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Dear Reader, letter | tribute choose,” she explains. “That means restoring team, which also includes Tahir Andrabi As an mpa 1990 graduate, I am sitting the tools for rising — an education that of Pomona College and Jishnu Das of the In my travels as dean, one of my greatest pleasures is meeting here in tears. I did not even know Edith gives you a shot at a job, a job that lets you World Bank, hosted workshops in both Kennedy School alumni. They are heads of state, educators, Stokey all that well (frankly, I was a little build assets, and strong social connections. the United States and Pakistan with key planners, leaders of international organizations, advocates for scared of her!), but because of your We believe when you restore those tools and policymakers and private-sector social justice, consultants, service providers, and local government beautiful showcase of tributes, I realize put individuals and families back in the stakeholders to identify challenges and officials — all impressive and inspiring people who are passionate now more than ever the power of that driver’s seat, they will rise and bring their potential solutions for improving education about making the world a better place. raised eyebrow and warmth and delight neighborhoods with them.” in Pakistan through private schools. Meeting these dedicated individuals is a wonderful reminder of the twinkle in her eye! Dearing has continued to win Their focus since then has been on of why we do what do here at the Kennedy School. Witnessing Thank you so much for the wonderful accolades for her work. She was one of finding ways to help these schools grow, their impact never fails to strengthen my commitment to making online version of the magazine. Boston Business Journal’s “Top 40 Under in both size and quality. The schools, which sure, in this rapidly changing world, that the Kennedy School Keep up your good work! 40” and was awarded the Chamber of operate as small businesses, are too large for offers our future leaders the best possible training. Since becoming Commerce Pinnacle Award in emerging microfinance institutions and too small for dean, I have made it one of my highest priorities. Debbie Phillips mc/mpa 1990 executive leadership. the banking sector, Khwaja explains. Seizing In this issue’s cover story, you will read about slate opportunities identified in the workshops, (Strengthening Learning and Teaching Excellence), a schoolwide update | Onward, Upward the research team is now testing the impact initiative that is analyzing our current teaching methods and update | Before the World Tiziana Dearing mpp 2000 likes a challenge. of providing financing and technical identifying more effective teaching tools. Over the past few years Serbian Foreign When she was profiled in our summer support to schools. The study will be we have begun integrating these new tools into our curriculum: Minister Vuk Jeremic 2009 issue, she was at the helm of Catholic implemented as a randomized evaluation expanded experiential learning opportunities, peer-to-peer mpa/id 2003 was Charities of Boston, the youngest person, at in order to produce rigorous evidence on learning, and a revitalized Case Program. As we measure the elected president of 36, and the first woman to head the state’s how these provisions affect school results of our efforts, our initiative to reform and improve the UN General largest social service provider. performance, gender empowerment, and teaching and learning will continue. I believe we are making Assembly in June. She steered the organization, which education outcomes. The researchers will important progress. serves 150,000 to 200,000 people a year in Jeremic, at 36, is the This issue also features one of the school’s iconic figures, eastern Massachusetts, through a major youngest president ever of the 193-member Nobel laureate Tom Schelling, who 35 years ago, together with recession and oversaw a financial and brand world body, where he will hold office for several other remarkable colleagues at the school changed the way turnaround. one year. public policy is taught. Their efforts transformed public policy When she was offered the chance to head When Jeremic was profiled in our education not only at the Kennedy School but also at public policy Boston Rising, a new funding organization spring 2008 issue, he described returning schools throughout the country. The slate initiative seeks to dedicated to breaking the generational cycle to Serbia shortly after the country’s build on this remarkable legacy. of poverty, it “was too good an opportunity democratic revolution and the country’s In this election year, this magazine also looks at the work of internal battle for the “soul of democracy” some alumni who are exploring new ways to reform the election after years of wrenching conflict. process: While still students, three of our 2011 graduates developed His election to head the General an online service to increase voter turnout, and a 2003 graduate Assembly, he said, was a sign of how far has made headlines in the past year for his efforts to create a third- Serbia had come: “A painful era has now party option in the presidential election. come to an end. Today our nation can test each of the financing mechanisms (grants, Finally we feature some alumni who are working behind the proudly stand before the world again.” loans, equity) and technical (educational and scenes in the 2012 presidential race. While many of our graduates operations) support among 1,000 schools in run for office, at both the state and the federal level, many more update | Leaps and Bounds rural Pakistan, in an intervention launched this are advisors and staff members who support candidates. In the In his monumental study of the education summer. The results of this evaluation have following pages you’ll find two such individuals. sector in Pakistan, which we featured in the significant potential to improve the quality and I look forward to following the progress of the remarkable winter 2010 issue, Asim Ijaz Khwaja, supply of education in Pakistan and provide people profiled here and the many other alumni who are working professor of public policy, helped shed light insights for developing similar programs in around the globe to improve our world. , izz a aftab

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w ste to pass up,” says Dearing. “I went from schools — often one-room schoolhouses — Dean David T. Ellwood running a large, 100-year-old organization that are outperforming government schools August 2012 to creating a start-up.” despite lower-paid teachers and fewer “Boston Rising works with residents in resources, while also creating a cycle of h a mart w n h enr y, neighborhoods to help them clear the way female empowerment by giving women s h a of obstacles so they can rise in the ways they a chance to teach and improving girls’ y ton a

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2 harvard kennedy school 3 public interest Burns Elected hks to AAAS Got Faculty Professor of the Talent! It’s the Economy Practice of Diplomacy and research center In the most recent national International Relations poll of America’s 18- to 29-year-olds by the Institute of Nicholas Burns was recently Allison Makes Time Politics, 58 percent of the respondents named “jobs and selected for membership in faculty In Time magazine’s May 7 cover story, the former Harvard the economy” when asked which national issue concerns the American Academy of Arts Kennedy School dean Graham Allison takes readers behind the them most. The poll, the 21st released since 2000, also and Sciences. A former U.S. Project and is the faculty chair scenes in the days leading up to the raid on Osama bin Laden’s showed that President Barack Obama had widened the compound in Pakistan. Allison concludes undersecretary of state, Burns for the programs on the Middle that the mission by U.S. Special Forces worked in the Foreign Service East and India and South Asia. succeeded because of the enhanced for 27 years. At the Kennedy He will be inducted into the percentage capabilities of the U.S. intelligence School, he serves as director of academy in October. of millenials and military agencies and the presi- concerned dent’s decision-making on issues of the Future of Diplomacy about national security. % jobs and the economy t58 gap between the Republican Mitt Romney and himself. Obama led Romney by a 17-point margin, compared with the 11-point lead the president held in iop’s 2011 November poll. Chris Gustafson mpp 2012 was a hit at the 2012 “HKS Got Talent?” variety show, a Kennedy School community event for faculty, staff, and students in April. Comedian Jimmy Tingle mc/mpa 2011 emceed the event. Young Global Leader Alumni Honored alumni Jeremy Heimans Alumni Three James McCorkell Melodie Potts Joseph A. Rieser Jr. mpp 2003 was named a Young Top Think Tanks members of the mpa 1999 received the mpp 2008 received mpp 1974 received the Global Leader (ygl) by the Kennedy School Alumni Achievement the Rising Star Award Julius E. Babbitt World Economic Forum for research center The Belfer Center alumni community Award for his work for founding and Memorial Alumni his work as cofounder of for Science and International Affairs and the were honored founding and directing operating Teach for Volunteer Award for his Purpose.com, an online Center for International Development were during Reunion College Possible, a Australia, a program commitment and service recognized respectively as the number one and number community committed to the Weekend in May for program that provides that places volunteers to the school and the nobel visit H.E. Tawakkol three university-based think tanks in January by the establishment of “21st century their outstanding support to low-income in disadvantaged alumni community. Karman, a Yemeni journalist and advocate Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program at the University contributions. youths in achieving schools throughout movements.” Heimans became art for freedom of the press, who in 2011 became of Pennsylvania. The Belfer Center was also ranked 17th entrance to college. Melodie Potts the country. Joseph A. Rieser Jr. part of the ygl network of the first Arab woman to win the Nobel Prize, among security and international affairs think tanks globally w ste more than 700 outstanding spoke in June at the Forum. and cid was 19th among all U.S. think tanks. individuals in May. Audacious Idea clinton visit students Instiglio, a project that h a : M art h er p otos ot Leadership and creates social impact bonds to improve public service were Investigative Reporting Honored the outcomes of social services, was the topics of a panel awarded the 2012 Public Service Innovation Research center This year’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative discussion when Award. The project is the creation of went to a team of reporters at the Associated Press for their investigative Ambassador Gianna Reporting h er ; all p h otograp student innovators series “NYPD Intelligence Division.” The series, by Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Michael Belinsky Angelopoulos of staff mpp 2012, mpa/id 2012, Eileen Sullivan, and Chris Hawley, disclosed undercover surveillance by the police force David Bullon Greece and President ard mpa/id 2012, in New York’s Muslim communities. Since 1993, the Goldsmith Prize, through the Michael Eddy Bill Clinton visited mpa/id 2012 Shorenstein Center, has honored investigative reporting that best promotes effective Avnish Gungadurdoss , campus. The event and mpa/id 2012. sought to recognize and ethical conduct in government, the making of public policy, or the practice Madalina Pruna The international social development organi- the new Angelopoulos of politics. zation was also cited by Google’s president, Global Public Leaders Left to right, Matt Apuzzo, Shorenstein Center director Alex Jones, Eric Schmidt, as an “audacious idea.” Program. Eileen Sullivan, Adam Goldman, and Chris Hawley.

