Jeremy Weinstein is Dean and Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. He is an award-winning researcher and teacher with expertise on civil wars and political violence; ethnic politics; the political economy of development; democracy and accountability; and migration. He is the author of Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence, co-author of Coethnicity: Diversity and the Dilemmas of Collective Action, and co-editor of Crime, Insecurity, and Community Policing. For his research, Weinstein received the International Studies Association’s Karl Deutsch Award, given annually to the scholar under 40 who has made the most significant contribution to the study of international relations.
In recent years, he has also written on issues at the intersection of technology and democracy, including in a co-authored book System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot.
Before coming to Harvard, he was the Kleinheinz Professor of International Studies at Stanford University, where he led major initiatives, including Stanford Impact Labs and the Immigration Policy Lab, which catalyzed partnerships between researchers and practitioners with the goal of generating innovative policies, programs, and interventions to meaningfully address important social problems.
Weinstein has also held senior roles in the U.S. government at the White House and State Department, most recently as Deputy to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations during President Obama’s second term. As Deputy, Weinstein was a standing member of the National Security Council Deputies’ Committee—the subcabinet policy committee with primary responsibility for advising the National Security Council, the Cabinet, and the President on foreign policy issues. Before becoming Deputy, he served as Chief of Staff at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.During President Obama’s first term, he served as Director for Development and Democracy on the National Security Council staff at the White House.
Weinstein holds a BA from Swarthmore College and an MA and PhD in political economy and government from Harvard University.