Core Administrators
Robbin Chapman
Associate Dean, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging
Erica Chenoweth
Academic Dean, Faculty Development; Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment
Suzanne Cooper
Academic Dean, Teaching and Curriculum; Edith M. Stokey Senior Lecturer in Public Policy
Gordon Hanson
Academic Dean, Strategy and Engagement; Peter Wertheim Professor in Urban Policy
Debra Isaacson
Senior Associate Dean, Degree Programs and Student Affairs
Joshua McIntosh
Executive Dean
Sarah Wald
Senior Policy Advisor and Chief of Staff to the Dean; Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy
Jeremy Weinstein
Directors of Academic Areas and Degree Programs
Christopher Norio Avery
Chair, Master in Public Policy Program; Chair, Markets, Business, and Government area; Roy E. Larsen Professor of Public Policy
Matthew Baum
Chair, Democracy, Politics, and Institutions area; Marvin Kalb Professor of Global Communications
Hannah Riley Bowles
Co-Director, Women and Public Policy Program; Co-Director, Center for Public Leadership; Chair, Management, Leadership, and Decision Sciences area; Roy E. Larsen Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management
Rema Hanna
Chair, International Development area; Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South-East Asia Studies
Kessely Hong
Chair, Master in Public Administration programs; Senior Lecturer in Public Policy
Eliana La Ferrara
Co-Chair, Master in Public Administration in International Development program; Professor of Public Policy
Rana Mitter
Chair, International and Global Affairs area; S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations
Dani Rodrik
Co-Chair, Master in Public Administration in International Development program; Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy
Daniel Schneider
Chair, Social and Urban Policy area; Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy
Robert Stavins
Director, Graduate Studies for the Doctoral Programs in Public Policy and in Political Economy and Government; A.J. Meyer Professor of Energy and Economic Development
Directors and Executive Directors of Research Centers
Iris Bohnet
Co-Director, Women and Public Policy Program; Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government
Hannah Riley Bowles
Co-Director, Women and Public Policy Program; Co-Director, Center for Public Leadership; Chair, Management, Leadership, and Decision Sciences area; Roy E. Larsen Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management
Tim Glynn-Burke
Executive Director, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
Rafael Carbonell
Executive Director, Taubman Center for State and Local Government
Natalie Colbert
Executive Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Jorrit de Jong
Director, Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University; Emma Bloomberg Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management
Anthony Foxx
Co-Director, Center for Public Leadership; Emma Bloomberg Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership
Archon Fung
Director, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation; Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government
Maggie Gates
Executive Director, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
Nancy Gibbs
Lombard Director, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy; Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice of Press, Politics and Public Policy
John Haigh
Co-Director, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government; Lecturer in Public Policy
Asim Khwaja
Director, Center for International Development; Sumitomo-FASID Professor of International Finance and Development
Jeffrey Liebman
Director, Taubman Center for State and Local Government; Malcolm Wiener Professor of Public Policy
David Margalit
Executive Director, Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University
Laura Manley
Executive Director, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
Dan Murphy
Executive Director, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government
Meghan O'Sullivan
Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs
Nicole Carter Quinn
Executive Director, Women and Public Policy Program
Mathias Risse
Director, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy; Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Administration
Sandra Susan Smith
Director, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy; Daniel & Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice, HKS; Professor of Sociology, FAS; Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor, Radcliffe
Fatema Z. Sumar
Executive Director, Center for International Development
Lawrence Summers
Director, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government; Charles W. Eliot University Professor
Setti Warren
Director, Institute of Politics
Barbara Whalen
Executive Director, Wiener Center for Social Policy
Other Senior Administrators
Matt Alper
Senior Associate Dean, Research Policy and Administration
Pam Cozza
Chief Human Resources Officer
Jeita Deng
Associate Dean, Finance; Chief Financial Officer
Debra Iles
Senior Associate Dean, Executive Education
Arthi Kasetty
Chief of Campus Operations
Farhat (Meena) Lakhavani
Chief Information Officer
Christina Sirois
Chief Research Data & Privacy Officer and HKS Librarian
James Smith
Interim Chief Communications Officer
Ariadne Valsamis
Interim Associate Dean, Alumni Relations and Resource Development Office