HARVARD + CODE BREAKERS KENNEDY THE NEW WAVE SCHOOL REMEMBERING CALESTOUS JUMA magazine winter 2018

BUILDING MOMENTUM A RENEWED CAMPUS FOR THE WORK AHEAD

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IN THE ALMOST 40 YEARS since the Kennedy School moved to its current location, the Forum has been its beating heart—as both location and event. It was the place through which all roads seemed to travel, and the place where everything happened. The transformed campus has provided the community with new spaces to collaborate, network, and commune, and the Forum has had its own makeover, with new floors and carpets and colors. But some things have stayed the same. The Forum is still the school’s heart. And it is still packed about 60 or so times a year. In this picture, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, hosts of msnbc’s Morning Joe, spoke at an October town hall on politics and public service. — MARTHA STEWART MARTHA winterwinter 2018 2018 | harvard | harvard kennedy kennedy school school 1 1

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AS THE SPRING TERM STARTS, I am excited to welcome students to our newly transformed campus. In this issue of the Harvard Kennedy School Magazine, you can see and read about the Kennedy School’s beautiful and practical new spaces for convening, teaching, learning, and collaborating—made possible by the Campaign for Harvard Kennedy School. e new Associate Dean for buildings give us the room and resources to do our work better and to make an even larger Communications and Public Affairs positive di erence for the world. Thoko Moyo Our work is driven by a commitment to improving public policy and leadership. It is Executive Editor informed by a set of shared values, including respect for truth and knowledge, diversity and Sarah Abrams inclusion, civil discourse, and support of the public Editor interest through e ective government and institutions. Robert O’Neill In this magazine, you can read about Kennedy School Senior Director of Alumni Relations Amy Davies students, faculty, and alumni who are undertaking Delphine O mpp 2014— projects that re ect these values and demonstrate our Designers one of a group of Janet Friskey conviction that principled and e ective public leadership alums revolutionizing Jennifer Eaton Alden can help to solve public problems. French politics. One key problem, which I have noted before, is a Printer LEMEDY SAMY widespread lack of trust in governments and elected Lane Press o cials. A number of initiatives at the Kennedy arvard ennedy chool agazine School this year focus on restoring trust by improving is published two times a year by John F. Kennedy School of FEATURE STORIES governance and the functioning of democracy in the Government United States and elsewhere in the world. Showcased in Offi ce of Communications 12 Code Breakers Concerned by the scarcity of girls in computer science classrooms, this issue of the magazine are the political activities of and Public Affairs Reshma Saujani mpp 1999 launched Girls Who Code. several recent alumni who have taken political o ce in 79 John F. Kennedy Street France or have engaged the French electorate using data Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 18 The New Wave Kennedy School alumni are playing important roles in French and technology. Phone: 617-495-1442 When I think about the values that should drive E-mail: publishharvard.edu President Emmanuel Macron’s new government. Copyright ©2018 by the President public leadership, I am proud of the Kennedy School’s and Fellows of Harvard College. 22 These Hands Reach Out Abdi Ismail Isse mc/mpa 2017 was 10 when civil war e orts to champion people who have been socially or ousands contributed to the successful All rights reserved. economically disadvantaged, as well as to protect the forced him to flee his home. His life now is about rushing back in. transformation of the  campus. But Magazine Advisory Board vulnerable. You can see this value in the work of our two men led the way. David Ellwood Joe Bergantino mcma 1985 26 Building Momentum The Kennedy School’s campus transformation provides alumni. Abdi Ismail Isse /  has devoted (le ) and Doug Elmendorf, former and Phil Cronin m 1996 the ideal setting for responding to the challenges ahead. his career to providing humanitarian aid in war-torn Tiziana Dearing m 2000 current deans of the Kennedy School, countries and will use his Kennedy School experience Melodie Jackson mcma 2001 had the vision and tenacity to bring to move into the  eld of con ict resolution. Back in the David King, faculty the project to completion. DEPARTMENTS United States, Reshma Saujani  , focuses on Chris Olver m 2012 Craig Sandler mcma 2000 4 Ideas Democracy In print economic opportunity for women. rough Girls Who Code, a summer program that teaches 36 The Cold War | Windfall This will be the last issue as editor Janice Saragoni mcma 1989 Sarah Abrams computer science to girls, she is attempting to close the gender gap in the technology sector. | A New City OS | Strengthening for , who for almost Jeffrey Seglin, faculty 6 In Memoriam Remembering Electoral Integrity | Public Health two decades has led the school’s Finally, we pay tribute in this issue to someone who embodied the Kennedy School’s values- Ken Shulman mcma 2004 Calestous Juma alumni magazine as well as the driven public leadership so well: Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Steven Singer mcma 1986 Preparedness school’s publications office. Sarah Development, who passed away in December. Calestous’s death hit many members of Scott Talan mcma 2002 8 Profiles Angelo Ancheta 40 Alumni voices Donald Tighe mcma 1999 brought her energy, curiosity, and our community—including me—very hard. I hope that you are inspired by his life and mc/mpa 2000 | Julie Battilana | Classnotes Jinu Koola extraordinary accomplishments—and by all the stories in this magazine that demonstrate just elegance to more than 45 issues JoAnne Berkenkamp mpp 1990 mpa/id 2012 | Kanoko Kamata what the people of the Kennedy School can achieve in the world. during that time, reading every mc/mpa 2012 word and writing many of them, Dean Doug Elmendorf 9 Public interest Ellen Johnson and helping the magazine evolve Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy Sirleaf mc/mpa 1971 steps down | 62 Ways and means from a “bulletin” to the lush, February Ruggie Honored Jerry Rappaport mpa 1963 compelling printed and digital This magazine is printed on 100 percent postconsumer waste paper (text) and 34 Bully pulpit Jason Furman | 64 Exit poll publication we have today. 30 percent postconsumer waste paper Sally Yates | Kristalina Georgieva (cover) and is sc certifi ed. MARTHA STEWART MARTHA | and more Cover photo by Peter Vanderwarker www.hks.harvard.edu winter 2018 | harvard kennedy school 3

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First of all, some definitions. Don’t call it “fake news,” because Elections are not democracy. But there can be no democracy without Legislative negotiation is not for the fainthearted. Between the that simplifies complex phenomena and is also increasingly them. Unfortunately for democracy, elections aren’t doing well. hks necessary transparency and the inevitable leaks, the parties are DEMOCRACY | Talk of the fragility of democracy, being used as a cudgel by politicians Senior Lecturer PIPPA NORRIS has spent much of this working in a fishbowl. Individuals don’t have the power to get or variations on that theme, is commonplace these around the world to discredit news they decade figuring out what isn’t working and what can be anything done on their own. They can kick the can don’t like. Do call it misinformation when done to fix it. The ELECTORAL INTEGRITY PROJECT, which down the road (to future sessions or legislators) on days—and perhaps for good reason. Whether in false information is shared but no harm Norris heads, has collected enormous amounts of most things. And there are always multiple levels those countries where it is most settled, or at the is intended. Call it disinformation when data on elections around the world; published dozens of negotiations going on simultaneously. These frontiers, where it struggles more openly with false information is knowingly shared to of books, reports, and scholarly articles; and worked are some of the problems. Renowned negotiation authoritarianism or worse, democracy, if not broken, cause harm. And call it malinformation with international organizations, regional bodies, and nonprofits. experts at the Kennedy School are working on seems at least dented and scuffed. At the Kennedy when information based on reality is shared to cause harm. The work is aimed at three goals: finding out when elections meet solutions. BRIAN MANDELL, JULIA MINSON, KESSELY The correct terminology is just the beginning international standards, understanding what happens when they fail HONG (top right), and JANE MANSBRIDGE (bottom School, where democratic values are central to the in the construction of a framework created by to do so, and figuring out how to mitigate those problems. right), with Bruce Patton and Bob Bordone of the Harvard Negotiation mission, this is a call to action. So, across more than CLAIRE WARDLE and her First Draft project at the Project, are developing tools that legislators can employ. In a dozen centers and programs, through rigorous SHORENSTEIN CENTER to understand the impact January they hosted Massachusetts state legislators and staffers and applied action, scholars and practitioners that “information pollution” can have on societies and how in a weeklong effort to test and refine their work, which should be are busy trying stakeholders—including governments, the media, technology completed later this year. companies, and civil society—can address the problem. to understand MAKING There’s no question that until they are addressed, information whether and how disorders will continue to influence, and sometimes undermine, Bent not Broken democracy is in DEMOCRACY democracies. fact in real peril Thirteen percent. That’s the share of Americans who approve of the way Congress is doing its job, according to a recent poll. and how it can be WOR Shape So Unnatural One popular perception of Capitol Hill, reinforced by the spate improved and fixed. From looking at how democracy of high-profile legislative failures this year, is that nothing gets A congressional district with boundaries so tortuous it prospers or fails unexpectedly, to how political done (except perhaps stuff that ought not to). But resembled a salamander gave rise to the term “gerrymander” adversaries work across bitter partisan divides, from that’s not necessarily true. Every year, despite the in the 19th century (Gerry was the surname of the beneficiary). undeniable polarization and gridlock, Congress studying the flow of polluted information through Nowadays, to protect their political futures, political map passes 30 to 40 important bipartisan pieces of our digital media landscape, to mending the shaky drawers rely not just on intimate knowledge of the landscape legislation. A team of Kennedy School scholars, but on high-powered computing that allows one party to machinery of elections, hks is devoting itself to including JANE MANSBRIDGE, ARCHON FUNG, maximize its influence while diluting the voting power of its Making Democracy Work. and DAVID KING, is trying to learn from those successes and to opposition. The Supreme Court, which has often weighed in on determine whether they had actionable lessons that could help how to think about race when drawing political AKINLEYE AKINTUNDE AKINLEYE AKINTUNDE Congress do even more. The program grew out of an event that boundaries, is considering the constitutionality SEE WHAT WE’RE THINKING AT SHARE YOUR IDEAS AT hosted a cadre of senior congressional staffers from both parties to of political gerrymandering and will issue a HKS.HARVARD.EDU/MDW #MAKEDEMOCRACYWORK In Fertile Ground find out how they worked together. The scholars plan to present a decision in a landmark case later this year. Seeing democracy sprout in some places can be a little like seeing final report later this year. Meanwhile, with the 2020 census and another a flower grow through a crack in the sidewalk. Political science round of district-drawing around the corner, tells us that the ideal conditions include factors such as a healthy hks is taking a leading role in bringing forward economy, a high level of development, and a neighborhood of Good Fellows ideas to reform a broken system. In 2017, it Early and Often democratically inclined nations. But sometimes The next generation of democracy scholars, or at least an bestowed the prestigious ROY AND LILA ASH INNOVATION AWARD democracy seems to grow against all odds: in India In 2016, TurboVote, an app that lets important slice of them, are being incubated right here. Every FOR PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT IN GOVERNMENT on the California in 1947, despite tremendous poverty and deep ethnic citizens register and keep track of year since 2011, the DEMOCRACY FELLOWSHIP program, run by Citizens Redistricting Commission, a radically new, citizen-led and religious divisions; in Indonesia in 1998, after elections, signed up its millionth voter. the Ash Center, has invited a broad, diverse, interdisciplinary redistricting experiment. (To read about an alum involved with decades of military rule; or in Costa Rica in 1953, The same year, more than 11 million KULSUM EBRAHIM | POMONA cohort of scholars who are focused on the toughest challenges to the commission, go to page 8.) And in November, under the surrounded by juntas and dictatorships. Democracy in people looked up where to vote on GetToThePolls.com. And millions democratic governance. Fellows, ranging from doctoral students leadership of Professor ARCHON FUNG and Ash Center Fellow Hard Places, led by Kennedy School professors TAREK of absentee ballots mailed out by election officials are now tracked to well-established academics, learn from and interact with MILES RAPAPORT, hks held a major conference that brought MASOUD and SCOTT MAINWARING, aims to learn from through Ballot Scout. All three initiatives were part of Democracy Harvard faculty members, researchers, politicians, practitioners, together academics, practitioners of all political stripes, and those lessons. The program, housed at the ASH CENTER, is bringing Works, a nonprofit founded byKATHRYN PETERS MPP 2012 and SETH and one another. And the growing number of alumni of the activists from around the country. in fellows and speakers and building up a body of knowledge on FLAXMAN MPP 2012, which aims to be the “digital connective tissue” program, now numbering more than 50, have established a democracy’s improbable successes to learn whether that precious for American democracy. network spanning five continents and nearly 20 countries. PORTRAITS BY MARTHA STEWART MARTHA BY PORTRAITS hardiness can be grafted elsewhere. 4 www.hks.harvard.edu winter 2018 | harvard kennedy school 5

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“I came to rely on Calestous’s invincible good spirits in all our the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government. He conversations about his own work and about the Kennedy School’s work also served as faculty chair of the executive education programs regarding Africa,” said Doug Elmendorf, dean of the Kennedy School and “Innovation for Economic Development” and “Technology, Innovation Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy. “For all of Calestous’s amazing and Entrepreneurship in Africa” and had served as faculty chair of the accomplishments and contributions to the Kennedy School and to the Mason Fellows program. world, he was always modest about what he had done and focused The recipient of a raft of prestigious prizes, including the 2017 entirely on what he could do next. He was a true model for us all to Breakthrough Paradigm Award and the 2014 Lifetime Africa Achievement aspire to. I will miss him very much, as I know so many of us will.” Prize, Juma served on the jury of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Juma’s work ranged in scale from the global to the very local. It was his Engineering and the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation. He was work on the interaction of biodiversity, biotechnology, and development elected to the Royal Society of London, the U.S. National Academy that first brought him to international prominence, said his colleague Bill of Sciences, the World Academy of Sciences, the African Academy of Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy, and Sciences, and the uk Royal Academy of Engineering, among others. He Human Development. Juma wrote the influential book The Gene Hunters, was a prolific writer, whose most recent book was Innovation and Its helped give rise to the un Biodiversity Convention, and served as the Enemies: Why People Resist New Technologies. He had also become convention’s first executive director from 1995 to 1998. a social media leader, with a huge following, and had a sideline in He cochaired the African Union’s High cartoons poking fun at what he saw as Level Panel on Science, Technology, and the obstacles to science and progress. Innovation, and pushed for the creation “To ministers and heads of state, of a system of scientific and technical he was a sought-after advis0r, pointing universities in Africa and for the use of the way toward reforms that boosted technology to improve the continent’s farm yields, educational standards, agricultural output. and economic prosperity,” said Ash He also counted more technical Carter, Belfer Professor of Technology contributions among his achievements. and Global Affairs and director of He helped engineer a cookstove that the Belfer Center. “To the scientific could improve efficiency and minimize community, he was an unstinting the adverse health effects of indoor champion of innovation and rigorous THE HUMAN ELEMENT : smoke. His experience in that process evidence. To his students, he was a helped him understand the importance passionate teacher and mentor. To Remembering Calestous Juma of “inclusive innovation”: users balked at For all of Calestous’s amazing thousands of his fans on social media, the lack of smoke, which had helped them accomplishments and contributions to the he was a fount of insight, optimism, keep mosquitoes away. (“We miss this Kennedy School and to the world, he was and good humor. To us, he was a dear human element all the time,” Juma said.) friend and extraordinary colleague.” ON THEIR WAY TO CHURCH on Sundays, the residents of Port Victoria, Kenya, would pass Juma was a science teacher and always modest about what he had done and Tributes to Juma poured in via by young Calestous Juma’s house and drop off things that were broken—radios, record a journalist before going on to earn a focused entirely on what he could do next. social media—from sitting and players, appliances. The 12-year-old had special dispensation from his priest to stay doctorate in science and technology DOUG ELMENDORF former heads of state, colleagues, studies from the University of — friends, and admirers remembering home and fix them. He was, the priest contended, “doing God’s work.” Sussex. He founded the first African an extraordinary life and influence. The scale of broken things that Juma tried to fix grew considerably over the years— nonprofit dedicated to applying science and technology to sustainable Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta wrote of “his warmth, his love of ranging from agricultural innovation to sustainable development to the acceptance of development before joining Harvard Kennedy School in 1999. learning, and his great generosity,” and Paul Kagame, the president of “It was my initiative to bring Calestous to hks, partnering with Bill Rwanda, mourned a “brilliant mind who was dedicated to innovation, new technology—as did the global community of people who came to rely on him for Clark and Jeff Sachs, after I learned he was movable from the leadership education, and Africa’s prosperity.” his intellect and energy. of the Biodiversity Convention,” said John Holdren, Teresa and John The vast network of hks alumni influenced by Juma also saluted By Robert O’Neill In December, that community mourned the passing of Juma, a leading voice among interdisciplinary Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy and a former science advisor his legacy. “‘If you build it, I will come,’ he used to tell us,” tweeted scholars and practitioners working to harness science, technology, and policy in the service of sustainable to President Obama. “His passing is a shocking personal loss, as well Subhash Ghimire mpp 2014. “[He] was an inspiration to young graduate well-being. Juma, who died after a long illness, was a professor of the practice of international development as leaving a gaping hole in the global community of interdisciplinary students ... We loved his humor, curiosity & optimism.” Allen Asiimwe at Harvard Kennedy School and director of the Belfer Center’s Science, Technology and Globalization Project. scholar-practitioners in the domain of science and technology for mc/mpa 2017 described him as a “shining African light ... always He was 64. sustainable well-being.” available to engage and inspire students, leaders, and all.” From colleagues and students at hks to world leaders to his countless friends and followers, Juma was At hks Juma was affiliated with the Belfer Center for Science and Juma is survived by his wife, Alison; a son, Eric; and a sister, Nanjala. International Affairs, the Center for International Development, and remembered for his towering contributions, along with his modesty and good humor. STEWART MARTHA

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CAMPUS FACULTY Public Interest Change With a Social Intent

Alumni JULIE BATTILANA is the founder and academic co-director of the Social It has been 12 years since ELLEN JOHNSON Innovation and Change Initiative (sici) at hks, and a professor at hks SIRLEAF mc/mpa 1971 became the first and hbs. Her work focuses on understanding how actors can diverge elected female president in Africa. In January, from deeply seated norms and pursue change with a social intent. she took part in the peaceful transfer of power We have a hundred years of research on how to maximize commercial to Liberia’s next president, George Weah; it value, Battilana argues; it’s time to focus on understanding how to was the country’s first democratic transfer generate social value and what it takes to be the kind of change- of power in more than 70 years. The Nobel maker that can do that. Peace Prize laureate, whose election came following two civil wars that devastated the Is social innovation just for aspiring social entrepreneurs? country, oversaw much change during her It depends on your definition, but if you are asking whether one must start a new organization to be time in office, from a successful economic a social innovator, the answer is certainly no. People can innovate from a variety of organizational recovery to the devastation of the Ebola crisis platforms to improve the public good. What matters to us at sici is that the social innovator’s path to just three years ago. Angelo Ancheta mc/mpa 2000, a social change flows from a thoughtful analysis of the problem they want to tackle and the surrounding member of the California Citizens ecosystem, their motivations, and their sources of power. We’re somewhat agnostic about which path Redistricting Commission, the social innovator picks as long as it enables that person to bring about the desired social impact. believes the success of the commission was the result of its How does the sici reflect you and your work? open, transparent process. At sici, our ultimate objective is to help social innovators navigate the challenges of social change development and implementation. My research aims to advance the knowledge about how to do that. More specifically, I examine three main challenges: the politics of social change; the implementation of ALUMNI multisectoral partnerships to solve persistent social problems; and the simultaneous pursuit of financial A Civic Experiment and social objectives within organizations over time. These issues build on the work I have been doing for the past 15 years, analyzing the processes of change that diverges from taken-for-granted norms in organizations and society. Most of my recent work has focused on organizations that I call “hybrids,” which pursue a social mission while engaging in commercial activities. I now myself am a hybrid in IN AND , Californians a highly educated group with is renowned for being behind because the voters didn’t like 2008 2010 a sense, working across hks and hbs. I also celebrate the fact that I have a diverse classroom with voted to establish the extensive experience in and out closed doors—legislators the previous process. This students from hks and hbs, who come from all over the world with work experience across a wide range California Citizens Redistricting of government. Only a couple working on maps and cutting was an experiment that we all of sectors. I think that makes the conversation much more enriching. Commission—a citizen-run, of us had direct experience deals. We were all committed to wanted to succeed. independent commission with redistricting, but several public hearings—to opening up What was the motivation behind the creation of sici? that would redraw district had been involved in local the process—so if folks wanted Any public feedback on the boundaries for both state and government and understood the to come in and present maps or commission’s work? Many students come to hks because they care about social innovation, congressional elections. In process. Some had worked on just talk about their concerns, We didn’t do extensive public and we wanted to help strengthen the community to support these acknowledgment of its success, electoral reform; some had been there was an open door. We opinion polling after drawing change-makers at the school and beyond. The mission of sici the commission was recently involved in city planning. wanted as much as possible the maps, but one of our maps is to develop research, pedagogical content, and educational given the 2017 Roy and Lila Ash to rely on public testimony to was challenged and was placed programs that help students, social innovators, and Innovation Award for Public What were the advantages to figure out what the best maps on the ballot for the public organizations around the world navigate the challenges Engagement in Government by a citizen-run redistricting? were. Those values were really to weigh in on. The public Honors of initiating and implementing social change. the Ash Center for Democratic One major advantage was that important and drove a lot of the overwhelmingly approved the In October, JOHN G. RUGGIE received the Governance and Innovation. we were not incumbents trying problem solving. map, which is a clear indicator Why create sici at hks ? a.sk Social Science Award 2017, one of social HKS Magazine spoke to ANGELO to protect our own districts. that it supported our work. science’s most prestigious hks is ideally positioned to help lead the ANCHETA mc/mpa 2000, who That’s the problem with so- What were some of the While members of the public international prizes. The award movement around social innovation. It’s served on the 14-member called normal redistricting. You commission’s most difficult may not be aware of every line is given every two years by ideal because it is at the intersection of the commission. have incumbency protection challenges? that has been drawn, they know the wzb Berlin Social Science public sector, the not-for-profit sector, and as a value. None of us were Like any process, particularly that gerrymandering can be a Center. Ruggie is the Berthold Beitz Professor the corporate sector. When it comes to the How was the commission incumbents, and none of us were when it comes to drawing maps, really big problem. California in Human Rights and International Affairs at important and acute social problems we’re selected? beholden to an incumbent or to a you get a lot of differences is not the first state to create a the Kennedy School. facing today, the solutions we’re going to We were selected through party or to a particular map. of opinion, and some of the redistricting commission, but I need to develop are probably not going a multistep process that opinions, while not overtly think we came up with a good to be single-sector solutions but What was the most guaranteed a balanced, partisan, were rooted in partisan system that other states may rather multisector solutions and important element in the independent body that concerns. Not everything want to emulate. partnerships. And this multisector commission’s success? represented the state’s was unanimous, but we tried exploration and engagement is very demographics. We were drawn Probably the shared values as much as possible. The much in the dna of the school. from a variety of professions. It’s and teamwork. Redistricting commission came into existence RAYCHEL CASEY RAYCHEL COURTESY OF CHARLES BARRY | SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY CLARA UNIVERSITY SANTA SANTA | | BARRY BARRY CHARLES CHARLES OF OF COURTESY COURTESY STEWART MARTHA

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PHOTO BY SARA RUBINSTEIN In short, if you eat, you are part of JOANNE BERKENKAMP MPP 1990 is taking the fight against climate overlook how it adds up,” Berkenkamp says. “We buy more than She left a career in corporate finance and pivoted to environmental The tide is now beginning to turn. the solution. change to your refrigerator. Want to do your part? Keep good food from we need and then can’t use it up. We plan to cook but then eat out policy and international development. After leaving the Kennedy Companies like Kroger, Aramark, and JOANNE BERKENKAMP going to waste, she says. instead. Leftovers get pushed further back in the refrigerator until it’s School, Berkenkamp worked in the international development arena Marriott have committed to curtailing MPP 1990 If the food being wasted around the globe was a country, asserts too late. Even though we may not want to be wasteful, consumers are in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and as a strategist for the World food waste in their operations. The Berkenkamp, a senior advocate for the nonprofit Natural Resources the largest single source of wasted food in the U.S.” Wildlife Fund before diving fully into food and agriculture issues. federal government announced the Defense Council (nrdc), it would rank number 3—behind China and Today, Americans throw out 50 percent more food per capita At nrdc, Berkenkamp is helping corporations, policymakers, and first-ever national goal to cut food waste by half by 2030. The U.S. the United States—in the generation of harmful greenhouse gas than we did in the 1970s. Restaurants, grocery stores, colleges, consumers become an integral part of the solution. On the consumer Conference of Mayors adopted a set of resolutions aimed at reducing emissions. “All too often we don’t recognize that when we waste hotels, healthcare, and other businesses play a part as well, front, nrdc is collaborating with the Ad Council, creator of Smokey food waste by a similar margin, and city governments from New York food we’re directly contributing to climate change. Wasted food is a collectively generating almost as much waste food as consumers do Bear, Friends Don’t Let Friends Drive Drunk, and other iconic public to Nashville, Denver, and Seattle are moving aggressively to prevent huge climate issue.” in their homes. service campaigns, to rally consumers to the cause. Their “Save the food from being wasted in the first place, ramp up food donations, Her work focuses on the United States, where up to 40 percent Berkenkamp joined New York-based nrdc in 2015 after two Food” campaign (SaveTheFood.com) raises awareness and gives and recycle what remains. of the food supply goes uneaten every year according to nrdc, decades working to advance more sustainable approaches to food people the tools they need to shop smarter, plan meals better, and “Five years ago, this issue was really in the shadows. Today, an environmental advocacy group founded in 1970. In addition production and more regionally oriented food systems across the make fuller use of the food they purchase. major food companies are realizing that their bottom line benefits to all the water and energy wasted in the process, growing, United States. Her passion for food and the environment germinated nrdc also is working with city governments and companies in when they cut their waste. Municipal governments are motivated to manufacturing, transporting, and disposing of all that uneaten at the Kennedy School, which she calls “a perfect environment for the retail grocery and food service arenas to “rescue” unsold food keep food out of landfills. And consumers are recognizing that they food costs more than $200 billion annually. The yearly price tag is exploring new possibilities and crafting a professional trajectory that that would otherwise be tossed. That food can help meet the meal can save money and improve their environmental footprint if they $1,800 for a household of four. more fully aligned with my intellectual aims and personal values. A gap for some of the 41 million low-income children, adults, and update their practices,” Berkenkamp says. “In short, if you eat, you “Waste is something that happens little by little so it’s easy to whole new universe opened up in front of me at the Kennedy School.” elders who lack a secure supply of food. are part of the solution.”

