John F. Kennedy School of Government
John F. Kennedy School of Government
| Motto | Ask what you can do |
|---|---|
| Type | Private university |
| Established | 1936 |
Parent institution | Harvard University |
| Endowment | $1.2 billion (June 2015) |
| Dean | Dr. Douglas Elmendorf |
Academic staff | 250[1] |
| Postgraduates | 1,100[1] |
| Alumni | 63,000[1] |
| Location | Cambridge ,,United States 42°22′17″N 71°07′19″W [56] |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | www.hks.harvard.edu [57] |
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The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (also known as Harvard Kennedy School and HKS) is a public policy and public administration school, of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The school offers master's degrees in public policy, public administration, and international development, grants several doctoral degrees, and many executive education programs. It conducts research in subjects relating to politics, government, international affairs, and economics. Since 1970 the school has graduated 17 heads of state, the most of any educational institution.
The School's primary campus is located on John F. Kennedy Street in Cambridge. The main buildings overlook the Charles River, southwest of Harvard Yard and Harvard Square, on the site of a former MBTA Red Line trainyard. The School is adjacent to the public riverfront John F. Kennedy Memorial Park.
In 2015, Douglas Elmendorf, the former director of the U.S. Congressional Budget Office who had previously served as a Harvard faculty member, was named Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School and Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy.[2][3] From 2004 to 2015, the School's Dean was David T. Ellwood, who was also the Scott M. Black Professor of Political Economy at HKS. Previously, Ellwood was an assistant secretary in the Department of Health and Human Services in the Clinton Administration.[4]
A major $120 million expansion and renovation of the campus began in 2015. The project was completed in late 2017 with an official opening in December 2017.[5]
| Motto | Ask what you can do |
|---|---|
| Type | Private university |
| Established | 1936 |
Parent institution | Harvard University |
| Endowment | $1.2 billion (June 2015) |
| Dean | Dr. Douglas Elmendorf |
Academic staff | 250[1] |
| Postgraduates | 1,100[1] |
| Alumni | 63,000[1] |
| Location | Cambridge ,,United States 42°22′17″N 71°07′19″W [56] |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | www.hks.harvard.edu [57] |
| |
History
Graduate School of Public Administration
Harvard Kennedy School was originally the Harvard Graduate School of Public Administration (GSPA), and was founded in 1936 with a $2 million gift (equivalent to ~$30 million in 2010) from Lucius N. Littauer, a graduate of Harvard College.[6] Its shield was designed to express the national purpose of the school and was modeled after the U.S. shield.[7] The School drew its initial faculty from Harvard's existing government and economics departments, and welcomed its first students in 1937.
The School's original home was in the Littauer Center north of Harvard Yard, now the home of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Economics Department. The first students at the Graduate School were so-called "Littauer Fellows", participating in a one-year course listing which later developed into the school's mid-career Master in Public Administration program. In the 1960s, the School began to develop today's public policy degree and course curriculum in the Master in Public Policy program.
Renaming and move
In 1966, the School was renamed for President John F. Kennedy. By 1978, the faculty—notably presidential scholar and adviser Richard Neustadt, foreign policy scholar and later dean of the School Graham Allison, Richard Zeckhauser, and Edith Stokey—had orchestrated the consolidation of the School's programs and research centers in the present campus. Under the terms of Littauer's original grant, the current HKS campus also features a building called Littauer.
In addition to playing a critical role in the development of the School's modern era, Neustadt, who at the time served as the Assistant Dean, was also the founding Director of the Harvard Institute of Politics (IOP), created in 1966 in honor of President Kennedy.[8] The IOP has been housed on the Kennedy School campus since 1978, and today the Institute puts on a series of programs, speeches and study groups for Harvard undergraduates and graduate students. The John F. Kennedy, Jr. Forum in the new Littauer building is both the site of IOP forum events as well as a major social gathering place between HKS courses.