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Post Grad teaching Looking part pop art, part community notice board, the one of the hks students who started the project. “We’ve all been inspired project was devised by a group of Kennedy School students as a way of by someone. That feeling of connection doesn’t always happen in public, connecting all those who walk through Harvard Square. It started with a especially Harvard Square. It’s a nice excuse to slow down and realize simple question, stuck to an empty Brattle Street shop front on a Post-it what we have in common.” note: What inspires you? Within weeks the store windows were covered Marshall Ganz, whose community organizing class sparked the project, with replies. They include the silly and the glib (“fish fingers and custard,” says it was part of an exercise intended to put into action the five core a paw print), but overwhelmingly they are small personal revelations principles he teaches in class: relationship building, storytelling, structure, (“Miss Flythe 4th Grade teacher,” “my friends and parents,” “Martin strategy, and action. Luther King”). “It’s remarkable that it’s staying up out there and that people are art “I was inspired to see that a simple question could resonate with adding to it, so it has clearly touched a nerve,” Ganz said. s RDO r on the web so many people and move them to action,” said Jonah Evans mpp 2012, http://ken.sc/post_grad w h a ste mart

6 harvard kennedy school 7 :: FROM THE CHARLES big ideas immigrants could shed some light on Fog of Stove Indoor air pollution the issue. She found that they take their Breaking Trails from primitive cooking fires kills 2 research samplings preferences for or against redistribution million people a year, according to the with them when they move to another World Health Organization. That’s as country. Culture had a great effect on many deaths as from malaria and an individual’s preference for redistribu- bigger, broader connection to the outdoors and foster a lifelong tuberculosis combined. And cooking tion as household income, and was 60 commitment to conservation,” he says. with biomass fuels such as wood “ The findings do not percent as great as the combined effect The amc allows Judge to combine two important strands in his and dung is a large contributor to support the maxim of income and education. life. His career has been marked by a commitment to social justice environmental pollution. So the humble and sustainable development, through work at places such as the improved cooking stove has caused great that sadder is wiser, Greater Boston chapter of Habitat for Humanity and Springfield’s excitement for its potential to lessen this Triple Decker “More than 85 alumni John Judge mc/mpa 2001, the Redevelopment Authority. He has also been a lifelong outdoor terrible scourge. By providing a more instead showing the percent of single-family dwellings are Appalachian Mountain Club’s new president and ceo, looks at enthusiast, having been introduced to hiking in the White Mountains efficient and cleaner alternative, the opposite. Sadness owner occupied; more than 85 percent an organization that stretches from the wilderness of Maine to as a child, rising to the rank of Eagle Scout, and even teaching new stove has the potential to improve of dwellings in homes with more than Washington, DC, and sees a lot of unexplored territory. survival courses. billions of lives, and nonprofits and may make people three units are rented,” Edward Glaeser, The amc is about as old as the idea of the outdoors itself. It was Judge sees opportunities to bring his love for the outdoors to governments around the world have Glimp Professor of Economics and founded in 1876 in the same Victorian spirit that was driving people places such as New York City and Hartford, Connecticut — not just to embraced it as a great economic more accurate in director of the Taubman Center for State to climb mountains, find adventure, and seek renewal in wild places. win new members, but also to engage a more diverse population and development tool. But “Up in Smoke: some contexts, but it and Local Government, writes in The country’s oldest conservation and recreation organization, club to reach kids who otherwise might never appreciate being in nature. The Influence of Household Behavior “Rethinking the Federal Bias Toward members cut the Tuckerman Ravine trail in 1879 and built the first “If we can get kids out before they turn 12, they are 75 percent on the Long-Run Impact of Improved also makes them Homeownership.” National and local High Country hut, deep in the White Mountains, in 1888. more likely to have a lifelong relationship with the outdoors,” Cooking Stoves,” by Associate Professor policies, he argues, “stack the deck against Today the amc has grown to 16,000 volunteers, 450 full-time and he says. And when they find out they enjoy the outdoors, they of Public Policy Rema Hanna and two prefer immediate energy-efficient, economically vibrant seasonal staff members, and 12 regional chapters. It maintains more become “experiential conservationists,” wanting to safeguard that coauthors, has taken some of the steam gratification — not an urban density.” than 1,500 miles of trails, including 350 miles of the Appalachian Trail experience for future generations. out of the claims made for this simple in five states. It hosts more than 150,000 guests annually at its lodges, To get more people out from urban areas, the amc is looking to technology. The authors’ four-year study attribute associated huts, and camps. It helps to protect wild places like Maine’s 100-mile leverage existing urban trails and add new ones. September 2012 will of more than 2,500 Indian households Poor Results About one-third of wilderness. And it offers more than 8,000 outdoor trips a year and a see the launch of a campaign to complete the 200-mile Bay Circuit living with the new stoves found that use with wisdom.” the children of immigrants live in poverty host of programs for people of all ages. Trail. The amc is also partnering with the ymca and the Boys and of the stoves fell so sharply after the first :: Jennifer Lerner in the United States — some 15 percent But Vision 2020, the amc’s long-term strategic plan, sees the Girls Clubs, training leaders in those organizations in outdoor skills year that no health improvements “The Financial Cost of Sadness” higher than the rate among native organization growing and reaching more people in more places so that they will feel more comfortable leading children in outdoor were registered at all. The households children — and the difference between including: increasing its 100,000 constituents fivefold; getting recreational activities. were failing to keep the stoves in good the two groups continues into adulthood. 500,000 kids outdoors; maintaining thousands of miles of trails; “With everything going on in today’s world, the mission of working condition, not making even That’s according to a new study, “Poverty and protecting millions of acres of land. the amc has never been more relevant or more urgently needed,” simple repairs. United Kingdom, made up of agencies and Program Participation Among Since his appointment, in February, Judge has worked on creating Judge says. s RDO ranging from the police to social workers Immigrant Children,” by George Borjas, a blueprint for the plan’s implementation. “We want to create a to public works crews, that were formed Scrivner Professor of Economics and Tough Love Management scholars to respond to public-order problems. Social Policy. Borjas sees parents’ and practitioners tend to favor either a He found that in situations in which soft educational attainment as the primary soft, nurturing approach or a tough one. and hard management coexisted, the reason for the difference. the great outdoors What might work best is not simply a Clockwise from top left: the reduction in crime was greater than question of personality or preference; 100-mile wilderness in Maine, either approach could have achieved it’s vitally important in the fields of which includes the Roach River on its own. Hire Ed Evaluating job candidates and ponds; hikers on the Bay public management and organizational jointly rather than separately undercuts Circuit Trail, which encircles performance, where an increasing the tendency toward gender bias, Boston outside Route 95; amc focus on collaboration often brings Share the Wealth What influences “making employers choose based on programs introduce kids to together agencies with widely differing the outdoors. a preference for income redistribution? ability, irrespective of the gender of the approaches, such as those involved The debate over whether it is a country’s candidate and the implicit stereotypes in national and homeland security. environmental and institutional factors i n C lub hi an M ounta A ppalac y that the employer may hold,” write New research by Steven Kelman, or its culture is longstanding and very Iris Bohnet, hks academic dean and

ourtes Weatherhead Professor of Public difficult to resolve. In “Culture, Context, professor of public policy, and coauthors Management, suggests that “tough love” and the Taste for Redistribution,” Alexandra van Geen and Max Bazerman might be a very productive compromise. Associate Professor of Public Policy in “When Performance Trumps Gender Kelman studied partnerships in the Monica Singhal looked at whether Bias: Joint vs. Separate Evaluation.” r on the web : C L ange vi n , bottom http://ken.sc/breaking_trails : J eff top

