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Faculty

As a professional school at Harvard University, the John F. Kennedy School of Government (HKS) is a place where ideas meet practice as scholars and practitioners conduct research into pressing public policy problems and share their insights with students.  In addition to research and teaching, our faculty is actively engaged in the affairs of the world - shaping public policy, advising governments, and helping to run major institutions in the United States and abroad.  The learning in our classrooms reflects this reality. 

HKS is home to a large and distinguished faculty working in international development.  They come from a range of countries (such as Chile, India, Pakistan, South Africa, Turkey, and Venezuela) and varied disciplines (such as economics, political science, history, law).  Faculty members teaching in the MPA/ID are leaders in their field of scholarship.  Their research is changing the ways in which problems of poverty and underdevelopment are analyzed and approached. 

What particularly distinguishes our faculty members is that they are scholars and practitioners.  Over their careers, members of our faculty are likely to hold full-time positions in government or international organization.  In addition, they serve as advisors to:

  • Governments in countries such as El Salvador, Ethiopia, South Africa, Uruguay
  • International organizations such as the Asian Development Bank, IMF, UN, and the World Bank
  • NGOs such as Oxfam

Harvard University's Center for International Development (CID), housed at Harvard Kennedy School, serves as the intellectual home of faculty who conduct research into pressing public policy problems, in collaboration with colleagues throughout the world to address the core intellectual challenges of sustainable development. This exchange of ideas results in a number of collaborative papers, as well as contributions to individual research. CID also provides opportunities for student involvement through research, seminar series, travel grants and special events.

Faculty teaching primarily MPA/ID students are listed below. These and other scholars and practitioners make our faculty the strongest in the world in this field.  The links below provide some background information on our core faculty's interests and experience.

MPA/ID Core Faculty

Lant Pritchett, MPA/ID Faculty Chair
Alberto Abadie Alex Keyssar
Matthew Andrews Asim Khwaja
Chris Avery Dan Levy
Filipe Campante Tarek Masoud
Jeffrey Frankel Pippa Norris
Archon Fung Rohini Pande
Rema Hanna Dani Rodrik
Ricardo Hausmann Anthony Saich
Calestous Juma Ryan Sheely
Michael Walton


Faculty Chair

Lant Pritchett working with students

Lant Pritchett (center), Faculty Chair of the MPA/ID Program, is Professor of the Practice of Economic Development. His working paper Is India a Flailing State? was featured recently in HKS Impact magazine.

Photo: Martha Stewart

Faculty Spotlight

Professor Ricardo Hausmann

Ricardo Hausmann, CID Director and Professor of the Practice of Economic Development, co-edited the Mexico Competitiveness Report this summer with Emilio Lozoya Austin, MPA/ID 2003, who works at the World Economic Forum.

Professor Hausmann also wrote the report's growth diagnostic, and MPA/ID Faculty Jeffrey Frankel and Lant Pritchett contributed chapters on the effects of climate change and education, respectively.