Campus expansion
In 2012 the school announced a $500 million fundraising campaign of which over $120 million was to be used to significantly expand the campus adding 91,000 square feet of space that will include six new classrooms, a new kitchen, and dining facility, offices and meeting spaces, a new student lounge and study space, more collaboration and active learning spaces as well as a redesigned central courtyard. Groundbreaking commenced on May 7, 2015 and the project was completed in late 2017. It was opened officially in December 2017.[9]
Academics
Degrees
Harvard Kennedy School offers four master's degree programs.[10] The two-year Master in Public Policy (MPP) program focuses on policy analysis, economics, management, ethics, statistics and negotiations in the public sector.[11]
There are three separate Master in Public Administration (MPA) programs: a one-year Mid-Career Program (MC/MPA), intended for professionals more than seven years after college graduation; a two-year MPA program intended for professionals who have an additional graduate degree and are more recently out of school; and a two-year international development track (MPA/ID) focused on development studies with a strong emphasis on economics and quantitative analysis.
Among the members of the Mid-Career MPA class are the Mason Fellows, who are public and private executives from developing countries. Mason Fellows typically constitute about 50% of the incoming class of Mid Career MPA candidates. The Mason cohort is the most diverse at Harvard in terms of nationalities and ethnicities represented, and it is named after late Harvard Professor and Dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration, now known as the John F. Kennedy School of Government, from 1947 to 1958 Edward Sagendorph Mason who thought of bringing the developing world leaders to Harvard to stand on the cutting edge of development knowledge ultimately aiming for a better world.
In addition to the master's programs, HKS administers four doctoral programs. PhD degrees are awarded in political economy and Government, Public Policy, and social policy, in conjunction with the Departments of government and sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, as well as in health policy, in conjunction with FAS and the Harvard School of Public Health.
Joint and concurrent degrees
The Harvard Kennedy School has a number of joint and concurrent degree programs, within Harvard and with other leading universities, which allow students to receive multiple degrees in a reduced period of time. Joint and current students spend at least one year in residence in Cambridge taking HKS courses. At Harvard, HKS joint degree programs are run with Harvard Business School, Harvard Law School and Harvard Graduate School of Design, and concurrent programs are offered with Harvard Divinity School and Harvard Medical School.
Beyond Harvard, HKS has concurrent degree arrangements with other law, business, and medical schools. These include: MIT Sloan School of Management; Stanford Business School; Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College; The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania; Columbia Law School; Duke University School of Law; Georgetown University Law Center; New York University School of Law; Northwestern University School of Law; Stanford Law School; University of California, Berkeley School of Law; University of Michigan Law School; University of Pennsylvania Law School; Yale Law School; and UCSF Medical Center.[12]
Abroad, HKS offers a dual degree with the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.
HKS courses
Taubman Building
Belfer Building
HKS courses are organized across six areas, called a Policy Area of Concentration, on which they focus their coursework, take a year-long research seminar in their second year, and prepare a master's thesis, called a Policy Analysis Exercise.[13] The school divides the school and HKS course listing[13] into six areas, each headed by a faculty "area chair". In addition to offerings in the HKS course listing, students are eligible to cross-register for many courses at the other graduate and professional schools at Harvard. Students are also able to sample beyond the Harvard and HKS course listing at the MIT Sloan School of Management, at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning.
Rankings
Harvard Kennedy School receives high rankings in the U.S. News & World Report listing of top graduate schools of public affairs. HKS is currently ranked first by US News in social policy.[14] In the 2015 rankings,[15] HKS is ranked first in the subcategory of health policy, second in public policy analysis and social policy.[16] Kennedy's foreign affairs offerings are also ranked at or near the top of Foreign Policy magazine's Inside the Ivory Tower survey, which lists the world's top twenty international relations programs at the undergraduate, Master's and Ph.D. levels.[17] In 2012, for example, the survey ranked HKS first overall for doctoral and undergraduate programs and third overall in the Master's category.[18]
Student government and organizations
Kennedy School students are represented at the University-level by the Harvard Graduate Council (HGC)
Kennedy School women's team outside the Weld Boathouse preparing to row the Head of the Charles
There is an active student life at HKS. Most of the activities are centered on interest-driven student 'caucuses,' the student government (Kennedy School Student Government, known as KSSG), student-edited policy journals, such as the Kennedy School Review[19] and the Journal of Middle Eastern Politics and Policy,[20] a student newspaper (The Citizen), and a number of athletic groups.