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GIRLS WHO CODE FOUNDER BY ALL OUTWARD APPEARANCES, RESHMA SAUJANI MPP 1999 Reshma Saujani was a success. < code breake rs > A graduate of Harvard Kennedy School and Yale Law School, she had become a corporate lawyer for a Wall Street hedge fund by age 33, reaching a pinnacle her immigrant parents could only have imagined. Inwardly, however, she was despondent, feeling that she’d sacrificed her youthful ideals on the altar of paying off her student loans. “I was working in an industry that was foreclosing on people’s homes,” she says. “I was miserable.” BY MICHAEL BLANDING So she decided to take dramatic action—declaring her candidacy for U.S. Congress from New York in 2010. Although she'd had some experience raising PHOTOS BY CAREY WAGNER money for the likes of John Kerry, she’d never run a political campaign before, or even been on television. Still, right up to Election Day, she thought her passion would carry the day. “I thought I could shake every hand and I would win,” she says. “I didn’t know any better.” When the Democratic primary returns came in that night, Saujani had lost spectacularly, 81 percent to 19.

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She was always interested however, she felt she was honoring what they had sacrificed for. take place at a tech firm, where they could not only learn the in technology but intimidated by the lack of girls in computer “Seeing them come to this country as refugees, not having family, skills they needed but also see examples of real, live computer classes in her school. When she proposed projects such as an and leave everything behind just for a change for their children programmers at work. Settling on 20 participants to start, she app to organize your closet, she felt ostracized by the boys, none was inspiring to me,” she says. “I was always moved by creating personally recruited a diverse group of girls for a pilot program, of whom wanted to be on her team. At Girls Who Code, she found opportunities for others.” paying them $50 each to take part. a supportive environment and ended up developing a project that Her instincts paid off for Saujani, who was suddenly attending Launched in the midst of her second political race, the used sentiment analysis to identify implicit bias in Wikipedia and talks by JFK Jr. and Benazir Bhutto. She took every advantage of the program was an instant success, with students thriving in an newspaper articles. “I never thought I’d be able to do something situation, says her classmate Kendra Goldbas mpp 1999, who is all-female environment. “In my campaigns, I never got a break,” like that,” she says. “They really build you up so you don’t even now the West Coast director of recruiting for McKinsey. “She was Saujani says, “whereas with Girls Who Code, it was all hearts and realize you are learning so much.” Now a computer science just a sponge in that environment,” Goldbas remembers. “She rainbows. It was clear the world wanted this.” What she didn’t major at Harvard, Kelly interned with the Greek government this would always be coming back from another part of campus; we’d anticipate, however, was that girls, given the chance, would tackle past summer, using her technology background to help develop get together for a drink, and she’d be coming back from the law coding so differently from boys. At the end of each session, each tourism policy. “Through Girls Who Code, you realize you can use > Girls were afraid to show school or the business school.” Saujani did her academic research girl would take on an individual project of her choice; whether it computer science to work on government policies and have an on South Africa, spending time in the country right after the end was biologically or socially conditioned, girls came into class with impact on issues,” she says. their code because it wasn’t of apartheid. “That was my second rebellious move,” she says. a desire to use computers to change the world. “Cora wanted to Even so, Saujani saw serious hurdles that girls needed to perfect. Rather than say, Again, however, she felt she was honoring her parents in spirit build an algorithm to detect whether a cancer tumor was benign overcome. As she spoke to instructors in the program, they kept ‘I don’t know how to do if not in name. After all, if Indians in Uganda had had political or malignant, because her father had had cancer,” Saujani says. telling her the same story: Girls would say they couldn’t solve a this, can you help?’ it was representation, they might not have had to leave. “The thought of “Leslie wanted to build a way for Latina entrepreneurs to connect. problem, and their screens would be blank. But when the teachers how you can get your rights and property taken away from you in RESHMA SAUJANI MPP 1999 perfection or bust. < an instant was really profound for me,” she says. “I always felt it was important to participate and get involved.” > I would be invited to talk to GIRLS WHO CODE CLUBS Despite some initial disappointment, Saujani says, she was Her political involvement took a back seat for the next decade, schools, and I would walk in and ARE FREE AFTER-SCHOOL elated. “It was the most amazing year ever,” she says. “I learned while she attended Yale Law School and began her Wall Street PROGRAMS AND PART OF that failure doesn’t break you, that it’s better to live a life without career, putting her back in the good graces of her parents. say,‘Why are there all boys in the THE ORGANIZATION'S PLAN regrets—and I wasn’t doing that.” And she learned something When she did finally run in the Democratic primary, against the TO MAXIMIZE ITS REACH. computer science classrooms?’ < THIS CLUB, IN MONTCLAIR, more. As she campaigned in New York City schools, she observed longtime incumbent Carolyn Maloney, she embraced her financial NEW JERSEY, WAS FOUNDED a persistent gender gap in computer science classrooms. That background—urging more partnerships between Wall Street BY TWO COMPUTER SCIENCE observation led directly to founding Girls Who Code, the nonprofit investment firms and technology companies in order to create STUDENTS FROM LOCAL she now runs to teach girls computer skills. But just as important, it jobs—along with immigration and education reform. “This was a COLLEGES. teaches them a lesson that Saujani has always naturally seemed to time when there was an enormous amount of anti-incumbency exude: Good things happen when we are brave. feeling in the country,” says her friend Trina DasGupta, a cultural A certain rebellious streak had been in Saujani’s nature, content producer who worked with Saujani on Kerry’s campaign. developed as a child from the stories about her parents’ immigrant “There were a lot of people who believed in her; there was this past—even if her choices didn’t always endear themselves to her feeling of this woman is going to do amazing things.” parents, who came to the United States from Uganda in 1973, Even after losing that race so badly, Saujani didn’t give up refugees from a crackdown on Ugandans of Asian origin by the on politics. She began working for the then public advocate dictator Idi Amin. In suburban Chicago, her father worked two jobs (now mayor) Bill DeBlasio as a deputy. In 2013, she ran—again but always found time to read to her at night. “He would read me unsuccessfully—for public advocate herself, this time placing all these Reader’s Digest books about historical figures like King, third in a five-person race. All the while, however, another idea Gandhi, and Roosevelt,” she says. “It inspired me to be one of was percolating in the back of her mind. “I would be invited to those girls who wanted to change the world.” talk to schools, and I would walk in and say, ‘Why are there all She started a multicultural club at her high school in the boys in the computer science classrooms?’ ‘Why are there all 1990s and joined Model un and the debate club. While attending boys on the robotics team?’” She heard her father’s voice in her college at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she head—that in order to be successful, one had to be a doctor, a noticed that all the politicians she admired seemed to have lawyer, or an engineer—and wondered where the future female attended Yale or Harvard, so she set her sights on an eastern Ivy. engineers were going to come from. Disappointed when she failed to get into law school, she saw a So Saujani put her Kennedy School training to work, coming flyer in the college guidance office for the Kennedy School. “I was home every night from her job to strategize about how to get more like, public policy—that’s me.” girls involved with computers. “I looked at it as a policy problem,”

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put out her own book, Girls Who Code, this past August, and is launching book circles for girls to discuss it. Between those and the ongoing coding clubs, she hopes to reach more than 100,000 girls in 2018. “Last year, only 40,000 people in the country graduated in computer science,” she says, “and we’ve already taught 40,000 girls. This is a problem that is solvable.” Even though she has veered away from politics, Saujani has arguably had more impact on education than she might have had from a strict policy perspective. “Her work appeals to people on so many levels,” says Goldbas. “There is a component of helping the underserved, of addressing poverty, and creating alignment with industry. After losing her last election, she could have gone back to being a lawyer or joined GIRLS AT THE a think tank. The fact that she is using her platform in this way MONTCLAIR, NEW really speaks to her strategic mindset.” JERSEY, GIRLS Not that Saujani has completely lost her political spark. WHO CODE CLUB ON When Ivanka Trump used her as an example of women’s GRADUATION DAY. THE GIRLS, WHO RANGED empowerment in her book Women Who Work, Saujani IN AGE FROM 12 shot back on Twitter: “@ivankatrump don’t use my story in TO 18, WORKED ON #WomenWhoWork unless you are going to stop being #complicit PROJECTS SUCH AS #askivanka”—referring to criticism of the president’s daughter that APPS FOR VIEWING UNICORNS AND A LEGO she has not served as enough of a check on her father’s policies. ROBOT WITH A SENSOR In an op-ed in the New York Times last September, FOR SORTING COLORS. Saujani elaborated, saying she had rejected Ivanka Trump’s invitation to the White House after the president had signed an executive order refusing entry to immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries. The order made Saujani think of her own Muslim students, she wrote. “If I agreed to work with this administration, how could I look these girls in the eye? And what good would it do to advance my organization’s educational mission if I offered implicit support hit “undo,” they’d find that actually the girls had worked through its way through a maze using visual processing. “When I finally one day, and can start developing ties to those who will help to an administration that didn’t see these girls and members the problem and come close but then deleted it. “Girls were solved it, it was just one sigh of relief, followed by bliss and joy I them network when applying for jobs in the future. of their families as fully American?” afraid to show their code because it wasn’t perfect,” Saujani will never forget,” she says. “It was really cool to see that we use Graduates of the program have gone on to become Although the White House recently pledged $200 million to says. “Rather than say, ‘I don’t know how to do this, can you all these tools and techniques to design something practical.” computer science majors and to win hackathons. Two girls computer science education, Saujani believes that more good help?’ it was perfection or bust.” Robinson is now a computer science major at Brandeis who created Tampon Run—a video game designed to take the could be done for girls in stem on the state level. She urges states She found, however, that once girls sat with a problem and University, currently applying for jobs in the tech industry. “Now shame out of menstruation that made the Apple app store to make computer science mandatory for all students—so that were able to solve it, their sense of accomplishment would have I use those skills to help other women in my class,” she says. “I and has been played more than 300,000 times—wrote a girls can grow up seeing coding as a natural subject for everyone, a ripple effect. “Part of what was so magical was that once they tell them, you are so awesome, you just missed a semicolon.” book about their experience, Girl Code: Gaming, Going Viral, not just an elective for boys. “If they have this image it's just full crossed that hurdle, learning code was symbolic for bigger things That emphasis on not only technical skills but also building and Getting It Done, which was published in 2017. Another of dudes, things are not going to change,” she says. Ultimately in their lives,” Saujani says. “Instead of feeling like an idiot, they girls’ confidence up to where they can solve problems is what graduate, who created an anti-cyberbullying app, appeared what is required for girls to fully embrace stem, says Saujani, is a found that if they could take the time to figure something out, it sets Saujani’s vision apart from other programs, says DasGupta, on the entrepreneur reality show Shark Tank and walked away cultural shift. “Disney could do its next big movie on a girl coder, changed their entire perspective about how they learn.” who is now a board member of Girls Who Code. “We don’t just with a $100,000 deal. and this problem would be solved,” she says. Until that time, That was the case for Joelle Robinson, a teenager from teach computational thinking, we teach the sisterhood,” she “It’s not overstating it to say [Saujani] started a movement,” however, programs like Girls Who Code can provide girls with Queens who discovered Girls Who Code six years ago, while she says, “helping girls with the soft skills of resilience and bravery.” says DasGupta. “For the girls in the program, she is a mentor the push they need to discover their own potential—and find the was in middle school. She had an interest in both performing In addition to teaching them skills, the program opens doors and a celebrity and the person they look up to.” When she courage to think of themselves differently in the world. arts and engineering, but felt pressure from other students to to job opportunities. The organization is selective about what started the program, in 2012, Saujani set out with the goal downplay the latter. “I was labeled a ‘nerd,’ or whatever—there companies it works with to host sessions, requiring that along of training 1 million girls by 2020. While she now admits that — was definitely peer pressure to mold myself into something with space they provide access to employees who talk to the girls goal was overly ambitious, the program has already had an Michael Blanding is a freelance writer living in Brookline, more quote-unquote ‘feminine,’” she says. That changed for her about what they do. Saujani’s hope is that girls will be better impact, so far graduating 40,000 girls and ramping up to Massachusetts. during a challenge whereby girls had to program a robot to find able to envision themselves as employees of tech companies graduate 10,000 more each year. To expand her reach, Saujani

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With the help of Liegey’s tech start-up and impassioned increased immigrant turnout by 3.4 percent in the first round of followers like O, Macron “found a way to bypass an ossified party voting and 2.8 percent in the second—numbers large enough to system to directly engage people in a political dialogue,” says sway an election. Marshall Ganz, a Kennedy School senior lecturer in public policy. Unpaid, with no official mandate, Liegey spent more than a year “That engagement in listening and response was a very different assembling a fledgling group of 1,000 field-workers. When François way of doing politics in France.” Hollande was nominated in the September 2011 primary, Liegey, Macron is propelling his reformist agenda with the help of Pons, and Muller persuaded his organization to hire them. many first-time politicians elected in June 2017: among them They mobilized 80,000 volunteers, three times the typical are O; the economist and global public policy specialist Amelie de number, and knocked on 5 million doors, reaching 10 percent of the Montchalin mpa 2014; and Brune Poirson mc/mpa 2017, an expert French electorate. French media called it the largest field campaign on sustainable development. ever organized in Europe. The following spring, Hollande eked out a victory over the incumbent, Nicolas Sarkozy. At the end of 2012, the three entrepreneurs founded Liegey Muller Pons (lmp) to develop IN 2008, LIEGEY, 28, had just started at the Kennedy School software tools that identified key constituents—most significant, when he met Vincent Pons, then 25, who was pursuing a phd in neglected or unregistered voters who could be instrumental on economics at mit and Arthur Muller, also 25, who was studying Election Day. philosophy at Harvard and taking a class at the Kennedy School. Like Liegey, Muller and Pons were born and raised in northeastern France and followed U.S. politics avidly. The three volunteered for Obama. Canvassing door-to-door in WHEN O RETURNED TO FRANCE after years abroad, she moved into Manchester, New Hampshire, Liegey became curious about the northeast Paris. Encompassing the 19th arrondissement, her district science underlying the campaign. How did organizers determine is home to dozens of nationalities from sub-Saharan, northern, and THE NEW WAVE where to send volunteers? Why knock on doors when you could central Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Since late 2016, hundreds use social media? of refugees from Afghanistan and Africa have camped out in tents

CHRISTIAN HARTMANN CHRISTIAN At the Kennedy School, Ganz introduced Liegey to the way and makeshift structures near an asylum center there. in which the grassroots base of the Obama campaign had been O sits on the Foreign Relations Committee and is drafting organized. Pons, now an assistant professor at Harvard Business policy to address the refugee crisis. “We’re trying to change the School, was working with the mit economist Esther Duflo to test asylum process, because France has done a very small part on the BY DEBORAH HALBER the efficacy of social programs. What if, the friends wondered, they European level,” she says. applied Duflo’s scientific methods to French politics? “A lot of the migrants actually don’t come from Syria and Liegey and Pons randomly chose about 24,000 immigrants and Afghanistan," she says. “They come from western Africa, and native-born citizens in eight cities surrounding Paris who, in the there is this distinction we make between political refugees and N SUNDAYS, DELPHINE O stands in the middle of a Paris weeks leading up to the 2010 regional elections, were encouraged economic climbers. This is hard, because we have to take these street market while vendors hawk vegetables, meat, and spices around by party workers to vote. The study found that face-to-face visits people, and at the same time, we can’t take them.” her. In her very diverse district, home to many African, Asian, and Arab immigrants, not many recognize O as a member of Parliament, but they stop and vent about the government. “My neighborhood weighs heavily on the left of the political spectrum, so we have some lively Odiscussions,” she says. “But we have a lot of support, too.” Direct, face-to- When O, mpp 2014, returned to Paris in 2015, she never imagined she’d be elected to the National Assembly at age 31. Initiating face contact is dialogues with strangers isn’t easy for her. But she believes it’s a something very crucial part of France’s new political reality. powerful. O is among four Kennedy School alums immersed in a transformation | guillaume liegey mpa 2010 of French politics that started in 2016, when an Obama-esque | French President-elect campaign, designed in part by Guillaume Liegey mpa 2010, launched Emmanuel Macron HANNAH STARMAN Emmanuel Macron to an improbable victory over Marine Le Pen. celebrates on the stage at XENIA VIRAGH his victory rally near the Louvre in Paris in May. | Delphine O mpp 2014 | Guillaume Liegey mpa 2010

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| Amelie de Montchalin mpa 2014 | Amelie de Montchalin (center) in the French parliament | Professor Marshall Ganz | Brune Poirson mc/mpa 2017

O has lived in the United States and Germany, South Korea she says. “Which we are in many ways, but not in the way people field work, building on the lessons of Hillary Clinton’s defeat, and and Iran, working in international relations and, for a time, for an would imagine.” A top priority is creating jobs and convincing Macron’s credible policy proposals helped secure victory.” GANZ, THE ADVISOR behind the grassroots component of ngo in Kabul that engaged Afghan women in democratic life. She people it’s in their best interests to work rather than rely on public In June, she was appointed secretary of state under Ecology Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, believes that Macron taught refugees French. She is sympathetic to their plight and also assistance. A substantial chunk of de Montchalin’s time is devoted Minister Nicolas Hulot. Poirson is in charge of environmental allowed Liegey to enact key elements of the Obama campaign’s passionate about improving living conditions in her district. to public education. To the shock of many, for six weeks she talked health, the circular economy, and international negotiations. field program developing a relational connection to voters. “I have to strike a balance between understanding the security about the 2018-2022 budget only in terms of political choices, One of her main roles is to help transform the European Union. Typically, French campaign outreach had been limited to concerns of the inhabitants and concerns about issues such as without citing numbers. “Apparently I’m doing well, because Poirson was “struck by the lack of collective political ambition for leaflets, posters, and lofty rhetoric. Using data from the Ministry terrorism,” she says. “At the same time, we’re trying to think people quite like to listen to me,” she says with a laugh. She is the environment at the European level. It requires a lot of energy of the Interior and a national statistics and economic research long-term of how we want to form this society together. They have exhilarated by her job but stressed by a constitutional requirement to bring politics back into European negotiations,” she says. institute, lmp mined poll results from every election conducted to adapt to our society, but we also have to adapt to them. It’s a that Parliament pass a budget in no more than 70 days. “Too often bureaucrats end up making crucial decisions. This since 1981 in 67,000 French municipalities. profound change for French society.” has to change. The recent decision on glyphosate [to approve the An algorithm matched census data to voter rolls, pinpointing continued use of a herbicide] proves that it is possible.” neighborhoods that represented the country as a whole. An army A typical week for Poirson includes a clean energy conference of canvassers then began a “listening” campaign, engaging voters ON NOVEMBER 8, Brune Poirson outlined the president’s in Brussels, meeting with venture capitalists, developing common in a dialogue. Some residents, especially immigrants, “were very WHILE AT THE KENNEDY SCHOOL, Amelie de Montchalin energy objectives before the National Assembly. One goal, she policies with heads of Latin American and Caribbean countries, surprised when we came knocking on doors during the campaign, tagged along with American friends campaigning for Obama in noted, is to reduce nuclear power to 50 percent of France’s energy announcing a national action plan for landscape ecology, reviewing because they had never seen either the mayor or a politician,” O 2012. Six months ago, she found herself knocking on doors in mix by 2025 by eliminating 17 reactors. At this, a right-leaning studies on endocrine disruptors and herbicides, and almost daily recalls. She says she and other mps are committed to maintaining the 6th district of Essonne, a rural area 15 kilometers south of Republican MP shouted, “Stop this!” Another interjected, “The National Assembly committee meetings. the momentum of interacting directly with constituents, which is Paris. Farmers asked why she wasn’t home with her husband and time of the campaign is over!” “The future belongs to renewable Poirson, 35, who lived for five years in India working with global why she heads to the street markets at least one or two days a week. children. Their curiosity about her unorthodox approach eventually energy,” Poirson continued, while Republicans jeered and environmental and energy company Veolia to bring running water As the world awaits the results of Macron’s ambitious led to dialogues about local and national issues. applause broke out among Macron’s La République En Marche! to slum dwellers in South Asia, is “emblematic of the new Macron undertaking, lmp is growing with help from venture capital. Ganz Now, as whip of the National Assembly’s finance committee, (rem) representatives. O, who also deals with controversial issues, generation," a journalist wrote during the campaign—young, predicts that lmp’s tools will be in high demand. “When somebody de Montchalin has the daunting task of realigning France’s says that despite rem’s majority in the National Assembly, “a lot of passionate, tireless. “It’s an amazing job, being part of the French wins, and wins in a novel way, everybody wants in on that,” he fiscal framework. Working as an economist for an international old-school ways and attitudes remain.” government at such a turning point in French history,” Poirson says. says. “The world is watching to see where this goes.” insurance firm didn’t fully prepare her for a governmental budget Poirson says the government needs to come up with a realistic De Montchalin, Poirson, and O were among more than 14,000 Liegey considers himself an idealist. “We would never work for that many view as a black box. It had become a ritual for citizens timeline for converting to alternative and innovative sustainable potential parliamentary candidates fielded by Macron, who a populist candidate like Marine Le Pen, or Donald Trump, or the to expect rude surprises each September, when drastic cuts were energy sources. Energy storage, she notes, is a major technical disseminated videos encouraging women to apply. Macron’s Brexit campaign,” he says. He adds that although the firm sold its announced. It’s taken de Montchalin months to “establish a clear challenge. But “we think that climate and nuclear are not centrist coalition claimed a landslide 350 seats out of 577, a software to several parties during the National Assembly elections, and fact-based understanding of what the problems are, where antinomic, contrary to what some would like to suggest,” she says. commanding majority, and achieved compliance for the first they are committed progressives. Most important, they changed the money was spent, and where we need to put more,” she says. Born in Washington, DC, but raised in one of France’s most time with a French law requiring men and women to be equally the very nature of politics in France. “Our policy is to propose a fiscal and tax framework that will help underprivileged districts, Poirson represents Vaucluse’s third represented in Parliament. lmp’s approach is not unique, Liegey says. “It’s not American. the country stop accumulating big debts and allow real change to district in southern France, where she defeated the right-wing “I’m hopeful we will deliver the real, profound change It’s not French. We are all human beings. Direct, face-to-face happen in France.” National Front. The district had previously been represented by we promised,” O says. “Because if we fail, nationalism contact is something very powerful.” The French have a deeply ingrained cultural belief that public Marion Marechal-Le Pen, a popular politician in France and the and Europhobia will take over. I hope that in five years, — spending is always good, she says. But with public spending at 57 niece of Marine Le Pen, the head of the National Front. Poirson French society will be more confident, more open and less Deborah Halber is a freelance journalist, science writer, and author percent of gdp, many still subsist below the poverty line. “We should campaigned for months, finishing up her studies at HKS from conservative. This is definitely the most exciting time to be in of The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America’s be the richest, most comfortable, luxurious country in the world,” the campaign field. “It was a very harsh campaign, but intense French politics in the past 50 years.” Coldest Cases. PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE SUBJECT THE OF COURTESY PHOTOS XENIA VIRAGH KENT DAYTON, 20 www.hks.harvard.edu winter 2018 | harvard kennedy school 21

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Abdi Ismail Isse mc/mpa 2017 counted 21 air strikes that night in July. The bombs, landing near his Red Cross office in Saada, in northern Yemen, caused every wall and window to shake. “We had Red Cross flags on the roof to minimize the possibility of a mistake and no one in our office was hurt,” Ismail Isse said. “But there were airplanes hovering overhead and you held your breath because at any moment a bomb or missile could land.” Others weren’t so lucky: dozens of civilians, including many children, were killed in and around Saada during the bombing campaign that became another gruesome chapter in a civil war that has raged since 2015. Ismail BY CHRIS KRAUL | PHOTOS BY HANI MOHAMMED Isse was in Yemen to direct delivery of humanitarian aid in the war-ravaged country where basic public services, including health care, drinking water, and food have collapsed due to the conflict. At the beginning of 2018 Ismail Isse moved to a new position in Iraq, another difficult assignment in a lifetime full of them. His career with the Red Cross has focused on bringing some measure of help and security to those living under the most difficult conditions. It had also been the natural continuation of a very personal journey that began with a childhood in Somalia marked by Ismail Isse’s own flight from a civil war, and which saw him separated from his family, living in refugee camps, and eventually relocating to another country.

