HARVARD + GOVERNING PRINCIPLES: KENNEDY BRINGING FRESH PERSPECTIVES FIGHTER: CONGRESSWOMAN SCHOOL MARTHA MCSALLY MPP 1990 TEACHING IN TIME: magazine summer 2017 HISTORY’S ROLE IN POLICY

AN UNEXPECTED PEACEMAKER THE SIXTH COURSE

“IT WAS HERE AT HARVARD that my father became the man that he would be,”

Caroline Kennedy told the audience joining her in the Forum in April to celebrate

the 100th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s birth. Kennedy, a former U.S. ambassador to Japan, and Kennedy School professors R. Nicholas Burns, Graham Allison, Meghan O’Sullivan, and Joseph Nye discussed “American power and global security.” Other panel discussions and Forums focused on civil rights, international

development, and environmental policy. The spirit of the man that John Kennedy had become and of the public engagement that he embodied, was reflected in it all. MARTHA STEWART MARTHA

summerwinter 20172017 | | harvard harvard kennedykennedy schoolschool 1 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY IN THIS ISSUE

AFTER MANY YEARS of working for the U.S. national government and living in Washington, I am now watching the government function (or not) from a little distance here in Cambridge. As I observe developments and talk with my friends who are serving in the government now, I am quite concerned about the undermining of longstanding public norms and civic institutions— from the role of the press to the rule of law—and about the ineff ectiveness of elected offi cials in addressing the country’s problems. Moreover, these challenges to good governance are not unique to the United States. Yet, I remain very optimistic about the ability of governance to improve people’s lives, in Associate Dean for the United States and around the world. Th at optimism is reinforced by the wonderful and Communications and Public Affairs important work I see from the students, alumni, and faculty of Harvard Kennedy School—some Thoko Moyo of which we highlight in this magazine. Executive Editor Our cover story in this issue features Frank Pearl mc/mpa 2011, whose life off ers a wonderful Sarah Abrams example of the power of public service. Frank worked with Editor Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos mc/mpa 1981 to achieve Robert O’Neill peace in their country aft er 50 years of civil war—eff orts for which Designers President Santos received the Nobel Peace Prize last December. Janet Friskey Frank even shuttled back and forth (in secret) during his studies Jennifer Eaton Alden at the Kennedy School, applying lessons learned here in real time. Printer For Martha McSally mpp His story shows how much good governance can mean to people. Lane Press 1990 the cockpit of the A-10 Th is issue also reports on Martha McSally mpp 1990, a retired Harvard Kennedy School Magazine Thunderbolt preceded her Air Force colonel and the fi rst female pilot to fl y in combat for the is published two times a year Arizona congressional seat United States. Martha entered the political arena as she came to by John F. Kennedy School of realize how much good can be accomplished by public-spirited Government leaders. Sworn into the House of Representatives in 2015 from Offi ce of Communications Arizona’s 8th district, Martha has already made a diff erence, and Public Affairs 79 John F. Kennedy Street FEATURE STORIES generating increased support for veterans and border communities Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 and a restoration of the rights of female World War II pilots to be Phone: 617-495-1164 14 An Unexpected Peacemaker Frank Pearl MC/MPA 2011 helps negotiate an end buried in Arlington National Cemetery. E-mail: [email protected] to Colombia’s 50-year civil war. You will also hear in the following pages from a few of our Copyright ©2017 by the President faculty members—some recently returned from Washington and and Fellows of Harvard College. 20 Teaching in Time History takes on an even greater role at the Kennedy School. others who served in Washington in earlier times—about the All rights reserved. importance of government service and how their own service has informed their academic Magazine Advisory Board 26 Fighter Congresswoman Martha McSally mpp 1990 never shies from a challenge. pursuits. Th ese faculty members exemplify the Kennedy School’s 81 years (and counting) of Joe Bergantino mc/mpa 1985 commitment to improving government even while we have broadened our scope to include James Carras mc/mpa 1980 30 Governing Principles Time in Washington brings fresh perspectives to faculty teaching. Phil Cronin mpp 1996 contributions to the public good from other sectors. Tiziana Dearing mpp 2000 In the next issue, we will share with you the grand opening of our transformed campus. Th e Melodie Jackson mc/mpa 2001 new buildings are nearly fi nished, and they will greatly strengthen our ability to accomplish David King, faculty DEPARTMENTS our mission, with state-of-the-art classrooms, new convening space, a new dining area, and Chris Olver mpp 2012 4 Ideas Immigration | Health 12 Public interest Tom Vallely 40 Alumni voices additional offi ces and meeting spaces. We will have the room we need to more eff ectively carry Wendy Pangburn mc/mpa 1986 Costs Containment | Updating MC/MPA 1983 and unsettled Classnotes | Allan Wendt MC/MPA out the work that is so important to the world and that we care so deeply about. We will also Craig Sandler mc/mpa 2000 Carbon Tax | Property Rules | history | Faculty members react 1967 | Jen Tutak MPA 2012 | Rey say more in the next issue about our recent discussions focusing on the values of hks and about Janice Saragoni mc/mpa 1989 Jeffrey Seglin, faculty Perfecting Attendance to Paris Accord withdrawal Faustino MPP 2012 new initiatives at the school, including those to strengthen democracy, increase economic Ken Shulman mc/mpa 2004 opportunity, and improve public administration. Steven Singer mc/mpa 1986 8 Profiles Irish Fianna Fáil 36 Bully pulpit Arthur Brooks| 62 Ways and means We encourage you to visit us soon at our new campus, or, virtually, on our revamped website, Scott Talan mc/mpa 2002 politician Stephen Donnelly Loretta Lynch | John Lewis | A Business Case for Equity | Policy and to share the excitement as the Kennedy School moves ahead in making the world a better Donald Tighe mc/mpa 1999 MPA/ID 2008 never expected and others Know-how | “Diversity Is a Reality, place. All of us here at the school are grateful for your ongoing interest in our mission. to go into politics | Inclusion Is a Choice” MC/MPA 38 In print Destined for War | Dean Doug Elmendorf Ban Ki-Moon 1984 | Brooke Ellison MPP 2004: A Rwandan Women Rising | Dealing 64 Exit poll Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy with Dysfunction | Cycles of 2017 childhood accident brings August Invention and Discovery | Insider This magazine is printed on 100 percent challenges and opportunities postconsumer waste paper (text) and Threats | Social Policy Expansion Cover photo by Daniel Garzon 30 percent postconsumer waste paper in Latin America (cover) and is fsc® certifi ed. MARTHA STEWART MARTHA COURTESY SUBJECT THE OF COURTESY 2 www.hks.harvard.edu summer 2017 | harvard kennedy school 3 IDEAS Border Tensions

“The quickest way to sharply reduce global inequality would be to drop all restrictions on labor mobility in rich countries,” writes DANI RODRIK, Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy, in “Is Global Equality the Enemy of National Equality?” “Yet this would cause the bottom of the labor market in those countries to collapse, and possibly cause severe institutional and political damage that undermines productivity levels in the host countries.” While there are real tensions between national and international equality, Rodrik suggests existing barriers on worker mobility are too high. Partial lowering of these barriers would be desirable even if policymakers hold preferences that are far from cosmopolitan.

IMMIGRATION | In 2015, nearly a quarter billion people lived in a country One in Ten other than where they were born. Whether fl eeing from poverty or war (20 million out of the Although migration is seen as a “voluntary adult phenomenon,” about one out of ten migrants is a child or an adolescent. “As a 244 million are refugees) or marching toward society, we are stymied by a fundamental contradiction in our opportunity or reunion, whether illegal or legal, smuggled approach,” writes JACQUELINE BHABHA in her book Child Migration in a container or arriving by jet, an enormous population is on the and Human Rights in a Global Age. “We view the state as having a protective obligation toward vulnerable children in its role as parens move. For the countries left behind and those that are destinations, patriae, parent of the nation; but we also expect the state to protect immigration is an issue with enormous political, economic, and us from threatening, unruly, and uncontrolled outsiders, even if they moral implications. Examining issues that range from global inequality are children. It is not that we have forgotten or missed the problems to the wages of Miami high school dropouts, from the strain on the of migrant children. Rather they are a moving target, compelling but shifting, and we are deeply ambivalent about our responses. Our politics of host countries to the moral arguments for sharing wealth or neglect of child migrants’ rights is therefore a strategic compromise helping the most vulnerable, Kennedy School faculty members are Displaced people fleeing from that represents our unresolved ambivalence. It has enabled us bringing critical thinking to this often emotional subject. Islamic State militants in the to avoid the conceptual and political dilemmas raised by child Tahrir neighborhood of Mosul migration and to sidestep the policy challenges it presents.”

Effects of Movement Lifting Which Boats? Welcome Home Territorial Claims

A 35-year-old Haitian man with a high school education would earn In April 1980, Cuban President Fidel Castro announced that Cuban What happens when a wave of migrants return to their country How can you begin to think about immigration if you take the six times as much in the United States as in his native country. nationals wishing to leave the country could do so freely from the of origin? Albania saw more than 100,000 migrants come home seemingly radical position that humanity collectively owns the LANT PRITCHETT, professor of the practice of international port of Mariel. By the time what came to be known as the Mariel after the Greek economic crisis began in 2009, providing earth? It’s a concept pivotal to early political philosophy, and development, calls geography’s cruel discrimination the “place boat lift was over, some months later, about 125,000 Cubans had RICARDO HAUSMANN, professor of the practice of economic one that MATHIAS RISSE, professor of philosophy and public premium.” His research has documented wage differences across the left for America. The tumultuous episode offered economists a development and director of the Center for International policy, is revisiting. Risse thinks of ownership more in terms of developing world. It has also pointed to an obvious truth: Allowing unique opportunity to study the effects of mass immigration on a Development, and LJUBICA NEDELKOSKA, a Growth Lab fellow, with “intergenerational trusteeship” and argues for the “proportionate mobility of labor across borders combats poverty in a way that all the community. Early, infl uential studies showed that wages were not the opportunity for a natural experiment. They found that returning use of collectively owned resources and spaces.” “If we think of interventions proposed by development economists can only dream. really affected. Immigration economist GEORGE BORJAS, professor migrants not only did not depress the wages of non-migrants, but immigration in terms of population movements across a collectively Microcredit in Bangladesh and deworming in Kenya have been of economics and policy, went for a reappraisal. But he focused they actually had positive effects on employment and wages. This owned planet, we recognize that immigration policies are not lauded for their success; but to earn the equivalent of the lifetime specifi cally on the high school dropouts who were likely to face occurred in spite of the fact that return migration reduced the inflow of entirely discretionary,” Risse writes. “That is, it is not exclusively wage gains created by those interventions would take workers most competition from the Marielitos, 60 percent of whom were remittances. Returning migrants were also significantly more likely to up to a state to decide what kind of immigration it wishes to have. from those countries anywhere from a couple of days to four weeks dropouts. Borjas found a stunning correlation, unique to South employ others, work as managers, and be self-employed, suggesting Instead, contrary to current political practice, immigration policies working at American wages. The “antipoverty effects of movement,” Florida: The average wage of the least-skilled Miamians dropped that they brought home skills and ideas that allowed for more must be assessed from a global standpoint, the standard of in other words, are enormous. from 10 to 30 percent in the years after the boat lift. Not all boats, economic activity, especially in agriculture and tourism, two activities assessment being whether policies accommodate a proportionate his research shows, were lifted by this migration event. where the migrants had predominantly worked back in Greece. THAIER AL-SUDANI number of people.” 4 www.hks.harvard.edu summer 2017 | harvard kennedy school 5 IDEAS $ $

ENVIRONMENT EDUCATION The Effect of HOV Lanes Perfecting Attendance

People working and living in large metropolitan areas the world over spend anywhere Educators understand that school attendance is one of the best predictors from an hour to an hour and a half commuting to and from work each day. Not only is of academic success. However, student absenteeism in the United States is wasted time an issue in these long commutes, but also at issue is the damage to the astonishingly high, with more than 10 percent of students chronically absent environment from wasted fuel and air pollution. each year. In low-income, urban districts, this number triples. One way cities have responded to this problem has been to introduce high-occupancy In “Intervening through Influential Third Parties: Reducing Student Absences vehicle (hov) lanes—roads open exclusively to vehicles carrying multiple passengers. While at Scale via Parents,” TODD ROGERS of the Kennedy School and Avi Feller of hov lanes have been adopted both by cities in the United States as well as internationally, the University of California, Berkeley, report a large-scale intervention involving little is known about how well hov lanes relieve traffic congestion. communication with the parents of students with high rates of absenteeism In “Citywide Effects of High-Occupancy Vehicle Restrictions: Evidence in kindergarten through twelfth grade. It included more than 28,000 at-risk from the Elimination of “3-in-1” in Jakarta,” researchers REMA HANNA of the students across 203 schools in Philadelphia, the eighth largest school district in Harvard Kennedy School and Gabriel Kreindler and Benjamin Olken of mit the United States. targeted one of the most densely congested cities in the world—Jakarta—to A subsequent conceptual replication, “Reducing Student study the effects of hov lanes by eliminating hov restriction over several days. Using data Absenteeism in the Early Grades by Targeting Parental Beliefs,” collected by Google maps, the researchers compared congestion two to three days before conducted by Rogers, Carly Robinson of the Harvard Graduate

eliminating the “3 in 1” policy to congestion after eliminating the policy. “Not surprisingly,” CAMPBELL HARRY CAMPBELL HARRY School of Education, Monica Lee of Stanford University, write the researchers, “elimination of the hov restrictions led to an increase in delays in and Eric Dearing of Boston College, targeted the parents of students with areas and during the time intervals where the restrictions had been in place.” Delays rose high absenteeism in kindergarten through fifth grade in more than 10,000 CARBON LAW AND ORDER by between 39 and 45 percent in the early hours, and in the evening by between 69 and 85 households across 10 school districts in a diverse county in California. percent. What did surprise them, however, was that lifting restrictions on hov roads also The Certainty of Taxes Property Rules The researchers based their experiments on previous research showing affected other times of the day, as well as on other roads that were never restricted. the effectiveness of low-cost information interventions and of third-party The researchers conclude that while they cannot say with certainty that the “3-in-1” interventions. Both studies focused on the influence of parents on school policy improves welfare, which can depend on additional private factors, the findings “A carbon tax can provide clear, strong incentives for investment How vulnerable are property owners to the will of powerful interests absenteeism, and the challenges in correcting parents’ “biased beliefs.” do “infer that the wedge between private and social cost is also high, making it likely and consumption decisions that drive lower carbon dioxide and governments wishing to seize property or violate their privacy? Interventions involved four to six personalized mailings to targeted that the equilibrium after the lifting is severely inefficient.” emissions,” writes Kennedy School professor JOSEPH ALDY in In “Securing Property Rights,” Kennedy School professor EDWARD households throughout the school year. The mailings underscored the “Designing and Updating a US Carbon Tax in an Uncertain World.” GLAESER, Giacomo Ponzetto of Centre de Recerca en Economia importance of regular attendance and highlighted the total number of absences The challenge, he explains, is that at present no process exists Internacional, and Andrei Shleifer of Harvard University show that students had accumulated. The messaging in the California study also HEALTH for adjusting the tax if circumstances change. Although Congress property owners throughout the world believe they are at a distinct countered a widely held assumption that attendance in elementary school is The Right Trade-off can direct regulators to regularly update standards, no process is disadvantage in their dealings with powerful individuals and less important than attendance in later grades. available to delegate tax setting to the executive branch. It would be institutions. Both studies showed a statistically and practically significant reduction in helpful to institutionalize a process for carbon tax updating if Drawing from a survey conducted by the World Justice student absences. In the Through the Affordable Care Act (aca), millions of low-income individuals have access to subsequent research shows either an increase or a decrease in the Department, the researchers found that property is insecure Philadelphia study, the a variety of subsidized health plans. Little is understood, however, about which types of risks of carbon emissions. around the world, ranging from seizure to trespassing to exposure intervention reduced subsidies work best in keeping costs down, an important factor in effecting incentives for To help resolve this issue, Aldy proposes a “structured to pollutants. People everywhere, the researchers discovered, student absences insurers and market competition. discretionary process,” through which the president would are subject to seizure of their land through eminent domain, and by approximately 10 In “Price-Linked Subsidies and Health Insurance Markups,” Kennedy School professor recommend to Congress an adjustment to the carbon tax every five property owners in poor countries in particular are subject to the percent, and in the MARK SHEPARD and Sonia Jaffe of the University of Chicago set out to understand the years. This recommendation would be based on analyses—by the destruction of their land in the interests of economic development. California study, it trade-offs involved in two subsidy designs. The researchers compared the theoretical and Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of “At the heart of insecurity of property is the belief reduced absences by practical implications of one approach, which links subsidies to prices set by insurers, the Treasury, and the Department of State—of the that institutions of law and order such as the police almost 8 percent. Effects with the other, which fixes subsidies at levels based on external benchmarks. environmental, economic, and diplomatic dimensions and the courts do not work well and, even when they on chronic absenteeism Using data from the Massachusetts exchange in 2011, Shepard and Jaffe simulated of climate policy. do work, serve only the powerful and do not protect were even greater. two scenarios: one in which health care costs and prices behaved as In a process similar to the expedited, the weak in conflicts with the strong,” they write. “Missing school expected, and one where costs performed other than expected. The first streamlined consideration of regulations under the Congressional The goal of the researchers was to explore how best to protect the negatively affects simulation, in which markets remained steady, showed that price-linked Review Act and trade deals under the trade promotion authority, rights of the least powerful in such interactions. Using the example of students, school, and subsidies create a distortion in the market, resulting in prices up to 6 Congress would vote up or down on the presidential a farmer and a mine that was polluting the land and ruining crops, the district success,” Rogers percent higher for the cheapest health insurance plan. The researchers recommendation for a carbon tax adjustment, without the prospect researchers compared two possible ways of protecting property rights: and Feller conclude, in calculated that such an increase in plans would cost Massachusetts $46 of filibuster or amendment. Synchronizing the timing of this process injunctions versus liability laws. the Philadelphia study. million, extrapolated to more than $3 billion nationally under the aca. with the updating of national emissions mitigation pledges under Some scholars, the authors write, believe that liability laws “The intervention reported here is both highly scalable and extremely cost- However, when price growth is uncertain–for instance, owing to the Paris agreement could leverage greater emissions-mitigation forcing violators to compensate their victims are most effective. effective at reducing at-risk students’ absences.” They caution, though, that “no potential medical cost increases—price-linked subsidies can perform better. As costs ambition by other countries in future pledging rounds. But, they argue, the liability route is only as effective as the single intervention is a panacea, rather system-level change will require many rise and fall, price-linked subsidies automatically respond, ensuring that subscribers are “The updating of the carbon tax to account for advances in our courts’ ability to enforce penalties. A more effective method, they such interventions woven together.” protected from cost shocks. understanding of climate change ensures that a tax rate is set that is conclude, is to use injunctions or the upfront establishment of “Price-linked subsidies have advantages,” the authors conclude. “The right tradeoff appropriate to the challenge,” Aldy writes. “This approach provides property rules to stop polluters. between the firms’ pricing incentives on the one hand and affordability and consumer the opportunity—and creates the transparency and associated “In our model, injunctions and compensation are not equivalent incentive concerns on the other depend on the level of competition in the market and the accountability—for the government to update the carbon tax based and the former are more efficient in environments of low law and MARTHA STEWART / MAROKE STEWART MARTHA MARTHA STEWART MARTHA precision of the regular’s cost estimates: it will not be for every market.” on the evidence.” STEWART MARTHA order (greater subversion).” 6 www.hks.harvard.edu summer 2017 | harvard kennedy school 7 PROFILE

FACULTY CAMPUS Belfer Center Evolution Going Global

FOR 44 YEARS, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs has been the school’s hub of research and teaching in international security, diplomacy, environmental issues, and science and technology policy. For half that time, GRAHAM ALLISON, former HKS dean and Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, was the center’s director, and he built it into a powerhouse—the top-ranked university-affiliated think tank four years in a row, according to the University of Pennsylvania’s respected Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program. Allison is still vigorously involved in the Kennedy School, as a leading voice on national security and defense issues and an author. Stephen Donnelly near his home in But in June, Allison passed the director’s baton to ASH CARTER, Belfer Greystones, County Wicklow , and Professor of Technology and Global Affairs and former U.S. secretary below, outside his constituency of defense. Carter taught at the school for two decades before going to office in County Wicklow. Washington in 2009. There he served in the Pentagon’s number-two and number-three roles before being sworn in as secretary in 2015. AT THE KENNEDY SCHOOL for the During his tenure, Carter designed the coalition military campaign to second half of the 2016–2017 counter isil and executed the Defense Department’s strategic pivot to academic year as the Angelopoulos the Asia-Pacific, among numerous other notable achievements. Global Public Leaders Fellow, ERIC ROSENBACH mpp 2004, who served as Carter’s chief of staff at BAN KI-MOON mc/mpa 1984 has the Pentagon and was the first principal cyber advisor to the secretary of continued to work on what drove him defense, joins Carter as the center’s co-director. Both Carter and Rosenbach during his 10 years as UN secretary- held leadership positions at the center in the past, Carter as director in ALUMNI general (and 46 years as a diplomat) the early 1990s, and Rosenbach as executive director for research. and what he says is the only way to “It is impossible to overestimate Graham’s vision and energy in This Can’t Be Right achieve success: overcoming the divisions and narrow national interests making the Belfer Center the successful and influential organization it is that stand in the way of a more universal vision. today,” Dean Doug Elmendorf said in announcing the change. The new leadership at the center will be STEPHEN DONNELLY MPA/ID Did the Kennedy School Why did you decide to form a Belfer has been What were the biggest hurdles you faced as head of the UN? 2008 worked for several years influence your decision to go new political party? the top-ranked bolstered by a major new funding commitment by ROBERT and RENÉE BELFER. Besides funding the Some countries bring their own domestic, national perspectives to the in the private sector, first as a into politics? IN 2014 MY WIFE, SUSAN, and I were university affiliated think professorship to which Carter was appointed, the arena of international politics. In such cases, it divides the United Nations. mechanical engineer and later ABSOLUTELY. After graduation, driving from Washington, DC, to tank four years couple will support more research initiatives and When the United Nations is not united, we cannot have a uniting force. That as a management consultant I went back to McKinsey, New York after a classmate’s step down. That decision hurt in a row. financial aid for students. is why I have been consistently, persistently asking member states to look with McKinsey & Co. In 2006 he focusing on health care, wedding. We have young kids, so people I care about. I chose to MARTHA STEWART MARTHA beyond their national perspectives. They should come with the universal enrolled in the Kennedy School’s institution building, and not-for- we don’t get much time to think big not air dirty laundry in public, to mpa/id and international vision for peace and development. program, drawn to its profit. In 2010 I was exploring thoughts (or small ones). But the avoid damaging the party, but that international development content a move to the Johannesburg kids were in Ireland, so we had a meant party supporters never got and quantitative focus. The skills Given all the crises you faced, some of them seemingly office to work with African few days to ourselves, and the great an adequate explanation for my intractable, did your time at the UN make you a pessimist? he gained would later help him governments. But Ireland’s American road before us. I concluded leaving, which they deserved. It navigate the very unexpected next economy was crashing, and that the then-government was taking was a difficult time. If you are pessimistic, you cannot do your job properly. Despite all these step in his career. having run some numbers I was the country in the wrong direction (a challenges, I’ve always tried to be positive. Positive thinking brings better convinced the imf would arrive modern-day Thatcherism). I believed So where are you now? results. I never used the word “frustrated”—if the secretary-general of the What made you choose a not in Jo’burg but in Dublin. we needed a strong, pro-business, AFTER SOME TIME on the independent United Nations is frustrated, then who else can you find? You must always school of public policy? Few believed me, but then one social democratic political party to benches, I joined one of the try to motivate people to do much more for humanity. IT GOES BACK TO the Ethiopian Monday evening, there they help steer things in a better direction. established political parties, Fianna Famine in 1984. I was nine years were. The mpa/id professors Fáil, which has a pro-business, What role does a former secretary-general play? How did it go? old in Ireland, and remember, as were phenomenal, as were my social democratic view of the world. I will do my best in enhancing the importance of a global vision and if it was yesterday, watching news classmates, who taught me IT WAS A DISASTER. The leadership The U.S. equivalent would be joining global citizenship among people. National boundaries do not mean much reports of starving children. It had that if you want change, you’d team was dysfunctional and made the Democrats. I’m spokesperson these days; this world has become very small. Of course, you cannot just a profound effect on me. I thought, better get up off your ass and one bad decision after another. on Brexit, which is a seismic event erase ethnicity. You are born in a certain place. I was born as a Korean “this can’t be right, surely we’re not make it happen. So I thought, I had hoped to create something for Ireland. Like many others, I got and I will live as a Korean, but my mind-set is always global. And I think going to let this happen.” Social “the imf has just arrived in fresh, outward-looking, and brave, into politics for simple reasons—to there is an important role the academic community can play in that. The justice, human rights, and equality Ireland; you’d better try to but it quickly became the opposite. help people and to serve my country. knowledge that you may gain from a professor or a book may be limited form part of my political identity, help.” A friend suggested I run Ultimately, I couldn’t ask people Working on Brexit, and as a member or may be outdated soon; what is important is the analytic capacity to use but it started with the horror of a for Parliament, which I told him to believe in something I no longer of the Fianna Fáil team across the unchanging formulas and principles to help shape a better world. nine-year-old seeing other children was a ridiculous idea. I’d never believed in myself. Having tried, policy spectrum, I get to tick both Graham Allison being allowed to starve and die been involved in politics in my and failed, to get it working, the of those boxes most days. It’s an and Ash Carter in a world full of food. life. But I guess the idea grew. only honest option left was to incredible privilege. SA « KENNETH O’HALLORAN MARTHA STEWART MARTHA 8 www.hks.harvard.edu summer 2017 | harvard kennedy school 9 PROFILE ALUMNI

THE MANY ACCOMPLISHMENTS of Brooke Ellison “The way the policy and issue were framed initially bred a mpp 2004—which include graduating cum great deal of misunderstanding and fear toward the science,” Ellison says. “It was detrimental to the field in particular and to laude from Harvard College, running for science in general. office, and becoming a leading advocate for “For a very long time a lot of the ethics surrounding stem cell stem cell research—are often accompanied science has been really focused on some of the mechanics of the research, such as the definition of life and whether we should be by an asterisk: She was struck by a car on using embryos.” her way home from her first day of junior She sought to move the ethical questions beyond mechanics, high and is paralyzed from the neck down toward a better understanding of how medical advances and their and needs a ventilator to breathe. Even benefits could be more just. Her belief in the importance of justice for all motivated Ellison her job is a reminder—she works at Stony to run, unsuccessfully, for the New York state senate in 2006. Her Brook University Hospital, teaching medical leadership in the field led to her appointment to the Empire ethics and policy in the same building where State Stem Cell Policy Committee, on which she worked closely with policymakers and stakeholders to oversee the state’s doctors saved her life 26 years ago. $600 million research initiative. Finding a Reason Ellison’s quadriplegia, for all the difficulty it has caused, has Ellison now teaches at Stony Brook University’s Center for become part of her identity, her cause, and her motivation. It has Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics. At the given her a platform and a voice. And it has given her a reason. “Immediately after my accident, I kind of seized on a sense of resolve that I did not want my life to end just because it seemed like I did not want my life to end it was going to be different than it had been,” Ellison says. “I was committed very early on to the idea that there was a role that I wanted just because it seemed like to play and an impact that I wanted to have and I didn’t feel like I couldn’t do that just because I couldn’t move my body in the same it was going to be different way that I had. I tend not to be a firm believer in things happening in than it had been. life for a reason. But I am a believer in finding a reason to live.” For Ellison, that reason has been stem cell research and, increasingly, the broader issue of how to live with serious university, she has in a sense come full circle. A phd student disabilities. Now positioned at the intersection of science, ethics, of hers was one of her nurses following the accident. A faculty and advocacy, Ellison believes she offers an important viewpoint, colleague had ridden in the ambulance with her as she was based not just on her expertise but also on her experience as transported to the rehab center following her initial hospital care. someone who may benefit from a cure and who understands what She sees her role helping make plain the connection between it is like to need five hours to get ready for the day. science and the society that will enjoy the benefits of science. Ellison began to sharpen that sense of mission and to find the Given her ongoing fight for treatment, Ellison says, she is instruments to help her pursue it in Cambridge. Even though she had often asked whether she would take a cure for her condition if one succeeded in circumstances that might have knocked others down, existed. The answer, even though she has given it before and often she arrived at the Kennedy School, following her undergraduate years thought about it, feels difficult for her to say. at the College, “introverted, unsure of myself, a little bit shy,” she “There are a lot of things that I would like to do that I can’t says. An adaptive leadership course began to change that. do—travel, hug someone,” she says, hesitating. “But I would not “That course gave me the sense of personal empowerment and want to have had my accident never happen, because there are responsibility to do something for the betterment of the world,” so many lessons that I’ve learned about life and things that I’ve Ellison says. “It was an immensely transformative experience for me.” learned about myself and opportunities that I’ve been able to take Following the Kennedy School, Ellison immediately entered the advantage of because of certain circumstances that I’ve faced. I raging embryonic stem cell research debate; over the years she would never want to sacrifice those.” « RDO PHOTOS BY JASON DECROW has seen the debate shift and her role grow.