Students can join the Harvard Graduate Council, which is the centralized student government for the twelve graduate and professional schools of Harvard University. The HGC is responsible for advocating student concerns to central administrators – including the President of Harvard University, Provost, Deans of Students, and Deans for the nearly 15,000 graduate and professional students across the twelve schools, organizing large university-wide initiatives and events, administering and providing funding for university-wide student groups (USGs),[21][22] and representing the Harvard graduate student population to other universities and external organizations.[23] HGC is known for spearheading the "One Harvard" movement, which aims to bring all of Harvard's graduate schools together through closer collaboration and social interaction.[24]
Centers
Harvard Kennedy School is home to 14 centers, several of which are located at HKS but University-wide.[25]
Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs[26]
Carr Center for Human Rights Policy[27]
Center for International Development[28]
Center for Public Leadership[29]
Institute of Politics[30]
Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics[31]
Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy[32]
Mossavar Rahmani Center for Business and Government[33]
Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston[34]
Taubman Center for State and Local Government[35]
Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy[36]
Joint Center for Housing Studies[37]
Women and Public Policy Program[38]
The majority of centers offer research and academic fellowships through which fellows can engage in research projects, lead study groups into specific topics and share their experiences with industry and government with the student body. Under Dean Elmendorf, the school has tried to focus its engagement across the political spectrum. This has not been without controversy. Recently, the school came under criticism for offering a fellowship to Chelsea Manning on September 13, 2017. It then publicly rescinded the offer on September 15, 2017 after CIA Director Mike Pompeo canceled his speaking appointment and sent a letter condemning Harvard for awarding the fellowship.
Notable faculty
Graham Allison
David Jeremiah Barron
Jacqueline Bhabha
Linda Bilmes
Robert Blendon
Derek Bok
George Borjas
R. Nicholas Burns
Ashton Carter
Antonia Handler Chayes
William C. Clark
Richard Clarke
Susan P. Crawford
David Cutler
David Ellwood
Jeffrey Frankel
Jason Furman
Marshall Ganz
David Gergen
Edward Glaeser
Robert R. Glauber
Stephen Goldsmith
Ricardo Hausmann
J. Bryan Hehir
Ronald Heifetz
John P. Holdren (On leave)
Michael Ignatieff
Swanee Hunt
Juan Manuel Santos
Sheila Jasanoff
Christopher Jencks
Alex Jones
Dale Jorgenson
Alexander Keyssar
Robert Z. Lawrence
Jennifer Lerner
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
Pippa Norris
Joseph Nye
Meghan O'Sullivan
George Papandreou [39]
Roger B. Porter
Michael Porter
Samantha Power
Lant Pritchett
Robert Putnam
Carmen M. Reinhart
Dani Rodrik
John Ruggie
Frederic M. Scherer
Jeffrey L. Seglin
Sarah Sewall
Kathryn Sikkink
Lawrence Summers
Dennis Frank Thompson
Stephen Walt
Marilyn Waring
Martin Weitzman
Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby
John P. White
William Julius Wilson
Richard Zeckhauser
Jonathan Zittrain
Robert B. Zoellick
Notable alumni
Government and politics
Heads of Government and State
Juan Manuel Santos (MPA '81) – President of Colombia, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (MPA '71) – President of Liberia, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Lee Hsien Loong (MPA '80) – Prime Minister of Singapore