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He has faced down kidnappers and was present at an incredible point in history.” narrowly avoided an airdrop of herbicide meant for a coca plantation. Ismail Isse’s ability to inspire trust and size up the political situation Ismail Isse’s job at his various missions was to make sure essential on the ground has helped make him an excellent humanitarian, said the Seeing all these hands medical care, food, and water arrived to places where the normal icrc’s Vial. “His team spirit, his capacity to work in harmony with other reach out to me triggered distribution of such services has been disrupted. But he was much more colleagues, his ability to connect and adapt with various cultures are all my decision to pursue than a traffic cop. The icrc counted on him to assess local security and great strengths of his,” he said. “He is also a good analyst of political and a career providing negotiate with warring parties to let them know where and when aid- social situations and can communicate and share that in oral and written givers were operating, so as to minimize the risk that his staff would be form in a very nice way.” assistance to people caught in a cross fire as they passed through disputed territory. Ismail Isse’s own experience allows him to connect in a special affected by conflicts. Risks for aid workers like Ismail Isse and others are on the rise, said way to those whose lives have been upended by conflict. In Liberia, ABDI ISMAIL ISSE mc/mpa 2017 Patrick Vial mc/mpa 1995, Ismail Isse’s former superior in Somalia and Ismail Isse worked at a large refugee camp that was scaling down after now director of European and South Asia operations at the Geneva-based receiving thousands of displaced Ivory Coast residents fleeing civil war. icrc, which lost 10 workers to violence in 2017. Although most Ivorians had returned home, many unaccompanied “The world in which we work is getting more dangerous because of minors were still there and one of Ismail Isse’s key tasks was to reunite class, but I felt I didn’t deserve it. I was a little like the soldier who leaves a A course on civil wars, taught by Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl, a visiting the fragmentation of the various armed groups,” Vial said. “Twenty years them with their families. battlefield, still wanting to be part of the common struggle.” professor, was especially enlightening because it traced the genesis ago, it was a situation of a government in conflict with a single opposition He became particularly attached to an eight-year-old Ivorian boy Those feelings, and having a stepfather who was a role model and of several conflicts from their political roots and “back-room armed group. Now if you look at Syria or Yemen you have dozens of armed named Mohammed, or Mo for short, who had crossed over into Liberia committed to humanitarian aid, were decisive factors in Ismail Isse’s diplomacy” stages. groups that fight each other or challenge the government, making it more alone and who was now stranded there with no identification. After decision to go into his line of work. It was a visit to the Democratic Republic “It was the class where I absorbed the most, because it connected difficult for us to connect and establish humanitarian dialogue.” “months and months” of inquiries through the ICRC’s extensive network, of Congo with his stepfather—who was there to provide medical care to the experiences I was exposed to and created a bridge for my ambition Ismail Isse developed those negotiating skills in tense situations, Ismail Isse located Mo’s family and arranged a reunion with them across Rwandan refugees—that sealed his decision. “I helped distribute food and to get involved in conflict management and resolution at the multilateral during “edgy encounters” with the Taliban in Afghanistan, with the Ivory Coast border, one of 35 repatriations he managed. seeing all these hands reach out to me triggered my decision to pursue a level,” Ismail Isse said. bejeweled and armed extortion gang leaders in southern Nigeria, and “Mo was very shy and missed his mother a lot,” Ismail Isse said. “It career providing assistance to people affected by conflicts,” Ismail Isse said. He will need those analytical skills in his most recent posting, as the with battle-hardened commanders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of was a happy day when I signed his travel documents and accompanied In 2013, Ismail Isse’s work with the Red Cross brought him back to Red Cross’s deputy head of delegation in Baghdad. The Red Cross has Colombia (farc). In each case, unusual and unforeseen obstacles had him to the border and waved goodbye. Needless to say, Mo’s story Somalia. After a generation lost to bloody clan warfare, a central governing had a large presence in Iraq ever since the U.S. invasion. It’s also a place to be overcome. reminded me of my experience as a refugee, how much I missed my authority was finally being reestablished. For nearly three years, he helped of tragic significance for his agency: In 2003, a dozen Red Cross workers On his first Red Cross mission in Afghanistan where he was stationed mother when we became separated and the happiness I felt at being reestablish basic services in areas that had been without them since the were killed in a suicide bombing at its headquarters there. from 2009 to 2010, Ismail Isse had to persuade Taliban leaders and reunited with her.” early 1990s, managing a $25 million budget and 63 staffers. And he used Ismail Isse will also be taking with him other things he gained other warlords that he was not an American soldier, which many of his his negotiating skills, this time with the Al-Shabab rebel group that is allied from his time at hks. As an Emirates Leadership Initiative Fellow, he suspicious interlocutors assumed because the only black men many had with Al Qaeda. participated in weekly seminars at the Center for Public Leadership ever seen were members of the U.S. armed forces. IN 1989, AT THE ONSET OF A CIVIL WAR that would last more than two “For the first time in my career at the icrc, I was able to see and where he and others shared professional and personal challenges. “When I told them I was a Muslim from Somalia and that my name decades, Ismail Isse, then just 10, and his family were forced to flee the hear unfiltered what was going on,” Ismail Isse said. “People in the During one session, a fellow student’s recitation of President was Islamic, everything changed,” Ismail Isse said. “Even the Taliban country. They were swept up in the exodus of 1 million Somalis escaping communities saw me as one of their own and were fully aware I had a Theodore Roosevelt’s famous “Man in the Arena” speech resonated commanders with whom I negotiated invited me to sit and have tea, their homeland’s anarchy and suffering, which had been brought on by position of responsibility. But there was so much pressure to do more, give deeply with him. watermelon, and nuts. The initial interaction was tense but I ended up brutal clan warfare. Ismail Isse, his father, and a dozen other relatives more food, build more hospitals, more than the available resources would “It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how receiving an incredible level of hospitality from people who had little fled from the city of Baidoa in a crammed open lorry, arriving three days allow. That’s always the challenge.” the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done materially to give.” (The risks in Afghanistan persist, as evidenced last later at the UN-administered Hartisheik refugee camp in Ethiopia, joining Notwithstanding the frustrations, Ismail Isse with his “contextual them better,” Roosevelt famously said. “The credit belongs to the man February when six Red Cross employees in a convoy carrying supplies 250,000 other displaced Somalis. knowledge” of Somalia and “humanitarian imperative” made his presence who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat to an Afghan region hit by snowstorms were killed by suspected Islamic Ismail Isse’s mother, who had divorced his father years before felt, said Red Cross colleague Alfonso Verdu Perez. and blood.” State rebels.) and remarried an Italian surgeon doing aid work in Djibouti, became “All of his work, energy, study, and management of difficult situations The words hold special meaning for Ismail Isse, providing In Colombia, where the Red Cross gave aid to isolated jungle separated from her son in the chaos and had no idea where he was. had but one goal: to protect and assist people affected by conflict in consolation when the resources at his disposal fall short of the communities cut off by civil conflict, Ismail Isse faced another challenge. It would take her nine months to find him. A year later, Ismail Isse, his Somalia,” said Perez, now deputy head of the icrc ’s Somalia delegation. overwhelming needs he encounters. He had to regain the trust of farc rebels that had been shattered mother, sister and stepfather moved to a suburb of Milan, Italy, where he ”He pushed and pushed to be in the field. For Abdi, the field is as necessary “On my difficult days in the field, when I feel tired, lonely, and by the government’s illegal use of Red Cross insignia in a dramatic attended middle and high school. He later took a degree in development as fresh air. He became a role model for many, including myself.” overwhelmed by the sufferings of others,” he says, “I often re-read ‘Man 2008 operation to rescue hostages (the emblems had been used by studies and history at the University of London. Ismail Isse arrived at the Kennedy School in 2016. He was exhausted in the Arena.’” government commandos to fool rebels into thinking they were on a “I was plagued with feelings of guilt at having left everyone behind at from his work, but excited to change approach. He wanted his time at — humanitarian mission). the Hartisheik camp, where my father and other relatives had to stay for the school to help transition his career away from strictly humanitarian “It was dangerous,” Ismail Isse said. “This was before the farc a year-and-a-half before moving back to northern Somalia,” Ismail Isse aid administration, which he describes as an essential but “short term Chris Kraul, a former foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, is a entered into peace negotiations, when the government was still bombing said. “I arrived in Italy as a full Italian citizen and member of a privileged approach,” toward an emphasis on conflict resolution and “peace building.” freelance writer based in Bogotá, Colombia.

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“WE SHAPE OUR BUILDINGS, AND AFTERWARDS OUR BUILDINGS SHAPE US.” Dean Doug Elmendorf remembered those words, first uttered by Winston Churchill, at the ribbon cutting for the school’s transformed central campus in December, including the new Ofer, Rubenstein, and Wexner buildings. More than simply the addition of 91,000 square feet of new space for teaching, studying, collaborating, and socializing, the project was an ambitious renewal, creating a unified campus organized around the school’s mission without diluting the school’s vital energy. “Our buildings are the structural framework for our lives here,” Elmendorf PHOTOS BY continued. “Here important ideas will be born and nurtured. Generations PETER VANDERWARKER of students will learn from world-class scholars and practitioners. The MARTHA STEWART public leaders of the day will be strengthened to face their challenges, TOM FITZSIMMONS and the public leaders of the future will set their plans in motion.”

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WHAT MADE THE CAMPUS TRANSFORMATION PROJECT unique, according to those closest to the project, was that such a major undertaking was conducted in the midst of a busy campus where teaching and research carried on as usual. For more than two years, entrances and pathways Since the school’s move were rerouted, workstations were relocated, and for those to its current site, almost individuals with offices overlooking the building site, drilling 40 years ago, the Forum has been the heart and and hammering were also part of the new environment. soul of the Kennedy But watching the new central campus take shape School. That energy was also a fascinating and exciting experience, one remains intact as the new that in many ways brought the faculty, staff, and lounge area (top), the visitors to the campus together. expanded dining service And most would agree that the temporary (right), and the stairs all hardship was more than worth it. Students, flow seamlessly into the iconic space. faculty, and staff now enjoy an expanded dining space that seats 200 people, a spacious new lounge area that looks out onto the glass-enclosed Wexner Commons, and finally, links between the new buildings and the original ones, making the new campus one that truly brings the community together.

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THE KENNEDY SCHOOL has always worked to make sure that its teaching matched its intellectual distinction. The new teaching spaces at the heart of the transformed campus are an expression of that commitment. The school added two tiered classrooms that can seat about 100 students and four “cluster” classrooms that allow students to switch between whole-class and small group discussions—as well as smaller rooms for studying and breakout groups. Increased classroom capacity enables the school to expand the availability of Cheng Fellows and the Social some courses that had traditionally been oversubscribed. It also gives the school the Innovation + Change Initiative opportunity to take a “portfolio” approach—matching courses to the teaching spaces present their projects in the that best suit their needs. A traditional tiered classroom, for example, is optimal for David T. Ellwood Democracy case teaching, while a new cluster classroom allows for more student-to-student Lab (Ellwood pictured at left). interaction. Technology in the new classrooms offers interactivity both within Features such as the folding and outside the room. That is, one group’s work can be easily shared via accordion walls (bottom left) give these spaces incredible a central screen with the rest of the class, allowing students’ learning to flexibility. become more visible to the teacher and to their fellow students. And by connecting the class to the outside world, the school can use its convening power to bring in experts and leaders via remote video or audio links. “Both The 11 team rooms scattered the layout and the enhanced technology of the new cluster classrooms increase throughout the new buildings opportunities for active learning through peer engagement in group work,” says offer crucial space for small Suzanne Cooper, the academic dean for teaching and curriculum and the Edith Stokey study groups. Senior Lecturer in Public Policy. The new environment also favors innovation, says Dan Levy, senior lecturer and faculty chair of slate, the school’s learning and teaching initiative. “Space offers nudges for faculty to experiment,” he says, “and then bring those techniques back to other classrooms.”

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SUSTAINABILITY WAS WOVEN INTO the very fabric of the campus renewal project from the start. Making the new campus a more healthful place to learn and work, addressing climate change, and building a resilient campus were project priorities. The Wexner Commons and the new courtyard will provide year-round access Being surrounded by to green space, as will more plants throughout the campus. New furniture and nature, and by the carpeting, a green cleaning program, more access to daylight, and even better food right kind of nature, is were all part of the push to enhance well-being. important. The campus The new buildings are aiming for the highest level of environmental and offers green spaces, energy certification (leed Platinum). The energy use was designed to be indoor and out, with a one-third better than the industry standard. Some 150 solar panels will focus on plants that are native and sustainable. A offer a renewable energy option. And no cfc-based refrigerants (a major lot of care was also taken greenhouse gas contributor) will be used to serve the new buildings. to keep existing trees The buildings will also be more resistant to the impacts of climate intact, such as the ones change, with critical equipment situated on higher floors or flood-proofed gracing the alley. in order to avoid the possible effects of flooding. The 66,000-gallon rainwater collection tank, which will reduce irrigation water usage by more than half, also More healthful products and materials provides overflow protection during severe rain or flooding events. in the built environment are important for the well-being of people, so reducing “The project has been an unparalleled opportunity for hks to ‘walk the talk’ of harmful chemicals by installing new its research and teaching on sustainable development,” says Bill Clark, Brooks carpeting and furniture was a focus of the Professor of International Science, Public Policy, and Human Development. campus transformation. CO. ENNEDY LEE OF COURTESY PHOTO AERIAL 32 www.hks.harvard.edu www.hks.harvard.edu e hd keed schl 33

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WHILE SOCIETY HAS EALIED ENOOUS ECONOIC ADANCES over the last several decades, these gains have not been shared equally, according to World Bank ce KRANA EOREA, who delivered the 01 obert S. cNamara Lecture on War and Peace last fall. “We are healthier,” she said. “We are wealthier. Some of us in this room, because of advancements in technology, are going to live to be 10.” However, she warned, “behind the averages, we ought to recognize a very ugly trend in far too many places, and it is where extreme poverty is not only not shrinking, it is actually growing.” NICHOLAS POSI NICHOLAS When obert S. cNamara retired from the World Bank as its president in 11, Georgieva said, percent of society lived in poverty. Today, poverty has shrunk to 00 million out of a . billion U population about 11 percent. However, intractable wars and steep population growth have sunk much of the world’s population into even greater poverty. “Climate change has also impacted poor countries disproportionately hard,” she noted. “If you look at the extreme weather over the last years, time and again it would devastate already impoverished populations. Countries that are wealthier, with “The problem I’m “GE is going to be worried about is “The carrots are not better institutions, can withstand these shocks much better. Poor  ne. Caterpillar is subsidized and the “Resigning would countries, fragile countries, cannot.” that we don’t have big enough . . . they The World Bank, Georgieva said, is redoubling its efforts to help enough AI. The junk food is, and that’s not have been people living in these fragile states through increased funding, “The long-awaited know how to work the absurdity of it.” doing my job.” gender equality promotion, improvements in long-term sustainability, robots aren’t coming “I’m watching the and the advancement of collective action across communities. “I global recovery is around the world.” M P A A fast enough.” ship sinking.” cannot think of any problem that is related to fragility that a single taking hold—is Penny Pritzker, founder and ason Furman, ennedy School eh ohnson, secretary of the chairman of PSP Capital and K A country can solve on its own, not one,” she said. The bank’s mission, taking root.” professor of the practice of economic Department of Homeland Security former commerce secretary, P P Georgieva concluded, is to “make sure that together we make what International Monetary Fund policy, about how policymakers from 01 to 01, about about how the benefi ciaries N obert cNamara dreamt of—a ust world where absolute poverty Managing Director Christine need to do a better job of showing the chances of protecting of trade agreements are does not exist anymore.” Lagarde about positive change in the public that artifi cial intelligence Dreamers despite strong predominantly small- and

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geopolitical implications of this new energy model, “government organization and For evidence, the book draws on the A environment, particularly for America’s use approaches need to fully recognize the Perceptions of Electoral Integrity expert Odd Arne Westad, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations of both hard and so power. For example, change from closed, professionally directed survey, both to monitor and rank the she argues that energy abundance enhanced systems to open, participatory ones.” quality of national elections worldwide and the ability of the United States to impose Goldsmith, director of the Innovations to determine the threats and opportunities an expansive view of the e ects of the Cold War, sanctions against Iran—a precursor to the deal limiting Iran’s in Government Program, has  rsthand facing electoral assistance. Chapters analyze not only on the superpowers most closely identi ed with it, the nuclear program—because increased U.S. oil production mitigated experience with municipal governance as a former deputy mayor e orts to reform electoral laws—including a wave of gender quota United States and the Soviet Union, but on the whole world, taking the economic risk of removing Iranian oil from the market. In of New York and a mayor of Indianapolis. Kleiman is a clinical laws—to strengthen the role of independent media, to regulate the reader from China to the Middle East, Latin America to India, addition, an increase in gas production helped facilitate renewed assistant professor at New York University’s Wagner School of political  nance, and to improve voter registration.  e evidence to demonstrate that “the con ict between socialism and capitalism U.S. leadership in climate change measures under the Obama Public Service.  eir proposed O/S of governance is forti ed by indicates that such programs have o en bolstered electoral profoundly in uenced how people lived their lives and how they administration, according to O’Sullivan. three building blocks facilitated by new technology: government integrity, justifying continued international e orts. thought about politics, both at a local and global scale.”  e author, who served as the deputy national security designed around the user experience of the citizen, decisions Westad traces the roots of the con ict back to the 1890s, advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan during the George W. Bush that value acting in time, and a socio-technical ecosystem that when a global economic crisis sparked administration, also outlines how this change a ects other encompasses data-empowered public employees and third-party P P a radicalization among socialists and a countries: Russia, for example, has engaged in increased foreign collaborations that rely on distributed learning and value.  ese P M rise in U.S. anti-communism that would adventurism spurred by economic woes tied to sanctions and building blocks depend on the use of data analytics and digital Edited by Arnold M. Howitt, Lecturer in Public Policy, de ne the ideological divide of the Cold energy abundance. And the Middle East, long the world’s services and on the creation of a system that includes procedures Herman B. “Dutch” Leonard, George F. Baker Professor of Public War. He also points to the development of center for oil, will have to adapt to a new environment, with and changes in organizational culture to improve operations. Management, and David W. Giles, associate director of the Program the United States and Russia into empires the possibility of economic and political reform that bolsters  e book examines close to 100 innovations and innovation on Crisis Leadership at  with growing international missions at the region. models in U.S. cities to discern the one-o improvements that a the turn of the century. O’Sullivan concludes by proposing ways for the United new O/S could dramatically extend. It also highlights the role of  e Cold War shaped many major States to use energy as a means to achieve foreign policy goals. citizens and nonpro ts in e ecting improvement and innovation Howitt, Leonard, and Giles present 15 case studies historical events of the 20th century, as the “Understanding the new global dynamics created by energy markets in government.  e authors provide speci c implementation on how the public health system has handled recent crises, with author details.  e Korean War, he writes, awash in oil and gas—and eventually renewable sources—could be recommendations, but also acknowledge that such a system would potential lessons for the issues that will inevitably arise in the future. was among the biggest calamities resulting from it.  e war not only as important as discerning the role of radical extremism, infectious be challenging to implement on a widespread basis. Its adoption  e case studies are focused on outbreaks of infectious disease, devastated Korea but brought fear to countries around the world disease, nuclear proliferation, or climate change on global a airs,” would, they say, help facilitate more citizen participation and trust bioterrorism, and events, including natural disasters, that demanded that a similar disaster could happen to them, according to Westad, she writes. in government. changes in how the public health system responded.  ey include who also examines the Cuban missile crisis, the Vietnam War, and the outbreak of the West Nile virus in New Arab-Israeli con ict through the prism of the Cold War. York and  in Toronto, the response Although Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to disband the Soviet A N O E of New York City hospitals to Superstorm Union and thus end the Cold War, its legacy continues to hold P O Pippa Norris, Paul McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics Sandy and evacuations from Gulf Coast sway in foreign a airs, Westad contends, including in U.S. military Stephen Goldsmith, Daniel Paul Professor of the Practice of at , Laureate Professor of Government and International hurricanes, and anthrax threats before and campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. And the biggest threat of the Government, and Neil Kleiman Relations, Sydney University a er 9/11. Cold War, weapons of mass destruction, still looms today. In an introduction, the editors provide a conceptual framework for understanding o er the best opportunity a trilogy for Cambridge University the spectrum of emergency situations that in a century to improve the quality of, and trust in, local Press examining why electoral integrity matters, why elections can arise.  ey categorize some emergencies N E A P governance. Yet these advances are thwarted by an outdated fail, and what can be done to improve the quality of contests as routine—not necessarily less hazardous, but anticipatable. For A P government operating system (O/S) that prizes rules and uniform worldwide.  is  nal book in the series evaluates the e ectiveness these situations, responders can plan, prepare personnel, and learn of the international community in working with local stakeholders from past experience—for example, by advising relief workers on Meghan L. O’Sullivan, Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice practices over results. More than 100 years ago, municipal to remedy  awed and failed elections. Attempts at democracy how to protect water supplies in the event of a natural disaster, of International A airs governments adopted an operating model that professionalized the workforce along with strict regulations and uniform promotion encounter a prevailing mood of skepticism following or conducting public health campaigns on acute health issues. In practices. A New City O/S proposes a way to unleash innovation e orts in countries such as Libya, Afghanistan, and Iraq, and contrast, a crisis entails novelty, an unprecedented event or problem, most experts in the  eld agreed that the supply by restructuring government practices. Calling their approach backsliding in hybrid regimes, such as Turkey, the Philippines, such as the anthrax-laden letters the U.S. Postal Service had to of energy would continue to dwindle, causing economic upheaval “distributed governance,” Goldsmith and Kleiman o er a model that and Venezuela. Despite the pessimism, the book documents how face. Further, they explain, crises may be sudden, occurring with and even possibly military con ict that could destabilize relations allows public o cials to collaborate in new, more comprehensive international assistance has in fact o en achieved its goals— dramatic visibility, or a routine emergency that over time transforms between world powers.  at didn’t happen, as O’Sullivan writes: ways that will arm employees with the information they need to boosting the numbers of women in o ce, for example, and into a novel occurrence. “Because the di erences between routine Not only did energy prices plunge but technological changes in oil become preemptive problem solvers. making campaign  nancing more transparent. Norris, who directs emergencies and crises are profound,” the editors write, “the and gas extraction led to an abundance of supply that has caused As the authors argue in their book, the once-radical and the Electoral Integrity Project, argues that when local partners question for leaders in emergencies, not least in public health, is unanticipated repercussions. necessary bureaucratic approach that de nes accountability implement international electoral assistance this can help advance whether they and their organizations can be truly ambidextrous,” O’Sullivan, who runs the Geopolitics of Energy Project at the as following the rules, not as producing results, can no longer human rights and electoral integrity; such e orts di er from the use ready for both types. Belfer Center for Science and International A airs, details the adequately serve constituents. In their distributed governance of military force.

