“The Harvard Kennedy School's academic and administrative leaders advance our mission to improve public policy and public leadership. Working together and with other faculty, staff, and students, these leaders strengthen the School’s teaching, research, and practice.”
—Dean Douglas Elmendorf
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Core Administrators
Iris Bohnet
Academic Dean; Co-Director of the Women and Public Policy Program; Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government
Robbin Chapman
Associate Dean for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging
Suzanne Cooper
Academic Dean for Teaching and Curriculum; Edith M. Stokey Senior Lecturer in Public Policy
Douglas Elmendorf
Dean; Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy
Debra Isaacson
Senior Associate Dean for Degree Programs and Student Affairs
Christy Jackowitz
Senior Associate Dean for Alumni Relations and Resource Development
Thoko Moyo
Associate Dean for Communications and Public Affairs
Sarah Wald
Senior Policy Advisor and Chief of Staff to the Dean; Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy
Janney Wilson
Executive Dean
Directors of Academic Areas and Degree Programs
Arthur Applbaum
Chair of the Democracy, Politics, and Institutions area; Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values
Christopher Avery
Chair of the Markets, Business, and Government area; Roy E. Larsen Professor of Public Policy
Hannah Riley Bowles
Co-Director of the Women and Public Policy Program; Chair of the Management, Leadership, and Decision Sciences area; Roy E. Larsen Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management
William Clark
Chair of the International and Global Affairs area; Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development
John Donahue
Chair of the Master of Public Policy program; Raymond Vernon Senior Lecturer in Public Policy
Gordon Hanson
Chair of the Social and Urban Policy area; Peter Wertheim Professor in Urban Policy
Rema Hanna
Chair of the International Development area; Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South-East Asia Studies
Kessely Hong
Chair of the Master in Public Administration programs; Senior Lecturer in Public Policy
Dani Rodrik
Chair of the Master in Public Administration in International Development program; Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy
Robert Stavins
Director of 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
Academic Dean; Co-Director of the Women and Public Policy Program; Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government
Hannah Riley Bowles
Co-Director of the Women and Public Policy Program; Chair of the Management, Leadership, and Decision Sciences area; Roy E. Larsen Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management
Victoria Budson
Executive Director of the Women and Public Policy Program
Tim Burke
Executive Director for Programs of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
Rafael Carbonell
Executive Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government
Ash Carter
Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Belfer Professor of Technology and Global Affairs
David Deming
Director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy; Professor of Public Policy, HKS; Professor of Education and Economics, HGSE
Mark Gearan
Director of the Institute of Politics
Nancy Gibbs
Lombard Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy; Visiting Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice of Press, Politics and Public Policy
Maureen Griffin
Executive Director for Operations of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
John Haigh
Co-Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Lecturer in Public Policy
Ken Himmelman
Executive Director of the Center for Public Leadership
Amy Howell
Executive Director of the Institute of Politics
Asim Khwaja
Director of the Center for International Development; Sumitomo-FASID Professor of International Finance and Development
Aditi Kumar
Executive Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Scott Leland
Executive Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government
Jeffrey Liebman
Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government; Malcolm Wiener Professor of Public Policy
Sushma Raman
Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
Mathias Risse
Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy; Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Administration
Eric Rosenbach
Co-Director of The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Anthony Saich
Director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation; Daewoo Professor of International Affairs
Wendy Sherman
Director of the Center for Public Leadership; Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership
Lawrence Summers
Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government; Charles W. Eliot University Professor
Setti Warren
Executive Director of the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy
Barbara Whalen
Executive Director of the Wiener Center for Social Policy
Other Senior Administrators
Matt Alper
Senior Associate Dean for Research Policy and Administration
Beth Banks
Associate Dean for Human Resources
Jeita Deng
Associate Dean for Finance; Chief Financial Officer
Deb Iles
Senior Associate Dean for Executive Education
Arthi Kasetty
Senior Director of Campus Planning and Operations
Don Oppenheimer
Associate Dean for Information Technology; Chief Information Officer