Felipe Calderón Hinojosa (MPA '00) – former President of Mexico
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj (MPA '02) – former President of Mongolia
Miguel de la Madrid (MPA '65) – former President of Mexico
Jamil Mahuad Witt (MPA '89) – former President of Ecuador
Eduardo Rodríguez Veltzé (MPA '88) – former President of Bolivia
Carlos Salinas de Gortari (MPA '73, PhD '76) – former President of Mexico
José María Figueres Olsen (MPA '91) – former President of Costa Rica, CEO of the World Economic Forum
Pierre Elliott Trudeau (MA '45, GSPA) – former Prime Minister of Canada
Abdiweli Mohamed Ali (MPA '99) – former Prime Minister of Somalia
Tshering Tobgay (MPA '04) – Prime Minister of Bhutan
Frederick Sumaye (MPA '07) former Prime Minister of Tanzania
John Richard Haglelgam MPA '93) former President of the Federated States of Micronesia
Others
Ban Ki-moon (MPA '84) – United Nations Secretary General
Solomon Areda Waktolla (MPA '13 and LLM'14) – Deputy Chief Justice of the Federal Supreme Court of Ethiopia , Member of the Court of the Permanent Court of Arbitration
Sir Donald Tsang (MPA '82) – Hong Kong Chief Executive
Muhammad bin Ibrahim (MPA '93) – 8th Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia
Nóirín O'Sullivan (Exec '07) – Police Commissioner of Garda Síochána, Ireland's national police service
Keith Hennessey (MPP '94) – former director, White House National Economic Council
Paul Volcker (MA '51, GSPA) – former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve; economic advisor to President Barack Obama
Rizwan Ahmed (MPA) – Secretary to the Government of Pakistan[40]
Tariq Bajwa (MPA) – Governor State Bank of Pakistan, former Finance Secretary of Pakistan[41]
T. N. Seshan (MPA '68) – retired IAS officer and former Chief Election Commissioner of India
Benjamin Fernandes (Exec. Ed'17) - Tanzanian entrepreneur
Sanjay Mitra (MPA) – IAS officer and Defence Secretary of India.[42][43]
Ajay Narayan Jha — IAS officer and Expenditure Secretary of India.[44]
Rajive Kumar (MPA) – IAS officer and Chief Secretary of Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.[45][46]
T. S. R. Subramanian (MPA) – retired IAS officer and former Cabinet Secretary of India
Taku Otsuka (MPP '05) – a member of the House of Representatives of Japan
Toshimitsu Motegi (MPP '83) – Financial Services Minister of Japan
Yasuhisa Shiozaki (MPA '82) – former Chief Cabinet Secretary, Japan
Pete Rouse (MPA '77) – White House Chief of Staff under President Barack Obama
Rafael Hui (MPA '83) – former Chief Secretary for Administration of Hong Kong
Božidar Đelić (MPA '91) – Vice-President of Serbia, former Minister of Finance
Syahrir (MPA '80, PhD '83) – Economic Adviser in the Republic of Indonesia's Council of Presidential Advisors
Henry Rotich (MPA ') – Kenyan Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury, 2013-date Kenya
David Cunliffe (MPA '95) – Leader of the Opposition, Parliament of New Zealand
John Tsang (MPA '82) – Financial Secretary of Hong Kong
Natalie Jaresko (MPP '89) – former Minister of Finance in Ukraine
Lim Hng Kiang (MPA '85) – Minister for Trade and Industry of Singapore; member of the Cabinet of Singapore
Hector Gramajo (MPA '95) – former Defense Minister of Guatemala
Teo Chee Hean (MPA '86) – Deputy Prime Minister, Co-ordinating Minister for National Security and Minister for Home Affairs of Singapore[47]
Tharman Shanmugaratnam (MPA) – Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Finance and Minister for Manpower of Singapore
Adolfo Aguilar Zínser (MPA '78) – former Mexican National Security Adviser and Ambassador to the United Nations
