Core Administrators

Rob Berschinski
Chief of Staff

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
Counselor 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; 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; 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
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

Matt Segneri
Executive Director, Center for Public Leadership

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