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FACULTY Unsettled History

THOMAS VALLELY MC/MPA 1983 first set foot in Vietnam in 1969. effort to create Fulbright University Vietnam, Vietnam’s first a decade in the making, and for Vallely, who also appears The United States had already invested more than 500,000 independent, nonprofit university, with fetp as its nucleus. in the series discussing his Vietnam experience, having a troops, and more than 34,000 Americans had lost their lives. Vallely is now a senior advisor for mainland Southeast Asia at front-row seat to the making of The Vietnam War has been Vallely was just 19 years old. For the next year, he served as a the Ash Center. a fascinating and emotional experience. He guesses he radio operator in the U.S. Marine Corps infantry in the communist- It is his most recent connection to Vietnam, however, that is has watched it at least 13 times. “I can watch the film now controlled province of Quang Nam, south of Danang, in Central perhaps the least expected: advising the documentary filmmaker without crying,” he says. Vietnam. It was a “dangerous business,” he says. Ken Burns on his latest series, The Vietnam War. Burns, with Vallely is impressed by what the makers of the series Returning home to Massachusetts in 1970, ready to put the co-producer Lynn Novick, made the ambitious decision to have accomplished. “These people are like sculptors,” experience behind him, Vallely had little reason to believe that include not only American perspectives but also those from both he says of Burns, Novick, and the series director, Sarah Vietnam would remain at the center of his career for much of his Vietnamese sides—the communists and the non-communists. Botstein. “So much footage didn’t make it into the film, but life. But after several years in politics, as a political consultant With his extensive knowledge of modern-day Vietnam, Vallely— there is now a volume of archival material that is recorded and as a Massachusetts state representative (1981 to 1987), along with colleagues Ben Wilkinson, executive director of the and verified.” And he is grateful that the film was completed he has returned many times in the course of his work with the Trust for University Innovation in Vietnam, and Hanoi-based in time to hear from the people who bore witness to a war Kennedy School’s Ash Center. Ho Dang Hoa, an associate producer of the film—has assisted whose wounds have yet to heal. “If we didn’t do it now, we In 1989, Vallely became the founding director of the Burns and Novick in identifying and gaining access to many of the wouldn’t have the voices,” he says. Vietnam Program, and in its early years he helped with the Vietnam veterans and eyewitnesses The Vietnam War, Vallely says, is unlike any of Burns’s “normalization” of the U.S.-Vietnam relationship, establishing who appear in the film. Vallely (left to right) Tony Saich, other films, because so much about the war, which claimed some of the first educational exchange programs with Vietnam. compares their role to that of Tom Valelly, Ken Burns, the lives of more than 200,000 South Vietnamese and He later worked to develop the Fulbright Economics Teaching investigative reporters. Lynn Novick, and Sarah 50,000 American soldiers, is still unsettled in the minds Program (fetp)—a center for public policy teaching and research The 10-part series, which will Botstein at the screening of many people. “Most of Burns’s films deal with settled in Ho Chi Minh City — and more recently he was part of an air in September on pbs, has been of The Vietnam War history,” he says, “but Vietnam is not settled history, and this film does not settle it. It unsettles it further.” « SA MARTHA STEWART MARTHA

— David Gergen, Public Service Professor of Public health, property, our national security, and the the inefficiencies and costs associated with to march forward around the world.” Leadership; co-director of the Kennedy School’s environmental conditions and processes that Obama’s Clean Power Plan, Trump might have — Center for Public Leadership underpin much of our economy. But the fact is instead galvanized Americans—through more Robert Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of that virtually every respectable analysis suggests funding for research and development and Business and Government, Environment and “Seventy years ago, the United that the costs associated with the damages from other policies—to find better ways of meeting Natural Resources Program at the Belfer Center States entered an international unabated climate change will be far larger than U.S. pledges made in Paris. for Science and International Affairs agreement called the Marshall Plan, the costs of abatement would be.” Such innovations could have themselves been when we came to the aid of Europe, and it was “Keep in mind that the structure — both an economic boon to the U.S. and a source one of the noblest acts in human history. Today we of the Paris agreement is truly FACULTY Meghan O’Sullivan, Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of soft power if shared with countries struggling have walked away from the rest of the world, and the answer to U.S. dreams, going of the Practice of International Affairs; former worldwide to meet climate challenges. Now that it is one of the most shameful acts in our history. I back to the Byrd-Hagel Resolution Leaving Paris special assistant to President George W. Bush would have truly made America great again.” think it will be widely seen around the world as a of 1997, in which the U.S. Senate—in a 95–0 and deputy national security advisor for — terrible, terrible setback for the planet.” vote—said that it would not ratify an international Iraq and Afghanistan Cristine Russell, senior fellow, Environment and climate agreement that did not include the large — Natural Resources Program at the Belfer Center IN JUNE, PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP announced the Nicholas Burns, Roy and Barbara Goodman “Had the president a more emerging economies. John Holdren, Teresa and John Heinz Professor for Science and International Affairs United States’ withdrawal from the landmark Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy of Environmental Policy; former senior advisor expansive view of both the nation’s Furthermore, in addition to including all international climate change agreement and International Relations; faculty director of on science and technology issues to President interests and influence, he would “International media coverage countries, the Paris agreement answered U.S. reached by 195 countries in Paris in December the Future of Diplomacy Project Barack Obama have kept the U.S. in the accord. Instead, he not will undoubtedly be resoundingly requests by granting all countries the right to 2015. The president stated that the agreement only harmed global efforts to address a pressing negative, cementing an image of determine their own targets and their own paths “It will threaten our credibility “President Trump focused threatens U.S. economic interests and problem, but also deprived the U.S. of an important an isolated country in full retreat of action. And the third of three U.S. wishes was in the world... . It may begin to exclusively on the purported American sovereignty. HKS faculty members, source of so-called soft power. In a world in which from robust climate change commitments by the granted by providing for transparency regarding create the impression that China economic harm to the United some of whom were deeply involved in the military might is increasingly difficult and costly to Obama administration. Pulling out of the Paris how countries report their emissions and is a more responsible country than the United States from remaining in the agreement, never development of the Paris Accord, offer their use, America will suffer from this loss. Accord goes against American public opinion and demonstrate progress toward their respective States, and it might give a real boost to the once addressing the harm that human-caused assessment of the president’s decision. President Trump had other options strong support from many U.S. big business and targets. Thus, the Paris agreement was the answer Chinese, because we will be seen as not doing global climate change is causing and will than simply declaring the costs of meeting public leaders. Despite the Trump administration’s to U.S. prayers going back at least 20 years, and our part on the biggest global problem.” continue to cause in increasing measure to life, resistance, renewable energy growth is likely was eminently ‘fair’ to the United States.”

MARTHA STEWART | KENT DAYTON STEWART MARTHA climate targets too high for the U.S. Given

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An Unexpected Peacemaker

BY CHRIS KRAUL In a ceremony held at an ornate opera house in downtown Bogotá, the Colombian government and the country’s largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia farc farc weapons stored at a rebel ( ), last November signed a historic camp in Putumayo, Colombia (above); Colombian High peace agreement that ended Latin Commissioner for Peace Frank Pearl mc/mpa 2011 at airport America’s bloodiest and longest in Florencia, Colombia, on his way to help in the release of a running conflict. hostage held by farc rebels in

FERNANDO VERGARA 2010 (right) JOHN VIZCAINO

14 www.hks.harvard.edu summer 2017 | harvard kennedy school 15 “Even though you are frustrated, ignored, or even betrayed, find a way to be effective, because you are working for a greater purpose.”

In a place of honor onstage sat Frank Pearl, a 2011 graduate of the Kennedy School of Government’s master in public administration program. The 55-year-old businessman and former Colombian cabinet minister played a leading role in getting the peace process started and then as a member of the government’s negotiating team during four years of grueling talks in Havana. With the negotiations finally behind him, Pearl had come to Teatro Colon to witness the culminating moment. He looked on as Members of farc at a meeting Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos mc/mpa 1981 and the at their camp in the northwest farc leader Rodrigo Londono Echeverri, alias Timochenko, signed Andes of Colombia (left); Frank mc/mpa the accord and then shook hands to thunderous applause, a sight Pearl 2011 with the press in Bogotá, Colombia in “Take nothing personally.” many Colombians thought they’d never live to see. August 2016 (right) “I thought about the millions of victims, all those wasted years of violence, the families I saw suffering and living without dignity in distant regions in the middle of the conflict, how at times it seemed the war would go on forever,” said Pearl in a recent interview at his Bogotá home. “But I also saw it as a new day and chance for The toll from half a century of warfare is mind-boggling: Pearl’s background is unlikely for a peacemaker. new cabinet-level department in 2006, now called the Colombian Colombia finally to realize its potential, if Colombian society could 7 million Colombians displaced, 220,000 killed, 9,000 kidnapped, Holder of an economics degree, a law graduate degree, and Agency for Reintegration. It would educate and counsel ex-fighters accept the challenge.” and as many as 10,000 mostly poor or indigenous minors forcibly an mba, Pearl built a highly successful business career prior while giving them a small stipend to make ends meet until they The Havana negotiations proved to be a real-life laboratory where recruited to the farc. Thousands of private citizens and businesses to joining the government. He worked as an executive at Dow found jobs. To keep the new agency free of political interference, Pearl applied what he had learned during his year at the Kennedy were extorted for millions of dollars in “war taxes” over the years. Chemical and then as a McKinsey & Co. consultant tending to Pearl accepted on three conditions: He could staff it on the basis of School, especially in leadership classes taught by professors Ronald Confusing, especially to outsiders, are the causes of the clients in Colombia, Brazil, and Venezuela. He later became ceo merit, exert total control of the budget, and independently decide Heifetz and Marshall Ganz. Those skills would prove invaluable in guerrilla conflict, which persisted in Colombia long after similar of Valores Bavaria, a conglomerate consisting of 45 businesses the program’s content. keeping the marathon talks on track, as was Pearl’s “serene and Cuba-inspired insurgent movements in Peru, Uruguay, El Salvador, controlled by the Santo Domingo family, one of Colombia’s A decade later, outside studies describe the agency as the rational manner,” according to Colombian Vice President Oscar and elsewhere had been resolved. Fernan Gonzalez, a historian wealthiest. most successful ex-combatant reintegration program of its kind, Naranjo, who was also on the government’s Havana team. who was a consultant to Pearl and the government negotiating But as he rose in the business world, Pearl felt more and more returning 76 percent of demobilized guerrillas and paramilitaries For clues to ending Colombia’s seemingly interminable team in Havana, says the war was due to the government’s historic drawn to public service, an inheritance from his mother, who during to productive society, says Alejandro Eder, the scion of a wealthy insurgency, which began in 1964, Pearl studied dozens of wars failure to bring economic development and state services to the Pearl’s youth made regular trips to church groups in Bogotá to family that owns Colombia’s largest sugar manufacturing company, and how they had been resolved. He also took a critical look at a countryside, making it fertile ground for the farc. donate food and clothing for the poor, and often took her young Manuelita. Eder, too, felt the pull of public service and joined Pearl half- dozen failed peace initiatives in Colombia’s recent past to bring Another cause was the lack of political space for leftist son along. In 2002, he joined a civil society group called No Mas, in helping set up the agency. He succeeded him as agency head in forward the lessons they held. movements and their “demonization” by Colombia’s elite or No More, a public campaign that, he says, tried to “convey a 2011, after Pearl left for the Kennedy School. “Above all, I learned that in difficult negotiations you have to classes, says Maria Victoria Llorente of the Bogotá-based think strong anti-kidnapping message from civil society to the farc.” “When you’re dealing with people who represent terrorists and work toward a clear objective shared by both parties and to respect tank Ideas for Peace Foundation. She adds that the farc’s Like many Colombians, Pearl had been touched by that scourge: drug-trafficking organizations, you can’t be buddy-buddy, but you the dignity and legitimacy of your counterpart,” said Pearl, the son embrace of drug trafficking in the early 1980s accounts for its The grandfather of his then fiancée and now wife, Mara, had been need a certain level of charisma to establish rapport, and Frank of a Canadian father and a Colombian mother. “You also have to be longevity, because the avalanche of cash enabled the rebels to kidnapped in 2000 and later rescued in a military operation. has that,” Eder says. able to work silently and, even though you are frustrated, ignored, finance the war long after it otherwise would have petered out. Soon thereafter, then President Alvaro Uribe’s wife, Lina, At the start of his final year in office, in 2009, Uribe asked Pearl or even betrayed, find a way to be effective, because you are Efforts by previous Colombian presidents to bring peace knowing of Pearl's bent for social work and broad business to take on another job as high commissioner for peace. Again working for a greater purpose.” to Colombia failed for a variety of reasons, the most recent contacts, sought his help in establishing public-private Pearl set conditions, saying he would accept only if he could try to “Take nothing personally.” being the so-called Caguan talks from 1999 to 2002, in which partnerships to finance social projects. Asked for suggestions contact farc leaders to set up talks. Pearl’s empathetic style especially helped during the initial Colombian President Andres Pastrana attempted to engage farc about what to focus on, Pearl mentioned his concern for the Using the Cali businessman Henry Acosta as an intermediary, six-month secret phase in early 2012, when the two sides, still founder Manuel Marulanda, alias Sureshot. hundreds of paramilitary and rebel fighters who were then Pearl was able to connect with the rebel leaders Alfonso Cano and mortal enemies, first met in Havana and over six months warily By then, the rebels’ interest in seeking a negotiated starting to leave the ranks through desertion or demobilization Pablo Catatumbo. In correspondence with the insurgents, he got established a degree of rapport and an agenda. settlement was questionable under any terms. When the Caguan and were receiving no help reintegrating into society. the unmistakable impression that they were ready to make peace. “There were moments of highest tension, and I remember that talks finally broke up, the farc was at the apex of its strength, “There was no system or strategy to help with their transition, Why then? Marco Calarca, a member of the farc’s negotiating Frank was always concentrated on conciliation and determined had encircled the capital, Bogotá, and fostered legitimate hopes so many were simply returning to illegal activities, mainly drug team, said in an interview that the rebels’ receptivity was due to a to achieve points of agreement even when they seemed quite far of seizing power militarily. U.S. intelligence described Colombia trafficking,” Pearl recalled. new government approach. DANIEL GARZON DANIEL away,” Vice President Naranjo says. as on the verge of becoming a failed state. RODRIGO ABD His concern led to Uribe's calling on him to form and head a “The government convinced us they would not try to dictate

16 www.hks.harvard.edu summer 2017 | harvard kennedy school 17 Ceremony marking the abandonment of arms and farc’s end as an armed group in June, 2017, in Colombia; front row, left to right: Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos mc/mpa 1981, head of the UN Mission to “I learned that in difficult negotiations you Colombia Jean Arnault, and rebel leader Rodrigo Londono have to work toward a clear objective shared Echeverri (‘Timochenko’), back row, second from left, Frank by both parties and to respect the dignity and Pearl mc/mpa 2011 legitimacy of your counterpart. You also have to be able to work silently and, even though you are frustrated, ignored, or even betrayed, find a way to be effective, because you are working for a greater purpose.”

terms as victors to the vanquished, that we wouldn’t enter into By the time President Santos took for the start of talks that were largely lessons learned from 22 “Frank always knew how to lower the temperature when discussions about who was responsible or who caused the most office in August 2010, Pearl had applied and been accepted to the conflict negotiations of the past. Number one: The talks had to tempers flared. He was the amateur psychologist who always damage, and that it was serious about achieving our goals of 2010–2011 term at the Kennedy School, not knowing he would take place outside Colombia so that they wouldn’t turn into a kept his cool.” avoiding more suffering by the people,” Calarca said. subsequently end up negotiating peace in Havana. But on the day media circus, as had happened in Caguan. The public phase But the University of Miami professor Bruce Bagley says following Santos’s inauguration, the new president summoned Pearl should be preceded by a secret phase to lay the groundwork, the farc was motivated because its ranks were decimated and to say he wanted him to pick up where he had left off with Uribe to including a clear and limited agenda. Big hurdles remain in implementing the because the rebels finally realized that victory over an improved pursue peace. Pearl agreed to take charge of the new campaign, but The four and a half years of talks, starting in February 2012, accord. The Colombian government has promised to spend Colombian military was impossible. That improvement owed much only after finishing his year at Harvard. went relatively smoothly as negotiations go, says Virginia Bouvier, billions of dollars over the next decade to bring economic to Plan Colombia, the U.S. military aid program that started in Knowing his negotiating skills would be put to work as soon a senior advisor at the U.S. Institute of Peace, although several development, justice, and security to its long-neglected 2000 and showered more than $10 billion on the country’s armed the Kennedy School term was over, Pearl chose a sharply focused crises threatened to derail them. One occurred in November countryside. Millions of acres of “unproductive” public lands forces and anti-drugs programs. curriculum, even as he formed a secret team with Eder and Acosta 2014, when the farc kidnapped the army general Ruben Dario are to be redistributed to landless peasants, and incentives will Essential pieces of the aid were 20 Black Hawk helicopters and to lay the groundwork for Santos’s peace initiative. Alzate, the highest-ranking officer the rebels had ever seized. be offered to farmers who, accustomed to growing coca, the raw 83 UH-1N and UH-II transport choppers, which gave the Colombian “I got right to work," he said. I chose subjects in Cambridge that But demonstrating their desire to keep the talks moving, they material for cocaine, switch to legitimate crops, such as cocoa army new mobility for attacking the rebels in remote locations, would suit us and help devise a strategy.” During the school year, released him two weeks later. and avocados instead. according to Adam Isacson, a Colombia analyst at Washington he secretly flew back to Bogotá to meet with Santos four times. “Not A worse crisis, according to wola’s Isacson, occurred in Despite the prestige conferred on the accord by the awarding Office on Latin America (wola), a think tank. The armed forces also even my parents knew I was in Colombia those times,” Pearl said . April 2015, when rebels killed 11 soldiers in an ambush in of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Santos last December, got access to satellite-based listening and tracking technology Among the hks classes Pearl feels were most beneficial was southwestern Cauca province. The government reacted by Colombian public opinion on the deal is sharply divided. The that enabled the military to locate and kill farc leaders and their Professor Ronald Heifetz’s adaptive leadership course, in which he withdrawing from the talks for two months and resuming aerial accord was rejected in a nationwide plebiscite last October troops. The United States also provided satellite-guided “smart learned to “distance oneself from personal considerations to focus bombing of rebel encampments. The talks were salvaged—but because many Colombians felt its terms were too generous to the bombs” used to kill two members of the farc’s seven-man on what common ground can be attained.” The technique came in just barely, Isacson says. farc. An amended, tougher version was finally approved by the secretariat and several front commanders. handy in Havana when the negotiations on rural reform reached an Each of the peace deal’s six points took about six months congress last December, after the November signing ceremony. Finally, Pearl and others believe that the farc decided to negotiate impasse. Pearl was able to persuade the farc to take a step back and to negotiate, with the exception of transitional justice, which Pearl is nevertheless optimistic that peace is finally at the urging of the rebels’ foreign sponsors, including the late see that certain "capitalist tools" such as farm credit and formalizing took 18 months—a reflection of its complexity. The final accord en camino, on the way. Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. A strong backer of the Havana land ownership, could help the poor achieve a better life. is innovative for a number of reasons, including the formation “The peace plan will work because changing our society to talks, Chavez most likely directed farc leaders’ attention to Uruguay, Another crucial class for Pearl was the moral leadership course of a special tribunal to try war crimes to which both sides will one in which we don’t kill each other will make it possible for El Salvador, and Nicaragua, where former guerrillas ascended to taught by Marshall Ganz, in which students learn to confront moral submit, according to Juanita Goebertus, a government advisor in us to concentrate on resolving the fundamental problems we the presidency through elections, not military campaigns. dilemmas and that real leadership is demonstrated by “helping transitional justice who got her Harvard law degree in 2010. haven’t solved yet, “ he said. “We have the opportunity to build Pearl got as far as persuading Brazil to host initial talks and the others achieve their purposes in times of uncertainty.” Throughout the negotiating process, Pearl helped maintain a different country.” International Red Cross to transport farc negotiators to a meeting “Mine was the dilemma of balancing duties toward my country momentum, according to the government’s chief negotiator, venue. Peace talks seemed imminent. But with time running with those toward my family, of leaving my wife and three kids in Humberto De La Calle. Pearl’s effectiveness relied much on — out in Uribe’s term and his relations with Chavez foundering, Bogotá during what I knew would be long negotiations, and how I his “mental honesty," De La Calle says. Frank recognized A former foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, farc leaders told Pearl in 2010 that talks would have to wait for reconcile that,” Pearl said. that successful talks were not an exercise in tricks but in Chris Kraul is a freelance writer based in Bogotá, Colombia.

Colombia’s next president. Working with Eder, Pearl also drafted a list of preconditions JOHN VIZCAINO ARBOLEDA RAUL transparency.

