Gowher Rizvi

Lecturer in Public Policy
Director
Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation
Office Address
Taubman-318
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 101
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-495-2531
Fax: 617-496-4602
Email: Gowher_Rizvi@ksg.harvard.edu
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Gowher Rizvi, Lecturer in Public Policy, is director of the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation. Before joining the institute, he was the Ford Foundation's Representative for South Asia, having previously served as the Foundation's Deputy Director for Governance and Civil Society in the New York office. Earlier he was the Director of Contemporary Affairs at the Asia Society in New York. Prior to moving to the United States he was a Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, and a professor of Politics at the University of Oxford; Pro-Director of Queen Elizabeth; the Beit Lecturer for Commonwealth Studies; and Senior Lecturer at the University of Warwick. The founder and editor of Contemporary South Asia, an academic and policy studies journal, Rizvi is the author or editor of several books including South Asia in a Changing International Order; Bangladesh: The Struggle for Democracy; Linlithgow and India 1936-43; South Asian Insecurity and the Great Powers (coauthor with Barry Buzan); Perspectives on Imperialism and Decolonization (coeditor with Robert Holland); Indo-British Relations in Retrospect (coeditor with Anthony Copley); and Beyond Boundaries (coauthor with Paul Evans and Navneeta Chaddha Behera). He was also a Rhodes Scholar at Trinity College, Oxford, where he received his DPhil.

 

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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:

  • Academic Journals
    • Rizvi, Gowher. "Making Democracy Work for the Poor in India." Man & Development XXIX (September 2007): 1-14.
    • Rizvi, Gowher. "Emergent India: Globalization, Democracy, and Social Justice." International Journal LXII.4 (Autumn 2007).
    • Rizvi, Gowher. "Building Trust in Government." Seminar - New Delhi: "Experiments with Democracy: A Symposium on the Asian Experience with Democracy" (August 2007): 77-80.
  • Book Chapters
    • Rizvi, Gowher, and Guido Bertucci. "Foreword." Decentralizing Governance: Emerging Concepts and Practices. Ed. G. Shabbir Cheema and Dennis A. Rondinelli. Brookings Institution, 2007, ix.
    • Rizvi, Gowher. "Reinventing Government: Putting Democracy and Social Justice Back into the Discourse." Public Administration and Democratic Governance: Governments Serving Citizens. U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs, April 2007, 89-135.
    • Rizvi, Gowher. "Innovations in American Government: Some Observations and Lessons Learnt." Administrative Innovation and Growth in an International Context. FORMEZ-Centro di Formazione Studi, Napoli, 2007.
  • Magazine and Newspaper Articles
    • Rizvi, Gowher. "Building Peace in South Asia." WISCOMP Update 8.2 (August 2007): 1-8.
    • Rizvi, Gowher. "Riddle of Indian Democracy." G-Files (July 2007).
  • Reviews
    • Rizvi, Gowher. "The Life and Times of a Colossus: Sheikh Mujib Revisited." Review of Sheikh Mujib: Triumph and Tragedy, by Sayyid A. Karim. The Star, March 26, 2006.