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I was the at William and Mary in Williamsburg, Vir- just turned 70 and can still easily stand on head of the International Finance Bureau ginia. I want to learn skydiving.” his hands! and also served as personal secretary to Bob Rhodes mc/mpa was honored to the fi nance minister. From 1995, I worked t 1969 receive the Governor LeRoy Collins Lifetime for JP Morgan as group senior advisor, until Achievement Award from Leadership Flor- Victor Chen mpa has written several I joined ubs in 2000 as Japan representa- ida. He sends greetings to the class of 1973. books, available from amazon.com and tive and vice chairman. In 2003, I became barnesandnoble.com. Amendments, cor- chairman of Toyo Gakuen University in rections, and further writings are avail- Tokyo. I am grateful for the hks program t 1974 able on his Facebook page. and hope to be of any help.” Linda Levy Laughlin mc/mpa writes, Jack Underhill mc/mpa is planning to “One year after being at the Kennedy Robert Gallamore mpa, phd stayed at present a paper at the next conference of School, I left Washington, DC, and Harvard for PhD joint degree in political the American Society for Public Administra- embarked on a phd program at the Univer- economy and government in 1968. “Wrote tion on “In Search of National Health sity of Michigan in Organizational Psychol- a book with Professor John Meyer, Ameri- Equity: A Strategy to Improve Health Out- ogy. During its completion I moved to New can Railroads: Decline and Renaissance in comes for Low- and Moderate-Income York and for 10 years was in senior man- the 20th Century (Harvard 2014). Now Americans.” For the past 10 years he has agement at two national not-for-profi t working on Rails to the Domes. Anyone presented papers at the aspa conference organizations, simultaneously training as a interested in state capitals/capitols and on poverty-related issues. psychoanalyst. I have been in private prac- railroads? Let me know.” tice for 25 years but miss involvement in David Reese mpa writes, “Since serving t 1970 public policy and service and seek at least as a member of a Harvard group of advi- volunteer work in the fi eld.” sors to the Pakistani government and Dan Chill mc/mpa writes, “Since 2003, I mpp writes, “I am a graduate working 20 years with the World Bank, have been managing in Tel Aviv the Flash Wiley of 1974, receiving jointly a jd from the Law have kept busy consulting, traveling, fi n- world’s only international naive art gal- School and an mpp from hks. I am the fi rst ishing marathons in Dublin and Honolulu, lery, gina Gallery (ginagallery.com), African-American graduate from the Joint and writing a history of Liberia (which which procures, markets, and sells the Degree Program. I am also the inaugural should be available by the end of 2017).” naive art of more than 250 artists from 37 recipient in 2005 of the Donald Stewart countries worldwide. I discovered the Alumni Achievement Award from the hks genre while traveling throughout the t 1966 Black Alumni Organization. I was also the world as an international commercial “founding mentor” of the annual Black Alexander Jordis-Lohausen mpa write, lawyer. The art displayed at gina Gallery Policy Conference. Nowadays, I am senior “My lifetime career fi nished nearly two affords a welcome contrast to the chaotic counsel of Morgan Lewis & Bockius llp law decades ago. I won’t revert to it. Today I life pervading the outside world, under- fi rm. I am staying busy civically as follows: would be more than a dinosaur in this scoring my belief that we are at the dawn- I just stepped off the board of visitors of fi eld. More interesting might be to note ing of the age of naivism (a word coined my alma mater, the U.S. Air Force Acad- that in that period that followed, I was by me), a genre whose time has come.” suddenly, and by pure chance, called into emy; I am currently chairman of the board an activity which has always been close to of visitors of the Air University and the my heart: I became opera critic and Paris t 1972 chairman of the celebrated Dimock Health correspondent of the German periodical David Wheat mpp is retiring from the Center in Boston; and I am a member of Operapoint. For the past seven years I University of Bergen in Norway, where he the executive committee of the Greater have selected and reviewed the most fas- was a professor. He will return to the Boston Chamber of Commerce.” cinating performances in the four théatres United States in 2018 and reside in Colo- lyriques of the French capital. What else rado. He will stay busy, teaching fi ve t 1975 do I do? I write historic novels and tell courses online plus one onsite in Lithu- mc/mpa writes, “Finally fairy-tales to children and adults in ania. His economic systems research in Gary Van Valin going to retire for good come January 2018. Parisian hospitals.” Ukraine will also continue. If you’re in the Albuquerque or Santa Fe area, give me a call. Cheers.” K t 1968 t 1973 B M Frank Popper mc/mpa writes, “I still teach Christopher Palmer mpa is an environ- t 1976 land-use planning at Rutgers and, with my mental fi lm producer, professor, speaker, mcrp is the 2017 recipient of wife, Deborah Popper, a retired geogra- and author. He serves on American Univer- Marilyn Hett the James Felt Creative Counseling Award pher, at Princeton. Our Buffalo Commons sity’s full-time faculty as Distinguished from The Counselors of Real Estate (cre®) work on the land-use future of the U.S. and Film Producer in Residence at the School of professional association. The award cel- Canadian Great Plains remains active. So Communication. His books include Shoot- ebrates outstanding achievement and does our parallel work on shrinking cities ing in the Wild (Sierra Club Books, 2010);

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member of the cre organization. She leadership style with their counterparts in in communications at the University of founded and continues to lead a 501(c)(3) Russ Lopez mcrp writes, “I have used my three offspring teaching at African Leader- advised and sometimes mentored more the West. Life in China is fascinating and a Sydney. I’m now president of the New that has restored and maintains tidal flows degree to write urban history books: Bos- ship Academy, pioneering disability main- than 80 mostly nonprofi t organizations lot of lessons to be learned.” South Wales branch of the Australian Insti- to a salt marsh on Cape Cod Bay. ton 1945–2015, Boston’s South End: The streaming, and working on PhD in philoso- that applied for fi nancial assistance to the tute of International Affairs, with four Clash of Ideas in a Historic Neighborhood, phy — vicarious enlightenment. Enjoying Chuck Dolan mc/mpa continues to work Hillsborough County (Florida) Historic Pres- books under my belt. Writing, I fi nd, is a Building American Public Health: Urban long daily Buddhist tradition forest walks t 1978 on international communications/PR ervation Challenge Grant Program. She good cure for rds (Relevance Deprivation Planning, Architecture, and the Quest for with my big white dog, Diva. Miss The issues as senior vice president at kglobal. continued to counsel them about their Richard Broinowski mc/mpa writes, Syndrome). It keeps one off the streets.” Better Public Health in the United States.” Great O.” President Clinton appointed him to two construction or preservation plans for “After graduating with a Mid-Career mpa in Eric Hirschhorn hksee, with the advent terms as vice chairman of the Advisory Erik Ferguson mcrp writes, “I have finally historic buildings, fundraising, and imple- 1978, I returned to the Australian Foreign of a new administration, retired from his Commission on Public Diplomacy. t 1982 completed my paper on decision making, mentation process to ensure successful Service. I was Australia’s ambassador to position as U.S. under secretary of com- at least in draft form, as required by my completion of projects. Vietnam from 1983 to 1985, then ambas- John MacIlroy mc/mpa writes, “After M. Gasby Greely Brown mc/mpa has merce. He and his wife are doing consider- original contract with Harvard University sador to the Republic of Korea from 1987 to years in law and political advocacy (con- become a subject matter expert in non- Shalom Saada Saar mpa writes, “Life has able traveling; between trips, he’s prepar- dating back (apparently without my knowl- 1989. From 1990 to 1992, I took a break currently teaching graduate courses as an profit philanthropy. She serves on the been challenging and rewarding. After a ing a new edition of The Export Control & edge or consent) to 1969. Talk to the man from diplomacy and was appointed gen- adjunct professor), I retired to the Caro- faculty of the renowned The Fund Raising short tenure at mit and publishing my Embargo Handbook, serving as a DC for more details.” eral manager of Australia’s overseas lina coast, where I now write. My first School (tfrs) at Indiana University’s Lilly book by Jossey-Bass, Leading With Convic- Court of Appeals hearing committee mem- broadcasting service, Radio Australia. I book has just been released, a coau- Family School of Philanthropy and is a David Kirk mcrp writes, “After a Rotary tion, I moved to China as a full-time profes- ber, and serving as a senior advisor to the “Now getting returned to diplomacy in 1993 and was thored collection of “mostly true” stories. practicing fundraising consultant. Gasby scholarship to Australia, I spent 12 years sor of leadership at Shanghai Jiao Tong Center for Strategic & International Stud- appointed ambassador to Mexico from In the tradition of writers like Bill Bryson, in shape is a cofounder of Bridge Philanthropic as a planner at the Atlanta Regional Com- University. My work, besides teaching and ies. He’s also working hard to satisfy the 1994 to 1997, jointly accredited to the Cen- Not Exactly Rocket Scientists and Other Consulting (bpc) and the ceo of The Gasby mission, leaving after the 1996 Olympics consulting for global organizations, Fitbit gods by putting in at least 10,000 for some tral American Republics and Cuba, where I Stories is a nostalgic nod to the magic of Group (tgg). Both are premier philan- to attend Michigan Law School. I gradu- focuses on comparing Chinese executives’ steps a day. got to know Fidel Castro quite well. On friendship. With traction from early book overseas thropic consulting firms. Her specialties ated with my jd in 1999, returned to retirement, I became an adjunct professor Jose Candido Senna mc/mpa writes, endorsements by novelist Pat Conroy and humanitarian are annual giving and capital campaigns, Atlanta, and am now a partner at Troutman “After leaving hks, I have been involved Tony Dow (who played Wally Cleaver on board development, and strategic plan- Sanders, where my practice focuses on with transportation projects, mainly on Leave It to Beaver), I am now busy promot- work. Open ning. She is the author of The Business of a telecommunications law, development and intermodal, ports, and air areas. Their key ing the book, as well as finishing up sev- to ideas and Spiritual Matter: A Primer for Faith Based redevelopment (such as the Atlanta Belt- focus has been on the enhancement of the eral short fiction stories, scheduled for Non Profit Leaders and 7 Fatal Flaws of Line), and other state and local regulatory Brazilian international trade fl ow’s competi- spring publication.” volunteer Non Profit Boards. matters. I am married to a landscape archi- tiveness. Since then, this experience has s tect/planner; we have two wonderful Richard Sumpter mc/mpa writes, “I opportunities.” Joseph Buonaiuto mc/mpa migrates timulated my professional activities on daughters, one just started in the honors retired from epa (Kansas City Regional during the year between three homes in MAKE YOUR NETWORK internationalization of companies’ projects, Jon Elam program at the University of Michigan, the Office) on September 2, 2017, after 27 mc/mpa 1981 southern California, northern New Mexico embracing logistics, trade fi nance, innova- other is a junior in high school. We live in years there and 47 years of federal service. and his ancestral village of Pietrelcina, tion, and sustainability, with very special the city of Decatur.” I also had seven years with fema and 13 Italy where he is the director of the Fon- attention to small and medium sized enter- years with the “War on Poverty” (Office of dazione Italo-American di Pietrelcina, a Alexandria Panehal mc/mpa is finishing prises (SMEs) and on the potential of Economic Opportunity) from 1968 to 1981. nonprofit supporter of community youth up a 34-year career with the U.S. Agency foreign investments for them. The imple- Since 1989, I have taught over 300 courses and cultural activities. for International Development (usaid). mentation of those projects will play a very as an adjunct instructor and will continue “I have lived and worked in eight coun- important role for the social and economic Guy de Fontgalland mc/mpa, after some to teach at a local university. Thanks to hks tries (so far) and am rounding out my development of Brazil.” 35 years on the road in Asia, Africa and for these opportunities.” career with usaid by teaching national COUNT Europe following graduation from Harvard, Jean Van den Eynde mc/mpa writes, security strategy studies for the next two Find alumni who will make a diff erence in your world. has founded the Northern Institute of “Proud father of three children who lead years at the National War College at Fort t 1981 Development Initiatives (nidi) as a non- interesting lives, are passionate about McNair in Washington, DC. My plan is to profit to assist the development of the their professional pursuits (be they human Jon Elam mc/mpa retired after 50 years of finally retire after the 2018 academic year war-ravaged Northern Province of Sri rights or craft beer), and who have splen- local government service. “Figured resi- so I can carve out time to work on three Lanka. He brings to nidi his years of work did partners - when this is published, we dents did not need a 75-year-old city man- books I have been trying to find time to experience with commercial banks, UNDP, hope there will be four grandchildren. Still ager. Now getting in shape for some over- research and write.” World Bank/ifc and a string of consulting passionate myself about executive search, seas humanitarian work. Open to ideas work for government agencies in Asia, Worth Thomas mc/mpa was elected to for clients in the private and public sec- and volunteer opportunities.” Africa, and Europe. Although he has lived Blue Ridge Y Assembly board of directors tors, a lot for very international board Mark Graham Hanson mcrp, until March and worked most of his life overseas, of North Carolina. appointments. Honored to serve on the 2017, was working as an appellate attorney founding and operating nidi in his native board of an insurance company. Good in the state court public defender’s office land has been his dream, especially in the governance is a permanent quest. Nathalie 1983 in Tallahassee, Florida. “Got a few convic- Submit a context of post-conflict development of the t and I are leading busy professional lives, tions reversed. Now deciding on my next classnote at north of Sri Lanka. Tom Herman hksee reports that his new blessed with good health, and considering act. Finished 58th out of 176 swimmers ken.sc/ documentary, Dateline-Saigon, which Eric-Fenn Elbot mpa writes, “Selling the that at some point we may want to slow (and third in my age group) in 6.5-mile hksclassnote profiles the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting DC-based national security, neuro-tech down and do a bit more traveling.” swim race down the Hudson River in of David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, and company Veritas Scientific Corp. Chairing a September 2017.” r other early skeptics of the Vietnam War, on the web Massachusetts-based media documentary has won a number of awards on the festi- t 1980 Judith Kaplan Karon mpa is happily Find alumni series for Honor the Promise Productions. Update your profi le and val circuit. He expects wide distribution of Eric Cody mcrp, since retiring as a vice retired after 30-plus years at the University contact information Met Dean Allison in Beijing: you must read the film in 2018. president of several National Grid compa- of Minnesota-Duluth. “Living in Sun City- in the online “Destined for War!” Supporting Dean explore the Alumni Directory today. nies in 2003, has been working with elec- Palm Desert, California. Playing bridge, directory at Elmendorf’s quest to position hks as a Verna Barden McDaniel mc/mpa writes, tric cooperatives across the United States volunteering, and enjoying life!” hks.harvard.edu/ North Star in a public sector desperately “My fellow Mid-Career mpa alumni and hks.harvard.edu/alumnidirectory on strategic technology planning and man- alumnidirectory seeking new moorings. Fun helping big- friends, I have retired after a 40-year career aging complex business changes. He also gest ’82 hks Reunion. Honored to have my as of 2015/16. My last position was serving

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as Washtenaw County administrator in Ann campus to teach at UC Berkeley’s Goldman The commission regulates electric, gas, Arbor, Michigan. Tim and I are blessed, as School of Public Policy. In addition to shar- and telecommunication utilities in the our daughter will wed her fiancee, Brandon ing the halls with a couple of friendly fac- state as well as retail energy suppliers and in 2018. I wish all of you the best in life.” ulty faces from our ksg days (Robert Reich transportation companies. The commis- and Michael O’Hare), I get pleasant daily sion is a national leader in promoting Bruce Pitt hksee writes, “I have been reminders of just how dedicated and energy efficiency and renewable energy engaged through the U.S. Treasury Depart- inspiring public policy students can be.” policies and recently approved the nation’s ment to provide expert advice to the gov- first large-scale offshore wind projects off ernments of Puerto Rico and Haiti in deal- the coasts of Maryland and Delaware. He ing with the Puerto Rico debt crisis, and t 1985 also serves on the nine-state Regional modernization of financial systems in Michael Castine mc/mpa writes, Greenhouse Gas Initiative Board. both countries. Wonderful people there. “Serving as a trustee of the governing The education I received at Harvard has mc/mpa writes, “100 council for approximately eight years, I Barbara Lamont been a tremendous asset to my work. words cannot describe my roller coaster of thought I should pass this along to fellow What’s retirement?” a ride since 1985. Moved from nyc to New hks students and alumni: If interested in Orleans, built a teleport, then a TV station, Muhammad Siddiqi mc/mpa writes, the study of the presidency, presidential then a contact center. Survived four days in “I have been writing poetry for quite oral histories, and the secret White House “The my house during Katrina, relocated to Lafay- some time. A small collection of my poems tapes from fdr to Nixon, check out the ette, Louisiana. Had seven grandchildren, has been printed this year as Heights of University of Virginia’s Miller Center web- education married 58 years, now ceo of a multilingual, Sublimation. These poems reflect my site at millercenter.org.” I received multichannel government Call Center serv- observations, feelings, and emotions Tessie Tzavaras Catsambas mpp writes, ing agencies in 38 states. Public Policy A O experienced at different places in my at Harvard E “I am happy to announce that I was just degree has been critical in my career. country and abroad. The world is beautiful, N RK A elected 2019 president of the American has been a Hope to retire in the next five years! Happy, encompassing a variety of exciting spots Evaluation Association. Evaluation is a key healthy, looking forward to living to be 130!” and interesting people!” tremendous management and leadership skill, and I Fred Newton hksee, a retired cpa, now Frank Tapparo hksee writes, “I’m hope you all join us!” eval.org. asset to my volunteer chair of the City of Lakeway, continuing to enjoy retirement. Marie administrator at the University of Florida Ken Davies mc/mpa writes, “After retiring work. What’s Texas, Arts Committee, is producing an James aier writes, “I am in Illinois. adine Hack of beCause and I are currently enjoying the early fall (UF). I retired from UF in 2001 holding two from the United Nations (wfp) in 2015, my annual fine arts show and 24 concerts We suffer from a partisan map. What will we Global Consulting (because.net), was in Italy, where we have spent about half retirement?” positions simultaneously, as associate wife, Margrethe, and I have settled in Jinja, each year. who received elite training in public policy deeply honored to be a fi nalist for of of each year since 2000. On the agenda Uganda, on the banks of the Nile. We have Bruce Pitt do to create a nation where voters choose dean of the College of Engineering and the Year in the 2017 Ethical Corporation are return trips to New Orleans (last there mpa recently reaffiliated built a thatched home, and I’m busy grow- hksee 1981 Henry A J Ramos their representatives and not the represen- associate for research and grad pro- Responsible Business Awards. “It is par- in 1991), Cuba (not since 1959), and with University of Houston-based Arte ing an acre of vegetables and fruit, working tatives choose their voters? We need to grams for the university. As a from ticularly humbling as the other fi nal- Vietnam (last there in 1975).” Publico Press, where he serves as a senior with a number of ngos both in Uganda and bring about a change. Who will help?” , I really enjoyed returning to the area, ists all lead major multinational corpora- editor and author. Currently he is writing a elsewhere. Our five kids are grown and the program’s high academic level, the tions (Accenture, Patagonia, Danone, Yes book called Democracy & The New Ameri- James Jnke writes, “Still around t 1984 scattered across Africa, Asia, and North quality of the professors, the interaction Bank, Globe Telecom, and Firmenich) with can Economy: Where Prosperity Meets and defying the odds. A regular at my local America, but we stay in close touch and with contemporary participants, and the signifi cant global initiatives. See 67-sec- Salvano Briceno mc/mpa writes, “Follow- Justice, which will be published in fall Y, bike a lot, avid reader, connect with see each other often. We spend summers environment. Thanks, !” ond video http://bit.ly/2epgnQ.” ing a 25-year career at the United Nations 2018. He recently joined the board of colleagues and friends over coffee or at at our house on Thuro Island, Denmark in sustainable development fields (envi- Media Policy Center, a Santa Monica, local academic events. Active in local arha Harris writes, “I enjoyed (Margrethe’s home country). Would love to ronmental education, environmental policy California-based documentary film pro- Ottawa Harvard University Club. Traveled to t 1987 seeing many of our classmates at our 30th reconnect with other mc/mpa classmates and legislation, marine and coastal duction group focusing on social justice Australia and New ealand in January- writes, reunion in May. Check out our Facebook and any hks graduates in Uganda. My ieh cannel Bell resource management, climate change, content. He also continues to serve on the February 2017. Uluru and night skies were “Cheering on the Resistance from the blue page, “Harvard Kennedy School Class of interest remains smallholder farmer biodiversity, desertification, and natural boards of the New York-based Nonprofit spectacular. Saw the Fed at the Oz Tennis left coastal city of Santa Monica, California. 1987 Reunion,” for photos. In June, I market development.” risks), I retired in 2011 and have since Finance Fund and the Women’s Founda- Open. Rod Laver in attendance.” I love reading about the successes of all enrolled in Church Divinity School of the Pacifi c to earn a masters in divinity degree. joined the Integrated Research on Darryl Garrett hksee retired as a senior tion of California. Henry and his wife, Haano Reksodioero writes, my classmates, so keep submitting, even if In September, I was named a postulant for Disaster Risk program of icsu/issc/ executive from the cia in 2000 and then Claudia, recently celebrated their 25th “I decided for an early retirement in 2009, I don’t. I’m retired from paid life, but reap holy orders by the Episcopal Diocese of unisdr, which I advise as a member of ran a consulting business for 14 years. He wedding anniversary. after serving the public sector for 34 years. abundant rewards from being an active, Central Pennsylvania. I continue to run my its science committee from my base in received a certificate in health coaching My last position was secretary general of contributing citizen, refl ecting constantly own company, Fizika Group, which was France, next to Geneva.” from Georgetown in 2015 and is working as the Ministry of Trade. After seven years as on my fabulous Harvard education as a certified fitness trainer with a specialty in t 1986 recently selected to pitch an investment to Kevin Howley mpp is now running a turn- in the private sector, I was asked by applied to life.” senior fitness and coaching patients from James Doane mc/mpa retired from the Steve Case, cofounder of . FizikaAc- around management firm in Detroit, a city Submit a the government to be of the Batam is a the Neal Barnard Medical Center in Wash- Foreign Service in March of 2000 and has Sherri asserman oodman tive develops applications to improve now apparently on the “cool” list, doing classnote at Industrial one Authority (). Batam is senior fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Inter- ington, DC (DistrictHealthCoach.com.) relocated to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. brain health across the lifespan. Please be work with both nonprofit and private sec- ken.sc/ a free trade zone, located 20 miles across national Center and the Center for Naval Darryl is a docent for the cia Museum and He and his wife, Jeannine, also own a in touch, fi ikagroup.com.” tor organizations. “My oldest is just off to Singapore, developed to attract high-tech Analyses, in Washington, DC. Her passion a proxy board member for Hitachi Vantara hksclassnote coach home in Fort Myers, Florida. He Kalamazoo College, my undergrad alma industries. My task is to develop Batam is the nexus of national and environmental Richard er writes, “Who Federal. He’s thinking about doing a Tony loves to read, plays lots of golf and enjoys mater. My youngest just started 6th grade, r into a world-class industrial complex of security. She is featured in the fi lm, The knew retirement would be so much work? Robbins-style seminar titled, “Dare to Be on the web spending time with his grand children. so parenthood seems endless at this high technology industries, with both fi s- Age of Conseuences, about climate Foundations, museums, and the odd Unremarkable: How I Went From a Six to Find alumni They are members of Kings Creek Country advanced age. My partner is in IT sourcing cal and nonfi scal incentives, to place Indo- change and national security, which is coalition. My hours didn’t decline that Three Figure Income in Five Easy Steps!!!” contact information Club in Delaware and Gateway Country at Trinity Health. We always enjoy visitors nesia on the map of the global digital based on the work of the Military Advi- much - but the pay sure disappeared! It in the online Club in Florida. He competes in statewide here in Detroit!” W. Kevin Hughes mpp currently serves as economy in the next 10 years.” sory Board that she founded in 2007. She feels good to be in a position to help, and directory at golf tournaments in Delaware on a regular chairman of the Maryland Public Service is a nationally recognized speaker on cli- to bicycle when ever possible.” Steven Weissman mc/mpa writes, “After hks.harvard.edu/ basis and has won numerous team events al homson writes, “My Commission. He was appointed to the mate, energy, water, and national security. cofounding and directing the energy law since retirement. Senior Executive Fellows program at Har- Je adden writes, “My wife, commission by Governor Martin O’Malley alumnidirectory program at University of California’s Berke- vard signifi cantly advanced my career as a She has been married 30 years and has Kathy, and I have two grown kids and two in 2011 and appointed chairman in 2013. ley Law for 10 years, I have moved across public servant and as a professor and three wonderful children. grandkids. After , I worked for the