8 harvard kennedy school 9 r on the web Sembawang http://ken.sc/equal_justice Woodlands Chong Pang Namazie Yishun Sambawang North In Pursuit Estate Airfield Mongolia Korea Footprint Kranji Seletar South KyrgyzstanAirfield Kampong Korea Nee Soon Tajikistan Punggol Changi Salabin Tengah of Equal Airfield Bukit Panjang Choa Ang Mo Kio Hougang alumni Bryan Stevenson mpp/jd 1985 has a Bulim Northern Chu Kang Lam San Serangoon Paya Lebar Mariana New Town China little ritual. EveryIslands time he argues a case before Jurong Pakistan Airfield Tambines Singapore Changi Jurong Paya Lebar Justice Singapore West International Airport East Bukit Bishan Somapah the U.S. Supreme Court (something he’s done Boon Lay Taiwan Guam Timah Toe Payoh Bedok Shangi The Kennedy School’s ties to Jurong Jurong Nepal NeBhuwta Tonwn five times so far), he stands outside the Bedok TuasIndustrial Clementi Katong building beforehand and contemplates the Singapore go back almost as far as Estate GeylanBagngladesh Queenstown Myanmar the tiny island’s emergence in 1965 Pasir us embassy (Burma) words inscribed above the arches in front: Panjang India SINGAPORELaos Philippines as an independent city-state. Since parliament “Equal Justice Under Law.” Stevenson still 1968, when the new republic’s first Telok Blangah house Palau Thailand holds out hope that the sentiment behind that prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew iop 1970, Vietnam phrase can prevail for everyone in this entered the school, the Kennedy Cambodia country — regardless of race and financial or School has trained almost 200 of Brunei social status. HeNew argued, Guinea and won, two cases Singapore’s citizens, many of whom Sri Lanka this past March — both are now the republic’s top leaders in Malaysia Malaysia representing major victories defender education, business, and government. Singapore Strait singapore IndonesiCelebes a for equal justice, the cause Bryan Stevenson is In the intervening years, the school’s Borneo working to make equal Sumatra to which he has devoted his influence has extended beyond our Timor Leste justice a reality. (East Timor) campus: Kennedy School faculty Timorlife. Decisions reached by Java members have helped the Singapore’s the Supreme CourtAustralia in June National University establish and THE NUMBERS 2012 struck down statutes that had previously develop the Lee Kuan Yew School of allowed juveniles to receive mandatory Public Policy. “Our relationship with sentences of life without parole. In its rulings, Singapore is something that the Alumni by degree Few countries can Lee Kuan Yew Fellows semester at hks, the Court agreed with Stevenson “that children Kennedy School should be very proud claim such a high enroll at the school in a program need additional attention and protection in the of,” says John Thomas, a former mpp proportion of citizens for one semester dedicated to criminal justice system.” lecturer and the faculty chair of the as Kennedy School as part of their the education Stevenson has taken the Kennedy School Kennedy School’s Singapore Program 19 graduates. In a Master’s in Public of Asian policy- credo of public service about as far as one can from 1991 to 2008. “We’ve succeeded mpp/up country of a little Management makers and go. The executive director of the Equal Justice in training a huge number of the offi- over 5 million program at the leaders who cials who are now Singapore’s top 1 Initiative (eji), a Montgomery, Alabama-based people, 128 indi- National University have demon- lky leaders. We’ve made a big impact.” mc/mpa viduals have earned of Singapore. strated special fellows nonprofit, he has spent decades defending poor degrees from the promise in their people whom the legal system has failed. In the 93 These mid-career Kennedy School, careers. “Each 211 process, Stevenson has won almost every award government officials mpa2 making Singapore year the Kennedy School is offered to civilrights attorneys. He draws no spend their first CURRENT LEADERSHIP the country with the enriched by the presence of 20 salary from eji, and he gave the organization 12 semester at the Lee highest number of to 25 lky Fellows who come Kuan Yew School the entire $300,000 he received as a 1995 mpa/id alumni proportion- from countries all across Asia,” of Public Policy MacArthur Fellow. He also donates a portion top ally in Asia. says Ken Winston, faculty chair 3 3 and their second of his faculty salary from New York University ministers of the Singapore Program. Law School to eji, leaving just enough money prime minister to support his famously frugal lifestyle. hsien loong lee mc/mpa 1980 Although Stevenson has fought for his Stevenson found his true calling a year His group has also taken on wrongful deputy prime ministers COUNTRY FACTS cause since the early 1980s, he did not always later during an internship at the Southern convictions and unduly harsh sentences for chee hean teo mc/mpa 1987 intend to be a lawyer. As an undergraduate at Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, where individuals who may pose no threat to tharman shanmugaratnam Eastern College in Pennsylvania, he hoped mc/mpa 1989 1819 t founded as british trading post he defended prisoners facing the death public safety. to major in philosophy until he realized that penalty. This was a turning point for him — Known for his 14-hour workdays, 1963 t independence from uk additional 5.183 million “no one was going to pay me to philosophize.” “the moment I realized what someone with Stevenson has not slowed down, even after 1965 t gained full independence He considered a legal career but remained a law degree could accomplish,” he says. 3 ministers population passing the half-century mark. “I won’t parliamentary ambivalent. “One of the things that helped me “I was seized with the desire to make the law stop until the justice system works fairly

td 2008 decide,” he says, “was the Kennedy School,” hng kiang lim mc/mpa 1986 land area t 272 square miles work for the disadvantaged.” And that he’s for everyone,” he says. “I’ve been trying to subramaniam iswaran mc/mpa 1995 English republic which showed him broader opportunities for done: Stevenson and his eji colleagues have work myself out of a job for a long time, islands t 63 compose the nation common language form of

swee keat heng mc/mpa 1993 & M ed i a L government s pursuing issues concerning race and the poor. helped overturn the convictions of more but I don’t see early retirement on the greenery t covers 50% of land economy He came to Harvard in 1981 on a joint Kennedy than 100 death row inmates who had horizon.” s SN rated second freest School-Law School-scholarship. received inadequate legal counsel. He has in the world since expanded eji’s focus to challenge according to 2011 index of economic freedom excessively high incarceration levels in this i an N e w op y r i g h t G uard

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This research In 2004 at an Institute of Politics Linda Bilmes Space Q+ A seminar, then newly a elected Somerville Mayor Joe Curtatone expressed frustration over how his city’s lack of resources prevented him from implementing badly needed reforms. students Modular furniture, rolling white- boards that double as room dividers, columns on According to Linda Bilmes, Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer in which the graffiti (encouraged) has an undeniable entrepreneurial-geek sensitivity, lounge chairs and Public Policy, her fellow panelist Tom Menino, the mayor of Boston, free snacks. It’s the sort of creative space you would suggested, “Get Linda to help for free with her students.” The rest, says associate with a Silicon Valley start-up. But this is Western Avenue in Allston, and you’re in the Harvard Bilmes, is history. Innovation Lab. Housed in what used to be wgbh-tv studios, the lab provides invaluable resources to projects formed around an entrepreneurial idea, Q What happened next? and a dozen teams with It was pure serendipity. Mayor Curtatone, who is a very charismatic kind of guy, came to Kennedy School connec- my Budgeting and Financial Management class and asked for volunteers. To my surprise, 67 tions were invited to use a katherine out of the 95 students signed up. They worked that semester in all 17 departments — trying it during its inaugural wolf year. to understand budgets, setting performance measures, seeing how things fit together. If you b dan futrell Not only do the were looking at responding to a fire, for example, how did the actual cost structure work c out between the police, the fire department, and the public utilities? teams get the space, louis beryl but they have access to intellectual resources (such as legal advice) and the unquestionable Q What did you take away from that first experience? benefits that come from the Harvard network. What I discovered was that for teaching something like budgeting and public finance, The ideas behind the teams are as varied as they there’s just no substitute for doing it in the real world. Instead of looking at a textbook or a are intriguing: Harvard Business School case, students were actually working with the real police records, Katherine Wolf mpa/id 2012 started Organ Jet the real budget, the real special education records of real children. with colleagues from Carnegie Mellon and b Northwestern universities and the private sector to facilitate transportation for organ-transplant And eight years later, how has the class evolved? recipients. Q Dan Futrell mpp 2012, a U.S. Army veteran, Thanks to the generosity and vision of Jerry and Phyllis Rappaport, hundreds of students started Blackwell Timepieces with a simple have participated in this dynamic learning lab experience. We’ve worked in half-a-dozen idea: use the profit from each watch sold to provide cities, including Boston, Hull, and Newton, on more than 30 projects. Over the years a service to a wounded veteran. we’ve reconfigured it for students who’ve already taken basic budgeting, finance, and Louis Beryl mpp/mba 2012 has already seen accounting. We currently have an active waiting list of 35 cities that want to join the interest in SolidEnergy and its development of a c program. We also have people asking from all over the United States and the world, but super-efficient battery from a number of high-profile we haven’t been able to scale the program to that level yet. There are so many projects corporations, including Toyota. I’d love to do. The demand far outstrips the supply. Vaxess plans on making vaccine distribution cheaper and easier by using naturally grown silk to stabilize vaccines. It recently received first place in What does the class offer students? Harvard University’s President’s Challenge for Social Q Entrepreneurship. Every day when students pick up the Boston Globe, they see evidence of some of the Instiglio aims to bring a new funding things they or their predecessors did in the city — the expansion of the Boston instrument known as the social impact bond to bicycle Hubway program, a lot of the transformation of Somerville, the installation developing nations. of led lighting in Boston. It’s wonderful to see. We’ve put together this amazing art Linda “This is the chance of a lifetime,” says Wolf. cocktail of great students who really want to work, city officials who want to work Bilmes “We’re trying to save lives out of this space.” y ton r on the web with them, and really difficult technical problems that require a lot of analytics kent da w h a ste mart — and it’s like magic. It turns into a very rewarding experience for everyone. s SA http://ken.sc/this_space 12 harvard kennedy school 13 teachi n g lea rn i n g