Yam Ah Mee (MPA '91) – Chief Executive Director of People's Association, Singapore
Bob Anthony (MPA) – Republican politician from the U.S. state of Oklahoma
Ami Ayalon (MPA '92) – member, Israeli Knesset
Marilinda Garcia (MPP '10) - State Representative, New Hampshire House of Representatives
Ed Balls (MPA '90) – former British Member of the Parliament and Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families
Nisrin Barwari (MPA '99) – Minister of Municipalities and Public Works of Iraq
Doug Bereuter (MPA '73) – former U.S. Congressman, Nebraska
Charles A. Blanchard (lawyer) (MPP '85) – General Counsel of the Army 1999-2001, General Counsel of the Air Force 2009-2013[48]
J. Richard Blankenship (MPA '08) – former U.S. Ambassador to The Bahamas
André Boisclair (MPA '05) – former leader of Parti Québécois, former Quebec Minister of Citizenship and Immigration
Nicholas Boles (MPP '89) – former director of Policy Exchange, now Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)
Emilia Boncodin (MPA '86) – Secretary of the Philippine Department of Budget and Management in the Philippines[49]
Brendan F. Boyle (MPP '05) – member, U.S. House of Representatives, 13th District of Pennsylvania
David A. Bray (Exec '11) – recipient of the Roger W. Jones Award for Executive Leadership for lifelong public service[50]
Piper Anne Wind Campbell (MPA '99) – American diplomat, currently serves as the 9th U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia
Robert Castelli (MPA '96) – member, New York State Assembly, 89th District
Rajkumar Chellaraj (MPA '86) – former Assistant Secretary of State for Administration, United States Department of State
Frank Chikane (MPA '95) – member, African National Congress; South African adviser to the President
Aneesh Chopra (MPP '97) – U.S. Chief Technology Officer under President Barack Obama
Albert Chua (MPA '00) – former Permanent Representative of Singapore to the United Nations
Henry Cisneros (MPA '73) – former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Jacqueline Y. Collins (MPA '01) – Democratic member of the Illinois Senate, representing the 16th district since 2003
Gerry Connolly (MPA '79) – member, U.S. House of Representatives, 11th District of Virginia
Joseph Curtatone (MPA '11) – mayor, Somerville, Massachusetts
Mark Daly (MPA, '11) – Irish Senator
Stephen Donnelly (MPA '08) – Irish Teachta Dála (Member of Parliament) for the Wicklow constituency
Shaun Donovan (MPA '95) – U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Theodore L. Eliot, Jr. (MPA '56) – former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan
Anna Escobedo Cabral (MPA '90) – former U.S. Treasurer
John Fetterman (MPP '99) – Lt. Governor of Pennsylvania (2019 - present)
Roy Folkman (MPA '13) – member, Israeli Knesset
Marilinda Garcia (MPA '10) – member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives
Fernando Martín García (MPP '74) – Puerto Rican politician and former Senator
Robert S. Gelbard (MPA '79) – former U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia and Bolivia
Alan Grayson (MPP '83) – member, U.S. House of Representatives, 8th District of Florida
Katherine Harris (MPA '97) – member, U.S. House of Representatives, 13th District of Florida; former Florida Secretary of State
Yoshimasa Hayashi (MPA '94) – former Minister of Defense, former Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy, Japan
Paul Heroux, (MPA '11) State Representative from Massachusetts
Brian Higgins (MPA '96) – member, U.S. House of Representatives, 27th District of New York
Stephen Horn (MPA '55) – former U.S. Congressman, California