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Michigan governor. Then, in 1991, I Steve Reifenberg mpp writes, “I’ve taken president of Scottsdale Sister Cities Asso- Veena Siddharth mpp writes, “I moved launched Public Policy Associates, Inc. in a faculty position at the University of Notre ciation, board member of the Harvard with my family from London to Costa Rica Lansing, Michigan. The firm does policy Dame’s new Keough School of Global Club, and vp of the Veterans Heritage Proj- in July 2017. My husband is starting a com- research and evaluation nationally. I sold Affairs as the codirector of the Integration ect. Married Cori in 2005 and celebrated pany doing solar energy, and I am continu- ppa in 2014, but remain as board chair Lab, or “i-Lab,” which is organized around 12 years of marriage on October 1. Was ing to work in human rights and evalua- and consultant.” working with faculty and training students also a guest speaker on the Moral Wounds tion. I have been teaching a short course in GET in the context of addressing complex of Combat.” human rights advocacy at the London Wes Pippert hksee writes, “I was a 1987 global challenges in areas such as educa- School of Economics, and the next session fellow at the Institute of Politics. During 28 Brian Campion mc/mpa writes, “After we tion, health, climate change, and refugees. will be in April 2018. I hope to meet more years with upi, I covered two state capitals graduated, I returned to the Midwest to Much of the work I do today is inspired by ksg alumni in the region and am inter- (both Dakotas), was our principal on look for a job. I accepted an appointment my time as a student and working at the ested in connecting with those doing work Watergate, covered the Carter White as president and ceo of a small Catholic CONNECTED Kennedy School.” related to human rights, impact investing, House, and was senior Middle East corre- Health System in La Crosse, Wisconsin. and socially responsible business.” spondent, based in Jerusalem. After iop, John Tsebe mc/mpa writes, “From 2004 to After we made it financially viable, we I was an associate professor in Missouri’s 2014 I served as ceo and national librarian became part of the Mayo Health System, Joe Wilson mc/mpa writes, “Retired since School of Journalism and director of its of the Republic of South Africa. I retired at which allowed the Sisters to retain their 2009. Now trying to save world from global Washington Program for 22 years. I now the end of February 2014. I am now a pen- health care ministry. I retired from that warming by pushing legislation and politi- Engaging with other HKS am an associate professor emeritus and sioner. In May 2015, I was elected the first endeavor in 1989 and became a professor cians in the right direction. Having some director emeritus. I coauthored an article president of the African Library and Informa- in business school at the University of St success. Cheers, All!” alumni can enhance your in Moment, an independent Jewish maga- tion Associations and Institutions (AfLIA). “There is no Thomas in St Paul, my college alma mater. zine, on Sheldon Adelson’s establishment This is a newly established continental asso- greater honor Together with colleagues we created a t 1990 of Hayom newspaper in Israel that was a ciation for Africa. It was established in 2013. leadership experience for physicians/ ability to make an impact on finalist for Syracuse’s best article of 2014 AfLIA held the first conference in May 2015 than being executives that continues to today. I retired Jeff Fowler mc/mpa, in July 2017, was on traditional media.” in Accra, Ghana. That is where I was elected in 2007. The K School gave me the back- appointed president of American Opera- issues that matter to you. president. The second conference of AfLIA of service to ground to be a ceo.” tions Corporation, which provides critical Barbara Zadina mpp writes, “Sound- was held in May 2017 in Yaounde, Camer- services to the federal government out of breaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of one’s fellow Robin Farley mpp was appointed in Janu- oon. At this conference I was re-elected Chantilly, Virginia. Recorded Music, the TV series I exec pro- ary 2017 to the Senior Executive Service as president for a second term until 2019.” human being duced with Beatles producer George Mar- the director of transformational programs Mark Francis mpp has been granted a hks.harvard.edu/get-connected tin, finally aired last November on pbs in John Wasowicz mc/mpa has published no matter in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of ninth patent for his work driving technology the U.S. and in more than 30 other coun- his first novel, Daingerfield Island, a legal where in the the Navy. In December, he was awarded disruption and design innovation in the tries. The Hollywood Reporter named thriller featuring Elmo Katz, Esq., a former the Department of the Navy Superior Civil- areas of mobile tech, smart play/gaming, Soundbreaking the #5 best TV program in prosecutor who becomes embroiled in an world you ian Service Award by the assistant secre- and augmented reality. Over the past two 2016 (and highest-ranked documentary). espionage caper. “A timely metaphor about happen to be tary of the navy. years, he has also served as a technical We were nominated for a News & Docu- the power of alternative facts in a post- advisor to the Emmy-nominated Netflix Russell Hawkins mc/mpa writes, mentary Emmy Award, a Critics’ Choice truth world,” wrote reviewer Michael Neff. doing it.” show Project MC2, focused on engaging Learn about your alumni benefits at “Twenty-two years later, still in South Documentary Award, a RealScreen Award, girls to embrace an understanding of and Russell Hawkins Africa! Last 12 years with Korea Trade and and a Webby Award in Social Music. Now love for science and technology (stem/ hks.harvard.edu/alumni-benefits t 1989 mc/mpa 1989 Investment Promotion Agency (kotra). we’re working on season 2. It’s been a fun steam). Mark and Lauren will celebrated Currently serving as vice president of Har- break from my policy communications Mehrdad Baghai mpp writes, “In 1988, I their 23rd wedding anniversary in Decem- vard University Alumni Association of work in the past. I also enjoy serving on created a global warming simulation for my ber. They have a standing invite to class- South Africa. Am also serving as a country the hks DC Alumni Council, and loved pae with Tom Schelling. Using participatory mates to show them the food carts, running coordinator for Harvard Africa Alumni in both of these organizations is to preserve Scott Stucky hksee became chief judge seeing class friends at reunion!” learning, we created a rich experience trails, and bookstores of Portland, Oregon. Action Forum taking place in Accra, Ghana, the unique historical heritage of the agricul- of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed around acting in the long-term collective on August 24 to 26. There is no greater Lawland Long mc/mpa is the founding tural landscape of Lancaster County.” Forces in August. The five-judge court exer- interest. In 2005, the simulation became honor than beings of service to one’s fel- ceo of facesf in San Francisco, a city wide cises world-wide appellate jurisdiction t 1988 the centerpiece of High Resolves, a self- Shaun McNally mc/mpa writes, “Greet- low human being no matter where in the nonprofit that merged (2011) two long- over courts-martial arising under the Uni- Volker Baas mc/mpa 1988 writes, “Dear funding social venture my wife, Roya, and I ings from Mogadishu, where I work with a world you happen to be doing it. It does standing legacy organizations of Florence form Code of Military Justice. Stucky was all, for the past eight years I have been started in Australia, which has become a wonderful Somali team. Together, on not take a lot; only a willingness, commit- Crittenton and Whitney Young. “Our focus appointed to the court by President George serving as president of the Harvard Club leader in the design of experiences around behalf of usaid, we work with ministries, ment, and desire to make a difference in is supporting working families to be W. Bush in 2006. Rhein Main in Germany, ultimately trying to social inclusion and justice. We have parliament, and civil society, to improve the life of our fellow human beings and the healthy, independent, and financially sta- highlight the relevance of the unique edu- engaged over 165,000 young Australians in public administration, legislation, and planet where we live...” ble in an increasingly divergent area cation we enjoyed at Harvard. I look for- over 130 schools and are now expanding advocacy. I entered ksg as a state legisla- t 1991 between the haves and have-nots. We ward to meeting you all again and, if pos- into the United States and Canada. Please David Luberoff mc/mpa writes, “After 28 tor, with the goal of sharpening my policy offer early childhood development, work- Fabiana Feld mpa is cfo for International sible, exchanging views and experiences reach out if you’d like to bring High years, I’ve managed to get exactly a half- skills. After losing a race for Congress in force training, school age and family sup- Finance Corporation in Washington, DC. with those of you who also assumed a role Resolves into your school or community.” mile from hks (where I worked from 1989 2004, and a career change to international port services. Moreover, I have also had a She is working with multinational compa- in the alumni world. All the best and see until 2012). Since August 2016, I’ve had development, I’ve carried lessons from Joe Brett mc/mpa writes, “Not many know keen focus on city- and statewide policies nies in frontier countries, helping them you next May.” the good fortune to be deputy director of ksg to Iraq, Albania, Afghanistan, Armenia, that I had quit drinking in March of 1987 and funding, successfully increasing develop sustainable supply chains and Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, and Somalia.” Charles Haddad mpa writes, “My fifth and so being at the Kennedy School in needed services and funding every year environmental and social investment proj- which uses research, fellowships for Har- book—an adult novel titled Curse of the August of 1988 was a thrill for me. I had since our inception.” Pierre Spaninks hksee has established ects that help reduce poverty and spread vard grad students, and a variety of events Bearded Girlfriend— was published last sold off every possession and wanted an himself as an expert on entrepreneurship prosperity. She is also rooting for class- to ‘advance understanding of housing Dick Lundgren mc/mpa writes, “I recently June. I continue to teach narrative nonfic- adventure that would make me a citizen of and the labor market. He is currently writ- mate Enrique de la Madrid Cordero’s effort issues’ and, hopefully inform policymak- completed terms on the boards of directors tion as a tenured professor at Stony Brook the world. 1989–1990 hiid in Jakarta as ing a book on work, Social Security and to become the next president of Mexico ing. Classmates should look me up if they of the Lancaster Farmland Trust and the University, where I also take students on project assistant, 1992–1994 as project independent contractors, to be published and Andres Roemer’s Ciudad de las Ideas are in Cambridge!” Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster study abroad in the summer. Yes, I do manager in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, by Amsterdam University Press in 2018. event. She lives in DC with her imf hus- County, both in Pennsylvania. Our mission speak Chinese, however badly.” Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, and Kazakh- band and three noisy and naughty boys, a stan. Moved to Arizona in 1994 and was perfect fit for an energetic mother!

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largest democracy in the world, with 850 Carla Koppell mpp writes, “It’s been a Elsa Chen mpp has been appointed vice neered sustainable investing since 1971. million voters and one million polling sta- long time since I checked in with class- provost for academic affairs at Santa Clara Ian would love to connect with fellow tions and EVMs. Retired in July 2017! mates. I’m currently a vice president with University, where she is a full professor in alumni with similar interests!” the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, the Department of Political Science. Elsa Mark Troutman mpp was appointed Dean DC, a Congressionally created, nonparti- and her husband, Ken Tsunoda mpp 1994, t 199 of the Eisenhower School for National san, independent national institute dedi- live in Los Gatos, California, with their two Security and Resource Strategy at the Joyce nagnos mpp writes, “After 11 years cated to conflict resolution and peace sons (ages 16 and 14). National Defense University in Washing- as a senior attorney for the city of Toledo, building. I arrived there one-and-a-half Damon Coletta mpp recently published ton, DC, in August. Ohio, defending the city from all sorts of years ago from the U.S. Agency for Interna- nato’s Return to Europe: Engaging claims and managing a sprawling client, I tional Development after serving as Ukraine, Russia, and Beyond, with George- recently transitioned to the welcome quiet usaid’s chief strategy officer, and before t 1994 town University Press. In the book, an of an Ohio Supreme Court appellate court— that as senior coordinator for gender international group of scholars examine a Loren Blackford mpp writes, “I was just Ohio’s Sixth District Court of Appeals, equality and women’s empowerment. I broad range of issues not only to explain elected President of the Sierra Club Board. located in Toledo. I feel as if I went from a T had the enormous pleasure of watching my recent alliance developments but also to I look forward to serving in this new capac- station to the pl Reading Room!” eldest son, Benjamin, begin as a Harvard make recommendations about critical ity in this challenging and exciting time!” ob Begland mpp is a litigation partner at College undergraduate this year. Get in choices confronting the nato allies. Susan Hackley mc/mpa writes, “Enjoying Cox, Castle & Nicholson llp, a preeminent touch when you are in DC!” my 16th year as managing director of the full-service law fi rm focused on real estate Karen Credeur mc/mpa is taking lifelong Leo Quigley mpp writes, “I’m living in Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law in the United States. Rob’s addition bol- learning classes: Latin, mythology, writing Brooklyn, New York, these days in a policy School and have helped develop a nego- sters the fi rm’s robust statewide trial pres- short stories before, and Spanish and role with the New York Governor’s Office of tiation training program that we now offer ence, and will support Cox Castle clients etymology now. Storm Recovery. Our charge is to invest $4.4 in other countries, including Saudi Arabia through all stages of the litigation process. billion in cdbg-dr funds to build back bet- Stephen Falbel mpp writes, “Transporta- With Dean Doug Elmendorf and his wife, aren Dynan, professor of the practice of economics at Harvard University, in and Israel. Also working on a documentary Rob is a veteran complex commercial liti- ter in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Before tion planning has carried me from the attendance and enneth uster 199 newly installed as the U.S. ambassador to India, the Harvard Club of India film project about the impact of our wars gation and trial attorney with nearly 20 dinner in New Delhi in December took on a special signifi cance. Raminder Singh left, a 19 Nieman Fellow, and this resilient recovery work, I shaped social Boston mpo to working for a private sector on America’s children and families, veter- years of experience. He represents compa- Harvard Club of India President Anirudh Sari 01 right discuss the proceedings. impact bond development with social consulting firm to running my own firm. anchildren.com, inspired by my son, who nies in disputes related to real property, finance and the hks sib lab, led housing Happily ensconced in Montpelier, Vermont, as a young Marine fought in the Iraq war. contracts, corporate governance, intellec- grant making and pris at the Boston Foun- I do a lot of transit consulting work in Ver- tual property, and insurance. Rob is based dation, and built affordable housing com- mont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Joseph Harb hksee writes, “After retiring in Los Angeles. with over 40 years of civilian and military Michael Fenn hksee has just published Maryland General Assembly. Remember munities with a large national nonprofit. upstate New York, both for state agencies service in the U.S. Intelligence Community, “Municipal Good Governance and the Role little Dylan, who was only two when we osemarie Day mpp writes, “It was great Hoping to do more in impact investing, and regional transit providers and for plan- I published the counterespionage novel of City Manager” with University of Toronto started at hks He lives in and is about to reconnect with former classmates in building on skills in finance and policy.” ning councils. My two kids are college age Team Triad, a Nuclear Spy Hunt: Iran. Team professor Dave Siegel. to be a dad—Diane is super excited about May at our 25th reunion! Currently, I am now, and my son hopes to attend ksg Seth Terkper mc/mpa writes, “I com- Triad endeavors to illustrate how multicul- becoming a grandma!” enjoying the role of entrepreneur and con- someday. Shocking to think how much Paul Martin rent mc/mpa writes, “Hi pleted a four-year term as minister for tural, multidisciplined intelligence commu- sultant. I launched Day Health Strategies in time has passed. Having divorced and everybody, I’m both happy and sad to hear Margaret Daniels Tyler mc/mpa writes, “I finance in Ghana in December 2016 and nity collaboration and innovation can solve 2010 to help implement the Affordable remarried (with a seven-year-old stepson), that quite a few of us are retiring—enjoy life have joined a small cohort of like-minded was deputy minister from 2009 to 2013. It complex analytic challenges and positively Care Act (aca). Lots of twists and turns I am still doing lots of singing, including now more than ever, and hand all your individuals who are committed to the was great to serve and lead in Ghana’s Use the impact the course of history. This tale is set since then, but I’m proud to have built a opera, early music, and a chamber chorus. experience over to this young generation in belief that achievement gaps are not facts macroeconomic and fiscal management. Alumni in the context of the intense spring 2015 boutique, mission-oriented consulting fi rm Regards to all!” need! I’m still working with start-ups in my of nature. What we as parents do right now Soon we will launch a pfm and tax Africa Directory to negotiations between the P5+1 and Iran to that works on health care transformation second consulting fi rm, pc, in Vienna. My ‘through the fi rst three years’ will affect our consultancy to continue a life of public contact your Peter Dmochowski Lipski mc/mpa cur- finalize an agreement that Iran would forgo initiatives. Working hard to protect the aca parents died recently, and I unexpectedly children for the rest of their lives. The Black service, in policy and politics. The initia- classmates. rently lives in Paris, where he is the execu- the development of nuclear weapons.” “My rock’n’ and fi ghting for other causes I believe in. I inherited their house on the Baltic Sea, with Philanthropy Fund is a learning and leader- tives in office include revenue and expen- tive secretary of the European Telecommuni- am still living in Somerville, Massachu- John Hlinko mpp is living in D.C. with his 16 rooms plus garden house dating back to roll cover ship community that engages others in an diture (ifmis) reforms as well as prudent cations Satellite Organization eutelsat igo, setts. Two kids are off to college, and one wife, Leigh (an architect and author), and 1800. It’s way too big for me, but now I ongoing process of learning and strategic financing of budget deficits. We set up a elected by the 49 member states in March band (Juan is still at home.” his daughters, Kate and Ali (and Pebbles might be able to live my dream of having my action to achieve the goal of educational sinking fund (debt management) and sov- 2017. Peter also serves as an observer (cen- the puppy). He is running LeftAction, an own think tank/conference place/whatever. Direction) excellence and equity. We are committing Juan arcia mpp writes, “After serving as ereign wealth fund (infrastructure develop- seur) of Eutelsat Communications S.A., a online activist network, and helping Demo- You’re most welcome in Vienna or Lubeck! time and treasure to a project designed to assistant secretary of the navy in the ment) from the nation’s oil and gas rev- company listed on the Paris stock exchange. is playing cratic candidates and organizations rally Stay happy and healthy.” broaden and deepen the practice of effec- Obama Administration, I’ve been Ama- enues. We set up the Ghana exim Bank to Since his graduation from hks, Peter has grassroots support. He and his wife have all the big tive parenting. tnteaicrg.” zon’s director for associate development provide trade finance to promote exports.” held many executive positions in govern- Barry Sloane mc/mpa writes, “I’m happy been particularly busy recently hosting for the past two years, splitting time ment and the private sector in Poland and to report my son Marshall is a freshman in Amazon asim aidi mc/mpa worked in the Indian Susan Watts mc/mpa is a former commis- fundraisers for Congressional candidates, between Seattle and DC. Denise (hls 1992) internationally. Among them were cfo of the College and on the heavyweight crew Administrative Service for 36 years at the sioner on the Planning and Zoning Com- and he expects to do a whole lot more of and I sent our oldest of four (twin boys) off the Polish National Television, dg of the team. I am also proud to be a member of events.” provincial and federal levels. He spent a mission for the town of Palm Beach, Flor- it in 2018. to college this year, and my rock’n’roll Ministry of Culture, and ceo of Public Con- the fi nance committee for Governor Bak- Juan Garcia decade in civil aviation at the federal level ida, and now is a member of the Mayors cover band (Juan Direction) is playing all sulting Group (Polska). He is married to Michael Putegnat mc/mpa writes, “My er’s reelection.” mpp 1992 as regulator and policy-maker, and was in County Budget Task Force. the big Amazon events. Hope everyone is Elzbieta and has one daughter, Matylda. new novel, The Settling, publishes June the un icao Council for three years. He Diane Stollenwerk mpp, after working in doing well!” 1st. It’s conveniently available at Amazon developed airports in New Delhi, Mumbai, Ian Simm mpa is not far off from celebrat- health care policy for 20 years in Seattle, t 1993 in print and ebook. My first novel, Laguna, Hyderabad, and Bengaluru in ppp mode. He ichard Hyde mc/mpa writes, “I just ing the 20th anniversary of founding Impax was recruited to Washington, DC, by the Xavier Briggs mpa writes, “Along with won an Independent Publishers Gold retired in 2012 as permanent secretary. He arrived back in New England to become Asset Management, an investment man- National uality Forum in 2010. She now teaching at hks and mit, I’ve done several Medal. Finally, after many detours and became a constitutional authority-election the pastor of the First Congregational agement firm based in London and lives in Baltimore and works on improving stints as an appointee in the U.S. govern- distractions, I am now writing full-time.” commissioner and chief election commis- Church of Gray, some 30 minutes north of focused on the transition to a more sus- health and health care. She served several ment, most recently the Obama White sioner for fi ve years, managing fair and free Portland. I am also lecturing at nearby St. tainable economy. Today, Impax manages David Shorr mc/mpa writes, “Enjoying life years on the Maryland Health Care Com- House 2009–2011. Since 2014, I’ve been elections of president/vice president of Joseph’s College. I live on Little Sebago about US$10 billion. It has recently as a part-time local politician on our city mission, runs a busy public affairs fi rm serving in New York as vice president for parliament and state assemblies in the Lake and would be happy to have visitors.” announced the acquisition of Pax World council and part-time consultant, helping (Stllenercm) and is a proud com- economic opportunity and markets at the Management, which is based in Ports- assess the impact of organizations that panion to her wife, who is a delegate in the Ford Foundation.” mouth, New Hampshire, and has pio-

