Arnold Howitt

Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy
Executive Director,
Taubman Center for State and Local Government
Ombuds Program
Office Address
Taubman-340
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 114
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-495-4571
Fax: 617-496-1722
Email: arnold_howitt@Harvard.Edu
Arnold Howitt

Profile

Arnold M. Howitt is Executive Director of the Kennedy School's Taubman Center for State and Local Government and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy. He serves as faculty cochair of the executive program on Crisis Management and of the program for Beijing senior officials and teaches in several other KSG executive programs. His research focuses in part on emergency preparedness and crisis management. For four years he directed KSG's research program on domestic preparedness for terrorism. Howitt served on an Institute of Medicine panel that authored Preparing for Terrorism (2002), and is coauthor and coeditor of Countering Terrorism: Dimensions of Preparedness (2003). Howitt's other research focuses on transportation and environmental regulation. He served on a National Research Council panel that wrote Air Quality Management in the United States (2004). He is currently studying strategies for reducing motor vehicle air pollution in China. In addition, he wrote Managing Federalism, a study of the federal grant-in-aid system, and is coauthor and coeditor of Perspectives on Management Capacity Building. He received his BA from Columbia University and his MA and PhD in political science from Harvard University.

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Research

Research for a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - present, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School Research Report Online.

Selected Publication Citations:

  • Books
    • Howitt, Arnold (as co-author on Committee on Air Quality Management in the United States). Air Quality Management in the United States. National Academies Press, 2004.
    • Howitt, Arnold (as co-author on Committee on Evaluation of the Metropolitan Medical Response System Program). Preparing for Terrorism: Tools for Evaluating the Metropolitan Medical Response System Program. National Academies Press, 2002.
  • Edited Volumes
    • Howitt, Arnold, and Robyn L. Pangi, eds. Countering Terrorism: Dimensions of Preparedness. MIT Press, 2003.
  • Magazine and Newspaper Articles
    • Leonard, Herman B., and Arnold Howitt. "In the Heat of the Moment." Compass: A Journal of Leadership Fall 2004: 19-23.
  • Research Papers/Reports
    • Howitt, Arnold, Winston Harrington, Alan J. Krupnick, et al. "Exhausting Options: Assessing SIP-Conformity Interactions." Resources for the Future, January 2003.
    • Howitt, Arnold. “Promoting Regional Collaboration,” in Beyond the Beltway: Focusing on Hometown Security. KSG Executive Session on Domestic Preparedness Report, September 2002.
    • Howitt, Arnold, and Jonathan Makler. "Regulating Transportation in New Nonattainment Areas: Areas Under the 8-Hour Ozone Standard." Transportation Research Record 1842 03-3224, 2003.