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15 summer 2012 | www.hks.harvard.edu Quality Reasoning There’s a binder on the top shelf of the bookcase in Dan It started with a survey. Assessing learning is thoughtful answers,” says Richard The Scenario You are a special assistant to Josette Sheeran, the Levy’s Kennedy School office. It’s a reminder, says Levy, a lecturer in The results from a huge 2005 survey of Kennedy School alumni never easy — especially when, as at Light, slate faculty cochair. “We executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme (wfp). public policy, of when he arrived at the Kennedy School as a visiting surprised school administrators. When the former students were the Kennedy School, education is looked when grading for rigorous The wfp uses two different approaches to reduce hunger and malnutrition faculty member eight years ago, after years working as a policy asked what type of teaching they had found most useful, a large geared toward real-world practical thinking, and faculty members worldwide. One approach is to acquire food — by either purchase or researcher. He was attracted by the school’s energy and moved by a majority cited case studies. But the school’s Case Program had fallen application. Students are expected made a list of points that ideally donation — from countries with food surpluses. The wfp then transports this not only to master specific subjects students might mention. So food to countries with immediate need and where there are malnourished passion to teach. on hard times. Because of a lack of funds, case studies were some- and then apply that learning in students could write an answer people. The second approach involves efforts at development, to help But his arrival was not what he might have expected. “When times produced in cooperation with outside backers, so not only were other areas, but also to know when that recommends option ‘A’ or they countries attain self-sufficiency through improvements in local capacity to I first came, I was told, “Here are the three courses you’re going to fewer being created, but their relevance to what was being taught at to apply what they’ve learned to could recommend option ‘B’ — grow, to process, and to distribute food. teach; here is the syllabus from last year; good luck,” Levy remembers the school was decreasing. open-ended questions that may and for our grading we focus The director wants your advice on a systematic framework for how the with a laugh. “The first course I taught went terribly.” Dean David Ellwood and Mary Jo Bane, then the academic have no single right answer. In the entirely on the quality of their wfp should determine the balance between these two approaches within He got help from other teachers but there was not much else. dean, asked Jack Donahue mpp 1982, Vernon Senior Lecturer in 2010–2011 academic year, the reasoning and whether they hit each country where it operates. Since then, Levy has dedicated himself as much to the art and science Public Policy and faculty chair of the mpp program, to serve as slate team administered the several of the points faculty listed of teaching as to his public policy work, becoming what many on faculty chair of the Case Program — the first since Richard same test twice to first-year mpp from their classes, which could Question What are the five most important pieces of evidence that a campus describe as a “master teacher,” one of the school’s best Neustadt — to help chart the program’s future. Soon he was asked students: at the beginning of the buttress a compelling argument World Food Programme mission in a country should track to determine the classroom teachers. to work on teaching, too. year and at the end. The question in favor of an alternative. That is best balance between these two approaches — food donations versus But he doesn’t let that go to his head. In that binder on the top Donahue agreed, but on condition that he could find cochairs: at right is one to which students precisely what makes this a good assistance toward food self-sufficiency — within a particular country? In other could give “dozens of good and question.” shelf are student evaluations of Levy from his first class. They were Levy and Richard Light, Gale Professor of Education at the Graduate words, what factual matters are most relevant to this strategic choice — and, in a few words, why is each one relevant? not kind. “Whenever I’m feeling good about my teaching, I take School of Education, an adjunct faculty member at hks, and one them out and humble myself by reading what students said about of the leading statisticians working on the problems of American me,” Levy says. higher education. An advisory committee made up of campus leaders Levy is one of three faculty cochairs of Strengthening Learning and senior faculty is chaired by Derek Bok, President Emeritus of the and Teaching Excellence (slate), an initiative launched by the university, and a long-time leader in pedagogical efforts at Harvard. school to improve education at hks. Since 2007, slate has worked “The Kennedy School was born innovative,” says Donahue about Raiffa. “It was a bunch of brilliant misfits who didn’t like either the Technology provides some help. Kennedy School teachers are on helping teachers teach and finding out what and how students the school’s “rebirth” in the late 1960s, under the aegis of giants such content or the method of teaching in arts and sciences and set up increasingly turning to “clickers,” remote control–like devices that are learning. as Tom Schelling, Richard Neustadt, Frederick Mosteller, and Howard something different. They in turn would train each incoming genera- students use in the classroom to respond to questions in real time. tion in that rule-breaking style. Levy remembers a moment when he realized how important these “Well, the school got big, the founding fathers died or retired, and could be. He was giving students in his statistics class a “warm-up” for a while we didn’t notice that we didn’t have the organic capacity question (What is the probability that if you roll a pair of dice twice, to transmit that culture. Then, at the start of Dean David Ellwood’s you get at least one six?), which he expected about 80 percent of his or simplistic approaches. So the tenure, we realized we’d lost that and needed an institutional capacity students to get right. Only 17 percent did. decision was made to create a to do what Neustadt and Raiffa used to do.” Web-based case study, that would What Neustadt and Raiffa did — how their students learned and include numerous video interviews how that knowledge was imparted — was not easy to determine. But with people involved with it. recent advances in cognitive science and more focus on the art of “We felt it was very important to teaching itself have helped. have the people in the community Peer instruction is part of a broader category often referred to as tell the story,” says Patricia Garcia- active learning, an approach built on understanding how knowledge Rios, slate’s multimedia case is absorbed and then used effectively. Peer instruction aims to tackle producer. “We needed to give students something that had the misconceptions that students bring to the classroom, so as to texture, that they could relate to, develop a proper foundation of factual knowledge, that they can then that allowed them to immerse develop into contextual frameworks and organize in a way they can themselves in those communities.” remember and apply. Students concurred. Layusa Once these building blocks are in place, the student can begin Isa-Odidi mpa/id 2013 responded to take control of his own learning, knowing where he stands and to the filmed interview of a commu- what needs improving — a process known as metacognition. Medium and the message nity’s imam describing how women Applying all that to the classroom is challenging; especially at who had not been cut would be the Kennedy School, where students are at the intersection of theory When it comes to case used in Archon Fung’s Sparking California at San Diego to explain ostracized. “Certain points are and practice. studies, print is king. A written Social Change class (cotaught with very rapid social change). The case difficult to get across in writing,” “Our students are going to apply what they learn to solve presentation is ideal when trans- Mark Moore). Fung approached would be about a campaign, led she said. “You can read ‘This is a mitting lots of detailed information Jack Donahue and Carolyn Wood by an ngo, to end female genital very stigmatized practice,’ but to problems in the messiness of the real world,” says Levy. “Statistics to students. But other media are of slate with the idea of doing a cutting in the West African nation have the imam sort of lay out ‘If may be an important input into a problem, but then they’re going to increasingly being used. In spring this woman wasn’t cut . . . if she have to form a coalition, see what stakeholders they’re going to bring case on coordinated abandonment of Senegal. The issue is one that Pinar Dogan, lecturer in public policy, 2012, the Kennedy School’s first (a theory developed by Gerry elicits strong emotional reactions, would cook food, we wouldn’t eat in, manage a process, perhaps think about the economics behind it.” makes extensive use of clickers in her Web-based multimedia case was Mackie of the University of and is often met with paternalistic it,’ that was very powerful.” game theory class. r icia G a cia-Rios at P n ke n t dayto