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work in the policy / political arena. My Geralyn Sheehan mc/mpa is serving as cal to Howard University School of Busi- nearer family and friends, all of which live would be a great pleasure to hear from plantations. These two developments led to book on the gop’s abandonment of work- country director for the U.S. Peace Corps in ness in August. Lenora will serve as the in the DC metro area. Bringing private sec- colleagues of the 1999 class of mc/mpa. me being awarded the Innova+Agro2017 able policy approaches, I Call Bullshit: Four Colombia. “It is an honor to serve during odni National Security Executive Fellow tor experience to federal budgeting, along Best wishes.” national prize in innovation.” Fallacies That Keep Our Politics From Being this historic period of peacemaking for the and Senior Advisor. In 2017, U.S. News & with his years of military experience made Marjorie Medd mpa writes, “My takeaway Cynthie Tin-Oo mc/mpa, Mason Fellow Reality-Based, can be found on Amazon. first time in over 50 years for Colombians.” World Report ranked Howard University the transition back into government easier. from KS was to “give back” to my small rural “My work from Myanmar/Burma, is living between [email protected].” nationally among its best universities and Oh-jung Kwon mpa writes, “How have you town and community ... very rewarding.” two countries, USA and Myanmar, and second among Historically Black Colleges focus is t 1996 been? I miss you all and the good old days working as an independent consultant in and Universities. Veronica Loewe Muñoz mc/mpa writes, t 1995 at hks!” on cervical public health in Myanmar. “At present, my Patrick Corrigan mpp writes, “Growing “Our family is doing great. Fernando works Matthew Garside mc/mpa writes, “After a work focus is on cervical cancer prevention Meredith Ann Edwards hksee write, my consulting firm; have had the honor of Peregrine Russell-Hunter hksee was for the Foundation for Agriculture Innova- cancer career in the U.S. Navy followed by time in and control program development in “Since my Harvard experience, from 1997, I working briefly with Marty Seligman, the recently named the Charles Fahy Distin- tion (fia) and travels often around Chile. the oil and gas industry, I am now actually prevention Myanmar, in collaboration with the Minis- was deputy vice-chancellor at the Univer- founder of positive psychology, at Penn, guished Adjunct Professor of Law at Caterina, 25, is a biochemist and chemistry using my degree! I am the town manager in try of Health and Sports. I am serving as sity of Canberra; until 2004, director of a and helping build a leadership develop- Georgetown University Law Center. He also teacher; she got married last year to Juan and control Poland, Maine. If you are ever in the area, vice president of the Burmese Medical National Institute for Governance; and ment program at Georgetown. Much more serves as the director of the Defense Office Pablo, and they will have their first baby please stop in.” program Association of North America, based in 2010-2017, a member of the UN Committee interesting and meaningful experiences to of Hearings and Appeals within the United next March. Simon, 21, is studying physio- Baltimore, Maryland.” of Experts on Public Administration. I am a follow, I’m sure...” Jennifer Kron mpp writes, “After 20 years States Department of Defense. He and his therapy. I keep working on forest research development fellow of the Institute for Public Adminis- in DC, most recently as the acting chief wife, Janet, have three children; Hannah, at the Chilean Forest Research Institute Desiree Green mc/mpa writes, “Friends of tration Australia, a fellow of the Academy information officer of the intelligence com- Sarah, and Malcolm. (infor), and these years have led two main in Myanmar.” 2000 22 years: Yurika Ayukawa mc/mpa, t of Social Sciences Australia, and a fellow munity, I recently moved with my husband innovations: advances in stone pine cultiva- Cynthie Tin-Oo Desiree Green and Junji Tachino mc/mpa. Michael Seelman mpp writes, “I recently Laurie Allen mc/mpa writes, “Life can of the Australian and New Zealand School to Australia. We will be here for the next tion techniques, and a certification system mc/mpa 1999 The mc/mpa grads and their families in visited the UK to speak on a Cambridge take some unexpected twists and turns, of Government. In 2001, I published a three years. We are living in Canberra, (safor) to quantify the fire risk in forest April joined together for a traditional Japa- University panel regarding the future of but I wanted to connect and say hello book, Social Policy, Public Policy: From where I will be serving as the senior direc- nese dinner in Tokyo. Yurika is a professor collaboration and help launch a leadership classmates! I moved back to the DC area in Problem to Practice. In 2012, I coauthored tor for intelligence enterprise management at Chiba University of Commerce; Desiree academy. This was also the public debut of Public Sector Governance in Australia. I at the Department of Prime Minister and is vice president of international govern- my new company (ChurchillConsultants. now research on diversity and inclusion Cabinet, advising as Australia stands up a ment affairs at Prudential Financial; and com), which provides executive/leadership within the public sector.” new intelligence agency.” Junji is acting director of the editorial coaching and management/communica- Michael Hill, mc/mpa has just published a board of The Asahi Shimbun.” Eduardo Pizano mc/mpa was appointed tions consulting services. Contact me if you new book titled War Poet, a biography of dean of the Universidad de los Andes Gov- are interested in learning more.” Natalie Keng mpp writes, “Ni hao, y’all! the poet Alan Seeger (Harvard 1910), who ernment School, in Bogotá, Colombia. My start-up business, Chinese Southern Jodie Smith mpp was recently appointed was killed at the Battle of the Somme in Belle, was pleased to be awarded Best of Mami Terai mc/mpa writes, “I am honored to the City of Oakland (California) Public World War I. Kirkus Reviews called the book Atlanta for Cooking Classes. It is a pleasure to serve as a member of the board of publi- Ethics Commission for a term through Janu- a “very readable, well-sourced biography, and an honor to teach with my mother, cations and moderator to the government ary 2020. The commission has jurisdiction overall ... An engagingly written contribution Margaret Keng, and have the opportunity liaison thread to Message Center of Ameri- over local campaign finance, public financ- to poetry scholarship.” to share our knowledge and skills with can Immigration Lawyers Association in this ing for city elections, lobbyist registration, Tami Kesselman mpa was named global food as a fascinating gateway to connect time of challenge to our immigration sys- and government ethics. Apart from this head of strategic partnerships for the culture, diversity, health, and sustainabil- tem. Before the law career, I served at the local good governance effort, Jodie lives in United Nations Social Impact Fund, bring- ity. We’re also excited to announce our line Japanese Prime Minister’s Office for 11 Oakland, works on public law issues as an THE BEST THE WORLD HAS TO OFFER ing together philanthropy, grants, and of natural, scratch-cooking sauces now years, including the time at Kennedy attorney in San Francisco, and heads the Michael Hill commercial capital to create market-rate available online and at Whole Foods Mar- School, and immigration practice seems to local women’s bar association’s initiative HAS A SPECIAL OFFER FOR YOU. mc/mpa 1995 economic returns and social dividends ket and Kroger stores (200-plus stores in be a great match for my knowledge, skills, to increase the presence of women in pub- published aligned with the sdgs. Tami is also on the Georgia). Give us a holler if you’re passing and experience. I feel so lucky to be able to lic office. She’s also on the San Francisco War Poet Nexus Impact Investing Working Group’s through Hot’lanta!” be doing what I love in New York City, one of Harvard Club board and invites you to say Steering Committee and frequently the most competitive cities in the world.” hello if you’ll be visiting the Bay Area. Patrick Mendis hksee was the keynote addresses financial and social impact audi- speaker at the 8th World Confucian Confer- ences on structuring frameworks to achieve ence at the Shandong University in China 1998 1999 higher financial and impact returns. She t t and the inaugural speaker at the Belt and co-chairs Opal Financial Group’s Impact Alexandru Grumaz hksee writes, “From Brandy Corcoran Carlson mpp recently Road Initiate (bri) Lecture series at the Investing Forum and runs her Invest- Harvard to Shanghai is a long way. The joined her husband, Paul Carlson mpp University of Hong Kong. He also served as ingsmart workshop at secon (hbs/hks), at years went by, and I went through important 1998, at Seventy2 Capital Wealth Manage- Choose from over 40 executive education programs created a distinguished visiting professor of Sino- Nikkei’s Tokyo AgTech Summit and for the positions in the Ministry of Defense (I was ment, the firm he cofounded in December American relations at the Anhui University specifically for public, corporate, and nonprofit leaders. Hult Prize finalist accelerator. Submit a appointed lieutenant general), then under- 2016. She is working with Paul on strategy in Hefei and lectured at Northwestern Uni- classnote at secretary of state in the Romanian govern- and business development initiatives. Their Plus, Harvard Kennedy School degree program alumni Joshua Mendes mc/mpa writes, “How do versity in Xian, where he was later ken.sc/ ment, and finally the consul general in office is in Bethesda, Maryland, and they you solve intractable conflicts? That was appointed distinguished visiting professor are eligible for a 30% tuition discount. hksclassnote Shanghai in China. The Harvard course was count several hks graduates as clients. the focus of a panel discussion I had the of Confucian and American studies. He is for me the foundation for what followed.” Tariq Rafique Khan mc/mpa writes, “Hi privilege to organize and moderate in Sep- an academic advisor and a senior fellow of r tember—under the auspices of the hks the Pangoal Institution in Beijing. on the web Scott Keene mpa recently moved to the everyone, have been out of contact for New York alumni group. Our three panel Find alumni Washington, DC, area to take on the job of quite long. Worked in different positions Learn more about the programs experts, Kay Spencer, Fernando Travesi, t 1997 contact information deputy chief financial officer and budget with the federal and local governments in and Niall O’Dowd, discussed and com- in the online officer at the Federal Railroad Administra- Pakistan. Presently working as director and download the program guide

SM pared the challenges and achievements in Lenora Peters Gant hksee, member of the directory at tion. This was his third career after retiring general at the Prime Minister’s Office over- today at exed.hks.harvard.edu YOU’RE HERE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. Colombia, Myanmar, and Northern Ireland. National Intelligence Senior Executive hks.harvard.edu/ from the Coast Guard in 2008 with 27 seeing reforms in the public sector, espe- Thanks to Natalie Fabe Ubias and the oth- Service, Office of the Director of National alumnidirectory years, followed by managing Boston Uni- cially civil service reform and restructuring ers in the hks New York alumni group for Intelligence (odni), was appointed on an versity’s facilities budgets until last of federal ministries and departments. It their guidance and support.” Inter-Governmental Personnel Act sabbati- August. The move was designed to get

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2009 and bought my dream horse farm in commercial traffic could resume, and Challenge right now—you can preview CLASSES OF   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |  |  |  Leesburg, Virginia, with husband, Joe, who t 2001 deliver lifesaving relief aid. Upon comple- them without purchasing the book on Ama- passed away in 2015. It is a beautiful set- Frank Aum mpp writes, “In January 2017, I tion of his tour on the James, Mark will be zon.com. Just input my name and Head On ting in the foothills of the Blue Ridge left the Pentagon after serving seven years a fellow to the Council on Foreign Relations will come right up! If you fi nd it entertain- Mountains, just 50 minutes from DC. I as a political appointee, most of those in New York City. ing, please, tell all your contacts! Thanks. worked for the usgs as a Senior Science P.S. The publisher is nominating it for an years as senior advisor on North Korea in Albert George mpp 2001 writes, “I was Advisor for Wildlife Research and now am a Edgar, and the paperback will be out the Office of the Secretary of Defense. honored to be hired in 2015 as the first private consultant on organizational man- sometime in October.” Currently, I serve as the senior expert on director of conservation for the South Caro- agement contemplating my next career North Korea at the U.S. Institute of Peace in lina Aquarium. In 2016, we launched the Doug Shipman mpp was recently named move. Finished a phd in July, research in Washington, DC.” Resilience Initiative for Coastal Education president and ceo of the Woodruff Arts microbial ecology of estuaries, to add to (rice) in collaboration with the Medical Center in Atlanta. The Woodruff Arts Center my long list of career experiences in ocean Cristopher Ballinas Valdes hksee, in University of South Carolina Public Infor- is the third-largest arts center in the United science and policy. Let’s catch up.” addition to continuing his work as a lec- turer on public policy at Mexico City’s itam, mation & Community Outreach, scetv, States. It includes the Alliance Theatre, the SAVE THE DATE Aaron Goldzimer mpp writes, “After managed to save some time to represent Allen University, and the U.S. Department Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and the High spending the first part of my career in inter- his motherland at the Latin American of Energy. One of the primary goals of rice Museum of Art and serves more than one national environmental and human rights Kendo Championships last year, finishing is to work to reach and engage traditionally million patrons a year. Doug resides in advocacy, I ended up going “back” to first in the team category and third in the underrepresented communities in the Atlanta with his wife and two daughters. WHERE Reunion school - this time for Stanford business and individual category. Besides that, he global climate change discussion. rice Yale law degrees. Finished up the Obama drafted a new book on political struggles also desires to establish a regional frame- t 2002 Administration at the Treasury Department, behind the forging of autonomous agen- work for resilience planning. rice is a pur- IDEAS Shawn Malone mpp has just taken a and now am consulting for a Silicon Valley cies in Mexico. poseful tribute to the West African slaves billionaire on U.S. politics/democracy (e.g., descendants known as Gullah.” position as director of two Gates-funded “I will lead mpp 2001 and family  how to defeat Republicans). Would love to Jean-Martin Bauer sister projects in South Africa, led by avac Charles Harvey hksee writes, “Since hear from hks family!” efforts on the moved to Brazzaville in July. JM started and psi and focused on hiv prevention, MEET MAY  a new assignment as country director Harvard I have retired from a corporate testing, and treatment, one for adolescent Ken Johnson mpp writes, “I live in DC with EU’s behalf for the World Food Programme in the career and serve as chairman of three girls and young women and one for young my wife, Gina Lagomarsino (hbs 2000), to help Republic of Congo. county government boards. I am currently men. The projects will analyze factors that and our two kids, Liana (14) and Elias (11). working on my dissertation, which will lead affect young people’s decisions around Gerard Bautista hksee writes, “Ola class- I joined the Securities and Exchange Com- resolve the to completion of a doctor of education whether to get tested, whether to seek mates! I reach out to all to connect for mission in 2003, became its chief financial degree, and will continue serving clients treatment if positive, and whether to adopt conflicts youth education. I am currently the chair- officer in 2010 through early 2017, and in my higher education and leadership and adhere to hiv prevention practices if man of the University of Baguio Founda- then in February became the agency’s that have consulting practice.” negative, and then apply a human-cen- acting chief operating officer. Gina is the tion. The focus of the foundation is educa- bedeviled Ramin Isayev mc/mpa writes, “I have tered design approach to develop more- ceo of an international development non- tion of the youth. I also just finished the started and developed a multibillion-d0llar effective interventions. profit called Results for Development. We design of the Ateneo de Manila Senior High the coun- oilfield services company over the past nine have loved living in DC, and love to wel- School building. The focus of my architec- Scott Talan mc/mpa writes, “In June, I years. Now looking for other investment come visitors, so please let us know if tries of the tural firm is school planning and design. I reached my goal of seeing 100 countries in #HKSAlumni opportunities in new industries and regions. Register early at you’re ever in town!” Southern also attended exec ed at the Harvard Grad- going to Malta. Many of my trips involved uate School of Design. Best regards!” I also continue my executive education at seeing our classmates, which was heart- hks.harvard.edu/reunion Aung Naing Oo mc/mpa, after sitting out Caucasus mit and I am often in the Boston area. warming. I’ve been teaching at American Kristin Ehrgood mc/mpa and Vadim Niki- the official peace process for more than a Would love to hear from hks alums what we University (thank you to Sean Smith mc/ for the tine mc/mpa 2001 have launched relief year in Myanmar, has recently started as can do together in line with hks mission.” mpa for early teaching advice while we efforts for the 3.5 million U.S. citizens dev- fronts. When I’m 64, I should have done (the rda), the redevelopment entity for the the executive director of the technical past three drank coffee at Cosi in Dupont Circle) since astated by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. Finbarr Livesey mpp writes, “Very glad to my autobiography, including the leader- city of Baton Rouge. Christopher will take a secretariat of the Joint Ceasefire Monitor- 2010 and feel blessed to be doing so. My decades.” They employ more than 100 people on the announce the U.S. launch of my book From ship learning experience at hks in fall leave of absence from his position as the ing Committee-Union Level, helping the classes are social media, personal brand- island through their family foundation and Global to Local in September with Pantheon 2003. The takeaway messages have been Newman Trowbridge Distinguished Profes- government, ethnic armed organizations, Toivo Klaar ing, and pr. Last year I received my univer- commercial real estate management com- Books, of which Jeff Sachs kindly said impacting on me ever since!” sor of Law at the lsu Law Center. He joins and civilian counterparts to maintain mc/mpa 2003 sity’s Teaching with Technology Award partly pany. They are partnering with teams there “Livesey’s fine book will help us under- the rda as ceo in January 2018. ceasefires as agreed by the Nationwide due to the fact I’ll try almost anything once Toivo Klaar mc/mpa writes, “In mid-Octo- to support the immediate humanitarian stand and anticipate the changing dynam- Ceasefire Agreement, which he helped to see if it works. Thank you, hks!” ber, I was offered the opportunity to and recovery efforts critical for the people ics of global economic interdependence.”” negotiate from 2013 to October 2015. become the European Union’s special t 2004 of Puerto Rico. Please visit their family Kent Lucken mc/mpa is the North Ameri- representative for the Southern Caucasus Stephanie White-Trivas hksee writes, foundation website to learn more, includ- Jeff Berkin hksee retired in 2008 as a can head of financial sponsors at Citi Pri- t 2003 | 15th and the crisis in Georgia. In this capacity, I “In 1999 and 2000, I had the pleasure of ing how to donate and get involved (flam- deputy assistant director of the Federal vate Bank, splitting his time between Bos- will lead efforts on the EU’s behalf to help meeting faculty and participants who boyanfoundation.org). reunion Bureau of Investigation. He is currently ton and New York, and serves as chairman resolve the confl icts that have bedeviled attended these executive education pro- Peter Cheung hksee writes, “When you focused on cybersecurity, counterintel- Mark Fedor mc/mpa is completing his of the U.S.-Asia Institute, trustee of the the countries of the Southern Caucasus for grams. The courses were excellent and read this, I should have turned 64! Since ligence, and insider threat challenges final year as commanding officer of the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, and the past three decades. I can build on my provided me with fresh insight toward the September 2017, I have resumed my Hong associated with his role as chief security Coast Guard cutter James, homeported in International Council board member at experience as head of the 400-person EU goals my organization needed. I would Kong barrister status. I have also done offi cer and senior vice president with caci Charleston, South Carolina. During its last hks’s Belfer Center. monitoring mission in Georgia in 2013– recommend any of the courses provided by some mediation and arbitration in Shen- International Inc., an information technol- deployment, the James interdicted 11 tons 2014 and can also draw on the past few Harvard’s executive courses. These pro- John Monaghan mc/mpa writes, “Hi, zhen. As an intellectual property expert, I ogy and professional services company of cocaine and detained 48 smugglers for years’ work developing the EU’s relations grams were beneficial and I was able to friends. My first novel, Head On—nypd, feel young while updating my general focused on the defense, intelligence, and prosecution in the U.S. legal system. The with the countries of Central Asia within apply the methods easily to garner the takes on isis. It’s a fast, fun read pub- knowledge and skill in my professional national security sectors. James also conducted hurricane relief the EU’s foreign service. support to revamp our plans to satisfy our lished by Global History Publishing Co., calling. I sustain my interests in creativity/ efforts in Puerto Rico. Acting as a floating Stephen Frost mpp is principal of frostin- board of directors. Thank you.” that highlights the shared humanity with innovation, brand building, and intellec- Christopher Tyson mpp 2003 has been command center, the James directed 11 cluded.com and is leading an international Muslim ‘terrorists’ (‘Ibrahim’s revelation’ is tual property. Apart from my works, I have selected to be the next ceo of the East other cutters to conduct search and res- team embedding inclusion in some of the based on real life). Take the 2 Chapter been helping hkust to do better on those Baton Rouge Redevelopment Authority cue, complete port assessments so that world’s leading organizations. In particular

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they are working with the Federal Reserve Press). Fourteen chapters written by U.S. and promoted to the rank of navy captain and the Bank of England to calibrate deci- lawyers and judges describe the contribu- (O-6) in September 2017. In the private sec- sion making by including introverts and tion each is making to the integrative law tor, he is a full-time real estate investor and minorities in the decision-making process. movement and the transformation of the continues to serve as a principal for a family His second book, Inclusive Talent Manage- justice system. Clute’s chapter, “A Parallel of private real estate investment funds and ment, is out now. Model of Justice: Unitive, not Punitive,” an advisor to clients who are both equity compares 12 structures of punitive justice investors and private lenders. Edward Omotoso hksee has been elected with 12 structures of unitive justice and honorary member, for life, of the governing Dominic Moulden hksee has continued describes how we can create a unitive board of the Association of Former Interna- to work toward racial, class, and gender system based not on the proportional tional Civil Servants (afics) in New York. equity alongside the staff and members of revenge of our present system but on the He previously served as president of this one dc as a resource organizer. Taking to “It has been moral principle of lovingkindness. 3,500-member association of former heart Marshall Ganz’s counsel, one seeks United Nations officials. refreshing to Jo Guzman mpp writes, “Joanna and I are to build and learn leadership from within wrapping up a rewarding two-year tour of the community. This February, one Ken Robbins mpa writes, “I am continuing meet mpa/ duty in Norfolk, Virginia, where I serve as launched the Black Workers Center, a to run my start-up, millie, which helps id alumni the deputy chief of intelligence for Carrier unique project of popular education, alter- military families with the moving process. Strike Group 8. Amidst the deployments to native economics, and racial and eco- We are getting great traction and attention recently the Middle East, we also had a baby girl, nomic justice. Through Dominic’s experi- from larger brands. We recently were recog- and catch Guadalupe Joy (“Gigi”), who turned one in ence as a Robert Wood Johnson Founda- nized by Forbes as one of the Top 25 Vet- Working for Norway’s November and is climbing up onto every- tion Culture of Health fellow, the bwc’s eran Start-ups in America.” up on the Government Pension thing!! In the spring, we all move to Hawaii, mission will include a focus on worker Fund, inu oola will Buck Song Koh mc/mpa published a wonderful where I will serve as the chief of plans and wellness. Email Dominic at dmoulden@ focus on the invest- second edition of his book, Brand Singa- things you policy in Pacific Command’s Joint Inter- onedconline.org to get involved. ment potential of pore: Nation Branding After Lee Kuan Yew, agency Task Force—West (jiatf-w). Our emerging markets. “It’s Kevin Parker hksee writes, “After serving a great mix of fi nance, in a Divisive World, and was the closing are doing to mission will focus on countering illegal in Washington’s state legislature from macroeconomic issues, keynote speaker at the City Nation Place drug and transnational criminal organiza- change the 2008 to 2016 and working primarily as a and the work I’ve been global forum on place branding in London tions originating in the Pacific area of oper- budget negotiator and writer, I retired from doing.” in 2017. world!” ations. If you visit Oahu, please call!” state politics and accepted a position as Dan Zuberi phd, a professor of social David Chipanta Bernie Henderson hksee was named senior advisor to U.S. Congresswoman After her freshman year at Harvard College, Jinu Koola And Koola did just that, becoming the U.S. Treasury’s mpa/id 2005 policy at the University of Toronto, coau- chief executive officer of Woody Funeral McMorris Rodgers. Have been also a fellow / 2012 traveled. Her parents had emigrated to the fi nancial attaché to India three years after graduation. “What I valued thored a new book, (Re)generating Inclu- Homes and Nelsen Funeral Homes, serving at the Aspen Institute. Our coffee business United States from India, but until that point her world “To live and work in India is something I had always sive Cities: Poverty and Planning in Urban metropolitan Richmond, Virginia, on June has grown to nine locations over the past most ...was North America (Routledge, 2018). 1. In July, he was reappointed by Virginia ten years. In 2013, had the honor to return was limited to the places of her childhood: Wyoming, wanted to do,” she says. “It was a dream opportunity, but learning how Governor Terry McAuliffe to second terms to hks as a facilitator for the 21st Century Indiana, and Illinois. She spent the fi rst half of that not one I could have anticipated.” A dozen or so attachés to learn.” t 2005 on the Virginia Conflict of Interest and Leadership course. This year I started the summer teaching art to schoolchildren in a rural village are posted to strategic countries around the world, Ethics Council and the Virginia War Memo- doctoral program of leadership studies at in the Himalayas; then, as a Kawarmura Fellow, she fl ew she explains, gathering information about their George Billard mc/mpa announces that rial Board, completed his tenure as presi- Gonzaga University.” directly to Japan for a fi ve-week immersion in the economies and deepening bilateral relationships with his documentary, They Shall Not Perish: dent of Jewish Family Services of Rich- Xenia Stefanidou mc/mpa writes, “I country’s economy, history, and culture. The group fi nance ministry and central bank offi cials to better The Story of Near East Relief, became avail- mond, and became president-elect of the retired from public service in 2015 as visited shining factories and offi ces at Toyota and Sony inform policy decisions. able in the United States on Netflix on Shepherd’s Center of Richmond. January 1. The film tells the extraordinary ambassador of Greece to Mexico. I live in and met with members of the Japanese Diet. “Our role was to identify issues that India cares about story of the humanitarian response to the Hyun Kim mpp is pursuing peace and Athens and I am spending my time travel- “The whiplash I felt going between India and Japan and the U.S. Treasury might have expertise in, from security through diplomacy and mediation ling around the world.” Armenian genocide. was the most astounding thing,” says Koola. “Obviously capital markets to tax reform to banking regulation, at the United Nations Headquarters Segokodi Thoka hksee writes, “I am David Chipanta mpa/id writes, “My family Department of Political Affairs in New York. I already understood that these two countries are very, while approaching the relationship with humility,” Koola currently the managing member of a labor and I are still in Geneva and working with “Currently serving in the department’s very different, but having them juxtaposed in that way says. The U.S. municipal bond market, for example, is consulting company. I am also a part time unaids. Work is exciting. I am looking Africa 1 Division, which engages in the made my head spin.” Koola changed her major from the largest in the world and a signifi cant source of commissioner of the Commission for forward to speaking at the 19th Interna- Horn of Africa, East Africa, Great Lakes, Mediation Conciliation and Arbitration premed to social studies, suddenly engaged by the fi nancing for infrastructure. “That was a win-win, tional Conference on aids and std in Africa and Southern Africa regions.” questions that would propel her career: What are the because it was a market that India wanted to develop and (icasa) in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire in Decem- (ccma). The ccma deals with labor disputes factors that drive development? Why do some countries an area in which we had some useful expertise.” ber 2017, where I last spoke at this confer- Erica McKnight mpp was appointed asso- resolution in South Africa. I am passionate ence 20 years ago! My wife and I are Submit a ciate general counsel for the Obama Foun- about my work, as it enhances labor peace emerge from poverty, while others are left behind? Koola continues to move in new directions —both thrilled that our son has started grade 1 classnote at dation. The foundation is the platform for in the workplace.” That focus took Koola to the World Bank as an literally and fi guratively — having recently relocated from and speaks French and English and is ken.sc/ former President Obama and First Lady economic researcher and around the world with New Delhi to Oslo to join the Government Pension Fund learning my local language. It has been hksclassnote Michelle Obama’s philanthropic activities t 2006 Innovations for Poverty Action, where she worked in South of Norway. As a senior economist for the fund’s newly refreshing to meet mpa/id alumni recently and will create programs to engage young Bob DeColfmacker mc/mpa continues Asia and sub-Saharan Africa on issues such as safe water created Strategy Research Team, she will focus on the and catch up on the wonderful things you r leaders from around the world, identify on the web advising small colleges on strategic plan- access, education, and /. Aware of the investment potential of emerging markets for a sovereign are doing to change the world! Let me and broadcast innovative approaches to Find alumni ning as a senior consultant with Stevens / program since her undergraduate days, she enrolled wealth fund with just over $1 trillion in know when you are in Geneva in case you civic engagement, and connect communi- contact information Strategy, an international education con- would like to hang out.” ties by fostering conversations to bridge at Harvard Kennedy School in 2010. “What I valued most assets under management. “It’s a great mix of fi nance, in the online difference and creatively solve problems. sulting firm. “Each assignment is a bit about the program was learning how to learn,” she says. macroeconomic issues, and the work I’ve been doing Sylvia Clute mc/mpa is a contributing directory at unique and with its own set of challenges. Christopher Mora mc/mpa was competi- “How to ask the right questions. How to remain curious in emerging markets,” she says. For Koola, driven by the author to a new book, Transforming Jus- hks.harvard.edu/ In the past year alone we assisted a small tively selected in July 2016 to serve on active and adaptable. And how to fi nd solutions with imperfect same curiosity that inspired her travel to India and tice, Lawyers and the Practice of Law (ed. alumnidirectory liberal arts college in New England, a duty recall in the Office of the Judge Advo- Marjorie A. Silver, Carolina Academic health sciences university in California, a information. It gave me the confi dence to move in any Japan, the world continues to open up. H cate General Headquarters in the Pentagon TOND ISSAKSEN number of directions and grow into new roles.”

