Spring Senior Fellows Welcomed at the
Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government

CAMBRIDGE, MA — A Korean Trade official, a member of the Northern Ireland civil service, a founder of AllWorld Network and a British public policy scholar, are among the incoming visitors being welcomed this spring at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.  

“Fellows and scholars are a vital resource at the Center as they provide both valuable experience and a fresh lens through which to view the business-government relationship,” said Roger Porter, the center’s director and the IBM Professor of Business and Government. “We welcome these visitors and look forward to their interaction with our faculty, continuing fellows, researchers, students and others.”

Visiting Scholars and Fellows Programs are designed to reach outside the center to better understand how business and government engage in the creation of public value.

Incoming Senior Fellows

Anne Habiby
Anne Habiby is one of the founders of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC), a non-profit launched in 1995 by Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter to expand the job and business base of distressed urban areas. From 1996 to mid 2005, Anne led the organization as its Co-Executive Director, collaborating closely with Michael Porter to advance the economic potential of inner cities. Anne was instrumental in creating the Inner City 100 with Inc. Magazine, an annual ranking of the fastest growing companies in America's urban areas.  In 2008 she co-founded of AllWorld Network with Deirdre Coyle to take their work international. AllWorld Network is creating AllWorld Rankings to identify fast growth companies from the emerging world (Africa 500, Arabian 500, Asian 500 and Americas 500) and help countries develop entrepreneurial growth strategies, and will also launch AllWorld Media and AllWorld Ventures. Anne is the author of the forthcoming book "What's Your GPS? Global Positioning Systems for Entrepreneurial Cities." Prior to her work at ICIC, Anne was an investment banker in the Public Finance Department of Morgan Stanley & Co. specializing in finance for hospitals and universities.

Fiona Hamill
Fiona Hamill is Deputy Treasury Officer of Accounts for the Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS). A senior civil servant, and professional accountant, Fiona held a number of senior finance positions in public sector organizations before moving in 2006 to a more strategic role, leading the design and implementation of a financial shared services program.  More recently she has moved to a new posting and now leads the team responsible for providing direction, advice and guidance on accounting and accountability matters within the NICS, which includes a commitment to raising the standard of financial management practice within the Northern Ireland public sector.  Fiona’s Fulbright research will focus on identifying best practice financial management structures in the US and will look at how such structures are resourced and supported, with a specific focus on organizational culture.   

Hyo-Sung Park
Hyo-Sung Park is a senior fellow with the center.  As a career diplomat, he has worked for the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade since 1981. His expertise centers around international trade, and his career includes stints as Director-General for Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations, Advisor to the Minister for Trade, Minister-Counselor at the Permanent Mission to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva, Director for North American Trade Division, Director for European Trade Division, and Chief of the Economic Section at the Korean Embassy in Washington D.C.  Prior to his senior fellowship at Harvard, he has engaged in numerous bilateral and multilateral trade talks, including the two-year-long FTA negotiations between Korea and the EU and trade negotiations at the WTO and the UNCTAD. He has also led the preparatory talks for Korea’s possible FTAs with China, New Zealand and Australia. He will continue his diplomatic career following his senior fellowship. He holds an MA in International Relations and an MGA in Government Administration from the University of Pennsylvania.

 Incoming Visiting Scholar

David Coen
David Coen is Professor of Public Policy and Deputy Head of the department of Political Science in the School of Public Policy at University College London. He has held appointments at the London Business School and Max Planck Institute in Cologne. His Ph.D. on business lobbying in the EU was awarded a distinction at the European University Institute in Florence. He is also a Fulbright Scholar at the Centre for European Studies. He is currently an Associate Fellow at the Warwick Business School, a member of the academic board of European Centre for Public Affairs and a member of the editorial boards of Business Strategy Review and Journal of European Public Policy. In the past he has been chair of the International Political Studies Association (IPSA) Research Committee on Business and Government, Chair of the London Public Policy Group, and chair of the Public Policy and Development Research Committee of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE). He has held grants from Anglo-German Foundation, British Academy, European Union, Friends of UCL, and Fulbright Foundation.