Vuk Jeremić (MPA '03) – 2012 President of the United Nations General Assembly; former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia
Shane Jones (MPA '91) – member, Parliament of New Zealand, and chair of finance committee
Mitzi Johnson (MPA '13) - Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives
Raymond W. Kelly (MPA '84) – New York City Police Commissioner
Jim Langevin (MPA '94) – member, U.S. House of Representatives, 2nd District of Rhode Island
Andrew Leigh (PhD '04) – member, Australian House of Representatives
Mark D. Levine (MPP '95) – member, New York City Council, 7th District
Stephen F. Lynch (MPA '99) – member, U.S. House of Representatives, 9th District of Massachusetts
Dan Maffei (MPP '95) – member, U.S. House of Representatives, 25th District of New York
Nabiel Makarim (MPA '84) – former Minister of the Environment of the Republic of Indonesia
Mark McClellan (MPA '91) – former Commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration
Jim Moody (MPA '67) – former U.S. Congressman, Wisconsin
Piyush Mordia (MPA) – IPS officer
Elias Mudzuri (MPA ) – former Mayor of Harare
George Muñoz (MPP '78) – former CFO of the U.S. Department of Treasury; former president and CEO of OPIC
Charles A. Murphy, (MPA '02) – member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee[51]
Andrew Natsios (MPA '79) former U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan, and administrator of U.S. Agency for International Development
Naheed Nenshi (MPP '98) mayor of Calgary since 2010
Christine Nixon (MPA '85) – Chief Commissioner of Victoria, Australia Police
Herbert S. Okun (MPA '59) – former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
Francis Pangilinan (MPA '98) – Senator and the Majority Leader of the Senate of the Philippines
Marcus Peacock (MPP '86) – former Deputy Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Yohanan Plesner (MPA '04) – member, Israeli Knesset
Larry Pressler (MPA '66) – former U.S. Senator from South Dakota
William Proxmire (MPA '48) – former U.S. Senator from Wisconsin
Jack Reed (MPP '73) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
Angelo Reyes (MPA '90) – Secretary of Energy of the Philippines; former Secretary of National Defense of the Philippines
Jesse Robredo (MPA '99) – Secretary of Interior and Local Government of the Philippines; received the Quezon Service Cross (the highest Philippine honor)
Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai - Executive Governor of Kaduna State in Nigeria ; former Minister of FCT, Director General of Bureau of Public Enterprises both under Obasanjo Administration
Joe Sestak (MPA '84) – member, U.S. House of Representatives, 7th District of Pennsylvania
Rob Simmons (MPA '79) – former U.S. Congressman, Connecticut
Barry Smitherman (MPA) – member of the Texas Railroad Commission
Corazon Juliano-Soliman (MPA '98) - former Secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development of the Philippines
Nancy Sutley (MPP '86) – Director of White House Council on Environmental Quality
Mark E. Talisman (1972) – congressional aide and lobbyist
William B. Taylor, Jr. (MPP '77) – U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine
Peter G. Torkildsen (MPA '90) – former U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts; former chair of Massachusetts Republican Party
Robert Torricelli (MPA '80) – former U.S. Senator from New Jersey
Chris Van Hollen (MPP '85) – member, U.S. House of Representatives, 8th District of Maryland
Kevin White (MA '57, GSPA) – former Mayor of Boston
David Wilhelm (MPP '90) – campaign manager, Clinton/Gore '92; former chair, Democratic National Committee
Anthony A. Williams (MPP '87) – former Mayor of Washington, D.C.