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ONEO OF THE MOST COMMON FORMS OF REASONING about mmajor public policy choices in government and eelsewhere is historical. Whether it’s America’s reaction tto China’s exponential growth or engagement with the Black Lives Matter movement, to understand something, mmany people reach past the scientifi c, economic, ssociological, or ethical explanations and try to follow tthe roots of a problem into the past. But how to reason historically? What historical analogy tto reach for? What are the right lessons to draw? And how ddoes the discipline fi t into a school like hks, where so mmuch of the preparation revolves around leadership skills aand quantitative acumen? These are the questions that a ccohort of historians, many of them recent arrivals at the BY ROBERT O'NEILL Kennedy School, are answering as they try new ways to ILLUSTRATIONS BY MIKE MCQUADE bbring the past into the school’s present. “There’s a tremendous amount of interest iin the roots of contemporary issues,” says Leah Wright Rigueur, assistant professor of

public policy whose focus is on the history Leah Wright oof political movements. “We want to know Rigueur how we got to where we are today in a way that can’t be eexplained away in hot takes on the immediate. Instead wwe see that these are long-term trends, things that have bbeen building or simmering, so history helps us wrestle wwith where we are at the present moment.” PORTRAIT MARTHA STEWART STEWART MARTHA PORTRAIT

20 www.hks.harvard.edu summer 2017 | harvard kennedy school 21 We want to know how we got to where we are today in a way that can’t be explained away in hot takes on the immediate. LEAH WRIGHT RIGUEUR

IN THE BEGINNING

HISTORY WASN’T A PART OF THE MIX when the Kennedy School But history was still a small outpost at the Kennedy School. relaunched at the end of the 1960s. The public policy experts Its importance was never denied, but the focus was on building the school was preparing were forged in a fi re of economics, other knowledge and other skills. After May's death, Keyssar was statistics, decision-making, and political science. the only trained senior historian on staff at one point. It wasn’t until the late 1970s that Ernest May, former That changed in recent years. In part, it was serendipity. In chairman of Harvard’s history department, was enticed to the part, it was a growing focus on a multi-disciplinary approach at Kennedy School by Graham Allison, then the dean, that history the school. In part, it was that history was building up a head started to get a seat at the table. of steam. Working with the political scientist and presidential expert Moshik Temkin, an associate professor of public policy and Richard Neustadt, a founder of the modern hks, May began a a historian who joined the faculty in 2008, says that the impact course designed to give students skills to look back on in order history can have has become more evident in recent years. to better manage going forward. He cites the example of Thomas Piketty, the French economist It may seem straightforward and obvious that it is important to whose book Capital in the Twenty-First Century was very understand history to grasp an issue fi rmly. But it has also always infl uential on public understanding of inequality. “There was been obvious to historians that the grasp is rather shaky. a traditionally trained economist, writing what is essentially a “The thrust of the course was to make people conscious of work of history, and making a big impact,” Temkin says. that and conscious of the pitfalls; it was about “More historians are aware of the contributions how to avoid being led astray by a mistaken they can make,” says Temkin, whose own work on analogy,” says Alex Keyssar, Stirling Professor the Sacco and Vanzetti case thrust him into the of History and Social Policy, who taught with debates on the death penalty, immigration, and May after he arrived at the Kennedy School America's relationship with the wider world. “We in Alex Keyssar from Duke in the early 2000s. “Another thrust history, just like many other academic disciplines, Moshik Temkin was to get people to think about problems we have had a tendency to retreat somewhat into our over time—to be mindful that the problem you are trying to solve specializations, without much regard for what’s happening in might have been created by someone solving another problem.” the world. In history, it’s particularly problematic because many The class, Uses of History, became a Kennedy School legend, historians are wary of working while thinking explicitly about we tried doing 30 years ago, and it didn’t work, and here’s why “Part of what attracted me to hks is that I would be and the 1986 book that grew out of May's and Neustadt’s the present and about the future. Traditionally we shy away from it didn’t work.’” interacting with faculty and students who are not historians and teaching, Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision- that. And now I’ve noticed a lot more historians embrace their That awareness of the impact history could have, combined who don’t aspire to be academics but who are about to get a Makers, a classic. involvement in public issues.” with a focus in some history departments on very narrow areas degree in public policy and then go out into the world. The idea Thinking historically was a refl ex, May and Neustadt “At some point, people started to realize that having of study, helped draw some historians toward the Kennedy of teaching in that kind of environment, and working alongside reasoned. A policymaker or manager would inevitably reach tremendous technical expertise, having the latest School’s multidisciplinary environment. political scientists, economists, sociologists, is just back to the Vietnam War or the Great Depression to understand data, was not enough to move the political needle in “It’s just a stimulating environment in which exciting for me at this point in my career.” a present problem. But given that most people had only a order to actually compel people to think about policy we can practice our discipline and then reach The hiring in the past couple of years of Wright limited body of historical knowledge to draw from, the point was in different ways,” says Khalil Muhammad, professor beyond it,” says Fred Logevall, Laurence D. Belfer Rigueur, Muhammad, Logevall, and Arne Westad, to make them aware of that refl ex and try to control it through of history, race, and public policy, who was previously Professor of International Affairs, who in the past S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, was the the use of some analytic principles, such as how a historical the lone historian at the Vera Institute of Justice. Khalil Fred Logevall has sometimes felt obliged to justify his work on result of multidisciplinary searches, says Keyssar, Arne Westad example was similar to or different from what it was being “People have come to say, ‘Maybe there’s more to Muhammad power and on elite decision making in foreign now the longest serving historian at the school: “It applied to. It was history for managers of public and private this than what we’ve been focused on, and maybe we policy. Logevall also holds a joint appointment in the history turned out the best person for the job each time was a historian. enterprise. need people who can help us see that what we’re doing today department at Harvard College. It wasn’t a decision by the school to build up history.” MARTHA STEWART STEWART MARTHA

22 www.hks.harvard.edu summer 2017 | harvard kennedy school 23 I’m not saying that history is determining what is happening today, but it certainly infl uences it. ARNE WESTAD

WATCH THE TRAP

future leaders, to push beyond data that’s right in front of them, “THE PRESENT, WHILE NEVER REPEATING THE PAST EXACTLY, must and to be well-rounded, thoughtful humanists in a world where inevitably resemble it. Hence, so must the future.” So said we need creative thinking, where we need deep thought.” Thucydides, the Athenian historian and general. Historians and their allies are pushing for history to occupy Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War, an account of a more important and formal role not only in the formation of the long war between Sparta and Athens that is widely regarded policymakers, but in the conduct of policy itself. as the fi rst great scholarly work of history, showed what could Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, who fi rst happen when one power, Sparta, reacted fearfully to the rise of pushed for the inclusion of history in the curriculum when he another, Athens. Today, Graham Allison argues, it provides a lens was dean, has also pushed for reform in the government of through which to see another great historical rivalry what he likes to call "the United States of Amnesia.” Blind to in the making. “The defi ning question about global the complicated histories of the Middle East or of Russia and its order for this generation is whether China and neighbors, policymakers have found themselves stumbling into the United States can escape Thucydides’s Trap,” terrible mistakes, for example, in not recognizing the depth of Allison writes. the tensions between Sunni and Shia Muslims before toppling Using applied history, Allison and a team of Graham Allison Saddam Hussein in 2003. He is calling for the establishment of researchers at the Belfer Center for Science and a new sub-discipline of “applied history”—“the explicit attempt International Affairs examined the historical record to illuminate current challenges and choices by analyzing and provided reason for concern and hope. They looked at 16 precedents and historical analogues”—both in government and cases in which a structural stress was caused by a sudden tilt in in the academy. the axis of power between two rivals. These cases range from the Together with Niall Ferguson, a former Harvard historian Hapsburgs' confl ict with the expanding Ottoman empire in the now at the Hoover Institute, Allison has issued a manifesto of 16th and 17th centuries to the war between the United States and sorts calling for the creation of a Council of Historical Advisors the rapidly rising Japanese Empire in the 20th century. In 12 of SIFT THROUGH THE ARCHIVES “Understanding why the relationship between China and that would play a role similar to that of national security and the cases, the result was war. its neighbors is so bad is something that you can understand economic advisors. But despite the long odds, there are reasons for optimism. INSERTING HISTORY INTO THE MIX at a policy school requires only if you understand the past,” says Westad, who uses history It would train history on problem solving and policy advice, When the United States found itself facing an antagonistic and offering both a new base of knowledge and new skill sets. to help inform students about international relations. “I’m not rather than advocate learning history “for its own sake.” It could suddenly powerful Soviet Union after the Second World War, the “Policy students are interested in seeing and doing the work saying that history is determining what is happening today, but it help policymakers see the difference between al-Qaeda and result could easily have been a devastating, apocalyptic confl ict. that historians do for a living, but also in the immediate practical certainly infl uences it.” isis by searching for historical analogues in similarly brutal, “But American diplomats and strategists envisioned a war that implications,” says Wright Rigueur. “When I go to the archives Logevall says he found more hunger for history than he fanatical groups, and help those policymakers better calibrate was cold rather than hot,” Allison says. “There was a great surge and sift through the 60,000 documents, I can take that back to expected: He skewed more toward the contemporary in his their response. of strategic imagination that helped both sides.” the classroom and talk to them about the signifi cance of that class on the past 100 years of foreign policy. But students were And, importantly, it could steer them away from getting The United States and the Soviet Union created a “web of history but also the immediate implications for the present.” just as interested in the history as in the examination of the history wrong. Reaching for easy precedents, such as Pearl mutual constraints” through arms control and other means. And Sometimes that means helping to draw lines between the past contemporary scene. Harbor for the 9/11 attacks, or focusing on the similarities the United States had a clear strategy involving containment, and the present. Wright Rigueur, for example, can help connect “As a historian in a school like this, you can’t teach history without being sensitive to the differences, can be just as deterrence, and anti-communism. These historical lessons are the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, so effective in the way you would in a liberal arts environment,” he says. "But problematic as not reaching at all. vital to those managing the relationship today, and to the hope the civil rights movement in the 1960s, to the Black Lives Matter the appetite for history is there, no question.” “Applied history sounds pedestrian to some mainstream that this confl ict, too, may resolve itself with a whimper rather movement, or help students understand the evolution of the Muhammad says he saw an appetite among the faculty too. “I historians, like engineering is to theoretical physicists, or than a bang. political right from the Republican Party’s Contract with America in knew that there was an openness and a desire to teach students medicine is to biochemists,” Allison says. “But 'Applied' is a

1994 to the explosion of the Tea Party in 2010. here's why history is important in their overall development as STEWART MARTHA good word for us here at a policy school.”

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ARTHA McSALLY MPP 1990 was working in Europe when she Mlearned that a special election had been called in her home district when Gabrielle Giffords resigned from her congressional seat a year after an attempt on her life. The announcement came on a Sunday evening. By Thursday, McSally, a former Air Force pilot, had made calls back home to begin lining up support and was buying a plane ticket to the United States to see whether she was electable and could organize quickly enough in the 90 days before the election. Most important, she wanted to understand whether she felt called to run for office. A few days later, McSally woke up early in her hometown of Tucson, Arizona, and in the predawn light contemplated her sense that she could help make a difference and that she could not simply stand there and criticize what she saw as the country’s problems without trying to fix them. By 6 a.m., before she'd even had her first meeting to discuss the plausibility of a run, she had written her boss at the George C. Marshall Center in Germany, where she was a national security professor, to tender her resignation. She had made her decision: She was going to run. McSally would lose that first election in the primaries, run again, and win the district by a mere 167 votes two years later in 2014. It was perhaps a neat summing up of a complicated character: purpose-driven, unable to resist forward progress, and with a defiant streak a mile wide.

It’s so deeply infuriating to me when somebody says a girl can’t do it. FIGHTER RILEY MOLLY

BY ROBERT O’NEILL COURTESY SUBJECT THE OF COURTESY ROSS D. FRANKLIN D. ROSS TOM WILLIAMS TOM COURTESY SUBJECT THE OF COURTESY

26 www.hks.harvard.edu summer 2017 | harvard kennedy school 27 if you have ovaries or not,” says McSally, who But there is no push back on her pragmatism. “I blame him,” McSally says, tongue-in- as a major was the Air Force’s highest-ranking “I work backwards from the objective,” she cheek about Kyl. “That one year planted a seed female fighter pilot at the time. “I was trying to says, describing her style of leadership and with me— that you could make a difference.” blend in. The last thing I felt like doing was raising decision-making. “I come up with an achievable McSally still marvels at how a colleague can something related to women’s issues.” objective; I begin with the end in mind. I ask support her amendment and then turn around But the rule, and the idea that the military myself, ‘Is this a federal problem—does this and vote against it. She scoffs at colleagues should endorse female subservience to men, literally take an act of Congress?’” who are more interested in issuing a press infuriated her. Again, she felt compelled to act. Once McSally has determined an objective, release than in introducing legislation with The battle eventually led to McSally's suing the and deeply studied the policy, she begins a chance of becoming law. But despite her Pentagon, a change in the rules, and an act of to reach across the aisle. The bills that she’s distaste for politics, she accepts it. Congress. But it put McSally in the crosshairs of sponsored have always had bipartisan support. “I have to operate in this political theater,” COURTESY SUBJECT THE OF COURTESY critics in the armed services, and she believes And she’s comfortable with the tortuous path she says. “I’m not naïve about it, I think I’m it cost her professionally. It was also one of the legislation takes in Congress, the need to pretty effective in it, but I don’t pour fuel onto it formative lessons of her life. secure backing, to work across the aisle and and I don’t breathe life into it.” “I have been a woman in a male-dominated with the other chamber, and to support what is Her relentless pragmatism helped her get environment for most of my adult life, and so I’ve sometimes less than ideal. legislation passed to keep her beloved A-10 learned to survive and thrive in that environment “It’s easy when you vote for legislation that is fighter plane flying after it was slated to be

I certainly had to learn how to have thick skin but also not lose my humanity.

McSally is now serving her second term in Island. She strove and excelled at everything she Congress representing Arizona’s 2nd District, a did, driven by an urge to make the most of it. pragmatist and policy wonk navigating a political “I was propelled on the trajectory of making landscape strewn with partisanship and zero- my father proud but also of carrying on his sum calculations. legacy in his absence,” she says. “But I learned “I’m not an impulsive person, but I am a at a young age that every day is a gift, and you person of conviction,” McSally says. “When I should make the most of it and do something feel something brewing in my gut, in my spirit... with your life.” oftentimes I can’t turn it off, and then I have to So McSally enrolled in the U.S. Air Force act on it.” Academy, intent on studying medicine. Flying It’s what drove McSally, a retired Air Force wasn’t in her plans—until she was told she could colonel, to become the first U.S. female pilot not do it, and then it became an obsession. “It’s to fly in combat. It’s what drove her on a years- so deeply infuriating to me when somebody tanks and for close air support of ground troops. and be successful and productive in that 100 percent of what you want,” McSally says. “It’s decommissioned by the Obama administration. long effort to force the Pentagon to change a says a girl can’t do it,” she says. She attended In 1995, deployed to the Middle East in support environment,” she says. “Being a woman in the the 51-to-49 votes that are the tough ones.” It has enabled her to increase support for policy governing the behavior of female service the Kennedy School to follow her other growing of Operation Southern Watch, which patrolled military helped prepare me for being in this role That includes tough votes like hers this veterans and border communities. And it’s members abroad. And it’s what drove her, obsession: policy. Her time at the school gave the skies over Iraq after the end of the First Gulf in many ways. I certainly had to learn how to have spring in favor of the Republican health care bill. helped her restore the rights of female despite an aversion to politics, to jump into the her entrée into the world of national security just War, she flew the first combat mission ever by thick skin but also not lose my humanity.” McSally says she was not ready to simply sit back World War II pilots to be buried in Arlington arena and try to effect change. as the Cold War was coming to its dramatic end an American female pilot. It’s a first of which she There are other things from her career in and do nothing as the insurance market in her National Cemetery. McSally started out wanting to be a doctor. and a new age of security threats was beginning. is proud, but which she recognizes was in part a the Air Force that McSally brings to her job as a home state began to crumble and as significant McSally was in attendance for the funeral of She guesses that might have had something Her pae had her studying the future shape of question of luck and timing and in part the fruit of legislator. She has sometimes been described as problems with President Obama’s landmark one of those pilots in Arlington after McSally’s to do with her father's dying at a young age, nato, and her work even made it into President efforts by generations of female pilots before her. a pragmatist and a moderate. She pushes back health care bill became apparent. legislation had made her burial there possible. when McSally was just 12. A lot of things had George H. W. Bush’s State of the Union address. McSally eventually became a squadron leader on the moderate label. She describes her district McSally had few illusions about Washington “I remember sitting there in that moment in something to do with that, McSally says, (“Second lieutenant,” she remembers an officer in Afghanistan and a colonel. But her tenure in as a third Republican, a third Democratic, and when she arrived after 22 years of military service time saying, 'You know, if today I take my last including the example her mother set, returning jokingly telling her at the time. “It’s all downhill the military was also marked by another major a third independent. It swung for McCain and and a stint in academia. In addition to her time breath, I know that I fixed this.' It was the right to school to train to become a nurse so she could from here.”) Her two years in Cambridge proved struggle—this one played out in the halls of the Romney in 2008 and 2012, and for Clinton in working at the Pentagon while at the Kennedy thing to do, and it was right for these women, provide for the large family. serendipitous in other ways, as well, allowing her Pentagon, and courtrooms, and Congress—after 2016, making McSally one of the few members of School, she spent two years as an Air Force and it was right for our country and for all who In one of their last conversations before he to enroll in flight school just as the restrictions on McSally challenged a policy that required U.S. Congress who have to worry more about a general legislative fellow working on Arizona Senator Jon serve. That was pretty meaningful for me.” passed away, McSally says, her father told her female combat pilots were lifted. servicewomen to wear the body-covering abaya election challenge than a primary challenge. But Kyl’s national security team. McSally was drawn to make him proud. He had risen from humble She picked the A-10 Thunderbolt, also known when traveling off base in Saudi Arabia. her political philosophy tilts more conservative, to D.C. by the public policy, but with a low opinion circumstances to go to college and become a as the Warthog, a tough, unglamorous workhorse “At the time, I was still trying to prove that she says, and she values hard work, equal of those working in the Capitol’s sausage-making opportunity, and a limited role for government. factory. Her time in Kyl’s office changed all that. lawyer and a civic leader in Warwick, Rhode of a fighter originally designed to combat Soviet women could be pilots, that a plane doesn’t care POPAT MAMTA CHIP SOMODEVILLA, TOM WILLIAMS

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GOVERNING PRINCIPLES

Some of Washington’s most accomplished leaders bring their experience to the Kennedy School

BY SARAH ABRAMS AND ROBERT O’NEILL

HE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTIST JOHN HOLDREN was no stranger nuances of how science and technology policy work in the White defense in the Clinton administration; and Meghan O’Sullivan TIME SPENT IN WASHINGTON was important to Ash Carter, deputy to the world of Washington when, in 2008, he was appointed House,” says Holdren, the Teresa and John Heinz Professor of was appointed deputy national security advisor for Iraq and secretary of defense from 2011 to 2013 and secretary of defense Tsenior science advisor to President-elect Barack Obama. Environmental Policy, “how the White House works more broadly, Afghanistan in the George W. Bush administration. These faculty from 2013 to 2015, in how he might structure his future teaching. For more than four decades, during his posts at uc/Berkeley and how the White House interacts with Congress, how government members, and the more recent returnees discussed in this “Having been in the world of practice helps to steer students then at the Kennedy School, where he has taught for almost 15 interacts with the private sector. I taught about all those things article, are part of a long-standing tradition the Kennedy School toward the problems of consequence that are going to determine years, Holdren advised all three branches of government up to before my stint in the Obama White House, but with less fi rst-hand deeply values and encourages. their futures and also prepare them to be leaders in public life,” and including the president on energy and technology matters. experience than I have now.” Kennedy School Dean Doug Elmendorf, who served as director of says Carter. “My experience in the world of practice gives me the Yet looking back on the past eight years from his offi ce at the Holdren is among a cadre of Kennedy School faculty members the U.S. Congressional Budget Offi ce from 2009 to 2015, understands ability to convey to them the tradecraft of bringing the world of Kennedy School, where he returned this past spring, Holdren can who through the years have had the chance to leave academia, fi rsthand the importance of effective governance and the role of the thought and the world of action together.” He recently returned see that his time in Washington broadened his perspective on the put teaching and research aside, and experience Washington Kennedy School in helping achieve it. “When Kennedy School faculty to the Kennedy School to direct the Belfer Center for Science and myriad issues surrounding science and technology policy. It’s a from the inside looking out. For example, Roger Porter served members serve in government, they bring their insights directly to International Affairs. perspective he believes will help inform his research and teaching. as director of the Domestic Policy Council in the George H.W. elected offi cials, and later they bring new perspectives back to their Samantha Power, a professor of practice at the Kennedy School “There’s nothing like being there full time to understand the Bush administration; Joseph Nye was assistant secretary of teaching and research in Cambridge.” before leaving for Washington to serve on the National Security NICK DURHAM NICK STEWART MARTHA

30 www.hks.harvard.edu summer 2017 | harvard kennedy school 31 John Holdren, former senior science advisor to Jason Furman, former chair of the White House Council My experience President Barack Obama of Economic Advisors I plan to situate in the world of any work oriented practice gives Council from 2008 to 2013 and as U.S. your teaching for all students as well as making it more germane income and the relationship between growth and inequality, there were Kennedy School alums,” she toward policy- ambassador to the United Nations from for students from those other countries.” and fiscal reform. The collaborative setting the Kennedy School says. “They were people who came up and me the ability to 2013 to 2017, believes she will emphasize an Public policy professor Jeffrey Liebman, who served during the provides, he says, will be critical to this work. “A lot of public said, ‘I was at the Kennedy School while you makers with an convey to [students] aspect of government service she didn’t fully early years of the Obama administration as executive associate policy is done collaboratively,” Furman says, “so to work with were there. I took Graham Allison and Bob understanding the tradecraft of appreciate before going to Washington. director and chief economist and later as acting deputy director, my colleagues on issues they specialize in like climate change or Blackwell’s class. They interested me for the of all they are “When I return to the classroom,” says believes that his time in Washington, where he was consistently health policy is really exciting to me.” first time in foreign policy.’” bringing the world Power, who has a joint appointment with swept up in the major issues of the day, prompted him to change juggling at of thought and the Harvard’s Kennedy and Law Schools, “I plan his macroeconomic course lectures to better reflect current events. TIME IN GOVERNMENT gave these faculty members new perspectives KENNEDY SCHOOL FACULTY members are one time. to situate any work oriented toward policy He also sharpened his professional skills, learning how to write on teaching and research interests. It also gave them added accustomed to having the ears of leaders Samantha Power, former world of action makers with an understanding of all they more-effective memos and briefings that conveyed the pluses and appreciation for the impact and influence of the Kennedy School. and decision-makers, regardless of party U.S. ambassador to the are juggling at one time. When I was at the minuses of an issue to policymakers. “Early in my career, when I On issues ranging from nuclear security to climate change to affiliation or what administration they together. United Nations United Nations, I would go from a national was asked to teach these kinds of skills, I didn’t know what I was science and technology, Carter says, his Pentagon experience served in. And that’s especially true for Ash Carter, former secretary — security meeting with the President by doing, but later, after Washington, I did,” he says. benefited greatly from the research coming out of the school. those whose resumes include time spent of defense in the Obama videoconference on ISIL to a security council For many who have served in Washington the experience Over at the National Security Council and then at the United at the highest levels of government. There’s a concern that, given administration session on South Sudan to a meeting with changes not only how they teach but also their research focus. Nations, Power saw broad concepts such as Joseph Nye’s soft what sometimes appears to be a chasm between the current — my team on what sanctions we needed to “I came back with a complete refocus on my research,” Liebman power guide administration thinking, while granular work on administration and the academy, this may have changed. impose on North Korea that might someday affect the calculus of the says. “I wanted to look at how one can help government agencies Iran’s nuclear program had great influence during the negotiation “The challenge of nonpartisanship, of course, is that the new regime to a meeting in my office with Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian Nobel be more effective.” Upon his return, Liebman started the of the nuclear deal. administration has given us a lot to criticize in terms of their prize winning human rights laureate. The list goes on and on and on. Government Performance Lab, which focuses on the question of The seeming omnipresence of hks graduates was perhaps stance on science and technology and its role in government,” Managing bandwidth constraints and delegating properly are key.” what techniques work best for improving government. most striking. “I had a bet with my staff that when we got off an says Holdren, who was deeply critical, for example, of President For Holdren, his Washington experience expanded his After 35 years working in national security affairs, Carter looks airplane or a helicopter anywhere in the world—a war zone, an Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the Paris understanding of the challenges in science and technology facing forward to turning his attention to new issues. “I wanted to continue American base, or a foreign capital—one of my students would Climate Accord. “I don’t think the issue in this administration countries around the world—a perspective he intends to share to contribute to the public life and to the greater good outside be there somewhere,” Carter says. “And there always was, and I is choosing between Republican and Democratic positions. It’s with students and postdocs going forward. As director of the defense, but not to the exclusion of defense,” he says. “A tsunami always won the bet.” choosing between good government and bad government.” Office of Science and Technology Policy, Holdren presided over of change is coming, brought by technology, but those of us at work At a U.S. base in a remote corner of Afghanistan, the senior Furman says that a yawning partisan divide among policy experts implementation of the six bilateral ministerial-level science and in the technology community need to work on all the consequences military officer welcoming Carter during a visit was a former student. is exaggerated. He already sees important conversations going on technology cooperation agreements the United States has forged and opportunities and responsibilities that come with change.” When the officer asked Carter if he would speak to a journalist from across the country, with participation by experts from across the with Brazil, China, India, Japan, Korea, and Russia. He also met One issue he plans to focus on in his post-defense role is ensuring the Economist who was also there, Carter agreed, only to learn that political spectrum. “The solution to not enough data and analysis is regularly with chief science advisors to the governments of the that the innovative system continues to work for a broader public the journalist had also been one of his students. It fell to him to more data and analysis,” he says. “On a lot of things there’s a great G8 plus 5 and with the science ministers of the Organisation for purpose, and to the benefit of all our citizens, because, he says, introduce the two fellow alumni. “If I went into a ministry of defense dialogue already that’s based on facts and analysis.” Economic Co-operation and Development and the G20. “that’s the only way we’re going to have a cohesive society.” One or foreign affairs or the headquarters of a foreign leader, invariably Power believes that a partisan or unilateral approach, while “You end up learning the similarities and differences in how innovation challenge he points to is how to use the vast human there were Kennedy School graduates there,” he says. initially appealing, may be fool’s gold, and different voices will science and technology policy is made and how science and talent that will not be driving cars or in retail. “By the end of my time in government I felt like I had assembled eventually be sought out. “What I would expect is that you’ll technology is used in different countries,” Holdren says about The recent work in Washington done by Jason Furman, quite literally a dream team: the best operational people to do start to see approaches, policies, staffing decisions tack more his exposure to science leaders from around the world. “That’s professor of the practice of economic policy, will significantly scheduling, advance and logistics; the best specialists who knew to the mainstream to more of the traditional approaches, and something I now know a lot more about. It will be very valuable shape the research he plans to conduct. Furman, who served the history, the culture, the language of the Middle East generally in the meantime, Kennedy school students and professors and for my teaching at the Kennedy School, because we are very as chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisors from and of Syria specifically; the best Congressional liaison, the best of researchers will be doing their work, and that work will be available diverse in terms of where our students come from. If you know 2013 to 2017, will focus on issues that are on the minds of people everything,” Power says. “There’s no coincidence that I had on my to those at the highest levels of government when they really want something about how science and technology policy works in both in Washington and throughout the country: the decline team Kennedy School veterans. My closest advisor was a former to get things done that work for America and work for global peace mpp 2

Europe, Japan, China, and Korea, the comparisons can enrich of participation in the workforce by prime-age men, household KASTER CAROLYN KELLY ANDREW DOWNING, LARRY student of mine, Nik Steinberg 008. Everywhere you looked, and security.”