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Christian college in the South, and a start- Manjana Milkoreit mpp writes, “Four tage. His upcoming book on Murree, a small up hospitality school in the Middle East. years after receiving my phd and 10 years British colonial town in Pakistan, is with the In my spare time, I spoil six grandchildren after leaving Harvard, I have published my publisher. He lives in Lahore with his wife, % before returning them to their parents.” first book, Mindmade Politics: The Cogni- Fariha, two sons, Asad and Saad, and a 73 tive Roots of International Climate Gover- recently born beautiful daughter, Natalya. WE are in touch with Emily Felt mc/mpa just took a job leading nance (mit Press, 2017). If you want to the energy policy team at Duke Energy, one Josh Manning mpp is fighting for truth, other alumni peek into the minds of the people who of the largest energy firms in the United justice, the Oxford comma, and the Ameri- negotiated the Paris Agreement on Climate States. “The energy sector is like nirvana for can way as site director for ConservativeTri- Change, have a look!” ASKED. a public policy wonk like me.” She also bune.com. “ct provides commentary on % reports that when she is not geeking out on Funmi Olorunnipa mpa writes, “After culture, politics, and the day’s events— 28 law and regulation, she camps, canoes, and leaving the Obama administration, where I specifically written for what elites deri- travels with her husband, Greg, and growing worked in the White House Counsel’s sively call ‘flyover country’ but what we follow HKS on daughters, Hana (nine) and Lou (six). “My favorite Office, the Department of Justice, and the respectfully call ‘Heartland America.’ social media Administrative Conference of the United Owned by Liftable Media Inc., Conservative Brian Iammartino mpp writes, “I’m very accomplish- States, I’m returning to the private sector Tribune is one of the largest conservative 2,043 Vist the NEW, Alumni Facebook page proud to have joined the faculty of hks this facebook.com/HKSAlumni ment over to become counsel at Palantir Technolo- webpages in America and routinely ranked year, teaching financial analysis for nonprof- gies in Washington, DC.” by Alexa as one of the top 100 U.S. web- its and governments! My real estate invest- the last year sites by traffic. My favorite accomplish- ment business continues to grow, and most Nilmini Rubin hksee published a coloring was forcing ment over the past year was forcing a cor- ALUMNI importantly, my wife and two daughters book for kids and adults called The United rection from the New York Times on a story % (now six and two) are doing well and loving a correction Shapes of America. Each page depicts a about ... fake news.” our life in Boston. Would love to connect 35 from the New different state and you can color in the with other alums in the Boston area.” congressional districts. It’s a fun way to Yasmin Padamsee mc/mpa writes, “I am attend events in learn about the political landscape of the back in Cambridge after eight years in ANSWERED. Tim Reid mc/mpa, after spending the York Times their local areas United States and gerrymandering. The Myanmar. I am currently busy working with past couple of years working for the on a story coloring book is available on Amazon. the city of Cambridge on its participatory osce Special Monitoring Mission in budget, as a fundraiser for the Adaptive Donetsk, Ukraine, is currently an about ... fake Vesselin Valchev hksee writes, “I was Leadership Network, and as city ambassa- executive in residence at the Geneva appointed as consul general of Bulgaria in news.” dor for hks Women’s Network. I look for- % Centre for Security Policy. Los Angeles in 2015. Responsible for 11 Josh Manning ward to meeting many of the class of 2008 63 states from Alaska to Hawaii—all in all 4.5 WE Tommy Smith mc/mpa was recently mpp 2008 at our 10th-year reunion! Keep in touch.” say HKS communications are million square kilometers. I wish every- appointed to the Contra Costa County body every success.” Joseph Pfeifer mc/mpa is the chief of relevant to them Library Commission representing the city counterterrorism and emergency prepared- of Concord, California. The commission is ness for the Fire Department of New York. HEARD. Vist the NEW HKS website at the citizen advisory committee to the hks.harvard.edu/alumni t 2008 | 10th Recently, he was appointed, by General county librarian and the Board of Supervi- reunion Jean-Claude Gallet, as an honorary first- sors. Tommy continues in his work in sup- class firefighter of the Paris Fire Brigade plier diversity at Kaiser Permanente (kp) Brian Bombassaro mpp joined the U.S. (Brigade des sapeurs-pompiers de Paris) the large nonprofit health care provider Senate Committee on Finance as interna- In response, we are fi nding new ways to communicate and engage with you— for his international counterterrorism work headquartered in Oakland, California. At tional trade counsel. Previously, he was an all to help you better connect with HKS and with each other. with first responders after the November kp, Tommy helps leverage the organiza- associate at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer 13, 2015, terrorist attacks at the Bataclan tion’s buying power to support small and llp in Washington, DC, where his practice and Paris. Joe is the only international fire diverse entrepreneurs to promote employ- centered on investor-state arbitration, chief ever awarded this honor in the 206- ment, wealth creation, and ultimately bet- sovereign finance, and international trade. year history of the Paris Fire Brigade. Both right people at the right time. Thomas’s regime. Its quality has been recognized by delivery of public services through the ter health outcomes in the communities in Steven Cohen mpp, phd is an assistant Joe and Gallet have taught at hks’s Leader- formal contributions now span scientifi c partners such as El Pais, The Guardian, provision of high-quality consultancy in kp’s footprint. professor and the academic program direc- ship in Crisis Programs. review, scientifi c research, policy evalua- and Univision. Financing is still a chal- line with international best practice. tor for executive education at the Johns tion, and regulatory informatics. The U.S. lenge, but I’m positive we’ll be able to Tai Sunnanon mpp has been named exec- Bruce Haupt mpp writes, “Emily and I had t 2007 Hopkins Carey Business School. He also Congress directed ctp to regulate the man- establish a solid base to guarantee our utive director of the Independent Cities a baby girl! Future hks grad (mpp 2037) serves as president of Summit Presenta- ufacture, marketing, and distribution of future and independence. All best!” Kai-yan Lee mpp, after the Federal Association, a membership-based organi- Elsa Quinn Haupt was born in Muscat, tions, llc, a boutique training company tobacco products in order to prevent initia- Reserve and the World Economic Forum, zation of 40-plus cities across Los Angeles Rade Glomazic hksee was recently Oman, on July 9, 2017.” that helps leaders communicate their tion of use by youth and young adults, and assumed the role of managing director and County, including Beverly Hills, Los Ange- appointed as project director for EU- ideas with influence. He recently finished a to reduce harms of use to those who can’t Kimberlyn Leary mpa returned to Cam- opened the U.S. subsidiary for Vanke in les, and Long Beach. Tai is responsible for fi nanced projects: planning for climate new book, Speaking for Success: Readings or won’t quit. bridge last fall after two years of public 2013—one of the world’s largest real estate organizing and supporting public policy change in Malawi; supporting employment and Resources (2nd edition), a collection service as a Robert Wood Johnson Health companies and a Global Fortune 500 com- and legislation that impact these cities. Gonzalo Fanjul mc/mpa writes, “I am very policy for the promotion of job creation in of essential articles on the art of public Policy fellow in the Obama White House. pany. Kai has grown it to an asset value Learn more at [email protected]. proud to share with all of you porCausa. Mongolia; and Natura 2000 and low car- speaking. He is happily married and lives She joined the Harvard T.H. Chan faculty as exceeding $3.5 billion, with projects across org, a journalistic and research foundation bon development projects in Turkey with in Baltimore, Maryland. He travels fre- the Enabling Change program director and the United States. He also cofounded an focused on migration that we created three Human Dynamics, in Vienna. Human quently and enjoys reconnecting with for- t 2009 serves as McLean Hospital’s fi rst executive sec-registered real estate investment man- years ago and is now a reference in the Dynamics is a leading European provider of mer classmates. He invites you to contact director of policy outreach. “I am also a agement firm in 2016 under Vanke U.S. In Thomas Eads mc/mpa is on detail leading Spanish-speaking media. Our portfolio premium public sector development con- him at [email protected]. second-year fellow at the Women and his free time, Kai is active on various a team in innovation and scientific com- combines investigative journalism on sulting services for the European Commis- Public Policy Program at hks.” national nonprofit organizations’ boards Omar Khan mpa is currently serving as puting at the fda Center for Tobacco Prod- issues such as the corporations and inter- sion in both developing and transition and is also on track to run half marathons governance advisor to the Department for ucts. This team improves regulatory effec- ests behind the migration-control industry, countries worldwide. hd assists govern- Noorulain Masood mpa/id, after working in all 50 U.S. states. International Development in Pakistan. He tiveness by creating information architec- with solutions journalism focused on the ments in improving the performance and at the World Bank (2009–2013) and lead- loves to travel and is passionate about heri- tures that get the right information to the alternatives to this broken migration ing a nonprofi t in Pakistan (2014–2015),

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has set up the Center for Social Innovation supporting coalition operations in Syria Eduardo Baeza mpa writes, “After five- in Developing Countries (csidc.org), an and navigating dynamic U.S.-Turkey rela- and-a-half years working at the Spanish effort to foster a wave of social leadership tions, especially during the period sur- Prime Minister’s Office and advising Prime that responds to the urgent challenges rounding the summer of 2016’s attempted Minister Rajoy through three general elec- facing our world today. “We help those Turkish military coup. I am excited to share tions (and winning them all), I have engaged in social change, and those want- that I’ll be promoted to major and we’re embarked on a new professional challenge ing to be a part of it, hear their calling and expecting our first child very soon!” and decided to head back to the private navigate difficult and hostile environments sector, leading the institutional affairs Denise Diaz Payan mpp writes, “I com- M to realize their purpose. For our work, we department of a major Spanish defense pleted a phd in public policy and manage- draw upon work done at hks in community company, based in Madrid but with fre- ment from the University of Southern Cali- organizing and adaptive leadership, at mit quent travels abroad.” fornia in 2015, and a postdoctoral fellow- on systems dynamics, and at the Ed ship in health services research in 2017 Joandrew Cousins mc/mpa writes, “Life is J M School in adult development.” J K from ucla Fielding School of Public Health. great in Reading, Pennsylvania. After mili- K Diego Osorio mc/mpa is now the proud My husband, Daniel Payan mpp 2010, and tary retirement, I briefly worked for the larg- J K father of Emma Gaia (three) and Maya I moved to Merced, California, earlier this est health care in the world. This summer, I K Luna (born last summer). He continues year because I accepted an assistant pro- was asked by a uva Darden School class- working as an international consultant, fessor of public health position at uc Mer- mate to help run a nonprofit medical group. most recently in Colombia, Northern Ire- “I’ve just ced, where I am teaching health policy and I’ve been on the job for two months. Work- land, and Jordan. conducting state and local health policy ing in the front lines of providing quality joined the research. Daniel is continuing his career in health care to an underserved community Justin Pasquariello mpa writes, “My wife, public service with the county of Fresno. has its challenges, but it is also filled with Vanessa and I are pleased to have our medical many rewards. I’m hoping I can continue to second child on the way: a daughter due Deanne Titus mc/mpa recently took time faculty at pull from my life’s collective experiences near Christmas. In May, I became the new away from her current role as a senior and continue to make a difference. In clos- kanoko kamata mc/mpa 2012 executive director of the East Boston Social Georgetown management analyst at the Administrative ing, I am honored to be an alumnus of the Centers (ebsc), a settlement house organi- Appeals Office of the U.S. Citizenship and and continue Harvard Kennedy School. Shout out to zation that serves people across the life Immigration Services to volunteer with Kanoko Kamata, who recently helped change Japan’s acting out behavior symbolic of Japan’s patriarchal society. “ I hope we too Frank Pearl mc/mpa 2011—well done!!” span in Eastie and surrounding communi- to serve as fema’s disaster recovery program. Over a 110-year-old sex crime laws, is not resting on her laurels. They take turns turning over a table, an act long practiced can create an ties with programs including welcome monthlong deployment she assisted survi- Michael Morse mpa writes, “I’ve just The community organizer, who is spending a year at by men in traditional Japanese households to show anger. baby, early learning, after-school, teen the executive vors in navigating the fema disaster assis- joined the medical faculty at Georgetown Harvard’s Weatherhead Center, believes that that long- At the same time, learning that Japan’s Minister of environment programs, family engagement, and senior director of a tance registration process in response to and continue to serve as the executive awaited achievement is just the beginning. Although Justice was revising sexual assault laws, Kamata and her where fi nally programs. ebsc turns 100 next year. Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria. director of a nonprofit, the Palestinian Together, we are working to make East nonprofit, the Medical Education Initiative, that I started Kamata and her fellow activists succeeded in reforming the fellow activists set out to reform them. In Japan, discussions Rob Werner hksee attended the hks Cli- survivors Boston the world’s most joyful place. while at hks. Our work has expanded to law to lengthen prison sentences and to include male about sexual assault simply don’t happen, she says, but as Palestinian mate and Energy program in October 2017, Please come say hello!” include a successful school-based mental victims, much more remains to be done. she began to open up to her friends about her own and writes, “It was great to be back on do not blame Medical health intervention in Palestinian public Philip Schaffner mpp writes, “My wife, campus! The week informed my work both “To get a conviction of rape in Japan,” says Kamata, who experience, she discovered others who had also been schools in East Jerusalem. If you are also themselves.” Katherine Moss, and I welcomed our sec- Education at the League of Conservation Voters and is herself a survivor of assault, “the victim still sexually assaulted. They lobbied politicians, held public active in Palestine, please reach out!” has to prove that the perpetrator used physical force demonstrations, and collected more than ,000 signatures ond child, Phoebe Rose Schaffner, on Sep- Initiative, as a city councillor in Concord, New Hamp- tember 25, 2017. Phoebe is Tom Moss’s shire, chairing the Concord Energy and Mark Tracy mc/mpa is pleased to or threatened the victim, but normally, perpetrators calling for change. Last spring, the law unanimously passed. mc/mpa 1991 third grandchild.” that I started Environment Committee. Concord recently announce his campaign for Rhode Island don’t use physical violence. They use their status as a boss, a “Until we started talking to them about it,” launched Ready for 100% Renewable state representative. Please connect with Yang Wang mpp writes, “Dear all, while at teacher, a coach — those kinds of hierarchical Kamata says, “the lawmakers didn’t really understand the Energy, a campaign that calls for the city to the campaign at marktracy.com. “Any sup- In 2017 I move on to a new job at relationships—to exploit the victims. In Japan, that reality of what was going on. People don’t talk. Hearing our hks.” be 100% renewable in energy generation port is most welcome! My daughter, Kate— Zhongrong Fund, as head of the in all sectors by 2050.” the toddler you met at graduation—is now is still not understood.” stories, they felt a responsibility to do something. Their financial institution department.” Michael Morse Kamata’s understanding of gender equality underwent a response gives me great hope that Japan is making progress mpa 2011 seven years old and in second grade. Her dramatic shift when she came to the Kennedy School. “In in becoming a true democracy.” When the law comes up for t 2011 little brother Jonah is four. The entire fam- t 2010 ily is well, and I encourage you all to come Japan, there’s little awareness that women are discriminated revision, in 2020, Kamata and her fellow activists will push Shahab Ahmed hksee is now the head of Rick Harrison hksee is the new Secretary through Rhode Island on your next visit against and are not equal,” she says. “We think of Japan as a for further reform to bring Japan’s policies closer to legal for Etihad Aviation Group, based in of the Council of Australian Government’s to Cambridge!” gender-equal country, which is very odd since it ranks near international standards. Abu Dhabi, uae, where he looks after corpo- (coag) Education Council. coag provides rate, commercial, and regulatory matters the bottom on the gender gap index. I didn’t think gender Midway through her year at the Weatherhead Center, a forum through which strategic policy on and provides legal advice at the chief and t 2012 inequality existed in Japan.” where she is researching grassroots leadership school education, early childhood and board levels. Shahab lives in Abu Dhabi Francisco Aguilar mpp writes, “I married In Senior Lecturer in Public Policy Marshall Ganz’s development, Kamata is watching with keen interest the higher education can be coordinated at the with his wife, Michelle, and four children. In Jaime Zagami back in January 2017 (with community organizing class, Kamata gained skills that fallout from the recent fl ood of public allegations of national level and through which informa- their spare time, the family enjoys travel and hks folks in attendance) but don’t think tion can be shared, and resources used would serve her well in her future work. Following sexual assault here in the United States. She is encouraged time at the beautiful Abu Dhabi beaches. I’ve shared an update since then. My com- collaboratively, to address issues of graduation, she returned to Japan not only with greater by the number of women who are speaking out. “The pany, Bounce Imaging, continues to serve national significance. Chloe Arensberg mc/mpa is a Washing- clarity around the meaning of gender equality, but also with #MeToo movement is saying it is okay to speak up,” police, fire/rescue, and other first respond- ton-based senior producer for CBS News, Anna Schnitger Narduzzi mpp writes, “I ers in the United States and around the a deep resolve to help her country’s women fi nd their Kamata says. “I know many survivors in the United States coordinating all regional coverage for CBS am a captain in the U.S. Air Force, and world and recently won the Miller Lite Tap voices. In 2013, after years in the private sector, she have kept silent because of deep hurt, self-blaming, and This Morning. She returned to Washington have recently returned to the United States the Future prize. We’re also launching a cofounded Community Organizing Japan, which trains shame. While few Japanese women have joined this after three years in Beijing, where she after two years at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, new 4G unit in partnership with Verizon. nonprofi t organizations, labor unions, and youth in campaign so far, I hope we too can create an environment served as the network’s Asia bureau chief. where I was the director of operations for Hope you all are doing very well, in Trump- community organizing. where fi nally survivors do not blame themselves and do the 39th Civil Engineer Squadron. It was a adjusted terms.” In 201, she started Chabujo, a gender-issue-based not internalize their pain.” SA challenging and rewarding experience YOSHIKO HAYASHI YOSHIKO organization that encourages women to raise their voices by

