Josh Yardley is an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he teaches quantitative methods and econometrics to mid-career and rising public policy students. His work centers on how technology can make quantitative reasoning accessible to policy audiences, both in the classroom and at scale. He has developed courses in microeconomics for edX, the online learning platform founded by Harvard and MIT, and in evidence-based decision-making for Harvard's Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD). He has also contributed to the design and assessment of the capstone exercise for the Kennedy School's online Public Leadership Credential (PLC). His research on educational technology includes work on classroom response systems and comparisons of online and in-person instruction.
Before HKS, Josh worked in education reform and program evaluation with a range of development organizations, including Innovations for Poverty Action in Ghana, the U.S. Agency for International Development in Pakistan, and the World Bank in Washington, DC. He got his start in both teaching and development as a Peace Corps volunteer in Burkina Faso, where he taught middle school mathematics.
Josh holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard, a Master's in Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID) from HKS, and a Bachelor's in Computer Science from MIT.