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Their Brilliant Careers

ASKED WHETHER SHE BELIEVES that progress N LATE JULY, JOSEPH NYE was heading to has been made over the course of her Las Vegas to discuss cybersecurity. Nye, career advocating for the poor and a University Professor, a former dean of disadvantaged, Mary Jo Bane, the Thornton the Kennedy School, and an international Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and relations guru, was going to meet fellow Management, hesitates. members of the Global Commission on “There’s been more progress than not,” Stability and Cyberspace, which would she says. “My career started in the 60s, gather on the outskirts of the annual and since then there have been dramatic computer security conference known as improvements in the safety net for the elderly, Black Hat. In August, he would host the and some improvements in our support for Aspen Strategy Group, a leading ngo he poor children. But there have certainly been founded and co-chairs, as it debated the ups and downs, and the current poverty rates future of the liberal international order. for children remain depressingly high.” Somewhere between the journal articles, Bane, who in July reached emerita status, op-eds, conferences, and commissions, has an excellent perspective from which to Joseph Nye is supposed to be winding judge, having played an important role in that down—he reached emeritus status this progress. She has served as a powerful voice summer. But if he is, it’s tough to detect. for the underprivileged in senior leadership Nye started teaching at the Kennedy positions in both academia and government. School in 1979, was its dean from 1995 to Bane’s focus on the disadvantaged began 2004, and cemented his position as one long before she arrived at the Kennedy School. of the top scholars in the world with his Growing up in a Catholic family, she took hugely infl uential theory of soft power, to heart the Church’s mission to help those which describes the power of culture and PORTRAITS BY MARTHA STEWART less fortunate. As a student at Georgetown diplomacy to persuade and attract, in University, she worked on Senator John F. Her government work included serving about their decades-long friendship and contrast to the coercion of hard power. National Intelligence Council. His work on Nye is also working on presidential Kennedy’s presidential campaign and was in as commissioner of the New York State association. “We met and started to talk about Today, his infl uence only continues nuclear security now gives him a unique ethics and foreign policy and the criteria by the crowd at his inauguration in 1961 when he Department of Social Services and, in our mutual interests in poverty, and from to grow. perspective on cybersecurity. “I see my which presidents can be judged on ethical challenged Americans to get involved. Inspired the Clinton administration, as assistant there a collaboration was born, from papers “Nye is one of the great public task as translating some of the traditional terms. He is hoping to update an earlier by the president’s bold new program deploying secretary for children and families at the U.S. to politics to campaigns. She is a thoughtful intellectuals in America in the fi eld of insights about international confl ict and work, Presidential Leadership and the U.S. civilians to serve in remote communities Department of Health and Human Services academic—smart, serious, demanding—but international relations,” says Nicholas cooperation as we’ve known it in the kinetic Creation of the America Era. around the world, Bane joined the Peace (HHS) from 1993 to 1996. She eventually also has an extraordinary record of practice. Burns, the Roy and Barbara Goodman world for the cyber world,” he says. That naturally links him to work on the Corps, where she was assigned to teach resigned in protest over the implementation She has a very strong moral compass—a Family Professor of the Practice of Nye sees parallels between how long future of the liberal international order. “Are schoolchildren in Liberia. of welfare reform. clear sense of right and wrong—and she has Diplomacy and International Relations, who it took states to begin to deal with nuclear we seeing the beginning of the end, or are “That series of events,” she says, “I continue to believe that the legislation dedicated her life to that.” has worked alongside Nye at the school, weapons and how long it is taking the we seeing an adaptation of this?” he asks. “hearing JFK, serving in the Peace Corps, was a mistake,” she says. “I resigned because That dedication to the disadvantaged in government, and at the Aspen Strategy international community to respond to “There’s a great deal of concern about this.” building on my family’s background, were all I was the person implementing the law.” and the poor will continue, Bane says. She Group (where Burns is the executive disruptions caused by digital technology. “The “I think he is uniquely placed to offer part of how I got to where I am today.” Former HKS Dean David Ellwood, who worked will stay active at the school, continuing to director). “No one is more thoughtful and, thing that’s intriguing is that more and more insights now on the changing international Bane arrived at the Kennedy School in 1981 with Bane both in Washington—where he, work with students on their policy analysis I think, more visionary about the future of of our economics and social and political order as we see increasing doubts about and over several decades taught, conducted too, served at HHS—and at the Kennedy exercises (paes). And she will continue American foreign policy.” activity is dependent upon the internet, but the capacity or will of the United States to research, and published numerous books and School, where she was the academic dean her association with numerous Boston Nye’s vision is due in part to his public as that increases, so does our vulnerability lead, to play the leadership role we’ve been articles that focused on children, families, and during his tenure, regards her as one of his nonprofi ts, notably Project Hope, which service at the highest levels. Nye served and so does the danger of using the internet playing for the past 75 years,” Burns says. welfare policy. She served as director of the closest colleagues. “She has a remarkable supports families. Bane may be shifting as assistant secretary of defense for as a weapon or as a form of attack,” he says. Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy from combination of talents,” he says. away from research and the classroom, international security affairs in the Clinton “So trying to develop norms to control that is 1987 to 1992 and as the school’s academic “The best thing that ever happened to but she is clearly not slowing down on a administration and was chairman of the going to be increasingly important.” dean from 2006 to 2011. She was the fi rst me in my career was getting to know Mary Jo commitment she made years ago to those woman to gain tenure at the Kennedy School. and getting to work with her,” Ellwood says less fortunate.

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EVENT John Lewis

CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND GEORGIA CONGRESSMAN John Lewis urged young people to reject bitterness and hopelessness and get involved. “You have to keep going; we’re not there yet,” said Lewis, who in April was honored with the 2017 Gleitsman Citizen Activist Award. “To see people saying, ‘We’re not going to take it anymore,’ we’ve come too far to go back,” Lewis said. “Don’t give up, don’t get lost in a sea of despair, be hopeful, keep the faith, keep pushing, keep pulling.” A deeply respected fi gure in the civil rights movement and STEWART MARTHA an advocate of nonviolent resistance, Lewis was one of the original Freedom Riders and an organizer in 1963 of the Selma- to-Montgomery march for voting rights—now known as Bloody TOM FITZSIMMONS TOM Sunday—when protesters sustained serious injuries at the hands of armed state troopers. Asked for advice to graduates, Lewis replied, “Help change our THE BUZZ society. Help redeem not just the soul of America but the soul of the world. You have a moral obligation, a mission, and a mandate to do your best to look out for all humankind.” The Gleitsman Award is given biennially by the Center for Public Leadership to a leader or team that has “improved the quality of life of those in the United States and inspired others to do the same.” “We don’t need every Center for Public Leadership co-director David Gergen and Dean Doug young American Elmendorf introduced the civil rights icon. “By keeping it in “There’s no way you — sweating in a “I can’t relate to “Our time for action historical context, Thomas Edison. can cut all these “This is the least galley, but we need we can see how we taxes and then say, is now.” everyone pulling But I can relate to excusable have won before.” ‘OK, everything will Gurib-Fakim and Stanley McChrystal events sponsored by the Institute of Politics President of the Republic of on an oar.” someone who started disease in Mauritius Ameenah Gurib- Attorney General (2015–2017) out with nothing.” be paid for.’ That’s America.” Loretta Lynch event sponsored by the Institute of Politics and the HKS Black Policy Fakim, about the need for Retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Loretta Lynch, about how America like Christmas.” Conference Africa to build a trained, skilled using an analogy to Athenian has dealt with and overcome voter Arthur Brooks, president of the Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin, Arthur Brooks and Peter Shumlin events sponsored by the Institute of Politics and scientifi c workforce that can galleys manned by citizens rather suppression in the past in her American Enterprise Institute, Ohio Governor John Kasich, about about the opioid crisis that is the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy fulfi ll Africa’s potential for than slaves to push for expanding address at the 2017 hks Black on learning life lessons from the feasibility of the tax plan decimating Vermont and other John Kasich event sponsored by the Institute of Politics and the Center for Public innovation and sustainability. the concept of citizenship. Policy Conference. rehabilitated convicts. Leadership

MARTHA STEWART MARTHA unveiled in May. states across the country.

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Destined for War As she notes, Rwandan women have Cycles of Invention and Discovery major who killed fellow soldiers at Fort Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? recently held 64 percent of the seats in Rethinking the Endless Frontier Hood, the U.S. government scientist who Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government their country’s Parliament, the highest Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Benjamin Peirce Research Professor of almost certainly perpetrated the 2001 percentage in the world. Th e book details Technology and Public Policy, co-author anthrax attacks, attacks by Afghan troops their rise to prominence, exploring how on U.S. soldiers, and insider protection in THE TRAP OUTLINED by the ancient Greek historian develops their traditional roles evolved aft er the the casino and pharmaceutical industries. when a rising power threatens to displace a ruling one. In genocide, including the establishment IN 1945, VANNEVAR BUSH, the director of the federal Offi ce of Despite the dangers, the editors note, Th ucydides’s time, it was the rise of Athens sparking Sparta’s of countrywide women’s councils and Scientifi c Research and Development, issued a report touting organizational and cognitive biases lead fear, with war ensuing. A similar dynamic has happened again the Ministry of Gender and Family the importance of supporting basic research to increase managers to downplay threats from and again throughout history; indeed, as Graham Allison Promotion. It discusses how women scientifi c knowledge. Venkatesh Narayanamurti and Toluwalogo colleagues, and those managers also have shows, 16 cases over the past 500 years fi t the circumstances of spearheaded improvements in economics and health and justice Odumosu, a professor at the University of Virginia, argue that limited information about incidents perpetrated in other industries. Th ucydides’s trap—and 12 of them led to war. in the aft ermath of the mass killings. Aft er sharing the stories it established a model that divided basic and applied research, Contending that insider threats in many sectors are “the biggest and Allison, a former HKS dean who recently stepped down and images of Rwandan women, Hunt refl ects on the lessons all which has proved detrimental to scientifi c discovery. Th ey most diffi cult part of the security challenge,” they urge organizations as director of the Belfer Center for countries can learn from their experience; opportunities, she propose a diff erent model, called the discovery-invention cycle, involved in national security to establish comprehensive programs Science and International Aff airs, is writes, can emerge even from chaos. which features cross-disciplinary research, to protect against insiders, including in-depth vulnerability sounding the alarm because of U.S. collaboration, and the willingness to assessment and realistic testing. fears of a rising China. War is not combine theory and practice. inevitable, he contends, yet if U.S. and In Cycles of Invention and Discovery, Chinese leaders continue on the path Dealing with Dysfunction they detail the traditional boundaries they have followed for the past decade, Innovative Problem Solving in the Public Sector between engineering—understood as Social Policy Expansion in Latin America war will most likely be the result. Jorrit de Jong, Lecturer in Public Policy and Management applied science—and the perceived Candelaria Garay, Associate Professor of Public Policy He lays out his provocative higher-prestige fi eld of basic science, argument by fi rst charting the recent and how the distinction manifests itself steep economic rise of China and JORRIT DE JONG COFOUNDED THE KAFKA BRIGADE, named in in federal policy. Th ey also highlight ACCORDING TO CANDELARIA GARAY, a large portion of the Latin how it has altered the international balance of power. He then homage to the novelist who wrote about the foibles of contemporary examples of progress American population lacked access to social protection catalogs historical cases, arguing that Germany’s challenge to bureaucracy. Th is action research organization has investigated achieved by the discovery-invention cycle, such as Janelia throughout much of the 20th century. Th at started at the end the British Empire before World War I is the closest analogue cases in which people were enmeshed in bureaucratic Research Campus, a neuroscience and imaging center in of the century, when governments began extending benefi ts to today’s China threat. For the United States, averting disaster dysfunction. In this book, de Jong discusses the literature on Virginia, whose physical structure encourages cross-team to millions of previously unprotected people, whom she calls will require clarifying vital interests, increasing understanding bureaucracy-gone-wrong, a clinical analysis of real-life cases interaction and whose culture rewards collaboration. Th ey call “outsiders”—those not in the formal labor market. Why that of China’s intentions, and focusing on domestic challenges, of public sector clients experiencing what they consider red for adopting new language in science and technology policy dramatic shift occurred and why resulting according to Allison. tape, and a diagnostic framework for and restructuring our research environments to refl ect an open social policies vary across countries are identifying and remedying the problem and entrepreneurial spirit. Addressing complex 21st-century the subject of Social Policy Expansion in practice. problems, they write, requires acceptance of “the equivalent in Latin America, begun as a doctoral Th e cases reveal the people caught in value of abstraction and experimentation.” dissertation and bolstered by more than Rwandan Women Rising the bureaucracy—for example, a woman 250 interviews and comprehensive data facing an onerous process to be certifi ed analysis. Swanee Hunt, Eleanor Roosevelt Lecturer in Public Policy; for benefi ts for her disabled daughters Garay contends that the critical Foreword by Jimmy Carter or an immigrant entrepreneur trying factors driving expansion are electoral to get permits for a sandwich shop. Insider Threats competition for the votes of outsiders Th ough de Jong acknowledges that it’s Matthew Bunn, Professor of Practice and Co-Principal Investigator, and large-scale social mobilization, SEVENTEEN YEARS IN THE MAKING, Rwandan Women Rising not likely bureaucratic dysfunction can Project on Managing the Atom, co-editor both of which are more likely to emerge in democratic reveals the pain, resilience, and leadership of women who be eliminated, he does suggest that it could be better addressed regimes. Th e balance of partisan power and the involvement emerged from the Rwandan genocide to help rebuild and if it is better diagnosed. Th e Anna Karenina principle applies of social movements in policy design explain cross-national bring reconciliation to a nation. Swanee Hunt, the founder here, according to de Jong: “All well-functioning bureaucracies INSIDER THREATS IN HIGH-SECURITY ORGANIZATIONS don’t happen variations in social policy. Her study explores in depth four of HKS’s Women and Public Policy Program, which conducts are alike; all dysfunctional bureaucracies are dysfunctional oft en, but when they do, the consequences can be devastating. countries: Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Chile across several research and trains women leaders throughout the world, in their own way.” In an era in which governments are Th erein lies the importance of studying them and preventing administrations and three policy areas: health care, pensions, presents the voices of scores of Rwandan women interviewed, cutting budgets and reducing services, he argues, addressing them, write Matthew Bunn and Scott Sagan, a professor at and income support. She also off ers a historical perspective on including government offi cials, activists, and survivors of bureaucratic dysfunction can help the most vulnerable Stanford University, who present a “worst practices guide” of why social programs weren’t previously expanded to outsiders widely perpetrated rape during the genocide. Th eir experience, members of society as well as increase the eff ectiveness of lessons from past failures in coping with insider threats, noting and analyzes secondary cases. Th e expansion of these benefi ts she writes, reinforces her belief that “the best way to reduce government programs. how oft en organizations ignore seemingly obvious “red fl ags.” has important implications, Garay writes, creating stronger suff ering and to prevent, end, and stabilize confl ict is to Insider Th reats includes new data on jihadi actions and writings connections between citizens and the state as well as helping to elevate women.” targeting nuclear facilities, along with case studies of the Army reduce inequality.

38 www.hks.harvard.edu summer 2017 | harvard kennedy school 39 t 1961 CLASSNOTES Robert Terry mpa led the fi rst Peace Corps team in mainland Asia. “Classmate Paul Slawson mpa later joined me in then East Pakistan. Worked for Senators Hubert Hum- phrey and Eugene McCarthy and Representa- tive Henry Reuss. Next 27 years with Arthur D. Little, Inc., and its Management Education Institute, assisting development managers in South Asia, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. In the 1970s, I helped found Oxfam America. Was a trustee of The Experiment in International Living, director of the National Peace Corps Association. Now writing Light Many Peace Corps Candles: How Bold Experi- ments Spread Civic Service to Transform Lives Worldwide.”

Arnold Zack mpa writes, “Just fi nished my “ Pray, give us order.” That’s how Peter Koutoujian mc/mpa 2002, sheriff of Middlesex County, is traditionally invited to 32nd year teaching dispute resolution at the start off Harvard’s commencement. And wearing a top hat, a sheriff’s star dangling from the pocket of his morning coat, Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law and loudly striking a silver-tipped staff three times on the fl oor, that is what he does. Koutoujian has been sheriff since School, and doing some labor management 2011. The tradition of having a sheriff at graduation goes back further — to the 18th century, when commencements arbitration after a nine-year term as president tended to be rowdy and boozy affairs. Koutoujian also brings some order to his alma mater, kicking off Kennedy School of the Asian Development Bank Administra- commencement proceedings (above). tive Tribunal.” t 1963 ern Arizona University. It is an honor to have t Stephen Sloane mpa, after 30 years as a been one of the fi rst from the jfk School, and I 1973 naval offi cer, retired as a captain, earned a wish old friends well.” Michael Eliastam mc/mpa writes, “On phd uc at Berkeley, joined the faculty at Saint August 4, 2016, I received an email from the Mary’s College, and is now a professor emeri- t 1967 | 50th South African War Graves Commission asking tus. He also ran a nonprofi t: therapeutic if I was ‘next of kin’ to Simon Eliastam, who horseback riding for people with disabilities. reunion had disappeared on July 23, 1942. He was my mother’s brother, never heard of again, but t 1964 t 1969 always remembered as a ‘perfect young man.’ After that my life was consumed by preparing mpa mpa Richard Nuttall writes, “Still not quite James Bullington has published his for the memorial service, held March 23, 2017. retired. Engaged part-time in several initia- third book, Global Adventures on Less-Trav- In October 2016, my younger daughter, tives with our local health authority to eled Roads: A Foreign Service Memoir. It Monet, accompanied a British expedition up improve the care of the elderly, which I have traces his journey from hillbilly roots through Mount Kenya to 10,000 feet to verify the become one of!” three decades of service as a diplomat and wreckage, found in 2002. Anyone interested ambassador in Asia and Africa. in more detail, read our pages on Facebook or t 1965 Jack Underhill mc/mpa presented a paper email me. This and subsequent surprises at the conference of the American Society for changed my life!” Stephen Trachtenberg mpa, after 19 years Public Administration in Atlanta in March, as president of George Washington University, Chris Palmer mc/mpa is an environmental “The Continued Struggle for Social Justice in took a Professor of Public Service Chair. “Now fi lm producer, professor, speaker, and author. the U.S. and How We Compare with Other teaching. Writing. New book coming from He serves on American University’s full-time Advanced Nations.” Johns Hopkins University Press. Consulting at faculty as distinguished fi lm producer in KornFerry International and Rimon Law.” residence at the School of Communication. t 1972 | 45th His books include Shooting in the Wild (Sierra By the numbers, the Class of 2017 consisted of 561 graduates — 538 master’s and 23 t 1966 Club Books, 2010); Confessions of a Wildlife doctoral degrees — representing 99 countries. The stories, though, are always too reunion Filmmaker (Bluefi eld Publishing, 2015); and numerous to count. Patrick Mayoh and Emily Moore, both mpp 2017, celebrate an end Joe Walka mpa writes, “Those of us in the Paul Heise mc/mpa writes, “In 1974, the Now What, Grad? Your Path to Success after and a beginning. fi rst jfk class came from many directions; Labor Department lent me to the Offi ce of the College (Rowman & Littlefi eld, 2015). His next mine was the executive offi ce of the book, coming out from Rowman & Littlefi eld t ken.sc/fl ickr_youarehere U.S. Trade Representative to be part of the president. It was a great group to be multilateral trade negotiation team in Geneva. this August, is Raise Your Kids to Succeed: part of. I still remember Neustadt’s When President Carter was elected, I was What Every Parent Should Know. He is married mpp seminar on the presidency held at recalled to perform liaison between ustr to Gail Shearer 1974. the Faculty Club. We exhausted the and the labor movement.” budget for the seminar about two- t 1974 thirds of the way through the semester. I went on for the phd in political economy and Manolo Abella mc/mpa established a government with friends from those days. I’m research institute for labor, developed a pro- now professor of economics and dean emeri- gram for returning Muslim rebels, and helped tus of the Franke College of Business at North- design policy infrastructure to protect workers going to the Middle East. At the International JESSICA SCRANTON JESSICA STEWART SCRANTON; MARTHA JESSICA

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a late-night cafe (similar to the one she ran at the Cronkhite Graduate Center while at Har- vard), a convenience store/cafe in the library, HKS FUND a research/call center, and a service deliver- OUTSTANDING ing food from outside restaurants to students ALUMNI and faculty on campus. AWARD Allan Wendt mc/ t mpa 1967, a State 1976 Department expert Tom Pelham mcrp writes, “Since 1976 my on energy issues and professional energy focused on reforms at the the fi rst U.S. ambas- mbta and the City of Somerville. I returned to sador to Slovenia, Vermont in 1989 and served as the state’s was honored for his long-term support of fi nance and tax commissioner and deputy the school. secretary of administration as well as an elected legislator.”

t 1977 | 40th reunion Katherine McDonough mcrp writes, “How A very good fi t Bottom overseeing energy issues and technology and I spent the past 40 years: Worked for politi- cians in Boston. Moved to New York. Became export controls at the end of the Cold War. He became a redhead. Joined a global corporation. the fi rst U.S. ambassador to Slovenia following that Learned to speak French. Made partner in a allan wendt mc/mpa 1967 Luma Al-Saleh mc/mpa 2017 and Jiyuan (Dexter) Yu mpa/id 2017 take a break from sorting, folding, country’s split from what was then Yugoslavia. consultancy. Then left to start a company; and organizing donated clothes, toys, and other inventory for children at Room to Grow. About 20 Wendt has also generously served the Kennedy “ For me it sold the company. Went to culinary school in students volunteered there as part of hks Serves in February. Allan Wendt fl ew straight from Boston to Saigon after School. He started giving to the school in the mid-1980s, my 50s. Published a cookbook. Still a red- head. And best of all, have had a long, happy his time at the Kennedy School. “I didn’t even go when he felt he could begin making modest was a very marriage. Upon the shock of realizing it’s 33 through Washington,” he recalls. It was the height of the contributions, and has given every year for the past good fi t. been 40 years, I send a warm hello to my is the 3 percent?’ I am available for short-term t 1980 Vietnam War, and Wendt, a Foreign Service Offi cer, had years to the school’s hks Fund. His support has former classmates and best wishes for contin- consulting work such as advising on master spent a year studing. It was time to get back in the game. benefi ted more than 15,000 students. It was ued success, a little wisdom, and joy where planning, preparing focused studies, and Joe Aiello mcrp continues in his role as a participating on academic and professional Rice production in Vietnam had dropped, and after Honoring Wendt at Reunion Weekend, hks Fund we can fi nd it.” partner at Meridiam Infrastructure. In July of payback juries.” 2015, Joe was named by Massachusetts Gov- an intense year focusing on economics and statistics, Executive Council Co-Chair Sean Rush mc/mpa 2007 t Adam Thomson mpp, after 38 years in the ernor Charles Baker as the chairman of the Wendt went to work trying to solve the country’s rice pointed to the value of long-term support: “Allan Wendt time.” 1978 British Diplomatic Service, writes, “I have mbta’s Fiscal and Management Control Board mc/mpa, problem: Production was being disrupted by the war, embodies the power of alumni participation and Richard Broinowski following retired as uk ambassador to nato and have (fmcb). The fmcb was created by the governor and the Vietnamese were reluctantly eating American- philanthropy, and, through his steadfast annual support Harvard, was appointed Australian ambassa- taken over as the director of the European and the legislature following an assessment grown rice brought in under the pl-480 program. over the years, has shown that gifts of all amounts can, dor to Vietnam, then to the Republic of Korea, Leadership Network, a pan-European, non- of large-scale challenges facing the authority. then to Mexico. “I was also general manager He reports that some very good things are “I joined the Foreign Service for the same reasons over time, have a tremendous impact on students, faculty, partisan ngo working for better security in of Radio Australia. On retirement I became an greater Europe.” happening at the “T” and is hopeful it will most people do: a desire to serve the country and an and alumni.” adjunct professor in media studies at Sydney return to the ranks of best in class. interest in foreign affairs,” Wendt says. It was the “I felt a certain loyalty to the educational institutions University.” t 1979 beginning of a career at the intersection of economics I’ve attended,” Wendt says. “The time I spent at Harvard Frances Cook mc/mpa now heads her inter- t 1981 mc/mpa, and international relations that also took Wendt to fully justifi ed my contributions. For me it was a very national consulting company, The Ballard Peter O’Connor after working for a Jon Elam mc/mpa is looking forward to being Germany, Belgium, and Egypt and positions at Foggy s RDO Group, llc, in Washington. A longtime U.S. few years in Boston (Third Harbor Tunnel “Big good fi t. It was payback time.” a part of this year’s climate meetings in ambassador in four nations and a senior State Dig” Project for Bechtel), spent three-plus Morocco. “These are critical times to move the Department offi cial, Frances has served, since years, also for Bechtel, in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. issue from planning to action, and I look 1999, on the boards of major American and “More recently have moved to beautiful Long- forward to being a part of that. Hopefully European listed corporations, including as boat Key, Florida, where I was an elected many hks folks will also be present.” Labour Organization, he worked years advis- t Allan Taylor mpp writes, “I was confi rmed board chairman. She currently serves on the offi cial.” ing states on sound policies to protect 1975 by our legislature in February for another boards of U.S. high-tech companies and fi ve Submit a Elizabeth Swope mc/mpa writes, “I lunch William Hamilton hksee, a nationally syn- migrants. Stephen Salyer mc/mpa is celebrating the four-year term on our State Board of Educa- ngos and is a member of many distinguished classnote at regularly with classmates Ben Tyree mc/ dicated columnist, is a laureate of the Okla- tion, which I have chaired since 2005. I have Sharon Weinstein Greene mcrp received 70th anniversary of the Salzburg Global Semi- policy think tanks in Washington. She divides ken.sc/ mpa, Andy Pettis mc/mpa, Tom Fagan mc/ homa Journalism Hall of Fame, the Nebraska been appointed to six full terms, and one the Council of Minority Transportation Offi - nar, “where I have been president since 2005, her time between Washington, Florida, and mpa, Danielle Beauchamp mc/mpa, Sha- Aviation Hall of Fame, the Colorado Aviation partial term by four governors from three hksclassnote cials Women Who Move the Nation award. including Cutler Fellows Program that includes Provence. ron Holroyd Cooper mc/mpa, Gerry Con- Hall of Fame, and the Oklahoma University Harvard Law as a founding partner.” different political parties. My retirement from nolly mc/mpa, Steve Allbee mc/mpa, and Army ROTC Wall of Fame. mc/mpa, Robert Sabbatini mcrp writes, “97 percent r on the web John Sargent an economist, is paid employment a year ago allows me to mc/mpa mpp retired. After nearly four decades of work in Anne Reed . Most of us are partly or Lynn Fields Harris mc/mpa is still inspired semi-retired. After Harvard, he worked with Xavier Suarez was reelected to the devote more time to what Sally calls my pecu- Find alumni completely retired. We talk politics and hks the World Bank in Washington, and Australian Miami-Dade County Commission by a wide landscape architecture and planning, I have to serve and mindful of the experience. liar hobby.” contact information exchange anecdotes.” and state treasury and economic develop- margin and now has four years to serve on a decided to change the balance of my personal Thinking of exiting to a new endeavor. Read- Kathryn Frazer Winsted mpa writes that in the online ment departments. He consulted to Austra- 13-member commission overseeing a $7 and professional life. During my career, many Maria Grazia Quieti mc/mpa is director of ing Dr. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot’s Exit: The her latest project as a professor at Pace Uni- directory at lia’s aid program, United Nations agencies, billion budget. “Current initiatives include people became valued colleagues and a master’s program in food studies policies Endings That Set Us Free. For the past 15 years versity, in Westchester County, New York, is a the World Bank, and the Asian Development funding tablets and Wi-Fi for all schoolkids. friends. I am grateful to have learned from hks.harvard.edu/ for sustainable production and consumption working at a nationally accredited senior Center for Student Enterprise, where she Bank. Still practicing law.” them. I am especially indebted to Perry Chap- alumnidirectory at The American University of Rome, continu- center, reimagining aging, fi ghting ageism, helps students start and run on-campus busi- man, who mentored me in campus planning. ing work on relations between the United promoting wellbeing!” nesses. She currently helps students manage 3 percent not retired. So, you may ask, ‘What States and Italy. “Shall be happy to corre- MARTHA STEWART MARTHA STEWART MARTHA spond with interested alumni.”