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with a hole in the middle is heated, the Kennedy School, led off the slate has created a platform where faculty can get together and of the students’ identities or whether the tests were taken at the will the hole expand, shrink, or stay discussion. brainstorm about effective teaching.” beginning or the end of the year. the same size?) and then invited The event was a perfect Part of slate’s mission has also been to revamp the Case Program. The assessment has expanded to 10 individual degree program the faculty members to break out illustration of the culture slate “The Case Program leads with the learning objective rather than courses and two executive education courses. In the 2010–2011 into small groups to discuss the is helping to create at the school: leading with the story,” says Carolyn Wood, assistant academic dean academic year, the entire first-year mpp class was assessed, and this answer. It was an example of peer Zeckhauser, who learned his craft and director of slate. “We ask, ‘How can this case set up a rich past year the Social and Urban Policy concentration cohort of the instruction, and one that made an as an educator from some of the discussion in the classroom?’ rather than just thinking, ‘This is a mpp class was tested. impression. Months later, faculty school’s “founding fathers” four members gathered again, this time decades ago and continues to really engaging story — let’s write it up.’” Repeating the testing allows Light and the slate team to refine at an informal lunch organized by innovate his teaching style, and Case studies are produced only when faculty members express a their approach. It’s relatively easy to gauge whether students are slate, to discuss the experience of junior faculty members such as desire to use them in a class. Three case writers and a small video and learning basic factual knowledge, but it becomes increasingly those teachers who had incorpo- Pinar Dogan, a lecturer in public multimedia unit are now on the team, thanks in part to a gift from complicated to measure whether they can transfer that knowledge rated peer instruction and clicker policy who has used clicker Joseph Tompkins mpp 1975 (see “Medium and the Message,” page 16). to other disciplines or combine all their knowledge on a broad, technology extensively in her game How effective has all this new activity been? Answering that open-ended question of public policy. theory class, shared insights about question is one of the most compelling parts of slate’s mission. The results, which have been shared with faculty members and the the best uses of technology. Richard Zeckhauser, Richard Light, slate’s third faculty cochair is responsible for Kennedy School leadership, have been encouraging by most measures left, professor of faculty mentoring Whatever new innovations assessing learning at the school. “How do we as a faculty know that but disappointing by others. political economics, and technologies are used, some our students are learning how to think, how to approach new More important, they will serve as a foundation on which future leads a conversation At a Kennedy School faculty meeting use in their classrooms. Richard time-tested truths always remain. about peer instruction problems, how to be leaders in the public sector, how to solve learning can be gauged and, possibly, linked to innovations in last year, Eric Mazur, Harvard physics professor Zeckhauser, Ramsey Professor “Make sure your teaching is a at a faculty lunch problems in a constructive, rigorous, analytic way?” he asks. teaching at the school. discussing slate. and pedagogy guru, shared his insights on teaching. of Political Economy, and Lant creative process,” Zeckhauser Dan Levy, lecturer in Appropriately, he involved his audience in active Pritchett, professor of practice advised his colleagues. To answer, slate has been conducting a number of assessments “It’s not like we’re starting something that everybody knows public policy, at right. learning. He asked them a question (If a metal plate and an award-winning teacher at to understand what Kennedy School students are learning. Testing how to do,” Light says of slate’s work. “If you went to other great begins with individual courses. Students are given the same questions universities now and asked, ‘What are you folks doing to gauge at the beginning and then at the end of the course. They take the test learning?’ the answer would be: ‘Not much, because it’s more difficult anonymously, identified only by a code number that will allow the than it looks.’ The goal is not to say that we’re better than them, but pre- and post-course tests to be matched. The answers are graded rather to say, ‘We’re charting new territory; we hope it works.’” s blind by faculty members or teaching assistants who are not aware He remembers freezing for a minute in class, unsure of how to Bookin, curriculum solutions specialist, can help teachers design a proceed. Then, seeing that almost half the class had made the same curriculum to advance carefully determined learning objectives. mistake, he was able to correct their misconceptions (known in “It’s ideal to focus on a course in the early stage — like preventive statistics as double-counting) and move on. medicine instead of triage,” says Pingree, who worked at Harvard’s “This was a moment I realized the importance of constantly Bok Center for Teaching and Learning and Vanderbilt’s Center for Linda Bilmes’s Advanced to manage the Advanced Applied gauging where my students are,” Levy says. Teaching before coming to the Kennedy School in 2011. “A lot of the Applied Budgeting class, with its Budgeting course for several The Kennedy School has also received a grant from the Harvard problems faculty experience in their teaching come from a lack of emphasis on fieldwork and client- years, providing students with deep learning Initiative on Learning and Teaching (a university-wide effort to foundational design work early on, to clarify and articulate what based learning (see Q+A, page 13), an opportunity to apply the skills catalyze innovation in teaching) to leverage technology to make the they want their students to learn.” is a prime example of the sort of they’re learning in the classroom and into coaching mode, which teachers tackle those challenges active engagement that allows to real public problems — where takes some getting used to. by capturing and disseminating most effective use of classroom time. Moving standard content out There’s a natural tendency to focus more on the content to be students to maximize learning. there’s a chance their ideas will be Recruiting strong clients and lessons from effective experiential of class time and into multimedia, explains Suzanne Cooper, covered than on the teaching of it. But frustrations that students may This past spring, for example, some implemented — is highly motivating stewarding those relationships courses and assisting faculty associate academic dean and Stokey Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, experience — such as not understanding what’s expected of them, of Bilmes’s students conducted a for them. “They work incredibly takes time and effort, and shaping members to support team-based can free up scarce classroom time to make room for activities that how they will be graded, or the inter-relationship of class sessions financial assessment of Hubway, hard and they learn on many projects that are realistic, fit neatly and project-based learning. promote more active learning. is — can often be eliminated by building the curriculum on what Boston’s bike-sharing program, different levels at once,” she says. into a semester schedule, and The “flipped classroom,” as it is known, will use short video students should learn and how that learning will be assessed, and and presented their findings to But this experience is not easily enable students to integrate and Hubway, Boston’s bike-sharing system, offers thousands of bikes at more than 70 locations lectures, online tutorials, and practice tests to leave class time for then fitting each session into that larger picture, Pingree explains. Boston Mayor Thomas Menino. replicated. Experiential learning apply the skills learned in their to those living and working in the city. Below, peer-to-peer interactions, experiential learning, and exercises that slate has also instituted hks Teaching Week. Each term for the According to Carolyn Wood, who courses require faculty members to foundation courses can be the Hubway team from Bilmes’s class briefs integrate across courses to teach more realistic problem-solving, past two years, faculty members have opened their classrooms to worked alongside Professor Bilmes shift out of content-delivery mode challenging. slate can help Boston officials. Cooper says. Client-based projects (see Deep Learning, page 19) observation by their colleagues (this past spring, 22 classes are among these active learning approaches. participated — nearly 20 percent of all classes taught at the school) But more important than any single technique or technology is in an attempt to demonstrate what they are doing and share a culture of teaching at the school. slate has tried to provide tools reflections and suggestions among peers. And faculty lunches offer to support faculty members in their teaching — in an effort, as structured yet casual opportunities to discuss teaching (see “Faculty Donahue describes it, “to have an institutional capacity to encourage Mentoring,” above). and promote and promulgate innovations in pedagogy.” “Teaching — in particular, the same topic — can easily become slate has created a New Faculty Institute, which each summer routine,” says Pinar Dogan, a lecturer in public policy, who has

gives new faculty members a three-day orientation that includes worked with slate on a number of initiatives, including a focus t practice teaching sessions, observations of “master teachers” in the group with former students. “We tend to seek improvement only if classroom, and an overview of strategies, resources, and policies. Staff things go somewhat wrong, which limits our ability to produce r tha stewa r d n , r icha d howa ke n t ddayto r d, r icha d howa r ight, to t members Allison Pingree, director of professional pedagogy, and Josh effective preemptive improvements in our teaching and courses. ma r le f

18 harvard kennedy school 19 And if several Kennedy School grads get their way, the voting world will be shaken up even further — Whether it’s changing not just this November but for years to come. the methods of how Over the past few years, people vote or Seth Flaxman mpp 2011, altering the laws of Kathryn Peters mpp 2011, Amanda Cassel Kraft who is allowed mpp 2011, and Kahlil Byrd to step into a booth, mc/mpa 2003 have each the process of electing pursued a unique venture to improve democracy. officials in the United They set their sights on States has evolved specific issues in the electoral process: scarce considerably over the turnout and the lack of past two-plus centuries. nonpartisan candidates. From their perspectives, plugging these gaping flaws will be yet another step forward in perfecting the by andrew clark democratic process. illustration by Their views on democracy john coulter are unusual, to say the least, but the novel nature of those views be may just what America is looking for.

