. Garwin joined the University of Chicago faculty in 1950 and also made study visits to Los Alamos Laboratory.
- Barbara Roberts
Barbara K. Roberts (born on December 21, 1936 in Corvallis, Oregon) is a Democratic politician. She served as Governor of Oregon from 1991 to 1995, the first and, to date, only woman to be elected to that office. Roberts is a fourth generation Oregonian and grew up in Sheridan, Oregon, where she graduated from Sheridan High School. She attended Portland State University from 1961 to 1964 and, later, …
- Susan Eaton
Susan Eaton (July 9, 1957-December 30, 2003) was an assistant professor of public policy at Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, who became a nursing home researcher at Harvard and workers' activist. She wrote about health care management, women's role in union leadership and work-family issues and gender equity in the workplace. She died of leukemia in Boston at age 46.
- Beena Sarwar
Beena Sarwar is a journalist and documentary filmmaker based in Karachi, Pakistan and she is a Research Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, USA. She has a double major in Studio Art and English Literature from Brown University, USA (1986) and a Masters degree in Television Documentary (with Distinction) from Goldsmiths College, University of London (2001). She was a Nieman Fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, …
- Dal Lamagna
Dal LaMagna , founder and former CEO of Tweezerman Corporation, sold his company in 2004 and focused on working as a Citizen Diplomat dealing with Iraq and investing his resources in social change through film. Dal has been the Executive Producer of four movies dealing with the Iraq War: War Tapes, Iraq for Sale, The Ground Truth, and Meeting Resistance.
- Robert W. Corell
Robert Corell is a Senior Policy Fellow at the Policy Program of the American Meteorological Society, and he recently completed an appointment as a Senior Research Fellow in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University which began in January 2000. He is currently actively engaged in research concerned with both the science of global change and the interface between science and public policy.
- Brooke Ellison
Brooke Ellison (born October 31,1979) is the first quadriplegic to graduate from Harvard University. In 2000, she was selected by her fellow students to speak at the University's commencement ceremonies. Ellison was struck by a car in 1990 at age 11, while crossing a street on her first day of junior high school, leaving her paralyzed from the neck down and ventilator-dependent. Brooke and her mother, Jean Ellison, live with their family in Stony Brook, New York.
- Jamil Mahuad
Jorge Jamil Mahuad Witt was President 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 Gutiérrez. He is of Lebanese and German descent. He proposed economic reforms that produced the "dollarization" of the economy. He declared a freeze in bank accounts in order to control the countries' inflation.