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Joe Leitmann mpp leads programs on resil- get treatment in their home countries. The David Bassiouni mc/mpa is a former inter- Jack Gardner mpp writes, “Rick Counihan James Junke mc/mpa retired in October cil of churches, I’m about to become the ient recovery and urban resilience at the company partners with U.S., European, Asian, national diplomat who served at the United mpp and I are at it again! This time next year, 2013 following a 40-year career in the Cana- interim pastor for a congregation in Ken- World Bank’s gfdrr. He prepared the World and African hospitals to provide advanced Nations. During his time at the un, Bassiouni we hope to share that we have achieved our dian foreign service. “Have been active in the tucky’s capital, Frankfort.” Reconstruction Conference (in June in Brus- and affordable medical technology to their held a number of senior-level positions pri- second of the ‘Seven Summits,’ i.e. the high- Harvard University Club of Ottawa as the hks Paul Tuccio mc/mpa retired from the U.S. sels) and a new international initiative: the clients. marily in unicef and the un Office for Coordi- est points on each of Earth’s continents. After rep. Also in a local ngo, the Ottawa River Army Corps of Engineers in 2016 and currently Global Preparedness Partnership. nation of Humanitarian Affairs, and in 1992 scaling Mt. Kilimanjaro in 2010 (Africa), we Keeper. Just finished trip to Australia.” David Schumacher mcrp is now a senior resides in Jackson, Mississippi. “May the went on to become the first and only un plan to climb Mt. Aconcagua in January 2018 Teresa Lubbers mc/mpa, after serving 17 planning manager for wsp/Parsons Brincker- Joaquin Perez-Rodriguez mc/mpa writes, Lord’s blessings continue to be poured out humanitarian coordinator directly appointed (South America). To get ready, we have years in the Indiana State Senate and as chair hoff, working on transit planning projects in “Last year, as a political consultant, I was in upon all of our classmates and our great by the secretary-general and the un Security climbed most of the highest peaks in the of the education committee, took over the role southern California. He retired as principal charge of 12 governorship elections for the country.” Council. Bassiouni served as the unicef rep- Cascades range in the Pacific Northwest, of commissioner for the Indiana Commission regional planner for the San Diego Associa- Partido Accíon National (pan) in Mexico. We resentative in Somalia, Sri Lanka, Maldives, including Mounts Whitney, Shasta, Rainier, for Higher Education, a role she has held tion of Governments. won seven, and the pan is in a very good Ethiopia, Occupied Palestinian Territories, Hood, and Baker. I still run a large affordable- t since 2009. position to win the presidential race in 2018.” 1987 | 30th Egypt, and Bangladesh. He is currently the housing company in California, and Rick reunion Thomas Momiyama hksee writes, “Return- t 1983 chairman and ceo of The Bassiouni Group, recently joined Nest, part of the Google Alasdair Roberts mpp writes, “I’m moving ing from the Kennedy School’s Senior Execu- an international development firm that he empire. But that’s not challenging enough to the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Vicki Arroyo mpa writes, “Happy 30th anni- Barry McLoughlin mc/mpa writes, “Life is tive Fellows program, I was selected to the cofounded with his son. for us — so please wish us luck!” September 2017, where I will serve as director versary to my wonderful classmates! I am still busy — along with my partner, Laura Peck, Senior Executive Service of the United States of the School of Public Policy.” at Georgetown Law School and our com- doing leadership seminars (TransformLead- Marc Bonazountas hksee has not been Charles Huettner mc/mpa writes, “I am as director of the Naval Air Systems Com- mencement falls during our reunion, so I’m ers.ca) and media training and consulting in the public domain and academia for some the executive director of an association of the Marian McClure Taylor phd writes, “After mand’s Advanced Aircraft Development and sorry to miss you this time. I’m executive (McLoughlin Media). Rarely a day when I don’t years, but rather in the private business state lieutenant governors, the Aerospace writing my dissertation on the Catholic Church Systems Objectives Office. I led the concept director of Georgetown Climate Center, profes- recall an insight learned at the K-School. Enjoy sector. The background he obtained from States Association. I published my third book, during Haiti’s Duvalier years, working for the formulations of next-generation aircraft now sor of practice, and assistant dean of centers staying in touch with the Harvard community the Kennedy School offered an excellent Autobiography and Other Funny Stories, Ford Foundation in Mexico, going to seminary, operational, e.g., T-45 carrier-based trainer, and institutes at Georgetown Law. Last June — interviewing Harvard applicants for 30 years opportunity to understand people and the where I tell interesting stories of my life and directing my denomination’s world mission original version of Marine’s vstol (now F-35B) I traveled to China with hks faculty for a low- through the Harvard Club of Ottawa and had public domain worldwide. work at dod, faa, nasa, and the White involvements, and directing my state’s coun- and V-22 tilt-rotor aircraft, as well as new air- carbon summit, and it was wonderful to the honor of being a marshal at the 2015 House.” craft carrier operational systems. I retired from Brett Doney mpp celebrated his 11th year freshman convocation ceremony. As a fellow the Civil Service in 1995 and have been an leading economic development in Great Falls, Alison Hughes mc/mpa writes, “Leadership and instructor at Carleton University’s mas- independent technology and policy advisor. I Montana, and his 27th anniversary with his training conference for over 80 high school ter’s of political management, I’m loving the participate in think tank sessions and write amazing wife. “Daughter in grad school in students who live at the U.S./Mexico border. world of public policy, media, and politics. articles in aerospace and policy journals.” Boston, and son pursuing industrial technol- This is our fourth annual such event. It’s spon- Hope to see my fellow grads at our 35th (yes!) ogy degree. Having fun balancing deals, sored by the Arizona Rural Health Association, anniversary class weekend in 2018! t travel, and enjoying Montana.” on whose board I have served since its found- 1982 | 35th Anthony Schembri hksee was appointed ing, in the 1980s.” Collins Fitzpatrick hksee received the visiting professor of law and criminology at reunion Professionalism Award from the American Jim Shultz mc/mpa writes, “In my work as Sheffield Hallam University, in England, mc/mpa Inns of Court at the Supreme Court. “Our son executive director of The Democracy Center, Hal Abramson writes, “Busy year. teaching senior police managers. Worked on the un treaty on enforcing medi- Brendan Fitzpatrick mpa/id 2005 is a based in Bolivia and working globally, I have ated settlements and organized mediation Muhammad Saleem Siddiqi mc/mpa graduate of the Kennedy School. Our other been assisting unicef and the un in their program for delegates, an article on Nelson writes, “I got my little collection of poems son, Michael, is a patent judge.” advocacy work on the advancement of the Mandela as negotiator received a best article printed as Heights of Sublimation. I have Sustainable Development Goals. This William McKenna mc/mpa has been retired award, and visiting at Air Force Academy for been lucky to go around the world on official included leading a global workshop at the THE BEST THE WORLD HAS TO OFFER for six years from the State of Rhode Island, a year to develop negotiation programs.” and personal visits . . . it has broadened my un in New York City in November, and a two- where he worked as a budget analyst with HAS A SPECIAL OFFER FOR YOU. vision and brightened my imagination. My week workshop in Mozambique in March. Rob Dewees mc/mpa writes, “After hks, the State Budget Office and a planner at the poems are reflecting my feelings, emotions, June Sekera On a personal note, my wife, Lynn, and I will I joined the law firm Nixon Peabody in its Office of Strategic Planning. “Now active with and experiences from different situations. The mc/mpa 1984 become grandparents in August and will be energy practice and have had an interesting the St. Vincent de Paul Society, which pro- world has a charming landscape and a spar- recently published spending the last half of the year in the United career working with electric and gas utility, vides financial assistance to people in need. kling horizon!” The Public Economy States, our first time living there since 1998.” competitive power supplier, renewable in Crisis: A Call I continue to have an interest in Catholic Frank Tapparo hksee writes, “I’ve been fully energy, and telecommunications clients. for a New Public social teaching and public policy.” I met my future wife, Cheryl, at the firm, retired since January 2016. For the past six- t 1986 Economics. June Sekera mc/mpa writes, “My book, and we have had a wonderful family life with teen years Marie and I have been spending The Public Economy in Crisis: A Call for a New Casey Corr mc/mpa writes, “After working our two sons, Ned and Luke. We recently about half the year in Italy, although hip Public Economics, was recently published by in journalism in Seattle and working in gov- moved to a dairy farm in Albany, Vermont, replacement surgery for both of us has kept Springer. The book proposes a new theory of ernment and politics, I crossed the Cascades with approximately 60 cows and 120 acres us in the States since mid-2016. We plan to Choose from over 40 executive education programs created public economics which deemphasizes reli- and moved to Yakima, Washington, to run a in the state’s Northeast Kingdom.” return to Italy in September 2017 for a few ance on the free market and affirms the little magazine that covers the fruit industry. months. Best wishes to all.” specifically for public, corporate, and nonprofit leaders. Eric Elbot mc/mpa writes, “Traveling Pacific Submit a importance of public goods.” That hope-and-change thing worked out Rim advancing Veritas Scientific’s ‘Friend classnote at well for me.” Plus, Harvard Kennedy School degree program alumni t Tom Shuster hksee retired as director of or Foe Neuro-Algorithm,’ with time to savor 1984 ken.sc/ recreation and parks for the Town of Ocean John Gamman mc/mpa is happily retired are eligible for a 30% tuition discount. family, write, practice Tibetan Buddhism, hksclassnote Ted Bacino hksee informs that his novel, City, Maryland. Currently enjoying regular day (gasp) from a career as a mediator of environ- and take long big white dog walks along the The Shakespeare Conspiracy, has been made trips to Assateague Island National Seashore. mental disputes, after helping many commu- Nashua River. Join Reunion: hard to find new r on the web into a stage play that’s had successful pro- nities and governments find solutions to ‘old friends’!” ductions in Columbus, Ohio; Fort Lauderdale, Find alumni t 1985 pressing issues of the day. He is living in Gathoni Mungai mc/mpa retired from inter- Florida; and Rockford University. The movie contact information Santa Cruz, California, with his lovely wife, Learn more about the programs national economic development with usaid version of the book has been optioned twice in the online Richard Averbuch mpa is currently serving Yvette. Several classmates attended their and download the program guide but never “green-lighted.” But, he says, he’s SM contractors in 2014 and is currently working in directory at as the executive director of the Massachu- incredibly rainy wedding in California last today at exed.hks.harvard.edu YOU’RE HERE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. still hopeful. Information on the novel can be setts Coalition for Serious Illness Care. “The October. “Wishing my Kennedy School friends Africa. She is a partner in Pathway Interna- hks.harvard.edu/ tional, a medical logistics company covering found at TheShakespeareConspiracy.com. group’s goal is to ensure all people receive a happy and productive year in all their alumnidirectory East and West African countries that provides care consistent with their wishes and values. endeavors, especially amidst the current global medical choices to clients who cannot Very inspiring work.” MASeriousCare.org uncertainty in the world.”

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reconnect with my advisor Henry Lee United Nations’ Sustainable Energy for All. He A Novel of Old Hawaii. My novel follows the Jerry Regier mc/mpa writes, “In 2016, I and others. Hoping that recent is a senior fellow of the Climate Institute, rise of Kamehameha the Great, founder of moved back to the Washington, dc, area; com- MAKE YOUR NETWORK changes are not too disruptive to climate.org, and an assessor for the American the Hawaiian Kingdom. It’s the story of old pleted my phd in public policy and public our progress on climate change National Standards Institute. Hawaii Michener never told.” administration; taught public policy and trans- and that those of you who come to formational leadership at the United Nations in Eric Yankah mc/mpa writes, “Been working dc will reach out. My son’s finishing Geneva for the seventh summer; twice taught t 1988 mainly in Ghana since graduation. Executive up his junior year at Tulane . . . time flies! public policy to 72 mps in Myanmar.” director of Yankahlink Advisors, a governance All best.” Richard Bowers hksee writes, “In retire- and strategy advisory firm, since 2008. Cur- mc/mpa writes, “I’m still RELEVANT Janice Saragoni ment, as my ancestors fought at Kings Moun- Meg Bowman-Hicks mpp writes, “Frank rently, board chairman of the Ghana Audit running Saragoni & Company, a Boston-based tain and Cowpens with the militia during the Hicks mpp and I have been happily living in Service. Have been involved in public service public affairs/media relations practice with a Revolution, I have developed a program and Costa Rica for 18 years. Our girls have now including the nonprofit space. With a lot of joy diverse book of business in both the profit am writing a book on the South in the Revolu- Find alumni who will make a diff erence in your world. flown the coop: Becca lives and works in New and warmth, am the current first national vice and nonprofit sectors. Last year, I moved from tionary War. New England friends, sorry, but York, and Eliza is finishing up a gap year chair of Ghana Blind Union. Have been a Cambridge/Harvard Square just across the the war was really won down here.” before moving on to Brown in the fall. I have Stephen Shender volunteer for more than 25 years. Anybody river to Allston, where my brand-new apart- mc/mpa been working on several boards, and enjoy Chuck Burkell hksee, after a 33-year federal 1988 passing through Ghana must make it a point ment building has an up-close view of Har- contributing my experience to some worthy service career in executive education with dhs, published to connect. Have kept up with a good number vard Stadium.” causes. Definitely using that policy training! fema, and the National Fire Academy, contin- Once There Was of the 1988 classmates. I had drinks with Frank is still an environmental consultant, but ues to consult within a leadership develop- Fire: A Novel of Marcia Grant recently in Accra. I am looking t traveling less and planning more vacations. ment practice and is a licensed battlefield Old Hawaii. forward to our 30th Reunion Weekend in April 1990 We both look forward to catching up with guide at the Gettysburg National Military Park. 2018. Love to all.” Izzat Dajani mc/mpa is ceo of IMCapital, an friends at our first hks reunion.” investment company with a principal objec- Michael Cassidy mc/mpa retired in 2013 tive of delivering superior returns to its share- Nadine Hack mc/mpa writes, “I’ve been after selling his financial business. “Our pas- t 1989 holders through a disciplined, value-oriented living with my husband, Jerry Dunfey, in Swit- sion is golf and traveling to play in Australia Chuck Bean mpp is in his fifth year as the approach. The modus operandi of IMCapital zerland for six-plus years since I was asked to and overseas. In 2015, we had a special din- executive director of the Metropolitan Wash- centers on securing majority or significant be the first woman executive-in-residence at ner with our Singaporean classmates. Looking ington Council of Governments, working on minority equity positions in profitable and imd Business School, ranked first by the forward to next year’s 30th class reunion in regional transportation, environment, public growing mid-cap companies in the industrial, Financial Times in executive education.” the United States.” safety, and community planning. trading, and service sectors across the mena Nadine is ceo of beCause Global Consulting, Norman Foster mpp, after seven years and Turkey region. Izzat is a member of the because.net. James Brett mc/mpa presented R. Nicholas as director of finance for the City of New board of directors of Alternatifbank A.S. Burns, Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Cornelis Keur mc/mpa writes, “It’s been Orleans, writes, “I will be moving even (ABank) in Turkey, a member of the board Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy a splendid ride. Burma, Yemen, Beijing, further south to Fort Lauderdale to become executive and remuneration committees, and and International Relations, the New Update your profi le and Chengdu, Tokyo, Bangkok, National Defense the director of the Office of Management also chairman of ALease, a fully owned sub- Englander of the Year Award at the University, Hyderabad, and retirement after and Budget for Broward County. Will be sidiary of ABank.” recent New England Council Annual 32 years with State. Lecturing on a cruise from a good spot for Iowa Bowl games.” explore the Alumni Directory today. Dinner. William Decker mc/mpa writes, “At home in Bangkok to Bombay. Six months working on a Carol Freeman mc/mpa retired from her Washington, dc; working with dhhs/cms on Chinese gold-prospecting concession in N. Chris Collins mpp writes, “After the Ken- University of Minnesota job evaluating K–12 Medicare program coordination with aca hks.harvard.edu/alumnidirectory Laos. Now Sommay and I divide our time nedy School, I headed home to San Francisco education reform initiatives. “Since, I’ve (Obamacare) operations. These are interest- equally between condos in northern Virginia but continually found myself pulled back to learned an amazing amount traveling to many ing times, for both Medicare and the aca. and Bangkok, where we have ringside seats the dc vortex. I also kept a focus on aids different countries. While I continue to travel Married to Laura Diamond, and we are both watching the demise of civil society (hopefully advocacy, domestic and global. Now heading (next, to Morocco on a Peace Corps returned owned by our giant poodle, Arthur. Grew up in temporary) in both.” up a nonprofit promoting U.S. government Roy Norton mpa writes, “The hks experi- history of the civil rights movement. We had volunteers trip), I am focusing on electoral Connecticut; lived in Boston/Cambridge/New investment in the Global Fund to Fight aids, ence inspired me to complete a phd and an opportunity to meet many of the leaders Ian McAuley mc/mpa writes, “Herman politics. This work is getting exciting with England from 1968 until 1991, and return not tb, and Malaria. theglobalfight.org.” served me well through four subsequent and the foot soldiers in the civil rights move- Dutch Leonard summarized our countless groups forming to make their voices often enough. Hope to see all my classmates “Thank Canadian diplomatic service assignments in ment and traveled to the key historical sites. learning when he said, ‘The hard heard and to impact who’s in office. So, I’ve Robin Farley mpp was awarded the Navy at our 30th reunion.” the United States, as it does today in my hks taught me about politics: I was elected to jobs are left to the public sector.’ not stopped using all that I learned at the Ken- you all for Superior Civilian Service Medal by the outgo- Geri Denterlein mc/mpa writes, “When I capacity as chief of protocol of Canada, serve three terms (15 years) on the city school Much of my time over the past few nedy School.” ing assistant secretary of the Navy. In Febru- was at the Harvard Kennedy School, I was a based in Ottawa.” board. Here is where you really learn about years has been spent spreading reminding ary, Robin was appointed to the Senior Exec- Renato (Jun) Labadan mpp writes, “We are journalist at wbz-tv. In 2000, I parlayed those the political system.” that message in teaching and writ- utive Service as the director of transforma- Debbie Phillips mc/mpa, as founder of finally back in dc after joining my wife’s foreign me of the skills and what I learned during my mpa pro- ing, including publication of a book in col- tional programs in the office of the assistant Women on Fire, was invited to interview Gloria service tours in Beijing, Manila, Sofia, Cairo, gram into a public policy-focused communica- laboration with a colleague, Miriam Lyons: value of secretary. Steinem for Planned Parenthood’s 75th anni- t 1991 and Jakarta. I am currently the managing gen- tions firm. Since then, I’ve grown and Linda Belton Governomics: Can We Afford Small Govern- versary gala audience in Milwaukee, Wiscon- hksee eral partner of a tech-centered vc fund in Res- the public David Luberoff mc/mpa writes, “A few expanded my client mix, now with deep 1991 Linda Belton hksee has written a book, ment? (Melbourne University Publishing, sin; the interview was published exclusively ton, Virginia, and kids are at Columbia Univer- months before graduation, I was offered a job expertise in health care, transportation, and published Servant Leadership, A Nobler Side of Leader- 2015). Thank you all for reminding me of the purpose.” in The Progressive Magazine. sity and Deerfield Academy. I’m in touch with at hks’s then-new Taubman Center for State crisis strategy. I also represent and volunteer Servant Leadership, ship: The Art of Humanagement, published by value of the public purpose.” Robert Tomkin mpp, Chandran Gnanak- — Ian McAuley and Local Government. I jumped at the oppor- with numerous nonprofit causes, and was Scott Stucky hksee became chief judge of A Nobler Side of the Greenleaf Center. The text centers on her Richard Opper mc/mpa writes, “Who even uru mpp, and Baher El-Hefnawi and would mc/mpa 1987 tunity, figuring I would stay here for a few recently appointed by Governor Charlie Baker the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces Leadership. 30 years of executive experience in state and knew there were things called ‘brownfields’ in love to reconnect. I still travel quite a bit to Asia years. But I never really left. After holding a to the Bridgewater State University Board of in a ceremony in May. He served four years on federal government. An accompanying work- 1987? They became my life. Now it seems I’ve and Eastern Europe . . . drop me a line. Can’t variety of positions at hks and Harvard’s Trustees and by Mayor Marty Walsh to the the board of the Appellate Judges Conference book has also been released. made it to retirement — which means I work believe K-School is almost 30 years ago!” Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, in Boston Main Streets Foundation Board.” of the aba and taught at George Washington George Deikun mc/mpa writes, “Greetings! just as hard (for nonprofits) for free. Such August I became senior associate director of University Law School last fall. Eric Peterson mc/mpa writes, “I’m retired Merritt Helfferich mc/mpa writes, “hks I’ve completed two careers since our time at a deal!” Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. from the staff of the New York State Legisla- helped me as associate director of a research Virginia Volker mc/mpa writes, “After grad- hks, retiring from usaid as mission director to Ironically, my first office was in the “Little Jack Werner mc/mpa is executive director of ture and living in a retirement community in unit at the University of Alaska. Since retire- uation I retained my university faculty position India and subsequently from the United Yellow House,” the Joint Center’s longtime the Institute for Sustainable Power, which southern Saratoga County, New York.” ment in 1997, I’ve been consulting on Alaska and served eight years administrating a uni- Nations as director of un Habitat’s Liaison home on Church Street. We’ve long since administers international training standards. Native education. I’m on a land trust board, a versity community partnership hud-funded and Humanitarian Affairs Office in Geneva. Stephen Shender mc/mpa writes, “In moved to Bow Street (close to the Hong Kong He is the leader of the Standards Working library board in New Mexico, and biking in program. We initiated a highly acclaimed I’m now traveling the world and working when December, I realized a lifelong ambition, restaurant). Look me up if you’re back in Group, unf’s Energy Practitioners Network, Europe with April Crosby mc/mpa.” graduate-level course for teachers on the an interesting opportunity arises.” publishing a book, Once There Was Fire: Cambridge!” TOP TO BOTTOM: MARTHA STEWART (LEE); COURTESY OF STEPHEN SHENDER ;KENT DAYTON (LEONARD, BURNS) (LEONARD, SHENDER ;KENT DAYTON STEPHEN OF (LEE); COURTESY STEWART MARTHA BOTTOM: TO TOP BELTON LINDA OF COURTESY