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Non-profit
Ayisha Osori – former CEO, Nigerian Women’s Trust Fund
Lester R. Brown (MPA '62) – founder and President of the Earth Policy Institute
Robert Kagan (MPP '91) – co-founder, Project for a New American Century
Nancy LeaMond (MPP '74) – Executive Vice President, AARP
Michelle Rhee (MPP '97) – founder of The New Teacher Project; Chancellor of the Washington, D.C. public school system
Bryan Stevenson (MPP '85) - founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, and author of Just Mercy
Ramaswami Balasubramaniam (MPA'10) - Founder & President, Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement
Military
John C. Acton (Exec '05) – retired United States Coast Guard rear admiral who serves as the Director of Operations Coordination for DHS[52]
John R. Allen, Jr. (Exec '85) – retired United States Air Force brigadier general and highly decorated command pilot
William J. Begert (Exec '95) – served as commander, Pacific Air Forces, and Air Component Commander for the Commander, United States Pacific Command
Franklin J. Blaisdell (Exec) – U.S. Air Force Major General
Sally Brice-O'Hara (MPA '93) – 27th Vice Commandant of the United States Coast Guard[53]
Peter V. Neffenger (MPA '95) - 29th Vice Commandant of the United States Coast Guard and former Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration[54]
Michael E. Fortney (Exec '11) – U.S. Air Force Brigadier General
Jeffrey Fowler (MPA '90) – United States Navy, Vice Admiral; Superintendent, United States Naval Academy
John C. Harvey (MPA '88) – United States Navy, Admiral; Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command
Robert C. Hinson (Exec) – U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General
William E. Ingram, Jr. (Exec '02) – U.S. Army Lieutenant General and Director of the Army National Guard
Richard C. Johnston (Exec) – U.S. Air Force Brigadier General
Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr. (MPA '80) – United States Army, Lt. Col.; author of The Army and Vietnam
Rick Linnehan (MPA '09) – astronaut
Christopher Loria (MPA '04) – astronaut
Robert W. Parker (Exec '91) – U.S. Air Force Major General
Timothy S. Sullivan (Exec) – U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral
Guy C. Swan III (MPA '86) – U.S. Army Major General, Commanding General of the Military District of Washington
Jack Weinstein (Exec '06) – U.S. Air Force Major General
Academia
William Alonso (MPP '56) – economist, former director of Harvard Center for Population Studies
Lawrence S. Bacow (MPP '76, PhD '76) – president, Harvard University, President of Tufts University, and Chancellor of MIT
Steve Charnovitz (MPP '83) – associate professor, George Washington University
Ronald A. Heifetz (MPA '83) – co-founder, Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University
Stephen Horn (MPA '55) – former president of California State University, Long Beach
Ira Jackson (MPA '86) – dean, Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University
Nancy Koehn (MPP) – historian; professor, Harvard Business School; author
Mark Lilla (MPP '80) – professor, Columbia University
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg (MPA '66) – former president, George Washington University
Jonathan Zittrain (MPA '95) – professor, Harvard Law School; co-founder Berkman Center at Harvard
Journalism
Komla Dumor (MPA,'03) – television news presenter, BBC World News and Africa Business Report
Mark A. R. Kleiman (MPP, PhD '85) – author
Caroline Glick (MPP '00) – deputy managing editor of The Jerusalem Post
Kaj Larsen (MPP '07) - Former U.S. Navy SEAL, journalist for Vice News
Dambisa Moyo (MPA '07) – Economist and New York Times best-selling author
Bill O'Reilly (MPA '96) – political commentator
Malik Siraj Akbar (MPA, '16) – editor-in-chief The Baloch Hal, exiled Pakistani journalist
Andrew Sullivan (MPA, PhD '90) – journalist, The Atlantic Monthly
Wajahat Saeed Khan Pakistani Journalist for Dunya News & NBC News
Business
Klaus Schwab (MPA '67) – founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum
Faryar Shirzad (MPP '89) – managing director, Goldman Sachs, former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor
Peter Sands (MPA '88) – Group CEO, Standard Chartered
Daniel Mudd (MPA '86) – former president and CEO of U.S. Fannie Mae
Rune Bjerke (MPA '97) – CEO, DNB ASA
Gregory C. Carr (MPP '86) – founder, Boston Technology
Leonard S. Coleman, Jr. (MPA '75) – former president of the National League
Debra L. Lee (MPP '80) – President and CEO, Black Entertainment Television
Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg (MPA '71) – founder, President, CEO of Strategic Investment Group
Greg Rosenbaum (MPP '77) – CEO, Empire Kosher Poultry, Inc.
Chris Voss – adjunct professor at McDonough School of Business
Arts
Ashley Judd (MC/MPA '10) – Actress, Activist
Hill Harper (MPA '92) – Actor
Thor Steingraber (MPA '09) – Opera Director
Damian Woetzel (MPA '07) – former Principal Dancer, New York City Ballet
William Butler (MPA '17) — musician and composer, Arcade Fire
See also
List of Public policy schools