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why law and policy in 2011. “When participation is this low, it’s not why don’t they vote? * By his own admission, only the most partisan people who vote, so our politicians cater to ideologues and refuse to compromise. Seth Flaxman had fallen “I don’t think that anything is more important than a functioning democracy. Government needs to be by all of the 27% were too busy or had a conflicting schedule people if it’s going to be for all the people.” out of love with politics by So far, the Brooklyn-based TurboVote has impressive 16% were not interested backing. The company has received funding from Google, the 11% had an illness or disability Seth Flaxman Amanda Cassel Kraft Kathryn Peters the time he came to the Knight Foundation, the Sunlight Foundation, and the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation (where Flaxman was recently Kennedy School. named a fellow). Additionally, through the university’s 9% were out of town Institute of Politics, TurboVote was able to launch at Harvard Instead, he was far more fascinated with the election last fall. The company is continuing to introduce its services to 9% did not like candidates or campaign issues process behind it. So when Flaxman began his graduate studies, universities throughout the country, hoping to draw a younger he posed a question to himself, one that had perplexed him for population to the polls with the lure of convenience. 8% forgot years. How could more people be drawn to vote? Peters says that there has been more of a demand for the In the eyes of Flaxman, improving democracy lies with company’s services over the past few months. Schools have increasing participation. To address this issue, he cofounded reached out to TurboVote in an effort to create partnerships. “actually met people who told me, ‘TurboVote! I’ve heard of TurboVote at the beginning of 2010 with Kathryn Peters and For Peters, it’s been an interesting process to see the company’s you guys,’ which is still a bit shocking — and gratifying.” Amanda Cassel Kraft while all three were mpp students at the brand name grow. She says that at a recent conference she The company has come a long way in just two short years, Kennedy School. says Peters. “After working for a year and a half as a distributed TurboVote is a service that gives people the opportunity to team working from Cambridge, DC, Toronto, and even Denver who vote (and register to vote) from the comfort of their own at times, it’s been amazing to all come together in a real office who votes? * does age matter? * homes. The service can track your election calendar, send sign and work seriously on the question of ‘How do we build tools where do they register? * registered 18 to 24-year-olds completed ballot request forms along with a stamped envelope up to make voting easier?’” 65% 21% to users, and text voting reminders. All the recipient has to do In her eyes, this is just the beginning for the company. is sign and mail the form . Flaxman sees it as a way to make “We’re already on track to serve one million voters by voting “as easy as renting a Netflix dvd.” November,” Peters says, “but frankly I’m far more excited According to TurboVote, 30 states and the District of 23% at Department of Motor Vehicles about what will happen when we return to those voters next 25 to 44-year-olds Columbia allow individuals to request a mail-in ballot without spring and summer about school board elections and local 37% any excuse. All the states permit those who commute, college 20% at county or government registration office bond issues. voted students, and people with excuses to vote as absentees. “We’ve tapped into the enthusiasm that builds up around 46% “A lot of problems result from people not participating in 19.5% don’t know or refused presidential races, and now we’re thinking about how to the voting process,” says Flaxman, who, along with Peters, was maintain that level of engagement and interest in all these 45 to 64-year-olds named to Forbes magazine’s “30 Under 30” list in the field of 13.5% mailed form to election office other elections that impact our lives and communities just as 54% much — if not more. I’m actually more excited for 2013.” 7% at polls on election day

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The average percentage point place under a state-of-the-art security system to ensure difference between Republicans 10% 18% Kahlil Byrd had a different fairness in the process. There was a mixed bag of more than and Democrats on 48 values t 100 declared candidates, including the former Louisiana questions asked over the past 25 years (1987–2012) has increased. vision when it came to governor Buddy Roemer, a Boston University economics professor, and a ceo. In May, however, Americans Elect announced that no shaking up the voting world. candidate had achieved the threshold required to enter the a third choice,” he says. “The Americans Elect community is online convention, which meant the nomination process for a tough and energized group, and we are holding strong.” For him, there simply aren’t the 2012 presidential election had come to an end. According Byrd says that the organization will take some time to Kahlil Byrd to Byrd, the decision stemmed from a desire to honor the rethink its strategy and future path. One possibility is taking enough options for people organization’s rules-based process. He believes the decision the concept of Americans Elect to the state-government level. both respects the trust of the American public and creates a Ultimately, despite falling short of its goal in 2012, the solid future for the organization. group was encouraged by the results. to choose from. The group is elated by the impact it had. Through America “What we were able to see was a great hunger,” says Byrd. Elect’s efforts, it accrued more than 4 million supporters, from “People appreciated that we were taking this completely There’s either a Democratic nominee that most voters volunteers to petition signers to delegates. Additionally, it different concept and trying to change things. People wanted don’t want in there or a Republican that they feel the same way received heavy coverage from all the major news sources, to see change happen in 2012.” s about. And nothing more. including The New York Times and npr. Andrew Clark is a freelance writer living in Brockton, the To make the voting process fairer to the public, Byrd and When he considers all that Americans Elect accomplished, Massachusetts. need his associates want to give voters a chance to directly nominate the future is bright in Byrd’s eyes. do we need a third the candidate of their choice — a sort of representative of political party? * “From when we launched in 2010 all the way to this May, the people. we saw a group of people who organized over the idea of having yes no Byrd is the ceo of Americans Elect, an organization that 48% 49% uses the Internet to give the public its own online convention to pick a nonpartisan candidate. Since its launch, in 2010, the who came in third? *** Vote totals for a selection of third-party presidential candidates, 1948–2008 organization has received an overwhelmingly positive response, Byrd says, as voters are appreciating the chance to directly votes influence the voting process. 20,000,000 “People have found it to be a breath of fresh air,” says a Byrd, whose experience in politics has led to posts running look or advising campaigns for Democrats, Republicans, and 15,000,000 back Independents across the nation. “It’s the first time that people get to directly nominate a person for public office.” This year, Americans Elect attempted to get on the ballot in 10,000,000 all 50 states and produce a third candidate for the 2012 election. As more than 2.5 million people signed the organization’s petition the organization planned to open up the primary process in May. After three rounds of voting, six candidates 5,000,000 would be left standing for the nomination. Anyone who ran had to reach across party lines to find a running mate. “Americans Elect is really set up so that voters can do two things,” says Byrd. “First, the voters can select the issues that 1948 1968 1976 1980 1988 1992 1996 2000 2008 * Source: Washington Post/abc News Poll, they most identify with. And then they can support those strom George eugene john Ron H. Ross h. Ross ralph ralph January 2012 candidates who meet their needs.” thurmond wallace McCarthy anderson paul Perot perot nader nader ** Source: Pew Research Center Values Survey Anyone eligible under the Constitution was eligible States’ Rights American Independent Independent Libertarian Independent Reform Green Independent *** Source: U.S. House of Representatives, to pursue the nomination, and Americans Elect refused to Independent Office of the Clerk promote any one candidate over another. Voting was to take photo courtesy of kahlil bryd kahlil of courtesy photo

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n the summer of 1940, following his first year at the University of California, Berkeley, a young Tom Schelling and two of his college friends I piled into Schelling’s Model A Ford for a road trip. When they reached San Antonio, Texas, Schelling and his buddies, Tom Ludwig and Morris Glickfeld, were separated and had a tough time finding one another again. They decided that if it ever happened again, they should be able to regather without communicating, so they spent a whole afternoon thinking about it individually, trying to come up with an established meeting place.

