Stephen Peterson

Lecturer in Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
Office Address
124 Mt. Auburn - Suite 100-120
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 126
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-496-1519
Email: Stephen_Peterson@ksg.harvard.edu
Assistant
Eleanor Ayres (617-495-1339)
Stephen Peterson

Profile

Stephen Peterson has worked on public financial management and international development for over twenty-one years at Harvard. He is a Lecturer in Public Policy, the Faculty Chair of the Executive Program in Public Financial Management and is a Senior Fellow in Development at the Kennedy School of Government. He is a specialist in public financial management and its reform, with over twenty years of experience as a resident advisor in Africa. He has just completed a twelve year $35 million project in Ethiopia which implemented a comprehensive reform of expenditure planning, budgeting, accounting and financial information systems. Through Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies, he assisted the Ministry of Finance of the Palestinian National Authority and through the United States Treasury Department's Tax Advisory Service; he assisted several governments in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. His research interests include the design and implementation of public sector financial reform. He has authored several books and articles on public financial management, decentralization, and public management. He holds a doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA in finance and management information systems from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Courses

Fall

  • PED-202 Foreign Aid and the Management of Development Assistance Projects

Spr Mod3

  • PED-203M The Basics of Public Financial Management

Spr Mod4

  • PED-205M Beyond the Basics of Public Financial Management
  • MLD-484M Information and Knowledge Management

Year

  • PED-150Y Seminar: Political and Economic Development

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