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Erica Harrison Arnold mpp begins her Meghan Sullivan mpp and her partner, Austin King mpa 2013 writes, “In 2016, I I’m now back in Norway, as director for the sixth year practicing law in Atlanta, Geor- Nic Fortier, welcomed their first child, a wrote the briefs for the appeal that nonprofit Nansen Center for Peace and Dialogue, gia. In October 2017, Erica’s undergraduate baby boy. William Jay was born on October Better Markets brought in an effort to bring based in Lillehammer. (Yes, that one!). I school alma matter, Hampton University, Alumni Board Dean’s Executive 4, weighing a healthy 7 pounds, 8 ounces. transparency to the lawsuit over MetLife’s am soon reaching out to many of you, of Directors Committee inducted her in its Forty Under 40 Alumni status as a systemically important financial inviting you to contribute as speakers or to Laurence D. Belfer Edward D. Dong Recognition Society for the class of 2017. EXECUTIVE BOARD institution, the record for which was two- participate at the Lillehammer Dialogue Shannon M. Ashford Robert A. Belfer, Esq. mc/mpa 2015 Ellen K. Dyvik mpa 1990 IN MEMORIAM thirds under seal. A unanimous panel City in June 2018, a global gathering of Jay Bhatt mpa was named to Crains Chi- mpp 2007, Co-Chair Mary Boies Steven Rahman Glenn Dubin Ernesto F. Fernández- reversed the district court’s anti-transpar- people working on dialogue for peace or cago Business 40 under 40. “Appointed Holmann mc/mpa 1966 Jeanette Acosta mpp 2012 passed away mpp 2000, Co-Chair Jane Hartley ency ruling in a sweeping opinion authored development.” senior vice president and chief medical Manisha Dookhony Gustave M. Hauser, Esq. Anne Finucane December 18, 2017, after a year-long battle by Chief Judge Merrick Garland. It is the first officer of the American Hospital Associa- mc/mpa 2010, Vice Chair Rita E. Hauser Claire Fitzalan-Howard with cancer. The fight she showed combat- John Haederle Ellen S. Roy Herzfelder Karen A. Frank important DC Circuit decision to affirm the tion. Cultivated partnership between ing the disease was the same she had t 2014 mc/mpa 2000, Secretary mpp 1987 Reinhard Gorenflos public’s right of access to judicial records in National Urban League and the American Emilian Papadopoulos Sheila C. Johnson mpa 1989 shown her entire life in her pursuit of decades. Samuel Kim mpa writes, “Hi everyone! I am Hospital Association. Launching a physi- mpp 2008, Peter L. Malkin, Esq. Dionisio Gutiérrez social justice. It began in middle school, Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani John R. Hargrove See MetLife, Inc. v. Fin. Stability currently running a social enterprise I had Member-at-Large her family remembered, with an interest in cian leadership agenda.” mc/mpa 1982 mc/mpa 2012 started while in school back in 2012. I am MEMBERS Oversight Council.” Hilda M. Ochoa- Nicolaus P. Henke student government and improving com- mpa/id writes, “Shortly after Chike Aguh mpa 2013 quite happy to be running a few interesting Anne Kroijer Brillembourg mc/mpa mc/mpa 1990 Deborah Bailey munity life. By the time she was an under- Vaibhav Lodha hksee is a co-founder of graduating in 2012, I launched OnFron- 1972, hksee 2002 Kenneth A. Hersh projects in over 22 countries in Asia. I am mc/mpa 2015 graduate at the University of Southern ftcash. Ftcash is one of India’s fastest-grow- Idan Ofer Ahmad Jalal mpa/id 2011 mostly based in Boston, Kuala Lumpur, and tiers.com. Rooted in my mpa/id experi- Ramaswami (Balu) Batia Ofer Tasso Jereissati California she was leading a scholarship ing financial technology companies, recog- ence, OnFrontiers is an accelerated learn- Balasubramaniam Seoul, with a few weeks in Tokyo, Manila, David M. Rubenstein Maha J. Kaddoura mc/mpa 2010 fund for low-income students. At the Ken- nized by Forbes, backed by PayPal and Mas- ing platform that connects businesses to Ralph L. Schlosstein mc/mpa 2000 and Ulaanbaatar. When you have the Rudy Brioché mpp 2000, nedy School, Jeanette founded the Ivy terCard. Ftcash empowers the 60-plus mil- Cathleen Douglas Stone Kay Kapoor chance, please come and drop by. Would be locally plugged-in experts who can help haa Liaison iop 1984 Aida Kayali mpa 1998 League Immigrant Rights Coalition and lion underserved micro-merchants in India them get smart on developing markets. Jonathan Chang more than happy to host in these places. Christen Sveaas John F. Keane Sr. advocated for undocumented immigrants, mc/mpa 2014 through financial inclusion using digital Hope to reconnect with some of you!!” Experts include experienced industry pro- Robert S. Taubman Latifa Kosta Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook especially Dreamers—those who had been payments and loans. Vaibhav was recently fessionals, opinion leaders, academics, Lynn B. Thoman George Kounelakis mpa 2010 Winston Ma hksee reports that his sec- Lara Warner Edward M. Lamont Jr. brought into the country illegally as chil- awarded Businessworld ‘40 under 40’ and a and consultants who offer business profes- Tina Doerffer mc/mpa 2008 Leslie H. Wexner Brandt C. Louie dren. After graduating, she served as Presi- ond book, China’s Mobile Economy, was Leila El-Khatib mc/mpa 2013 Distinguished Alumni Award by the National sionals a unique firsthand perspective and Abigail Wexner Andrónico Luksic Arturo Franco mpa/id 2005 dent Obama’s reelection campaign’s Institute of Technology, Trichy. Earlier this released by Wiley in early 2017. The book real-time insights, while building their own Bashar Masri Manuel Muñiz mpa 2011 covers the latest media/tech/innovation in Dean’s Council Lorenzo Mendoza Latino vote director in Iowa, and then went year, he was invited by the World Economic knowledge base and skills. I hope you will Wendy Pangburn hksee 2009 on to work as director of the United Farm Forum to its annual meeting at Davos to China, which is the most important growth mc/mpa 1986 Laurence D. Belfer, Co-Chair check out onfrontiers.com. Drop me a line James B. Metzger engine for China at this moment. McKin- Sushma Raman hksee 2011, Peter L. Malkin, Co-Chair Workers Foundation campaign on immigra- represent the voice of the millennial. if you want to learn more.” Eric M. Mindich mc/mpa 2013 Gianna Angelopoulos- sey’s global ceo, Dominic Barton, wrote Anthony P. Morris tion reform. Jeanette had just graduated David Rosenberg Daskalaki, Vice Chair Monte McMurchy hksee writes, “Greetings Suzette Lin mc/mpa writes, “Maya and I Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani from law school and was clerking for a the foreword for the book and had it on his mc/mpa 1986, haa Liaison MEMBERS mc/mpa 1982 from Kinshasa, drc, where political publics reading list. It was included in the Econo- now live in San Mateo, California, after a Ruma Samdani judge on the DC Court of Appeals when she Sadaffe Abid mc/mpa 2011 Sharmin Mossavar-Rahmani are both fragile and astringent in that Presi- mc/mpa 2012 mist’s Matthew Bishop’s list of top busi- brief stint in nyc. I now run my own law Geraldine Acuña-Sunshine Christian L. Oberbeck became ill. She fought with determination Yiting Shen mpa 2007 dent Kabila is most reluctant to vacate office firm (Substantia Law Group, pc) and we mpp 1996 Hilda M. Ochoa- and grace until the end. ness books of 2016, and as one of “the Karen Agustiawan hks 2014 notwithstanding his agreement to depart at currently have two offices in Silicon Valley. Visiting Committee Brillembourg mc/mpa 1972 best 2016 business books for cios” by Mohammed B. Alardhi Marvin E. Odum the end of 2017. Post-secondary education in slg represents entrepreneurs here in Cali- 2016–2017 i-CIO.com. hksee 1992, Andrew S. Offit drc is under extreme duress as government fornia as well as Chinese companies Kenneth Apfel, Chair mc/mpa 2004 mc/mpa 2011 forces continue to intimidate faculty and Nate Mackinnon mc/mpa was appointed investing in tech or acquiring companies in Lawrence D. Bobo Abdullah Alrakhis Nelson Ortiz mc/mpa 1983 | Felipe Calderón Fahd A. Al-Rasheed t 2013 5th students who express truth to power. As as the first vice chancellor for community the United States. Primary focuses are ai, Minnie R. Osmeña mc/mpa mc/mpa 2000, Dalia AlSulaiman Jerome L. Rappaport reunion rector of the American Christian Liberal Arts colleges for the State of Nevada in July. health care, and ed tech companies. Out- hksee 2003 Andrew T. Balls mpa 1998 mpa 1963 University Congo (uci), my ordinal responsi- Nate and his wife have now relocated to side of work, Maya and I travel often to John H. Coatsworth Issa Baluch Tom Rousakis mpp 1997 Cristina Garmendia mpp writes, Roland G. Fryer Thomas C. Barry bility is dedicated to protecting both faculty Reno. Nate will oversee the state’s commu- Napa and Big Sur and explore the great Sean C. Rush mc/mpa 2007 “In November, I will be returning to my Joshua Gotbaum mpp 1976 Robert L. Beal Vincent J. Ryan and students from harm. The future for drc nity colleges as Nevada places an outdoors whenever we can. Maya is active Margaret Ann Hamburg Harvey Beker beloved city of St. Louis to join a small Mohammad Safadi as a nation both stable and responsive to the increased emphasis on the institutions to in the mit Club, and I frequently attend Jane D. Hartley Robert A. Belfer Elliot J. Schrage mpp 1986 team in the mayor’s office dedicated Michael Kremer rule of law rests in the hands and minds of meet the growing demands of employers. Harvard Club events. If any of you are Lisa M. Bellucci mc/mpa Mark Schwartz mpp 1979 to addressing racial inequality and Sara McLanahan 1997 Nate was born and raised in Boston, Andrew M. Sieg mpp 1992 institutional racism as their equity an educated, ethical citizenry.” ever in Northern California, feel free to Barbara J. Nelson Steven J. Berger Jane E. Silfen mpp 2013 so the dry air will certainly take some Tracy P. Palandjian Scott M. Black indicators manager.” connect—[email protected].” Gabriela A. Smith mpa 1991 Preeti Sinha hksee writes, “Hello from New getting used to. Robert D. Reischauer Mary M. Boies Michael P. Spies mcrp 1982 Delhi! I created and run my think-tank Yes Pietro Rabassi mpa writes, “Dear all, Patti B. Saris Robert R. Bruce, Jr. mpp 1970 Gabriel B. Sunshine Bruce Jackson mc/mpa writes, “In addi- Global Institute, the practicing think-tank of Jose Felix Magana mc/mpa writes, “Fos- shortly after graduation I moved (again) to Kent Walker Joseph F. Campbell Jr. Carl-Henric Svanberg tion to consulting, training, coaching, Ngaire Woods mpp 1978 Anthony Tamer Yes Bank, India’s fourth-largest private sector tering development. Latin American infra- the energy sector that I love, as it is at the speaking, and writing, I am currently build- Richard E. Cavanagh Lynn Thoman bank. We are focused on catalyzing private structure’s unsatisfied needs act like an crossroads of business, policy, and tech- Cecilia Chan Joseph B. Tompkins Jr. ing a new online life and leadership acad- Submit a capital for development.” anchor to development and growth. As nology challenges. Since 2016, I have been Adrian C. Cheng mpp 1975 emy for students worldwide. Called Charlie classnote at Anne Chiou mpp 2005 governments grew their leverage positions the director of Central European markets at Enzo Viscusi Academy, we are publishing courses and ken.sc/ Rajesh Talwar hksee writes, “I continue to Timothy C. Collins Brooke N. Wade in the post-2008 era, the space to con- programs designed to help 17-to-22-year- Nord Pool—the world’s first and largest Jamie A. Cooper mpa 1994 Malcolm H. Wiener hksclassnote work for the United Nations in Afghanistan, tinue investing is somehow limited. cabei, international power market. There, based Howard E. Cox Jr. Inno Xie olds build their life and leadership skill and in my spare time write books. In the past Bharat Desai in anticipation of next cycle, has revamped in Berlin, I am responsible for the expan- Dorothy S. Zinberg while growing social media credentials— r one year I have penned a play on Kashmir Teresa H. Doggett on the web and launched its structured finance and helping them gain a competitive advan- sion of the company into seven new coun- mc/mpa 1983 Find alumni and one on Gandhi. It was time to have a private sector business to promote fdi via tage when applying for college, graduate tries in continental Europe. Reach out if contact information website, and so I have had a friend help me corporate and non-recourse finance for you have any questions. Happy to help! school, internships, and jobs. Content publish rajeshtalwar.in, which lists most of in the online local and foreign impact investors, financ- based upon my published works on atten- Lastly, in December my wife, Marguerite my books.” ing sustainable energy generation, trans- tional leadership theory. Recently spoke at directory at (whom I met at Harvard), and I became port, and social infrastructure. I’ve been the U.S. Naval Academy and next month in hks.harvard.edu/ Alfredo Zamudio mc/mpa writes, “After parents! All the best.” entrusted with this task and, so far, we Ghana to address inspiring young leaders. alumnidirectory three good years in Geneva, heading the have catalyzed/invested in projects Missing hks!” Internal Displacement Monitoring Center, amounting to $2.4 billion.”

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Tim McDonald mpp is in his second year Office in Manhattan. She is a graduate of Alex Yergin mpp 2015 married Jessica I’m now based in Houston, Texas, where I of the phd program at the rand Corpora- the 2015 Kennedy School Emerging Leaders Reinis on September 16, 2017, in Siascon- am clerking for a U.S. district court judge, tion, where he is a graduate fellow and programs led by Professor Joritt De Jong. set, Massachusetts. In attendance were and for once, enjoying the mild winters.” assistant policy researcher. He is a senior many hksers: Dan Bowles mpp, Lloyd Simon Hedlin mpp is writing a book about Kelly Mua Kingsly mc/mpa writes, “The fellow at the Center for Policy Design. Edwards mpp 2016, Scott Quigley mpp, how women’s empowerment can help opportunities knocking at my door after Greg Lamontagne mpp, Soline Miniere Mai Mislang mc/mpa is a strategic advisor revive the global economy. The focus of the hks are huge. After school, I settled for a mpa/id, Katherine Roberts mpa (who to ceos and presidents of top organizations book is on policies that different countries job to serve the public over making quick was a bridesmaid), Malavika Srinivasan in the Philippines trying to move into the and companies have employed to boost money. The fi elds in Africa are ripe, but the Dhawan mpp, Julie Powers, Adele Faure digital economy. She uses her all-around the female labor force participation rate. workmen have little reason why. I wear mpa/id 2014, and Paulina Ponce de Leon experience in the public, private, and non- The book will be published by Stanford many caps currently I serve as the Camer- Barido mpp. profit sectors. “If you want to be wealthy in University Press in the fall of 2019. If any- oon’s representative to the Regional Advi- this country, you have to help the poor, body has ideas on research to cite or peo- sory Commission on Financial Markets because there are about 100 million of ple to interview, send an email to simon. t 2016 director for fi nance operations of the state e oale Courtouse them. Give the unbanked an e-wallet plat- [email protected]. censor at the central bank beac and as once again te venue Taimur Ahmed mpp writes, “I am currently form. Empower women through an online project fund coordinator at the Ministry of for te allscool rece Tadahiro Ikemoto mc/mpa, deputy direc- on the board of directors at the Harvard wellness business. Feed children with Economy and Planning. Reengineering the tion in ovemer tor at Japan’s Ministry of the Environment, Club of Central Florida, collaborating with undreds of students affordable nutritious meals that you can sell economy through fi nancial markets, espe- established in April 2017 the first nudge fellow Ivy League graduates about how facult and staff came for a profit. You simply cannot give what you cially with the fall in commodity prices, is unit in Japan, the Behavioral Sciences best to serve our local community. I have togeter for te annual don’t have, so count on entrepreneurship to my daily bread and butter.” Team (best), which consists of industry, interned at the White House, the Depart- event enoing te solve the world’s problems.” coman and te setting academia, and local and central govern- ment of Justice, and for Mayor Buddy Dyer hksee manages the Fabian Lewis it its vies of Boston Gregory Pavone mpp married the love of ments in order to help people take better of Orlando, Florida, and was the president Research and Analysis Unit at Jamaica’s aror his life, Andrea Moscoso, on September 29, actions by guiding their own decisions of Model United Nations at uf and also a Ministry of Finance. “Since completing the 2017, in the Boston, Massachusetts, Temple without stress. He seeks global coopera- student senator. I believe that it is my Emerging Leaders program in 2016, I have of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day tion through information sharing, policy personal responsibility to make sure every personally developed inter alia my leader- Saints. Greg is grateful to all friends and dialogue, etc. with overseas governments, young person knows they can achieve ship capabilities and applied formal nego- family for their love and support. businesses, and experts. anything they set their minds to, so long as tiation strategies in practical, everyday and was appointed by the president as the Togo. hks students and alumni are wel- they believe in themselves. It is my job to situations. Moreover, my participation in new assistant secretary for planning at the come guests to our program, which pro- Tim Purinton mc/mpa writes, “After a Vivek Kovilakathu hksee is working for a push them to do so.” the program has tremendously assisted Department of Transportation. It was a big vides alternative travel fi lled with lived dozen years working for the Common- consulting company in Japan on cross- me to better navigate the challenges asso- challenge with vast learning ahead, but I experiences in the diverse natural and wealth of Massachusetts as founding border m&a deals in the health care/phar- Tania Del Rio mpp writes that Mayor Marty ciated with a dynamic public service envi- took it head on, knowing the need for cultural landscapes of the region. After director of the Mass Division of Ecological maceutical space. “In the future, I would Walsh of Boston is serious about increas- ronment. As one of the 2 2016 World transportation infrastructure and the sig- some delays, by early 2018 we should be Restoration, I am now the executive direc- wish to drive strategy and innovation for a ing diversity in City Hall, and she is thrilled Heart Federation’s Global Emerging Lead- nifi cant contribution my work will bring to ready to open our new home to guests tor of the Maryland and DC chapter of the pharmaceutical company focusing on to join the team that is tasked with making ers, my work is continually aimed at reduc- the improvement of public transport in the from around the world. During construc- Nature Conservancy. The chapter is emerging markets and poorer countries.” that happen. As a diversity outreach direc- ing (by 2 percent, come 202) the preva- Philippines and effectively the standard of tion, dozens have been trained in new focused on restoring the largest estuary in tor in the mayor’s office, she will be ensur- lence of cardiovascular disease worldwide. living of its citizens. It’s been quite a year skills. When not hosting guests, our home the lower 48, the Chesapeake Bay and its ing that all residents can access opportuni- of challenges!” will serve as a convening space for com- tributaries, as well as helping the region IN MEMORIAM ties to serve their city equally. JiaQuan Lu hksee writes, “Along with munity members to develop new skills and mitigate and prepare for climate change.” fellow Harvard alumnus Eza Seow alb Alyce Su hksee writes, “Hong Kong Kumar Anuraj Jha mc/mpa 2015 died Peter Deutscher mpp writes, “I spent the build their networks.” 2000, sas 2000, we organized an event Handover 20th Anniversary Top 0 Chinese following a car accident in Khartoum, first year after graduation working with with the Harvard Alumni for Global Devel- Business Leaders, approved by Beijing, t 2015 where he was working as a child protection professors Tim O’Brien and Ron Heifetz opment at the Fullerton Bay Hotel Singa- China. Published by e conomic i specialist for unicef in Sudan. His wife, Jill, teaching courses on adaptive leadership Myrish Antonio mc/mpa is the associate pore. Our distinguished guest speaker for ress (under China State Council).” and two daughters were also in the car but and adult development. I was worried director for the Center for Public Leader- the night was Candra Darusman. Candra survived the accident. A native of Nepal, about not moving into a “professional” job ship at hks. She was recently awarded is the Singapore deputy director of World Anuraj had dedicated his career to helping at first, but it was one of the best decisions t 201 IN MEMORIAM Most Outstanding Law Alumni for 2017 Intellectual Property Organisation (wipo), children caught in the vice of war. In Nepal, I’ve ever made. It served as a forced pause, from her alma mater, Silliman University, the United Nations agency for intellectual Agnes Igoye mc/mpa writes, “On October Jeanette Acosta mpp 2012 first with Save the Children and later with a chance to reflect, and changed the way I and has been selected to the 2017 cohort property services, policy, information, 14, 2017, I was awarded the Alumni Honor Kumar Anuraj Jha mc/mpa 201 the UN Mission’s Child Protection Section, think about the work I do and what is of the prestigious Harvard University and cooperation. unwipo had been Roll of Fame by President Clinton at the he helped negotiate the release of 2,000 meaningful and important to me. It helped Administrative Fellowship Program. associated with Harvard for decades, Clinton Global Initiative (ci) University’s children from the Maoist army fighting in me find a role that I think I will love at the working closely with Harvard faculty, aca- 10th annual meeting, for the signifi cant Edward Dong mc/mpa joined the hks that country’s long insurrection. He Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet demia, students, and alumni, on patent impact of my counterhuman traffi cking Dean’s Council in 2016 in addition to his returned to work with the UN following in Australia. Thank you, hks!” economics at Harvard Kennedy School, work and continued dedication to making volunteer role as alumni ambassador since graduation. In his short time in Sudan, Cindy Dinh mpa writes, “As concurrent id/ Harvard Medical School, and Harvard Law a difference in the world. I had an opportu- 2015. He hosted hks Alumni Connect Lon- according to unicef, he was key to prog- mpa students know, it’s sometimes hard to School. It was a good close-knit network- nity to give a speech. The day before, I was don on January 15, 2017. Edward also ress made in the non-recruitment of chil- find the perfect blend of law and public ing session where several alumni con- recognized in a speech by Chelsea Clinton joined the Leadership Council of the Rob- dren by armed groups and armed forces. policy. The summer after graduation, the versed on ideas on how to tackle global detailing my accomplishments as some- ert F. Kennedy Human Rights Center in He had spoken about that progress on his California legislature passed the Student development issues by leveraging disrup- one who has inspired her and others since August 2017 to promote human rights and visit to hks following graduation, and Voter Act, a bill that my ppia friend Paul tive innovation.” the establishment of ci. And I sat on a democracy throughout the world with a about how he had used many of the tools Monge-Rodriguez mpp 2015 and I coau- roundtable to discuss the future of ci focus on Asian countries. he had acquired while at the school, said Airene Montesa Robinson mc/mpa thored and that won support from Assem- University.” Suzanne Shende, director of the Mason writes, “The presidential election was over Felicia Gross hksee recently accepted a blymen David Chiu and Rob Bonta. This Program at HKS. “He truly was an excep- when I came home after the hks gradua- Ben Schwartz mpa writes, “My foster son position as an assistant attorney general law will automatically register college stu- tionally committed, humble, high-integrity, tion. I went back because the whole point and I are opening an immersive West Africa with the New York State Attorney General’s dents to vote when they register for likeable person,” Shende said. of going to Harvard is coming back home travel experience where culture meets classes, affecting 240,000 college stu- to do public service. I joined in September adventure on the border of Ghana and dents at public colleges and universities. JESSICA SCRANTON JESSICA

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Jerry Rappaport mpa 1963 has worked to build Boston and to rebuild confidence in the city OSMAN RANA OSMAN STEWART MARTHA

State Rep. Jeff Sánchez mc/mpa 2011 (left), a former Rappaport Urban BY MARI MEGIAS Scholar and now chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, giving hks students a tour of his Mission Hill district.

he year was 1947. Jerry Rappaport with just a few dozen students. How could “The challenges were, how do you to establish a Rappaport Fellowship for had gone through the Mid-Career master’s was entering Harvard Law School, discussions about public policy be woven take the assets of a great city and bring an elected official from Greater Boston,” program at hks. “I applied for and got the and in his class were many veterans into the fabric of the University? Rappaport people back to urban areas?” says he says. “Shortly after, I expanded the Rappaport scholarship,” Sánchez says. “I of World War II. The state of an had an idea. With the support of the dean Rappaport. “How do you create a more fellowship to include appointed officials.” used hks as my vocational school—I took Tuncertain world was a pressing concern for of the law school, Jim Landis, who was stable government and a more fiscally He also established the Rappaport Institute courses to refine my thinking and enhance him and his peers. his advisor at the time, Rappaport started responsible environment, so people would for Greater Boston, a University-wide my skills.” Today, he is the chairman of the Rappaport observed that while many the Harvard Law School Forum. The forum have confidence in the city?” To him, these entity housed at the Kennedy School, to state’s powerful House Ways and Means lawmakers started out as lawyers, the law became so popular that it was broadcast on questions were not rhetorical. He was improve the governance of Greater Boston Committee. “The fellowship helped me run school’s curriculum provided no training radio throughout the Boston area. a young lawyer involved in politics and by strengthening connections among the faster at a point in time when I needed it,” to create and use policy to have a positive A true lover of local politics, Rappaport public policy who saw an opportunity to region’s scholars, students, and civic he says. effect on people’s lives. “My worry was that dove headfirst into the historic 1949 Boston The challenges were, make a large impact. So he got involved leaders. The institute hosts a summer Rappaport is gratified to have had lawyers ended up in public policy positions mayoral election after graduating from Harvard in commercial real estate, including the fellowship program, which is open to such an impact on Greater Boston through after receiving legal training in a virtual Law School at age 21. He led the campaign how do you take the 48-acre Charles River Park, a project he graduate students from throughout the his philanthropy at Harvard. “I believe public policy vacuum,” Rappaport wrote in of the reform candidate John Hynes to is proud of to this day. Rappaport also Boston area, and the Boston Urban Scholars the institute has helped to transform the an open letter to the law school in the mid- victory over the legendary machine of James assets of a great city looked to strengthen public institutions, Program, which provides full tuition for Mid- relationship between Harvard and the 2000s. “I wanted to try to better integrate Michael Curley. This was around the time and bring people back pushing to establish the city of Boston’s Career master’s students at hks. city of Boston and the Commonwealth of policy and law school education.” when urban blight and declining industry planning office, the regional planning office Jeff Sánchez mc/mpa 2011 is a former Massachusetts,” he says—something that When he was a student, the law school and retail in the city induced many families to to urban areas? for Greater Boston, and wgbh’s public Rappaport Urban Scholar and a state anyone in favor of good governance can focused on the nuts and bolts of litigation, flee to the suburbs. A significant population JERRY RAPPAPORT mpa 1963 television channel. legislator from the Mission Hill section of get behind. and the Kennedy School, which back then loss ensued—from 1950 to 1960, Boston’s In the 1980s, he found himself in a Boston. First elected to the Massachusetts was known as the Graduate School of Public residents declined by more than 100,000— position to pay it forward. “I sent a letter House of Representatives in 2003, he knew Administration, was merely a decade old and people were ready for a change. to the Kennedy School saying that I wanted many people, including legislators, who

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