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All three decided on the General Delivery window of the people’s being rational. He also found that many academic main post office. Schelling was struck by how they had each economics papers he read shared his way of looking at social separately arrived at the same answer. Their thoughts had both problems as puzzles. And Schelling liked puzzles. In fact, viewing independently and collectively focused on the General Delivery society’s problems as puzzles to be solved became a common window. The seed of an important idea was planted. thread in his work. He developed a capacity to frame issues in Years later Schelling went to New York City to visit his old terms of logic problems and took great pleasure in the mental college friend Tom Ludwig. When he arrived, he realized he had gymnastics and lateral thinking required to find solutions. The 3 4 misplaced Ludwig’s address. Thinking back to the road trip of logical deductions came first, rather than the views on policy. their youth, he wondered if it was worth trying their plan. The General Delivery window wouldn’t work, because general delivery was a thing of the past. The closest thing he could think a genuine, live problem of was Western Union, so he called and asked, “Do you have a fter berkeley, Schelling way that I can leave a message for a person who may call in for a worked in Washington and then message?” The operator said, “Yes, what is your name?” He said, went to Harvard in 1946 for his phd. “Schelling.” The operator replied, “Oh, we have a message for With his course work completed, you from Mr. Ludwig.” he left in 1948 for Europe to work What to many people might have been nothing more than an 1 Age two, Mare Island Naval Base, California first on the Marshall Plan and then amusing anecdote became, in Schelling’s remarkable mind, an 2 Age 15, the Canal Zone, on “Glasseye” with the Truman administration in insight into tacit, cooperative efforts to solve problems. It would a job related to nato. He remained 3 High school graduation photo, age 17 germinate into the theory of focal points. at the White House after Eisenhower 4 At the Harvard Center for International Affairs, early 1960s Schelling, one of the founders of the modern Kennedy wasA elected president but left to join the faculty of Yale in 1953. School, would use that “theory” to burrow down into a simple 5 After class at the Kennedy School, 1987 (The following year crew cuts became fashionable in America, problem so deeply as to reach great insights that would impact 6 Receiving the Nobel Prize in Economics, 2005 and Schelling had his hair cut in the new style, a look he kept fields as different as nuclear strategy and tobacco use. His into his 90s.) monumental work in game theory was rewarded in 2005 with a At Yale his focus was bargaining theory. The theory entered Nobel Prize in economics. And in the 1960s it was used to create 5 the realm of strategy when his “Essay on Bargaining” was the intellectual scaffolding that would steady the superpowers’ published in the American Economic Review of June 1956. The shaky nuclear balance. essay gave a vocabulary to strategic studies, differentiating among “Tom Schelling is a titan, and it is not the slightest exaggeration threats, warnings, commitments, and promises and discussing 6 to say that his remarkable scholarship has made the world a safer the strategic implications of each. and better place,” says Dean David Ellwood. In 1957, he devoted considerable effort to learning game Thomas Crombie Schelling is descended from Irish and theory and published a second time on strategic thinking when German immigrants, as remains evident in his slightly ruddy The Journal of Conflict Resolution released its first issue. It complexion and square jaw. His father, John, was commissioned included a questionnaire Schelling had devised to determine as a naval officer after attending the United States Naval Academy how successfully people could coordinate decisions without and married Zelda Maude Ayres in 1912. Zelda was a strong communicating and whether they could reach tacit agreements by woman who lived to be 107. Thomas was born on April 14, 1921, finding subtle signals in situations. At this point he understood in Oakland, California. With his father frequently away at sea for game theory and had established his basic concepts on strategy months at a time, he and his brother and sister grew up in what and the importance of signaling in tacit communication which he describes as “very much a mother-oriented family.” They would be hallmarks of his work. relocated between bases in California and Washington, DC, before His work at Yale attracted attention, and he was invited to being stationed in the Canal Zone. A bespectacled, intelligent spend the summer of 1957 at the rand Corporation in California. young man with a fascination for solving puzzles, Schelling It was there that he developed an interest in thermonuclear returned to California during the Depression for high school. strategic planning and joined the elite society of leading civilian His open-mindedness often put him at odds with his father. nuclear strategists. The biggest rand puzzle was the threat of a When the United States entered World War ii, Schelling surprise nuclear attack. attempted to volunteer for the army but failed his physical because Schelling headed to London on a Ford Foundation grant in the of ulcers, so he returned to Berkeley to resume his studies. He spring of 1958. He recalls, “When I was in London thinking about chose economics because he liked the idea that it was based on surprise attack, I was doing it substantially as an intellectual courtesy of robert dodge except 5: martha stewart 5: martha except dodge robert of courtesy

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r on the web “ Nobody http://ken.sc/gamechngr doubted we were on the puzzle. But as I worked through it, I realized it was a genuine, side of the during the Berlin crisis of 1961. have been less likelihood that he would be taken in ways other offering solutions as well as defining problems. As has always been live problem. I became convinced that solving the intellectual He proposed the hotline as a means than those he intended. the case, his ideas are unusually innovative and insightful. puzzle was crucial to solving the practical policy issues.” angels.” of direct communication between Schelling’s one deviation from what he saw as his objective role But at the Kennedy School he is especially remembered as a As the leading American economist and Nobel laureate Paul U.S. and Soviet leaders to decrease as a Cold War advisor came with the 1970 invasion of Cambodia. teacher. His students recall how he would walk into the lecture Samuelson said, “Once the vital game of survival in a nuclear the chances of a cataclysm. Using He led a group of Harvard professors, most of whom had held room and begin going over a problem set that had baffled most of age challenged Schelling’s attention, mere economics could no war games he had developed, he government advisory positions, to confront his former colleague them. He would pace a little, stare into the distance, and purse his longer contain him.” conducted training for Henry and friend, Henry Kissinger, opposing the Nixon administration’s lips occasionally, clenching his jaw at irregular intervals. During Schelling returned to rand for another year. The feeling Kissinger and Robert Kennedy, policy, and then spoke to the press. He took a public stand on an the brief pauses in his presentation, it was obvious that he was of good against evil couldn’t be exaggerated, he remembers: among others, for dealing with crisis issue that he felt required it. That was very much out of character very rapidly analyzing some problem in his mind. As he came up “Nobody doubted we were on the side of the angels.” situations. An article he wrote, for Schelling, and it was a costly decision. His influence in with examples and answers to questions, he drew on sources that His solution to the puzzle of surprise attack was “mutually “Meteors, Mischief and War,” was read by Stanley Kubrick, who Washington waned significantly. ranged from interactions with his own children to nuclear assured destruction,” with its appropriately infamous acronym, came to Schelling’s Harvard office to discuss how they could His place in the national security pantheon, however, is encounters, always finding underlying themes to link them. mad. To make this more easily understandable, he used a make a movie out of it. The result was the Cold War classic undeniable. As a rand assessment states, Schelling “established “It was a stunning — even life-changing — experience,” metaphor from the westerns that then topped television ratings Dr. Strangelove. the basic conceptual structure of deterrence theory.” Herman “Dutch” Leonard, now Baker Professor of Management and the Zane Grey stories he had enjoyed since childhood, Robert McNamara wrote “[Schelling’s] view permeated civilian Schelling’s ideas are also generally acknowledged for at the Kennedy School, remembers about being in Schelling’s involving gunfighters: “The ‘equalizer’ of the Old West (the leadership under Kennedy . . . to a remarkable degree.” Schelling contributing to overcoming the Prisoner’s Dilemma of the arms class. According to Harvey Fineberg, president of the Institute ‘six-shooter’) made it possible for either man to kill the other; acknowledges, “For a person outside the government, I was race between the Soviet Union and the United States, resulting of Medicine and formerly provost of Harvard University and it did not assure that both would be killed . . . . The advantage of probably as influential as anybody else. Maybe more than most.” in the salt i agreement and the abm Treaty. The Doomsday dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, “No matter how shooting first aggravates any incentive to shoot. As a survivor That influence came at a price and raised what would be a Clock on the cover of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists had complicated an argument he would weave, Schelling never might put it, ‘He was about to kill me, so I had to kill him in recurring issue during Schelling’s career: the proper role of an been set at two minutes to midnight when Schelling first became dropped a strand, and the product was consistently complete, self-defense.’ Or, ‘He, thinking I was about to kill him in self- unelected and unaccountable civilian strategist who affected involved in nuclear strategy; after those treaties were signed, the compelling, and beautiful.” defense, was about to kill me in self-defense, so I had to kill issues of extreme importance and whose words were sometimes clock was set back to 12 minutes to midnight. Schelling describes the Kennedy School’s evolution: “It has him in self-defense.’ But if both were assured of living long taken as policy advice. He always considered his role to be grown fantastically. It began with 21 students, of whom four went enough to shoot back with unimpaired aim, there would be no clarifying options so that decision-makers would understand to Washington for the first Earth Day and only one returned to advantage in jumping the gun and little reason to fear that the the consequences of their choices. a life-changing experience school. The faculty was six seniors and five juniors. It didn’t other would try it.” But some were critical of what they saw as his fingerprints change much until we got our own building, which President Bok s the full impact of his work So if both the Soviets and the United States could be assured on a number of the United States’ most controversial national allowed to be big enough to accommodate enough people to was being felt in the world of policy, that they could destroy the other, the incentive for a surprise security policies during the 1960s and 1970s, including bombing require our own dining room and a cafeteria. The mid-career Schelling began to be pulled into attack would no longer exist. As a rand document reported, campaigns in the Vietnam War and the Nixon administration’s students in the one-year public administration degree program another academic venture at “Schelling’s ideas are at the heart of the complex, counterintuitive use of Schelling’s “madman theory.” were assimilated. A large program for developing-country mid- Harvard. He was among a small logic of mutually assured destruction, which has underpinned Robert McNamara said he was not influenced by Schelling careers followed, as did special programs for military officers group who felt the University American nuclear and arms-control strategy for four decades.” on the Vietnam bombing and wrote jokingly, “A story being and ‘super-grade’ officials of the federal government. And so on, needed a school to bring an academic circulated at Harvard during the 1960s was that a missed until we had 30 or 40 times that original complement of 21. foundation to the practical world of opportunity had occurred when Harvard failed to offer a Not only did the Kennedy School grow enormously, but similar public policy decision-making and to as influential as anybody scholarship to Ho Chi Minh, in order that he might have the schools proliferated in Texas, California, Wisconsin, Maryland, educateA people in the profession of policymaking. opportunity to study with Professor Schelling. If he had, according and all over the country. I don’t think anybody ever anticipated n 1960, amid growing Cold War Former Harvard president Derek Bok recalls Schelling’s role to the Cambridge pundits, he would have known that Washington such growth.” tension, Schelling arrived at Harvard, in the process. “I remember him chiefly as one of the handful of was trying to send him a signal via the bombing. As it was, Ho Today, at 91, Schelling is a professor emeritus at the University where he initially worked in the faculty members who really founded the Kennedy School and and his colleagues, in their ignorance, thought the United States of Maryland, where he moved after mandatory retirement from economics department and the devoted tremendous efforts to ensuring its success. Without the was trying to destroy their country.” Harvard. He continues to tour the world, giving lectures and Center for International Affairs. interest of Tom and a few others . . . I never would have decided to “I was trying to formulate principles that people might serving as a consultant. He has one requirement for all his With the publication that year make the building of the school a priority. It was their presence understand,” Schelling explains. “I felt completely responsible for far-flung travels, and that is that his wife, Alice, must accompany of The Strategy of Conflict, he and dedication that made it seem conceivable to create an entirely anything I wrote. I don’t feel responsible for any bad judgment of him. When he finally agreed to go on a pleasure cruise, he picked began having an influence on policy new professional school for professional service; without them, people who might have read a book of mine. I thought, and still the destination — Antarctica — so that he could get a firsthand analysis that was unsurpassed in the effort couldn’t possibly have succeeded.” think, that people are likely to make better decisions if they look at the effects of climate change. s the worldI of civilian consultants. His focal points were a The school became his intellectual home. As it evolved, understand things than if they don’t.” recognized solution for games involving elements of cooperation. Schelling’s interests expanded to include integration, organized Robert Dodge mc/mpa 1990 is the author of two books on Schelling Still, some analysts suggested that if he had been more His emphasis on understanding signals sent and received by crime, addictive behavior, nuclear proliferation, climate change, including, most recently, Schelling’s Game Theory (see page 40). operational in the presentations of his thoughts, if he had participants in interactive situations was crucial during a time and more. For many of his newer interests, particularly addictive He lives in Singapore. described how his ideas should be put into practice, there might when mistakes threatened disaster. He advised President Kennedy behavior and climate change, he has been very prescriptive in