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Noreen Dunne mc/mpa writes, “Retired and International Studies, and others. The able, low-cost 401(c)3 involved in job cre- Reinhard Junghanns mc/mpa retired from significant voter-approved capital program in China because his book, Peaceful War: How from teaching English to undergrads and company is based in the Washington, dc, ation, small business loans, environmental the European Commission in 2014. As a for- and ambitious timelines, so we’ll be enhanc- the Chinese Dream and the American Destiny postgrads at the Jesuit St. Joseph’s College in area, and has an office in Seattle. cleanup, and art sales. mer international development cooperation ing partnerships to help build this important Create a Pacific New World Order, was pub- Darjeeling, India, and my directorship of professional and political analyst, he is still in infrastructure.” lished in Chinese. Peter (Piotr) Dmochowski Lipski mc/ Hayden Hall, an ngo for sustained develop- demand for his opinions and recommenda- t mpa was president and ceo of pcg Polska Sp. Eduardo Perez mpp “packed the station William Leonard Pickard mpp writes, “It was ment of poor mothers and children. Develop- 1992 | 25th tions. In 2016, he commented on the elec- z o.o. of Warsaw, Poland, a subsidiary of wagon and moved my wife, Cristina Valadez a delight to recall Kennedy School days, faculty, ing a teacher/trainer mentoring program.” tions in the Dominican Republic for globalo. reunion Public Consulting Group headquartered in (edm 1996), and sons, Toby and Elias, to and friends in five chapters of my new work, The com. In 2017, the new digital magazine com- Fabiana Feld mpa, chief investment officer Joseph Buonaiuto mc/mpa says “Ciao” Boston. But on July 1 he moved to Paris to Miami. Beginning my 15th year at Visa and Rose Of Paracelsus: On Secrets & Sacraments, politik.com paid tribute to him as “Un aleman William Leonard at International Finance Corporation, is to all hks classmates. “I am living in southern assume the post of executive secretary of the now leading the lac Risk team in building with five-star reviews at amazon.com. con corazon latinoamericano” on the occasion Pickard mpp 1996 designing innovative financing and advisory Italy, ancestral home of all four of my legal- European Satellite Communications Intergov- trust in digital payments throughout Latin of interviewing him on populism in Latin published The Diego von Vacano mpp writes, “I will be engagements with large multinationals in the immigrant grandparents. I bought a home here ernmental Organization. He was elected the America.” America. He is living in and frequently com- Rose Of Paracelsus: visiting associate professor of political sci- agribusiness and consumer goods space, in the serene town of Pietrelcina, birthplace of head of eutelsat igo on March 15, defeating muting between Bonn, Santo Domingo, and On Secrets & Andrea Soccorso mpp writes, “Greetings! ence at Yale University for 2017–2018.” with the goal of reducing poverty at the bot- Padre Pio. La vita e bella. Benvenuti a tutti!” candidates from Portugal and Italy. Piotr is San Salvador. Sacraments. Living in India is exciting and challenging tom of the pyramid in emerging markets and looking forward to meeting hks graduates Dan Rich mpp writes, “Hard to believe it’s beyond words! I have the privilege of support- generating environmentally and financially based in Paris. Michael Putegnat mc/mpa, hksee 1989 will t been 25 years! I’ve been in local government ing Kailash Satyarthi, the child-rights advo- 1997 | 20th sustainable business models. She also works publish his second novel, The Settling, this in the San Francisco Bay Area ever since grad- Richard Locke mc/mpa writes, “Profession- cate and 2014 Nobel Peace laureate, as he reunion at Stanford Business School as a coach to top summer. The Settling has been announced as uating, serving as city manager of Mountain ally, I helped to launch the Governor’s Clean builds his new venture — the Kailash Satyarthi executives with the mandate of leading a finalist in the 2017 International Book Awards Birgitte Mossin Broenden mpa/id writes, View, California, for the past six years. Married Energy Fund Round No.1, which includes the Children’s Foundation (kscf). With more than change and organizational renewal. Competition. His first novel, Laguna, won a “After a three-year break in academia doing with two wonderful kids, 19 and 16.” first Vanadium Flow Battery. Now running 86,000 children rescued from slavery and Gold Medal for fiction in the Independent research on migration and development at Barbara Grob mc/mpa will finish her first DataWeb, Inc., which has applications in forced labor, kscf, working with partners, is Neal Schwartz mpp writes, “My San Fran- Publishers Book Awards competition. the Danish Institute of International Studies, I nonfiction book, about the tumultuous lives health care, law enforcement, and education.” scaling decades of experience to free every cisco–based design studio, Schwartz and am back in diplomacy. Since February 2017, of iconic R&B singer Etta James and longtime last child from slavery and exploitation and Architecture, continues to thrive, as does my Gwen Young mpp is the director of the working as a chief advisor in the multilateral manager Lupe DeLeon, this summer. The book t 1995 into education — through policies, programs love of teaching at the California College of Global Women’s Leadership Initiative and department of the Danish Ministry of Foreign will be published by Amazon in fall 2017. and people. Launching history’s boldest the Arts. After years focused on our design Women in Public Service Project at the Wilson Joseph Cerami hksee joined the University Affairs, where I lead a team that works for youth for youth campaign — 100 million for Richard Healing hksee writes, “In 2016, portfolio, I am finally smuggling policy back Center. Her aim is to ensure that by 2050 of St. Thomas in Houston in 2016 as the Bur- human rights and social progress, including a Michael Putegnat 100 million — in solidarity with exploited Darlene and I took a bucket list four-month into my career. My teaching and pro bono women hold 50 percent of leadership posi- nett Family Distinguished Chair in Leadership mc/mpa human rights-based approach to sustainable 1994, youth. Reach out.” cruise around the world, celebrating our 25th work focus on the ways in which design can tions in governments across the globe. and director of the new University Center for HKSEE 1989 development, gender equality, srhr, health, anniversary, 70th and 75th birthdays, visiting clarify and foster policy, particularly for non- “Let’s do it.” Ethical Leadership. From 2001 to 2015, he was published his second Jose Solorio mpp, after serving in Califor- and education.” 39 ports — most of which we would never profit organizations. I recently established on the faculty at the Bush School of Govern- book, The Settling. nia’s State Assembly, is back on the Santa Amanda Feinstein mpa lives in Oakland, have seen any other way — traveling over and chair the Public Policy and Advocacy ment and Public Service at Texas a&m Univer- Ana City Council. He welcomes any of his t 1994 California, with husband Paul Leonard and 29,000 miles, taking over 18,000 photos, all Committee of the San Francisco chapter of the sity. He taught courses in national security Kennedy School classmates to reach out if Use the son Jackson. “My passion is supporting chil- in 115 days! After the highs and lows of expe- aia. As part of my sabbatical year, this sum- Nasim Firdaus mc/mpa retired with the rank policy and leadership studies in the master’s they are visiting Orange County. You can learn Alumni dren and families. I run a program of the riencing wonderful Singapore, exciting Austra- mer you can track me down in Berlin! Visit us of secretary in 2008. “Soon thereafter I estab- program in international affairs. He served in more about his work at JoseSolorio.com. Directory to Oakland Promise that establishes college lia, emerging Vietnam, struggling Indonesia, at schwartzandarchitecture.com.” lished an ngo called bdawl and the first-of- the U.S. Army for 30 years, and his last contact your Mike Walker mpa is founder and president savings accounts for babies and financial and depressing Cambodia, our conclusion at its-kind leadership academy in Bangladesh to assignment was as chairman of the Depart- Andy Sieg mpp writes, “I became head of of AlterAction, a consulting practice that services for lmi parents.” the end of this odyssey was that we are classmates. train women for leadership and decision- ment of National Security and Strategy at the Merrill Lynch Wealth Management in New York develops and executes campaigns to change indeed fortunate to live in the greatest coun- making positions. Over the years we have Army War College. He holds a phd from the Yasukazu Fuse mc/mpa writes, “Hi, folks! I City in January.” human behavior for the better. His work lever- try in the world.” trained hundreds of women, including mem- Penn State School of Public Affairs. published my 16th book last January. The title ages behavioral science, human-centered Marti Trudeau mc/mpa retired from the bers of parliament, politicians, and other of the book is Synchronicity: The Power of Clara Lee mpp recently joined the faculty of Meredith Edwards hksee is emeritus pro- design principles, and a wide range of media Department of Veterans’ Affairs in Philadel- professionals in leadership. Inspiration to Meaningful Coincidences. However, I’m sorry The Ohio State University. “I’m in the Depart- fessor at the Institute for Governance and and technology tools. AlterAction is helping phia and then accepted a position as director help raise women’s status came from my own to say it is written only in Japanese. You can ment of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in Policy Analysis at the University of Canberra, nonprofit and government clients create a for clinical ops for bayada Home Health Care. experience of overcoming obstacles to obtain the book via Amazon, though.” the College of Medicine and the Division of Australia. She was previously deputy vice- healthier, safer, smarter, and more sustain- Children, Andy and Rose Donahue, are 26 and become the first female career ambassador of Health Services Management and Policy in chancellor from 1997 and director of its able future. Jan Carl Park mc/mpa received a Partner- 24, completed college (unlv and Mount Holy- Bangladesh. The courses I took at hks helped the College of Public Health. Still trying to National Institute for Governance until 2004. ship Award from the caear Coalition, a oke), and live in Vegas. shape my vision for this work. In 2012, wdn of fulfill the mission of the Kennedy School!” She was a senior policy advisor in the Austra- national hiv/aids advocacy group, in March in the U.S. International Republican Institute t 1996 lian Public Service, involved in many major Washington, dc. The award was in recognition Meryl Moss mc/mpa writes, “Health care recognized me as their Democracy’s Hero.” t 1993 social policy reforms (including child sup- Andy Huang mpp was recently appointed by of his 25 years of advocacy on behalf of peo- is my public service. I’ve spent most of my Caroline Hunt-Matthes mc/mpa and port), from 1983 to 1993 and deputy secretary San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon ple living with hiv. career at a high-performing aco, Coastal Mark Feldman mpa writes, “I am living in Claus Matthes mc/mpa — a Class of 1994 in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabi- to lead the brand-new Independent Investiga- Medical, in Rhode Island, working to support Boston and celebrating the 13th year of my Eduardo Pizano mc/mpa has been appointed romance — have two teenagers and live in net until 1997. She is an economist, a fellow of tions Bureau, which is tasked with investigat- the triple aim; better health, better care, and firm, Cause Consulting, advising companies dean of the Universidad de los Andes Govern- Geneva, Switzerland. Claus is looking forward the Academy of Social Sciences, a fellow of ing and prosecuting allegations of law lower cost. Just awarded a pbn C-Suite on social impact strategy and communica- ment School in Bogota, Colombia. to retiring from the World Intellectual Property the Institute of Public Administration Austra- enforcement abuse and conducting convic- Award. Thrilled.” tions. We recently launched GoDaddy GoCom- Organization and becoming a soccer coach. lia, a fellow of anzsog, and a member of the tion reviews. Andy spent 16 of the 21 years munities, supporting under-resourced entre- Chris Wolz mpp reports that the Washington Caroline holds university faculty positions at United National Committee of Experts on since graduation as a federal prosecutor with t 1998 preneurs, and Aramark Feed Your Potential Post recently profiled Forum One, the digital Grenoble Business School and Webster, Public Administration. the U.S. Department of Justice. He is looking 365, helping Americans connect with healthy Roger Goodman mpa is serving his sixth communications agency run by Chris and Jim Geneva. She is a trustee and advisor to think forward to finally putting his mpp skills to use foods. I am also thrilled to have published a Stephanie Fuerstner Gillis mpp writes, term in the Washington State Legislature as mpp tanks on privacy protection, whistle-blower and taking on the challenge of building a

Cashel , with cofounder Dave Witzel PICKARD OFWILLIAM LEONARD chapter, ‘Evolution, Innovation, and Best Prac- “After over 16 years working as a philanthropy representative from the 45th District, includ- mpp. The article captures Chris’s background protection, the “rights of nature,” and the public sector start-up. tices in Corporate Social Impact,’ in Springer’s TESY advisor and over 20 years in San Francisco, I ing the Seattle suburbs of Redmond (home of and motivation as ceo in growing the busi- newly launched Global Geneva magazine. newest management textbook for mba stu- recently accepted a new position leading the Patrick Mendis hksee, after serving as a Microsoft) and Kirkland (home of Costco). As ness to nearly 100 staffers — and providing United Nations staff member for 15 years, dents and undergraduates. My hks training Impact Driven Philanthropy Initiative at the Rajawali senior fellow at hks, is now an asso- chair of the House Public Safety Committee, digital strategy, design, and technical services including as a civilian un peacekeeper. feels more important than ever.” Raikes Foundation in Seattle. My family and I ciate-in-research of the Fairbank Center for he has legislated successfully to reduce drunk to the Gates Foundation, the Peace Corps, the Judy Hylton mc/mpa is senior advisor for are settling in.” Chinese Studies at Harvard University, where driving and domestic violence, and he contin- Smithsonian Museum of African American Larry Kaplan mc/mpa is now in his seventh the un Truce Supervision Organization, man- he has established the Millennials Award for ues his work on sentencing reform. A devoted History and Culture, the U.S. Agency for Inter- year of administering a community develop- COUR PUTEGNAT; MICHAEL Kamuron Gurol mc/mpa writes, “In March, dated for the Arab-Israeli conflict, and is Outstanding Leadership and Service. Patrick dad to two teenagers, Roger also practices national Development, the Center for Strategic ment organization in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. I joined Seattle’s regional transit agency as based in Jerusalem. is featured in two exclusive interviews by the law in Seattle, representing businesses in Cite Soleil Opportunity Council is a sustain- north corridor director. Sound Transit has a Xinhua News Agency and the Beijing Review COURTESY OF COURTESY

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Lenora Peters Gant hksee was the keynote John Andrews hksee writes, “Finally retired! Joseph Cari hksee was selected to be the fessional development. It supports human speaker for the Women’s History Month Com- We’ve moved to a new home in Rochester, general partner for an investment fund associ- development with a goal to promote peace and memorative Program in March. It was the fi rst New Hampshire, and spend our time spoiling ated with the mgh Wellman Center, the lead- reconciliation in Myanmar.” “joint” program with both the Department of the seven ‘grands,’ being snowbirds, and ing teaching hospital for Harvard Medical Sithamparam Sengamalay mc/mpa Homeland Security and the Transportation writing my memoirs.” School. “Additionally, I was appointed to the writes, “In a May 2007 classnote, I said in my Security Administration. She also spoke at the hks Health Care Policy Leadership Council.” Daina Dravnieks Apple hksee writes, after post-hks life, I was ‘holding three challenging George Peabody College of Vanderbilt Univer- serving 39 years in the U.S. Forest Service, “I Henry Dorochovich hksee spent part of jobs and enjoying every minute.’ It was a little sity, as distinguished alumna commencement retired from my latest position as director of August 2016 with former Vice President Al too early then to choose which one gave me speaker, in May 2016. knowledge management and communications Gore, training for his Climate Reality Project. the utmost satisfaction. Jill Biden’s words, Sergy Kasyanov mc/mpa writes, “Dear at national headquarters in Washington, dc, As a result, Hank is now a certified member of written in the April 2007 issue of Forbes, friends and colleagues, I am back in Ukraine returned to my home in the San Francisco Bay the Climate Reality Leadership Corps (climate- helped me: ‘I have been an educator for 28 Frank Pearl mc/mpa observing local developments. Country is Area, and was appointed planning commis- realityproject.org). years, and I have taught in the community 2011 was instrumental overcoming the results of Russian invasion. sioner for the City of Benicia, California.” college system for more than 16 of them. I in negotiating an end Malia Du Mont mpp joined the board of According to the un report, it took about don’t have to look any further than my class- to more than 50 years Ken Johnson mpp writes, “My wife, Gina directors of the Alliance to Lead Impact in 10,000 lives and many more wounded. room to see the power of community colleges of bloody civil war Lagomarsino (hbs 2000), and I live in dc with Global Human Trafficking. She is also a mem- in Colombia. He Despite the ongoing war in Donbas, economic to change lives.’ So, I have been an adjunct at our kids, Liana and Elias. I have been at the ber of the Leadership Council of Arts in the ALUMNI was honored with growth has started. Single-digit infl ation is Montgomery College, Maryland since 2007 sec since 2003, and just started as acting coo. Armed Forces. PUBLIC the Alumni Public planned by the end of 2017. Ukrainians have because Biden rekindled my desire to be in Gina is the ceo of an international develop- SERVICE Service Award at fi nally received non-visa entry to the European Phil Noble iop is co-founder and executive public service.” ment nonprofit called Results for Development. AWARD Reunion Weekend Union after signing a comprehensive free- director of World Class Scholars, a project that in May. The story trade area agreement. Anti-corruption mea- Karen Kalish mc/mpa, Marilyn Averill creates global classrooms with real time, of his unexpected t 2003 sures have been implemented, but Ukraine is mc/mpa, Felipe Calderon mc/mpa hksee online education and cultural exchanges. role as peacemaker, mc/mpa James Aguirre mpp writes, “Murabeho from including his secret still number one over Europe. Harvard Club of 2003, Dan Carpenter , Sam Del- There are 100 schools in 26 coun- mc/mpa mc/mpa trips while a student Ukraine has recently changed its leadership. son , John Haederle , tries in the program, and at a the Land of a Thousand Hills! I have had the at hks to negotiate Oleg Ustenko, Bleyzer Foundation ceo, was Patricia Hessler mc/mpa, Jeff Katz mc/ Washington event in March, the pleasure of serving in the U.S. Embassy in with farc rebels, is elected as hcu president.” mpa, Melissa MacDonnell mc/mpa, Dan project was launched globally. Rwanda since August 2015, with my wife and told on p. 14. Schneider mc/mpa, Sandy Schultz mc/ Among the project’s advisors are three kids. This is my fifth overseas adventure Pedro Miguel Lorenti mc/mpa qualifi ed as mpa, Joel Shulman mc/mpa, and Lisa Ved- Joe McCarthy, former Kennedy since joining the Foreign Service in 2003. a solicitor in England and Wales (non-practic- der mc/mpa had a great time together in School senior associate dean and Come visit!” ing) in 2013. “Still based in Argentina, having Cancun in January. director of degree programs, and Fernando recently worked in legal consultancy (Africa, Peter Kam Fai Cheung hksee writes, “In Washington’s burgeoning new legal cannabis Reimers, director of the Global Education t 1999 2012–2015) and international arbitration (oil Rosemary Powers mc/mpa writes, “After a the fall of 2003, I took home compelling and market. He fondly remembers his two years on Innovation Initiative at the Harvard Graduate and gas agreements subject to common law).” stint in New York Governor Cuomo’s office as resonating messages. I applied them vigor- campus in Cambridge. Herman Bolhaar hksee writes, “I have School of Education. deputy director of state operations, I have ously and became Hong Kong’s director of mc/mpa, been cooperating very closely with Prof. Jorrit Cynthie Tin Oo mc/mpa writes, “To my dear John Heinen after recently retiring moved over to the New York State Energy intellectual property in 2011. I championed de Jong, of hks’s Ash Center, on the collabora- mc/mpa classmates and Mason Fellows, a from serving on the command staff of a state Research and Development Authority. There I t international trading of intellectual property. tive approach to wicked problems of orga- quick update about me! I’m splitting my life 2002 | 15th law-enforcement agency in Georgia, now am working as a senior advisor, leading the When I retired, in 2014, I was awarded a Silver nized crime in The Netherlands. In so-called half-and-half between Yangon, Myanmar and works as vice president of the Georgia Lottery. state’s engagement in the Transportation reunion Bauhinia Star. It recognized my taking a lead- The lottery is considered one of the most Organised Crime Field Labs, multi-profes- Santa Barbara, California, doing volunteer Climate Initiative, bringing together transpor- Ernest Goodson mc/mpa writes, “Hope all ing part in public affairs in Hong Kong. I then successful education initiatives in Georgia sional teams of prosecutors, police investiga- work in the health sector in Myanmar, focus- tation, energy, and environmental agencies to is going well with the class of 2002. With the focused on creating screenplays, songs, history: It has provided billions of dollars tors, tax offi cers, local government executives, ing on cervical cancer prevention and control formulate a strategy to reduce the greenhouse leadership skills that I acquired at hks, I am music videos, and websites. In March 2017, I toward scholarships and educational pro- and mayors cooperate in a problem-oriented, Use the for women, since Myanmar has the sixth gas emissions in the transportation sector currently serving on the board of directors for began my own business. l offer intellectual grams for students. John was also recently result-focused approach. Topics are outlaw highest incidence of cervical cancer in the Alumni while maintaining a vibrant economy. I am unc Healthcare, Inc. and as component direc- property agency, consultancy, mediation, and elected to the board of education in his home motorcycle gangs, human traffi cking, and world. Anyway, please contact me (ctinoo@ Use the Directory to also supporting New York State’s efforts in the tor to the Southern Association of Orthodon- arbitration services. Apart from my name county. As he assumes this position to help a money laundering. I am honored to have been gmail.com) if you are in southern California or Alumni contact your transformational transportation area, includ- tists (a post never before held by a person of brand, I also trade under my e-platform: struggling school system, he fondly remem- invited by the Ash Center to be a senior fel- Southeast Asia, and we can meet up! You are Directory to classmates. ing AVs and EVs. I still head home to Dorches- color). Both positions have their challenges. peterC@solutions! bers the challenge presented by several JFK low, which I started June 1. My wife, Nicole, most welcome to stay at my home in both contact your ter for the weekends!” The board of the Southern Association of hksee faculty, who asked, “Would you ever consider (English teacher) and I are looking forward to places.” classmates. Hashima Hasan writes, “Check out Orthodontists is composed of orthodontists nasa running for offi ce?” our stay in Cambridge! Lisa Screeton mpa is working with the the website to view the shiny 6m folding from 13 southern states. Can you image how people of the Blackfeet Nation in the area of mirror of the Webb telescope and the new mpp Vincent Brooks nsf, U.S. Army general, t 2000 happy they are to see me!” Maria Figueroa Kupcu moved with education policy and enjoying the snow and science from our flying observatory, sofia — her family from Brooklyn to Dobbs Ferry, New in April took command of un Command Timothy Anderson mc/mpa writes, “The cold weather. However, she is ready for a new Jayne Acquah Kumi mc/mpa writes, “Since two projects that I provide scientific oversight York, and hopes to see alums in the area. She (formed in 1950), Korea–U.S. Combined nonprofi t World Computer Exchange that I challenge back in the Northeast! All leads leaving hks (then ksg), I’ve continued to work as deputy program scientist. We now have is a partner at the communications and strat- Forces Command (formed in 1978), and U.S. started while with you at hks seeks teachers appreciated! in various positions in human resources. Last three grandchildren.” egy consultancy Brunswick Group, where she Forces—Korea (formed in 1954); all military at schools and universities outside Africa year I was appointed manager in training and Submit a activity in Korea. Michael Passante mpp writes, “Our first leads the New York offi ce and business and interested in being paired with teachers in classnote at t 2001 succession management for my company. On child, a girl named Stella Ava Passante, was society practice. Brandy Corcoran Carlson mpp writes, nine African countries where we now have ken.sc/ a personal note, I have two lovely daughters born March 16. In a sign from God that we had mc/mpa “Paul Carlson mpp 1998 launched Seventy2 fi eld associates. These Computers for Girls Gerard Bautista hksee writes, “Hello, Patrick Marx recently retired from and got married two years ago.” hksclassnote already chosen the right name for her, my the University of Montana, Missoula after four Capital, an independent wealth management pairs will co-develop some teacher tools to Classmates! Here’s an update on my career: Naw Helen Pe mc/mpa is currently working wife, Sarak, went into labor the day after years. He continues to facilitate leadership fi rm, to help small businesses, individuals, Brent Durbin help inspire girls to pursue careers in technol- principal architect, Bnn Bautista Associates; r on the web mpp as director of administration and human Winter Storm Stella gave us the biggest snow- development workshops, has dived into Mis- and families achieve their fi nancial goals.” 1999 published ogy. Our chapter in Puerto Rico is also under- chairman, University of Baguio Foundation; resources at the Thabyay Education Founda- Find alumni fall of the season! Besides my full-time job as soula-area politics, and is more grateful than his book taking similar work, pairing teachers in Puerto member, Rennlist Porsche Club.” Brent Durbin mpp lives with his family in CIA tion, a national nonprofit organization in Myan- contact information a dad, I’m a career attorney for the federal ever for hks as a life-support system! The and the Rico with teachers in Latin America. My OF BRENT DURBIN Northampton, Massachusetts, where he Amanda Beatty mpa/id writes, “I’m a mar. “I have been working with this organiza- government who is currently acting general Politics of U.S. younger offspring, Kimball, draws contempla- in the online Jamal Simmons mpp and Jewel James teaches in the government department at researcher focused on education and commu- tion for five years, taking different roles as a counsel to the White House drug policy office. Intelligence Reform. tive comics at the nexus of art and poetry and OURTESY directory at mpp 2007 were married May 14, 2016, at Smith College. His book, The cia and the nity-driven development in developing coun- leadership team member. Thabyay Education Please get in touch with us, especially if is seeking many small backers at Patreon. hks.harvard.edu/ dc Metropolitan ame Church in Washington, dc. Politics of U.S. Intelligence Reform, will be tries at Mathematica Policy Research, based Foundation focuses on building civil society in you’re in Virginia/ area.” com. Their video there makes me proud!” alumnidirectory published by Cambridge University Press in in Cambridge, Massachusetts.” Myanmar through higher education and pro- summer 2017. MARTHA STEWART; STEWART; C MARTHA STEWART MARTHA

