Leadership & Administration

“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

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; Co-Director of the Center for Public Leadership; 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

Tim Glynn-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