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Anthony Plakas hksee was one of the first Baha Hariri mpp, along with his wife, Sufi, business — Action Behavior Centers, which Bohnett Fellowship recipients. This year he and their two daughters, Leyli, five, and Mila, offers aba therapy to children on the autism celebrates his 20th anniversary with Com- two, now live in Woodside, California. Baha is spectrum. pass, Palm Beach County’s lgbt center. In still active in San Francisco politics, but after Jim Sideras hksee announced that he will May, he received the Harvey Milk Diversity a decade of intense engagement in various be retiring as fire chief of Sioux Falls Fire Res- Leadership award. He was a columnist for capacities locally, is now focused on real cue. While he was chief, the organization was JULIUS E. Florida’s Tribune editorial board for ten years, estate development and investment — specifi- awarded iso 1 and maintained its accredita- BABBITT and the Sun-Sentinel, and is the recipient of cally, new construction of multi-family resi- MEMORIAL tion, making it one of only 35 departments Equality Florida’s “Partner of the Year” award dential buildings and investments in commer- having both designations. He accepted the ALUMNI for 2017. Since he has been an advocate, cial properties throughout the Bay Area. He VOLUNTEER position of executive director of the South more than 110 policies have been set in place still consults for a select few clients in the AWARD Dakota Healthcare Coalition. This position protecting Palm Beach County’s lgbt commu- world of San Francisco politics, just to keep works with the four regional state health care nity. He credits the Harvard Kennedy School’s things interesting, but not enough to jeopar- coalitions and governing board to enhance Senior Executives in State and Local Govern- dize his sanity. statewide relationships for health care emer- ment program for these successes. Edward Omotoso hksee has established a gency preparedness, response, medical Jack Schnirman mpp and his wife, Joan, are scholarship fund for students in universities surge, and recovery. It will be a new challenge pleased to announce the birth of their daugh- and other tertiary educational institutions at and offer an opportunity to use the skills Jen Tutak mpa 2012, learned at hks in a broader statewide role. ter, Sage. Additionally, Jack recently declared his place of birth, Esa-Oke, Nigeria. Eighteen honored for her his candidacy for the office of Nassau County initial recipients are already benefiting from Arvind Singh hksee launched a successful volunteer work, comptroller. The election takes place this the program. hks social business to provide affordable healt says has always November. moved her to do Yu Tien Su hksee writes, “The knowledge care in rural India. Mobital — hospital on more. and its applicability learnt at hks has been wheels — is equipped with ecg, ultrasound, a t 2004 invaluable to me.” full lab, and a pharmacy, and is managed by two qualified doctors. Two-thirds of patients Ken Biberaj mpp joined Savills Studley, a Gagik Yeghiazarian mc/mpa is on a fasci- are women. “Seeking investors.” global commercial real estate firm, in their nating mission to bring blockchain technology A Thousand World-Changers northern Virginia office as a managing director to the mainstream. “Building global partner- Alexander Wagner phd asks, “How com- in May. “It was an amazing 12 years in New ships with Blockchain R&D hub to implement mon are ‘alternative facts’ in the corporate York City. It was such a privilege to reopen the real life solutions and products for conve- world? What can organizations do to foster jen tutak mpa 2012 “The school’s iconic Russian Tea Room, run for City Council, nient, direct, and secure exchange of digital integrity?” In his recent TEDx talk, Alexander and serve as the chairman of the Manhattan assets with no intermediation.” presents insights on these questions. purpose-driven Chamber of Commerce. Val and I are looking “I never tire of talking about this school and its impact,” Leadership that accepts 30 students per semester from energy is forward to this next chapter of our lives and t 2005 t 2006 says Jen Tutak mpa 2012. “As I meet prospective hundreds of applicants across Harvard and allows them raising our two boys in Virginia.” largely why Francisco Acuna mpa, in alliance with the Dolores Bernardo mc/mpa has worked applicants, admitted students, and other colleagues, to refl ect on their personal journeys and leadership Sean Bielat mpp and Hope are living in Ministry of Energy of Mexico and Harvard T.H. with people and organizations for 20 years as I describe HKS as the best meeting place imaginable, practice. I have been Carlisle, Massachusetts. Sean is ceo of Chan School of Public Health, implemented a a people development leader, diversity advo- Endeavor Robotics, the leading provider of radiating a unique energy that manifests from having She has coordinated the Cambridge Fellows, a so compelled national sustainable energy program with cate, and coach. Most recently, Dolores has mit ground robots to the Department of Defense. a thousand world-changers under one roof who want network of current and past Harvard and fellows, Mexican rural communities. A documentary of held leadership development roles at Airbnb to stay Hope is commuting to, and teaching at, the to champion humanity. The school’s purpose driven including hks fellows supported through the generosity the experience is available at filmparadigm- and Google. University of Pennsylvania. They have two energy is largely why I have been so compelled to stay of, among others, Mort Zuckerman, Sheila Johnson, connected.” shift.com. mpp children, ages five and six. Zack Bongiovanni has joined YouTube connected. ” and David Rubenstein. A member of the Kennedy George Billard mc/mpa recently com- to lead global partnerships for emerging mar- Gerald Culliton hksee, graduate of the pleted the documentary film They Shall Not kets, while Tasce Bongiovanni mpp 2010 Tutak’s day job, within Deloitte’s social impact School admissions committee, Tutak has worked Harvard Kennedy School Leadership Pre- Perish: The Story of Near East Relief. The film will commence a trauma surgery fellowship at consultancy, the Monitor Institute, places her at the tirelessly to connect prospective students, from those paredness Institute, received the Integrity will be showing on pbs across the United uscf in July. They celebrate their tenth wed- intersection of business, government, and education, at Deloitte to those serving in the military. She is also Award from the State of Connecticut’s Health- States, and in selected international mar- ding anniversary this November! care Executive Association (chea). As a health working with clients to improve outcomes for a nonresident career tutor at Kirkland House, steering kets. Information on the film can be found care system ceo, Gerald was recognized by Nancy Chaires Espinoza mpp was elected low-income, underrepresented, and fi rst-generation undergraduates, in addition to advising them on their at theyshallnotperish.com. the organization and his peers for his innova- to the Elk Grove Unified School Board in college students. futures, towards the offerings at hks. tive work in health care locally and nationally Joni Cutler hksee is very happy to be serving November. egusd is the fifth-largest school But if working numerous universities and But her greatest impact, says Julia Fetherston mpp district in California. She and her husband, while maintaining a posture of high integrity as a circuit judge in South Dakota. “I have institutions like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 2014, one of the many who supported Tutak’s in all he does. This is the highest annual used my leadership program concepts to help Pablo Espinoza, welcomed a baby boy to their honor bestowed by the chea. It was given at achieve my goals. The strategies that my team family in May 2016. often traveling four days a week, were not enough, Tutak nomination, is not in the thousands of hours she has their recent annual meeting and gala, pre- helped me develop have served me well has been deeply involved in volunteering at the Kennedy volunteered, but in the countless ways she has shaped the Nishan Degnarain MPA/ID writes, “After sented by the president of chea. Gerald is through the years.” working at McKinsey, I returned to my native School since before her graduation. She was recognized lives of literally hundreds of students, championing them, also a fellow in the American College of Jo Guzman mpp, serving as deputy chief of Mauritius, where I was the senior economic for her work with the Julius E. Babbitt Alumni inspiring them, and supporting them in their effort to Healthcare Executives. intelligence for Carrier Strike Group 8, recently adviser and served on the Monetary Policy Memorial Volunteer Award, given out at Reunion bring about change. (She also introduced Fetherston Stephen Frost mpp is working with organi- Stephen Frost deployed to the Arabian Gulf and eastern Committee of the Central Bank (together with 2006 mpp Weekend in May. The award, established in , to her fi ancé.) zations worldwide now, “including the British 2004 published Mediterranean to launch strikes on isis. He Professor Jeffrey Frankel). I also helped create mc/mpa his second book honors the memory of the late Julius Babbitt “I’m very touched that my peers here would Royal Household, Number 10, banks, pharma and wife, Joanna, just had their first, Guada- a new Ocean Strategy for the large ocean area 2001 companies, and academia, to embed diversity Inclusive Talent lupe Joy (Gigi), who gladly keeps them awake. that Mauritius presides over. This strategy and his spirit of volunteerism. recognize me,” Tutak says. “I will always have hope for and inclusion in their corporate decision Management. became well known, and I was invited by the Tutak’s volunteer activities include recruitment, tackling our most intractable problems knowing that Ryan Lambert mpp has continued on the making (frostincluded.com). Published World Economic Forum to advise on a new admissions, and leadership development. She there is a haven like hks to unite and support us in our entrepreneurial path. Having sold Astanza my second book, Inclusive Talent Manage- ocean strategy that the world may need. Laser in June 2015, Ryan and his wife and co-founded the Harvard Graduate Student Leadership diverse missions to collectively love and care for the ment, on how to implement change.” As a result of this work, which was recently partner, Holly, traveled extensively and moved Institute, a program based at the Center for Public world.” s RDO highlighted at the un where we led a major to Austin, Texas. They recently set up a new declaration, we have co-written a book on COURTESY OF STEPEHN FROST STEPEHN OF COURTESY STEWART MARTHA

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Stephen Ozoigbo hksee is the ceo of the on newly arrived immigrants, and began African Technology Foundation and the man- expanding to new cities. Enroot students hail MAKE YOUR NETWORK aging partner of the Lions@frica initiative of from 25 countries and go on to complete the U.S. State Department. college at twice the rate of their peers. Enroot- education.org. He lives in Cambridge with Eugenio Amador Quijano mpa/id was wife, Clarissa Quintanilla mpp/mba 2011, appointed cfo of the affi liate company and their kids, Sofia and Kai. attending to industrial clients of cfe, the national utility electricity company in Mexico. Amy Hattan mc/mpa writes, “This is my fifth cfe-Califi cados is a major result of the recent year as the head of the corporate sustainability GLOBAL deregulation reform for power and energy. department (vice president) at Thornton Tomasetti, an international engineering firm. Roisin Rooney mc/mpa writes, “Since the I work to reduce the firm’s carbon footprint and Find alumni who will make a diff erence in your world. last reunion, I moved to Italy and I’m still implement social responsibility programs.” employed by the European Commission in the fi eld of public health. I was fortunate to be Doug Levine mpa took the plunge and ran able to do a brief 10-week stint in rural for local office in the town of Wayland, Massa- Guinea, West Africa, as part of the who Ebola chusetts, where he was elected on March 28 Emergency Response during the 2014/15 to the town’s governing body, the board of epidemic, and contribute to the “Campagne selectmen. He is grateful for all the support Zero Ebola en 60 Jours.” It was a unique expe- and encouragement he received from fellow rience! All the hard work learning French in hks alums near and far! Luxembourg paid off! Currently, I am working Ann Manning mc/mpa writes, “I lead the mpp in the fi eld of cancer epidemiology and Johanna Lopez Velandia 2017 worked with Colombia’s Ministry of Commerce, Industry, and Tourism Women’s Congress for Future Generations, a pae involved in analyzing data from all over for her Policy Analysis Exercise, titled “Scaling-Up Colombia’s Productivity.” Out of the 160 s women-led but not women-only organization, completed by mpp students, 20 were highlighted at April’s pae Showcase in the Forum. Europe. I am almost fl uent in Italian now!” protecting the rights of future generations to Timothy Sommella mc/mpa is returning inherit a livable planet. Join us in Minnesota to sea duty and will take command of the November 2–5, 2017 (wcffg.org). Contact me U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Dauntless, based in if questions.” new leadership approaches that are needed Paz Guzman mpa is working at the European Galveston, Texas, at the end of May. for the world’s oceans Soul of the Sea in the Commission’s Representation in Madrid, fol- Janet Rosenzweig mc/mpa continues to Age of the Algorithm.” lowing the economic situation in the country, Ben Taylor mpp writes, “I mostly wear focus her career on child maltreatment and and trying to make the EU understandable to sweatpants at work, and really dig hiking.” was appointed executive director of the Amer- Lois Merriweather Moore hksee has been Update your profi le and Spaniards. Jean is enjoying the start-up atmo- ican Professional Society on the Abuse of selected as fi nance committee chair for the Joani Walsh mc/mpa worked with the sphere in Spain. The kids are growing fast Children (apsac.org). She is being honored State of California 4th District Agricultural Obama campaign and administration for nine (Victor, eight, Itziar, seven, and Diego, four). by her alma mater, The Pennsylvania State explore the Alumni Directory today. Association. years, most recently serving from 2014 to 2017 They enjoy biking and the swimming pool! University, invited to present the Vladimir as deputy assistant to the president and staff After eight years in Brussels, Madrid seems like de Lissovoy Distinguished Alumni Lecture secretary. hks.harvard.edu/alumnidirectory t 2007 | 10th a vacation! on the protection of children. reunion Nishan Degnarain Tobias Leipprand mpp built an interna- t 2008 Julie Wormser mc/mpa is currently vice mpa/id 2006 tional leadership academy in Berlin with more president for policy and planning for Boston Luiz Felipe d’Avila mc/mpa writes, “The has co-written than 300 participants yearly — very much in Emmanuel Arnaud mpp writes, “Hello, Harbor Now, a civic organization focused on Center of Public Leadership (Centro de Lider- a new book the spirit of hks. “We offer programming fellow hks alumni! I am pleased to share with optimizing the relationship between the city change management and process improve- hksee ança Pública — clp) in Brazil continues to Olutoyin Oloniteru trained in non- Soul of the Sea around new leadership challenges, such as you that the collaborative economy start-up I and the sea. Julie lives in Cambridge and ment, he was previously an evaluation con- work with politicians and civil servants, help- profit studies and is now a member of the in the Age of the how do you lead in the digital age? It’s a created in 2011, GuestToGuest, just raised $35 welcomes visits. sultant at the U.S. Department of Education. ing them with their leadership challenges. I board of trustees of Ekiti WandA, Nigeria, and Algorithm. social business with scholarships for ngos million and acquired HomeExchange.com. of the Taiwan Friendship Association Nigeria. have also launched a new book on Brazil’s Rade Glomazic hksee was recently and fees for others. Check it out: lead.ngo.” Thanks to this acquisition, we are now the t In February, Olutoyin was honored at Ota, politics and its challenges to strengthen 2009 appointed as project director at Human leading home exchange community globally, mc/mpa Ogun State, Nigeria, as a “Covenant University institutions.” Rauf Mammadov writes, “A lot has hksee Dynamics, following EU-financed projects, with 400,000 homes in 187 countries avail- Elena Barmakova is founder of Ambassador.” happened during the past 10 years: my wife including planning for climate change in Anuradha Desai mc/mpa writes, “A decade able for exchange. As part of this acquisition, Fontvieille Capital, a U.S.-based financial and I were blessed with another child, Malawi, and supporting employment policy mc/mpa of interesting experiences. Left hks in 2007 I’m moving back to Cambridge this summer, consulting firm that specializes in strategic Kumiko Igushi started a new style Zakariya, and our elder daughter went to the for promoting job creation in Mongolia. hobbling to Indonesia (remember the car with my wife, Laure, and our three sons. I look advising to family offices, and advises compa- of working three years ago. “After working as Yale–nus College. My professional career took Human Dynamics is a specialized provider accident?), only to return a year later to my forward to reconnecting with those of you who nies in identifying and structuring interna- a partner in the business consulting area me through three different countries. Currently, of consulting services for public sector ibm community in Boston and to lead the Interna- still live in Cambridge . . . and exchanging tional strategic partnerships and joint ven- ( , Deloitte, Aon/Hewitt, etc.), I am now I’m based in Doha, where I work as advisor to clients, with a focus on transition and tional Center for Conciliation. The past three homes with those who do not.” tures. She has more than 17 years of interna- Submit a working as a board member (outside director) the ceo of Qatar Development Bank.” developing countries. years I have been ensconced in urban educa- tional capital market experience in the suc- classnote at and a corporate advisor for Japan’s six leading Anthony Box mc/mpa is serving as an advi- companies in telecom and media (broadcast- tion and the school improvement work right Manjana Milkoreit mpp writes, “After run- cessful arrangement and development of ken.sc/ Carrie Johnson-Clark hksee graduated sor and member of the multinational train, ing), IT (IoT, big data, robotics, M/A, fintech, here in Boston. I now serve as senior vice ning the Imagination and Climate Futures special situations and cross-border opportu- hksclassnote from the sescd program. “In 2015, I gradu- advise, and assist mission in Kabul, Afghani- and AI services), and consumer goods indus- president for external relations at EdVestors. Initiative at Arizona State University for the nities. She has worked with investment bank- ated from the U.S. Army War College. stan. “I work with Afghan offi cials and institu- tries. Few chances to travel outside Japan I live happily with my husband, Michael past three years, I recently joined Purdue ing firms and leading banking institutions in r on the web Recently appointed to a senior executive tions, specifi cally as it relates to strengthen- at this moment, but it’s my pleasure to wel- Sheridan, in Boston.” University as assistant professor of public the United States, Switzerland, and Monaco. service position with the vha, Department ing ministerial capacity for addressing corrup- Find alumni come you to Tokyo!” policy. My research focuses on global climate Elena is a member of the wef Alumni Young of Veterans Affairs.” Sara Ehrhardt mpp has been back in North tion throughout the country.” contact information change politics, in particular science-policy Global Leaders. Joe Negron mc/mpa, Florida state senator, America since 2015. “I’m now living with my in the online Erwann Michel-Kerjan hksee, after 14 interactions. I’d love to connect if you are Ben Clark mpp is executive director of was elected to serve as senate president for spouse and two-year-old son, working for the Jamal Donaldson Briggs hksee was years at Wharton, has moved to McKinsey in working on climate-related policy issues.” Enroot, an immigrant student serving organi- directory at the 2016–2018 term. Ontario provincial government in Toronto. Still recently named an assistant vice president at New York as a new partner of the firm. He zation about to celebrate its 80th year. After hks.harvard.edu/ involved in progressive politics. I wish every- Bank of America’s Center of Operational Excel- covers risk, insurance, and resilience issues taking over as executive director in 2013, Ben alumnidirectory one all the best for the reunion — sorry I won’t lence based in Plano, Texas. An expert in for public sector and business clients. “Feel rebuilt the board, spun off unsustainable be there!” free to reach out!” programming, narrowed the mission to focus RICHARD HOWARD

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Antonio Nunez Martin mc/mpa writes, Arts of Communication at the Kennedy School. completed their first Asia trip by enjoying the “I published my last book, El Leader Ante El On the side, I’m still writing music, touring, Republic of China. In April, Erica was accepted hks Washington, dc Alumni Network mpp Espejo, where I wrote 10 key leadership les- and performing Joan & Joni: A Tribute to Joan into the Georgia Association of Black Women leaders Lisa-Joy Zgorski 1993, Nancy Bearg mc/mpa 1978, Jayme sons for top executives after interviewing Baez and Joni Mitchell. Always happy to re- Attorneys’ Judicial and Public Office Academy, Johnson mc/mpa 2015, and Malik more than 70 influential ceos.” connect with classmates for business, music, and she’s “Ask[ing] What She Can Do.” Siraj Akbar mc/mpa 2015 with hks or friendship.” Kimberlyn Leary mpa returned to Cam- Jonathan Bailey mpp has recently become Dean Doug Elmendorf; far right, at bridge after 18 months of service as a Robert head of sustainable investing at the New Reunion Weekend in May, Zgorski receives award on behalf of the Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow at the t 2011 York–based asset manager Neuberger Ber- alumni network from John Haederle White House Council on Women and Girls. man. He previously spun “Focusing Capital on Sebastian Burduja mpp writes, “I returned mc/mpa 2000, then chair of the Now directing the Enabling Change program the Long Term” out of McKinsey as a nonprofit to Romania a year ago following a dream: to hks Alumni Board of Directors. in the drph program at the Harvard T.H. Chan think tank. help change my home country and enable School of Public Health. “I’m young people to serve in the public arena. Jay Bhatt mpa was named to Crains Chicago HKS Melissa Langsam Braunstein mpp is We founded a new political party called pact Business 40 under 40. Jay took a new role as REGIONAL enjoying NETWORK thrilled to announce the birth of her third and continue to fight for democracy and chief medical officer of the American Hospital ENGAGEMENT daughter, Ruby Elizabeth, on December 30. using prosperity for all. Go hks!” Association and president/ceo of the Health AWARD “The best part of life as a family of five has Research Educational Trust. A Community Requires Investment lessons Inez Gonzalez mc/mpa writes, “I now work definitely been watching big sisters Lila and in higher education. In a few months I will Rodelio Dascil hksee, as director general of Annabelle dote on baby Ruby, whom we I learned defend my dissertation, ‘The Role of Institu- the Senate Tax Study and Research Office, has all adore.” at hks to tional Agents in Latino Male College Persis- helped in the passage of various tax reforms hks washington, dc alumni network Amoretta Morris mpp was recently pro- try to make tence,’ and earn my doctoral degree in edu- in the Philippines. Rodelio has written four moted to director of National Community cational leadership. As the founding director books, including The Customs Modernization The night after the November 2016 election, Kennedy That effort has included organizing policy discussions, Strategies for The Annie E. Casey Foundation. the justice of the Latino Communications Initiative at and Tariff Act. School alumni in the nation’s capital got together. The career events and workshops, public service events, and She also proudly serves on the board of Cal State Fullerton, I’m working to turn the Michael Davis hksee was appointed presi- hks dc hksdc the hks Black Alumni Association. Contact system initiative into an institute, making sure this Washington, Alumni Network ( ) had the occasional happy hour. The network has also dent pro tem of the Los Angeles Board of her to network with other alums and work continues after I’m long gone. We are already planned an event for that night at the National partnered with hks research centers, administrative “ Time and fairer.” Public Works and is a graduate student in the current students. helping first-generation college students find Press Club. But leaders of the network felt that after a departments such as the admissions and career offi ces, doctoral degree program in organizational again the — Carla Laroche career-related internships and become more hksdc leadership at the University of Southern Cali- divisive and momentous election the community and other Harvard schools and organizations. mpp 2012, competitive in the workforce. We’ve had a lot t fornia. He was recently elected into the Phi needed something more. has also made a conscious effort to increase diversity council 2010 law fellow at the of success; now I want to share the lessons Kappa Phi Honor Society, usc’s oldest multi- hksdc Armando Barrera hksee writes, “Currently a Southern Poverty I’ve learned on how to help students launch “There was a sense that people wanted to talk,” says among its leadership. For all of that, was awarded provides discipline honor society. business professor at Monterrey Tech (Mexico Law Center their career.” Lisa-Joy Zgorski mpp 1993, legislative and public affairs with the hks Regional Network Engagement Award at City Campus), and just finished my first book.” Meghan Marie Fowler-Finn mpp is perfor- hksdc that Jennifer Haugh mc/mpa was hired in specialist at the National Science Foundation and Reunion Weekend in May. mance manager at the District Department of Cathryn Cluver mpa writes, “I’m thrilled to March as marketing manager for GreenerU, council treasurer. “And people came, of different parties, “I remember the day we graduated, Professor David platform.” Transportation in Washington, dc. “If you have announce that I am joining hks alumni and a mission-driven company that provides who just wanted to process what had occurred. People King said, ‘It’s not the end of it, it’s just the beginning of created any performance management tools to colleagues in the small ranks of Eisenhower energy efficiency services and programming support the operational people in your agency, on all sides were stunned.” it; once you go out you will still have your friends and Fellows. Thanks to the fellowship, I will travel for colleges and universities. Ellis Hopkins the simpler the better, let me know!” The impromptu event was representative of confi dantes whom you will need,’” says Malik Siraj Akbar to Colombia and Singapore to finish the nsf, colonel, was confirmed for promotion the creative work of the Council leaders. It was an mc/mpa 2015, a Washington-based award-winning research on my book on international urban eligibility to brigadier general by the U.S. John Anthony Kelly hksee was recently networks.” Senate in December. Ellis currently com- reappointed chairman of the U.S. Advisory imaginative response to something members of the Pakistani journalist and former vice-president of the mands the 56th Troop Command Brigade in Committee on Cemeteries and Memorials. community needed, it was organized quickly and council. “Time and again the council provides that Rick Harrison hksee in January became the the Rhode Island Army National Guard. This is his seventh consecutive term on the secretary of the Australian Government’s effi ciently, and it was unique in a city where being unique platform.” congressionally mandated committee, which Education Council, which consists of ministers Suat Seyitoglu hksee was born in 1972 in can be challenging, given the countless offerings. Johnson agrees. “Putting hksdc front and center is advises on policies and sites for our national from the Commonwealth of Australia and each Turkey. He graduated from Ankara University’s cemeteries and memorials. “Just because there’s politics and policy on tap in important, but it’s the focus on policy, and helping one state and territory. The Education Council faculty of political sciences with a master’s, Washington, doesn’t mean that we have a vibrant another, and helping others outside the community that’s drives the national agenda for reform in completed postgraduate studies at the Uni- Anne Kroijer mpa/id writes, “Shortly after community,” says network president Jayme Johnson important,” he says. s RDO school education and early childhood ser- versity of Sheffield, and is studying for his graduating in 2012, I moved to New York and mc/mpa 2015 vices and is primarily supported by the Aus- phd in sociology at Hacettepe University. threw myself into a chaotic and fun start-up , director of strategic initiatives at the tralian Education Senior Officials Committee. world. I launched OnFrontiers (onfrontiers. Washington Metropolitan Area Transport Authority. Jennifer Stoff Sood mpp and Sumit Sood com) — rooted in my mpa/id experience — “A community requires investment and effort.” Ian Mills mpa writes, “Hello, all! Just to mpp welcomed their daughter, Maya, into the an accelerated learning platform that con- update that I’m now heading up the economic world in June 2016, nearly five years to the nects businesses to locally plugged-in experts development work for the uk’s dfid in Kenya. day from hks graduation. who can help them get smart on local mar- Really enjoying it and always proud kets. Experts include experienced industry Suzette Lin mc/mpa lives in San Mateo, attended the Governor’s Winter Gala, hosted sector, I fi nd it extremely rewarding to lever- of my wife’s — Courtney Mills mpp 2010 t professionals, opinion leaders, academics, California. She welcomes any visitors in the by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf. I am also age my skills for social impact. I also love the — work founding and leading Sinapis, an 2012 | 5th Use the and consultants who offer customers a area. She is the managing principal at Sub- in the process of trying to organize an hks challenge of leading the development of new organization with a Christian ethos which reunion unique firsthand perspective and real-time stantia Law Group — a law fi rm focusing on Western PA Alumni Club; if interested, please business models to make our impact more does amazing work supporting start-up Alumni Erica Elizabeth Harrison Arnold mpp insights while building their own knowledge working with entrepreneurs in the artifi cial contact me at [email protected].” sustainable. The trade-offs’ complexity, the entrepreneurs. Do get in touch with us if Directory to continues her fifth year of practicing law in base and skills. I hope you will check it out intelligence, health, and education sectors. inexistence of defi ned markets, are what you’re ever in Nairobi!” contact your Audrey Philippot mpa joined Dimagi two Atlanta. She maintains a construction-govern- and drop me a line if you want to learn more.” She is a board member of Disability Rights makes it much more complex than traditional classmates. years ago. Dimagi is a fast-growing social Allison Shapira mc/mpa writes, “Things are ment contracts practice and pro bono service, California. for-profi t models.” Carla Laroche mpp writes, “I’m a two-year business that provides mobile technology to great in Washington, dc. My company, Global continuing her fierce advocacy of K-12 public law fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center, Kimberly Mantia hksee returned to her underserved populations in emerging mar- Pietro Rabassi mpa writes, “After graduat- Public Speaking, is entering its fifth year of education systems (as she did while at hks). focused on criminal justice reform. My work hometown of Pittsburgh, “where I am kets, allowing, for instance, millions of benefi - ing from Harvard, I moved back to Europe. I business and is helping people around the This past year, she focused on supporting the includes policy, advocacy, and litigation. I’m employed at Gateway Health Plan as a director ciaries to have access to more decent health currently serve as the director for Central world find their voice and their courage to school leadership of kipp Atlanta Collegiate enjoying using lessons I learned at hks to try of fi nance and chief of staff to the cfo. We offer care in remote villages. “After having worked European markets at Nord Pool — the world’s speak. I also get to spend six weeks in the High School in her role as cochair of its advi- to make the justice system fairer.” Medicaid and Medicare products. I recently for several years in the traditional business spring commuting to Cambridge to teach The sory board. In March, she and her husband COURTESY OF JOEY WANG HKSEE 2006; MARTHA STEWART 2006; MARTHA HKSEE WANG JOEY OF COURTESY

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Sanjeev Ranjan hksee, chief secretary of a northeastern state in India, is helping oper- ationalize bbin mv Agreement and MoU on use of Chittagong and Mongla ports to have a Updatepd your profiofifile lee connected world with better opportunities for DON’TON T anand explore the AluAAlumniummni EMERGING sustainable development. GLOBAL Rey Faustino mpp Directory today to LEADER 2012 is ceo and Ruddy Wang mc/mpa writes, “In 2017 my receive invitations for: AWARD Founder of One plan for world domination continues apace. Degree, which aims After leaving diplomacy, I joined Facebook, to be the “Yelp of and subsequently took Uber. There are sev- MISSS › HKS Facebook social services.” eral ways to read that last sentence.” Live events Rockie Wilson mc/mpa was promoted › Wiener Conference Calls to the rank of colonel in May and assumed command of the 628th Mission Support › and more events where Group in June. OUTUT youy can engage with andandd askaask questionsquest ons ofo our t 2013 expertexppert facultyfaculty hks.harvard.edu/alumnidirectoryrvard edu//alu ryy We Cannot Do This Work Alone Nick Bayard mpa/id lives with his lovely wife and two children in Tacoma, Washington, where he directs the reach Center, which provides education, career development, and rey faustino mpp 2012 housing to 2,000-plus young people each year. In 2016, Nick represented his agency ness” on par with “what-ness” in the post- multilingual translation agency. “We service at the White House. secondary space. Next major keynote in customers from all industries worldwide. For Rey Faustino is the founder of One Degree (1degree. look for support services for our clients using a clunky, Ghana, September 2017. more information please visit us at akosinter- Miguel Espinoza mpa recently joined the org), a web and mobile platform connecting hundreds outdated paper binder. national.com.” hksee of thousands of people with needed social services. “Right down the street were Google and other tech Department of Justice as an assistant U.S. Alejandro Lozano finished his term attorney in Los Angeles, where he prosecutes as a congressman in 2015 with 28 bills Jonathan Chang mc/mpa is the executive Before coming to the Kennedy School, before he started companies that were changing the way the middle and a range of federal crimes. His wife, Gina Di approved. He is currently a Mexican diplomat director of Lien Centre for Social Innovation in helping low-income teens graduate from high school upper classes were living and working. But none of Domenico mpa, works next door at City Hall, responsible for the internal political affairs Singapore. “We address a variety of issues and go to college, and before founding One Degree, this technology was being used for our most where she serves as a senior advisor on home- section to the Vatican City. He is about to such as income inequality, poverty, and food though, Faustino was familiar with the diffi culties of vulnerable families.” lessness to the Los Angeles city attorney. finish his second master’s degree in poverty security. We work with vulnerable groups such reduction at soas. as people with disabilities, the elderly, single fi nding assistance with necessities such as immigration Faustino came to the Kennedy School with one Sergio Guerra mpa/id has been working as parents, and migrant workers. In addition to an economic advisor for the National Planning Rajesh Talwar hksee writes, “I continue to and health services. large question: How could technology connect people running an annual social entrepreneurship “ I always felt Office in Ecuador for almost two years. “Work- work for peace, now based in Kabul with the His family had experienced such challenges after to social services? The answer would be One Degree. forum, business plan competition, incubator, ing in the public sector is an experience that United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghani- they immigrated to southern California from the His Policy Analysis Exercise was a feasibility study for and accelerator, we have a social innovation I was part helps me remember my days at hks. The mpa/ stan. Recently published a play titled Gandhi, magazine called Social Space (Social- Philippines when Faustino was eight years old. His the nonprofi t. id mantra is always present in my job: ‘Techni- Ambedkar and the Four-Legged Scorpion, on of a bigger SpaceMag.org). I am currently the hks alumni mother found work as an administrative assistant at a Today, One Degree connects more than 8,000 cally correct, administratively feasible, and the evils of ‘untouchability.’” ambassador to Singapore and an elected 10 000 politically supportable.’” hospital and liked it so much that she became a nurse. individuals a month to more than , social movement.” Dylan Taylor hksee, as featured on the member of the hks Alumni Board of Directors. His father, who had trained as an architect, worked resources across the Bay Area. It has helped more than Brett House hksee has been appointed Discovery Channel online, became the first Connect with me at linkedin.com/in/chang- multiple jobs as a salesman and as an entrepreneur on a quarter of the people in need in San Francisco and deputy chief economist at Scotiabank in private citizen to ever manufacture an item in jonathan.” the side, remodeling kitchens. “I’d accompany him Alameda counties. With its desire to be the “Yelp of Toronto. He can be contacted at bretthouse@ space when the gravity meter he commis- on nights and weekends to help at different job sites social services,” One Degree empowers users by gmail.com. sioned and co-designed was printed on the t 2015 International Space Station. Jason Houser hksee recently took a posi- so we could make sure there was food on the table for allowing them to offer feedback on various resources William Azebaze mpa/id writes, “Upon tion as the senior foreign engagement officer Guido van Garderen mc/mpa moved in the family,” Faustino says. such as affordable housing, food banks, and health graduating from hks, I was to complete my for U.S. Cyber Command. He also serves as a February from Johannesburg, South Africa, to Faustino went to the University of Southern clinics, giving them a voice while harnessing market phd studies in economics when, by a stroke subject matter expert at Argonne National Cologne, Germany. He joined the global brand of destiny, Paul Che Elung mc/mpa 2012 California intent on studying entrepreneurship to help forces that will lead to service improvements. Over Laboratory and as a faculty associate at Ari- consultancy Interbrand as the head of strat- was appointed minister of finance in Camer- grow his father’s business. But he found his calling to the long term, Faustino plans to scale the One Degree zona State University. egy for cee and is the global practice lead for oon, my home country, and tapped me as nation branding. serve the community when he began volunteering for platform nationwide. John Ikeda mpa/id is now a senior financial advisor.” an organization that mentored children from Los One Degree was launched with support from specialist at the World Bank, where he is Alfredo Zamudio mc/mpa, after departing Abdoul Qadri Ceesay hksee writes, “I have usc various organizations, including the Kresge supporting private investment in the water from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Angeles’s inner city. “I did this for four years at been promoted to senior risk management sector. Center in Geneva, is now director at the Nan- and loved it,” he says. After college, he relocated to Foundation, Knight Foundation, and Google. Says specialist. My new role requires thinking sen Center for Peace and Dialogue, in Lille- the San Francisco Bay Area to work with a nonprofi t Faustino, “Even though I was the solo founder, I always Bruce Jackson mc/mpa, while speaking/ about development issues and options from hammer, Norway, leading a team of experts training/coaching executives and students on risk perspectives and implementing safe- helping low-income and minority students. But he felt I was part of a bigger movement. I used the lessons on dialogue facilitation and trainings. found himself increasingly frustrated by the diffi culty from Marshall Ganz’s class to catalyze groups, starting flow and attentional leadership (recently at guards. My hks education and experience the U.S. Naval Academy and Goldman Sachs), came in handy in this regard.” of accessing community resources. “Our students with my hks classmates, who were early helpers is also working on an online leadership portal t 2014 Darren Levine hksee is manager of the were experiencing issues like abuse, hunger, and and advisors. At One Degree, we know we cannot for high school and college students to pro- Christel Adamou hksee wants to share Innovation and Research Unit in the Office of homelessness,” he says. “So every week, we would do this work alone.” s RDO vide a matrix of leadership competency mod- with the community the launch of her new the Commissioner of Social Services for the ules/courses to support co-curricular training endeavor, akos Translations, a professional regional municipality of Durham, Ontario. and credentialing. Seeking to promote “who- MARTHA STEWART MARTHA

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Michele Lunati mpa lives in Brooklyn, New Alumni Board Dean’s Executive Glenn Dubin Ellen K. Dyvik mpa 1990 York, with his wife, Anna. This summer, Pot- of Directors Committee The Kennedy School Ernesto F. Fernández- luck Energy, the company founded by Michele EXECUTIVE BOARD Laurence D. Belfer Holmann mc/mpa 1966 Student Government hks executive board squeezes at , is launching Somerville’s first commu- Shannon M. Ashford Robert A. Belfer, Esq. Anne Finucane nity solar project. mpp 2007, Co-Chair Mary Boies Karen A. Frank in for a selfi e with former Steven Rahman Glenn Dubin Dionisio Gutiérrez Secretary of State Brima Rogers hksee writes, “Great school mpp 2000, Co-Chair Jane Hartley Alan G. Hassenfeld (and graduation speaker) and the executive education have promoted Manisha Dookhony Alan G. Hassenfeld Rita E. Hauser John Kerry in May. mc/mpa Gustave M. Hauser, Esq. Gustave M. Hauser me to a different position at work; I will rec- 2010, Vice Chair Left to right (front row): Rita E. Hauser Nicolaus P. Henke John Haederle Kad Kaneye mc/mpa ommend a co-worker to take the same course mc/mpa Ellen S. Roy Herzfelder mc/mpa 1990 2000, Secretary 2017; Toyosi Akerele- shaping health care delivery policy.” Emilian Papadopoulos mpp 1987 Kenneth A. Hersh Ogunsiji mc/mpa 2017; mpp 2008, Sheila C. Johnson Ahmad Jalal mpa/id 2011 hksee mpp Monica Romellina Sijabat writes, Member-at-Large Peter L. Malkin, Esq. Tasso Jereissati Faheem Rathore hks Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Sheila C. Johnson 2017; Hazami Barmada “ provides perspectives and new network- MEMBERS mc/mpa 1982 Maha J. Kaddoura mc/mpa 2017. Left to right ing in similar fields or related fields, and to mpa Chike Aguh 2013 Hilda M. Ochoa- mc/mpa 2000 (back row): Sri Kulkarni know the comparison with many countries Deborah Bailey Brillembourg Kay Kapoor mc/mpa 2017; directly. Make us different in terms of better.” mc/mpa 2015 mc/mpa 1972, hksee 2002 John F. Keane Sr. Ramaswami (Balu) George-Axelle Broussillon Idan Ofer Latifa Kosta mc/mpa Dario Sotoabril mc/mpa was appointed ceo Balasubramaniam Batia Ofer George Kounelakis Matschinga mpp of Fairtrade International. “I moved from Wash- mc/mpa 2010 David M. Rubenstein Edward M. Lamont Jr. 2017; Jen Smith mpp ington, dc, to Bonn, Germany, to take this Rudy Brioché 2000, Ralph L. Schlosstein Brandt C. Louie 2017; Arohi Sharma haa Liaison Cathleen Douglas Stone Andrónico Luksic mpp 2017. appointment. Here, I am applying all the les- Jonathan Chang iop 1984 George W. Mallinckrodt sons from hks — particularly, adaptive leader- mc/mpa 2014 Christen Sveaas Bashar Masri ship, negotiation, political economy of trade, Cathryn Clüver mpa 2010 Robert S. Taubman Lorenzo Mendoza mc/mpa persuasion, and effective implementation.” Tina Doerffer 2008 Lynn B. Thoman hksee 2009 Leila El-Khatib mc/mpa 2013 Lara Warner James B. Metzger Fatima Cody Stanford mc/mpa has been Arturo Franco mpa/id 2005 Leslie H. Wexner Eric M. Mindich Manuel Muñiz mpa 2011 honored as the Harvard Medical School 2017 Abigail Wexner Anthony P. Morris Wendy Pangburn Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Harold Amos Diversity Award recipient. Sub- mc/mpa 1986 Dean’s Council mc/mpa 1982 sequently, she received the Massachusetts Sushma Raman hksee 2011, Sharmin Mossavar-Rahmani Peter L. Malkin, Chair mc/mpa 2013 Christian L. Oberbeck Medical Society Women’s Health Award. Laurence D. Belfer, Vice David Rosenberg Hilda M. Ochoa- Chair Mark Vlasic hksee is a professor at mc/mpa 1986, haa Liaison Brillembourg mc/mpa 1972 Gianna Angelopoulos- Ruma Samdani Marvin E. Odum Georgetown University, leads the interna- Daskalaki, Vice Chair interested in learning how to widen their Remysell Salas hksee writes, “I’m just Kevin Vuong hksee was named one of Her mc/mpa 2012 Idan Ofer tional practice at Madison Law and Strategy Yiting Shen mpa 2007 MEMBERS Andrew S. Offit sphere of infl uence and improve personal/ trying to do my part to make the world spin Majesty the Queen’s Young Leaders and Cana- Group, and is now a coexecutive producer Sadaffe Abid mc/mpa 2011 team outcomes. better.” Currently he is an adjunct professor at da’s representative to meet Queen Elizabeth II with Propagate Content, working on social Visiting Committee mc/mpa 2011 Nelson Ortiz mc/mpa 1983 the City University of New York, chair of politi- in June, when she will personally hand-deliver Geraldine Acuña-Sunshine Minnie R. Osmeña mc/mpa Fabian Lewis hksee manages the Research impact television. 2016–2017 “I’m just cal affairs at the Avant Garde Network, and a the award and medal. mpp 1996 Jerome L. Rappaport and Analysis Unit at Jamaica’s Ministry of project manager for New York City’s Housing Pushpi Weerakoon mc/mpa writes, “In Kenneth Apfel, Chair Karen Agustiawan hks 2014 mpa 1963 Finance and the Public Service. “Since com- trying to do Lawrence D. Bobo Mohammed B. Alardhi Tom Rousakis mpp 1997 Preservation and Development. 2016, I was the convener for the Open Govern- pleting hks’s Emerging Leaders program in t 2017 Felipe Calderón hksee 1992, Ellen S. Roy Herzfelder my part to ment Partnership joint steering committee mc/mpa 2000, mc/mpa 2004 mpp 2016, I have personally developed inter alia Maja Sostaric mpa has two main interests: 1987 Winston Ma hksee saw his new book, chaired by His Excellency, the President hksee 2003 Abdullah Alrakhis David M. Rubenstein my leadership capabilities and applied formal make the impact investing and data analytics. Fortu- John H. Coatsworth mc/mpa China’s Mobile Economy: Opportunities in the Maithripala Sirisena. Presently I’m at un iom Fahd A. Al-Rasheed Sean C. Rush 2007 negotiation strategies in practical, everyday nately, in her job as business development Roland G. Fryer Dalia AlSulaiman Vincent J. Ryan Largest and Fastest Information Consumption in the Reparation and Reconciliation Unit as mpp situations. Moreover, my participation in the world spin analyst at the un Offi ce for Project Services Joshua Gotbaum 1976 Andrew T. Balls mpa 1998 Mohammad Safadi Boom, published by Wiley in December 2016. the national program officer.” Margaret Ann Hamburg Issa Baluch program has tremendously assisted me to (unops) in Geneva, she gets to do both. Maja Ralph L. Schlosstein better.” “With China cnnic ceo Xiaodong Lee’s intro- Jane D. Hartley Thomas C. Barry Elliot J. Schrage mpp 1986 better navigate the challenges associated is helping to develop a new service line that Michael Kremer mpp duction, this book covered ‘the most impor- t Robert L. Beal Mark Schwartz 1979 with a dynamic public service environment. — Remysell Salas unops will provide to its clients — it and data 2016 Sara McLanahan Harvey Beker Andrew M. Sieg mpp 1992 tant infl ection point’ in the history of ‘the As one of the 25 2016 World Heart Federa- hksee 2016 Barbara J. Nelson Robert A. Belfer mpp analytics. Moreover, she is on the lookout for mc/mpa Jane E. Silfen 2013 Internet in China.’ As such, McKinsey’s Global Yehuda Elram writes, “I returned to Tracy P. Palandjian Lisa M. Bellucci mpa tion’s Emerging Leaders, I continually aim to bankable projects to take part in unops’ new Gabriela A. Smith 1991 ceo Dominic Barton wrote the foreword for the Israel to accelerate eggXYt at MassChallenge Robert D. Reischauer mc/mpa 1997 Michael Spies mcrp 1982 globally reduce (by 25 percent come 2025) the global Social Impact Investing Initiative. Maja Patti B. Saris book and has it on his reading list. Going Jerusalem together with my cofounder, Profes- Steven J. Berger Gabriel B. Sunshine prevalence of cardiovascular disease.” is also working on her novel, which she Kent Walker Scott M. Black Carl-Henric Svanberg forward, the development of China’s mobile sor Dani Offen. eggXYt is developing a novel started writing at Harvard, and diligently Ngaire Woods Mary M. Boies Christen Sveaas Arefeh Mansouri hksee, an award-winning economy is one of the most important trends technology for sexing chicken embryos on day Robert R. Bruce, Jr. learning Mandarin. Her teacher claims she will Anthony Tamer wedding gown and costume designer, opened that will reshape the future of business, tech- one before incubation and saving over 3 mpp 1970 Robert Taubman be able to read books in Mandarin in three to her couture bridal salon, Arefeh, in Miami. nology, and society both in China and the billion chicks and hundreds of millions of Joseph F. Campbell Jr. Lynn Thoman four years. mpp During the completion of her studies at the dollars a year. eggXYt won the MassChallenge 1978 Joseph B. Tompkins Jr. world.” Richard E. Cavanagh mpp 1975 Kennedy School, Arefeh was busy with the Submit a Alyce Su hksee writes, “Harvard Kennedy Diamond Award and a grant from EC Horizon Cecilia Chan Enzo Viscusi design and build-out of her new bridal salon/ classnote at School evolves with time. My family is proud 2020. I also consult to the Elijah Interfaith Adrian C. Cheng Brooke N. Wade In Memoriam hq in Miami, all while simultaneously prepar- ken.sc/ Institute, which I co-directed before leaving Timothy C. Collins Abigail Wexner to be part of it.” Sharron Beals mc/mpa 1982 Jamie A. Cooper mpa 1994 Leslie H. Wexner ing the early stages of production for her new hksclassnote mc/mpa 2004 for Harvard.” Sarah Tesar mpp writes, “As a project leader Bill Dodd Howard E. Cox Jr. Malcolm H. Wiener patented invention: fl at plat. Luke Gilroy mpp 2016 hksee Bharat Desai Inno Xie at Advancy and a fellow for Harvard Univer- Masatoshi Hisatome writes, “I have r on the web mc/mpa Teresa H. Doggett Dorothy S. Zinberg Harold Robinson hksee writes, “Winning an sity’s Corporate Responsibility Initiative, I’m Madeline Jackson 1982 engaged in development of technology for mc/mpa mcrp 1982 1983 election is a tremendous accomplishment and Find alumni looking at the nexus of corporate strategy and Peter Kwass fossil-fuel-fired power plants with carbon cap- Edward D. Dong Martha Ann Parker-Magagna mc/mpa cures many ills. But is it still possible that Presi- contact information sustainability, looking at ways to create ture function, which is effective for substantial 2015 mc/mpa 2007 Beth Dozoretz dent Trump may yet be charged with sexual in the online shared value.” (up to 99 percent) reduction of emissions.” Trevor Taylor mpp 1992 assault for alleged past transgressions? Maybe directory at Valerie James hksee writes, “My new book it isn’t possible to lay a charge now. But if it is, hks.harvard.edu/ is Leadership Intelligence Beyond the Basics: and if it happens, what impact does that have alumnidirectory Solutions for Maximizing Your Brilliance as a on leadership in America?” Leader. Ideal for leaders at all levels who are NOUN PROJECT STEWART MARTHA

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bout eight years ago, LARA WARNER diversity at the bank to be more strategic. Pay Equity, which received unanimous She also funded the Lara Warner Scholars was at a meeting of the Women’s Our desire was to make the business case bipartisan support and was signed into law by Program, which provides financial aid to Leadership Board (wlb) at Harvard for Equality for equity, as opposed to simply the moral Governor Charlie Baker last summer. Inspired students who focus on creating a more equal AKennedy School when she received a call argument.” Now, Warner chairs the wlb. by hks Senior Lecturer and wappp Research world (see sidebar). “I feel strongly about from Credit Suisse’s investment bank. “It “It’s unlike any other organization I’ve been Director HANNAH RILEY BOWLES’ work on impact,” says Warner. “I’ve spent time in was the ceo, who said, ‘Lara, your name a part of,” she says. “These are some of the gender and negotiation, the law makes it a profession that relies heavily on strong came up to be cfo of our investment bank. most accomplished women in the world, illegal to ask potential employees about their research and analytics to make decisions, Are you interested?” and they gather in Cambridge biannually to salary history and prohibits retaliation against so I’m very supportive of wappp’s approach.” Warner, who was then leading Credit BY MARI MEGIAS | PHOTOS BY KRISTEN SCHUELER engage on issues of diversity and gender employees who share their salary with others. According to Budson, people want to do Suisse’s Global Fixed Income Research equality.” She notes that the women on the Warner’s enthusiasm for the work of the right thing but just need the tools to do division, had previous experience as a cfo wlb have strong track records of advocating Bohnet and others led her to establish, so. “It’s not that people don’t want to close during her years at at&t, but had not been for equity. “They have a unique set of in 2015, a permanent endowment to help gender gaps,” she says. “It’s just that they focusing on overall financial performance experiences: they are very involved in ngos, support research into closing gender gaps. don’t know how.” at Credit Suisse. She immediately asked politics, and foundations—quite a broad herself three questions: “1) Are they serious? swath of experienced women who work 2) Are they just asking me this so they can all over the world. It’s rare to convene this have a female candidate? and 3) Can I do number of women in a room together who this job?” She made some calls and learned have such energy and passion for making “Diversity is a reality, that she was being considered because of a difference.” inclusion is a choice” her work, not her gender—and she ended up Professor IRIS BOHNET, getting the job. a behavioral economist “DIVERSE COMPANIES are more productive and make more money, but As a senior business executive, Warner who combines insights diversity without inclusion doesn’t get you these benefits,” says RAAFI mpp 2017 continues to succeed in a world where male from economics and ALIDINA , a Lara Warner Scholar who focuses on the intersection executives outnumber females by three to psychology to improve of diversity and inclusion. “Diversity is about the numbers of people at the table and how their different backgrounds come together. But being at the one. She is, in fact, the only member of her decision-making, is wappp’s table is one thing, being heard—i.e., inclusion—is another.” company’s C-suite who is a woman. In her faculty director. She says the Bohnet advised him on his Policy Analysis Exercise, which received role as Credit Suisse’s chief compliance Kennedy School’s efforts are singular the 2017 Jane Mansbridge Research Award during Class Day. He partnered and regulatory officer, she works in a field among universities and think tanks. “We with former wappp fellow STEPHEN FROST mpp 2004 at the driven by data. So it’s no surprise are the first center to focus on ‘de-biasing’ organization he founded, Frost Included, to develop a metric that she is a strong advocate for organizational procedures rather than that evaluated whether people at a large philanthropic the work of Harvard Kennedy mindsets based on insights from behavioral foundation felt included. “I developed a diagnostic, ran it on School’s Women and Public economics. Thus the concentration on how employees, and created some targeted interventions,” he wappp Policy Program ( ), behavioral science and gender intersect.” says. “I recommended interventions based on the context. For which researches tangible Bohnet’s 2016 book, What Works: Gender instance, we could anonymize resumes to ensure that irrelevant ways to close gender gaps then Equality by Design, has become a seminal personal characteristics were not being taken into account in hiring.” He provides evidence-based solutions guide for employers intent on overcoming also recommended that photos of counterstereotypical high achievers be to the policy- and decisionmakers who take workplace bias. hung in the workplace to reduce “stereotype threat,” that is, a phenomenon action to level the playing field. The 140-plus Many companies and governments where situational factors lead people to confirm negative stereotypes about members of the wlb, now in its 20th year, are putting wappp’s research insights to the social group that they belong to. provide crucial financial support to help work. For example,the Commonwealth of Alidina is tremendously grateful to Lara Warner for providing the wappp advance its mission. Massachusetts, whose Commission on the resources he needed to finish his degree. “Without her funding, I wouldn’t be A decade ago, a colleague in the industry Status of Women was chaired by VICTORIA graduating, I wouldn’t have been able to do the research I do. I will never be suggested she join the wlb because, as BUDSON mc/mpa 2002, executive director of able to express how much the people of wappp have done to support me.” Warner puts it, “We wanted our approach to wappp, led efforts to pass the Act to Establish

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