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the buzz “ We have a policy “ The costs are so for health care far beyond their “ Nobody was that focuses means.” on this group, :: William Julius Wilson, going to get Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University and they switch Professor, speaking at a session on between me and economic inequality at the 75th parties every Anniversary Dean’s Conference in my president.” May about how the sharp rise in :: James Baker, Secretary few years.” college costs over the past several of State 1989–1992, on :: Robert Blendon, Professor decades has placed a severe financial his relationship with of Health Policy and Political strain on families. President George Analysis at the Harvard School H.W. Bush. Baker of Public Health, speaking was at Harvard in at a brown bag in April, on March to receive the the importance of Medicare “ If you don’t Great Negotiator James to older voters and their Baker Award, co-sponsored propensity to be swing voters speak up, if by the Kennedy in a close election. School’s Future of you don’t offer Diplomacy Project. your voice, it’s “We in the U.S. an opportunity “ It looks like we mourn the loss missed.” have remarkably of the 3,000 lives :: Ron Christie iop 2011, political strategist and former policy advisor to put together we lost on 9/11. President George W. Bush, speaking in March about the Making theory and An estimated responsibility of minorities in the practice. Nothing 8,000 people are public arena to speak up Connections works and lost in Sudan about racial

imm ons fi tzs issues. nobody every month. Ron Christie m to art, knows Why do we let Jean-Claude why.” Trichet this continue?” w ste m artha class day | “We stand at the entrance But there is a worrying disconnect, Lagarde challenge. Which is why it will be so important, :: Former :: Kym McCarty mc/mpa 2012, of a new world — a whole new way of living, said, between this great interconnection and the in my view, to be global citizens, to continue this European former country director for Sudan for of communicating, of crossing, sometimes fragmentation of global governance. work in progress of that interconnected world.” Central Bank the National Democratic Institute for

ignoring, borders,” imf Managing Director “Borders, barriers, walls, have come Lagarde reminded the nearly 600 graduates g ra p her, Photo president International Affairs, during a meeting Christine Lagarde said as she addressed down to allow this degree of interconnection,” that while they had achieved something great, ff ta Jean-Claude in April between Sudanese leaders and the 2012 Kennedy School graduation class in Lagarde said. “And yet . . . you know that there they would be sure to face plenty of new Trichet during a hks faculty members and students. May. “This is a great paradox of our age. The are many more walls that are being built or that challenges. Forum event in March, paraphrasing world gets bigger, with so many more people people try to build. Physical walls, political walls, “This is a moment where you have really Albert Einstein in describing the way and places sharing the fruits of knowledge and mental walls. reached the top of the mountain and you can recent financial crises have stumped r on the web prosperity. But the world also gets smaller — “Reconciling these interconnections and bask in the view and in its glory,” she said. economists. http://ken.sc/bully_pulpit with so many more people and places crossing their benefits together with governments with a “But rest assured, there will be many more

paths and sharing destinies.” view to making it better . . . will be a real challenge mountains to climb.” d S p : S n i bbe/ H arvar f ro m to i s Kr in the years to come,” she said. “It will be your bethany versoy bethany ckwi se c lo

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Forum | Crisis Rules “Essentially, a crisis happens when all the Forum | Critical Growth Brazil’s impressive economic growth rules fail,” Laurence Golborne told the audience at a Forum in March. has meant the addition of 40 million citizens to its middle class. With Jobs for the Boys Golborne, Chilean minister of public works, has some experience. He led that comes political as well as economic changes. “When you positively the celebrated 69-day operation to rescue miners who had become trapped affect economic security, these people become more critical,” Brazilian Patronage and the State in Comparative Perspective thousands of feet below ground — an unprecedented operation and, as President Dilma Rousseff said during a visit to the Forum in April. :: Merilee S. Grindle Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust said in introducing Golborne, “a Rousseff touted the country’s accomplishments, including bringing leadership lesson for the ages.” The event marked the beginning of Harvard electricity for the first time to 12 million rural inhabitants and becoming Kennedy School’s annual Public Service Week. Golborne said that when a creditor at the International Monetary Fund after years as a debtor. he was first asked to leave the private sector to work for the government, But Rousseff, who was at Harvard to sign a fellowship agreement that he hesitated. “I have to confess that every day I feel like I made the best will provide financial support for Brazilian students, also sounded a note decision of my life,” he said. of caution: “The fact remains that we have huge challenges ahead.” merilee Grindle’s book about manage civil service systems, what the proper credentials were for government patronage begins with the apparent recruitment into the system, and how loyalty to the state translated end of patronage in the U.S. government. In a into service to political regimes. sweeping reform, Congress passed the Pendleton The more recent experiences of Latin American countries provide Civil Service Act, which was meant to erase a a laboratory for testing the lessons of past reform efforts in a region system that privileged party loyalty and cronyism in which patronage was “fully embedded in political reality,” Grindle over competence. This triumph of professional writes. The entrenched system was challenged by reformers who government was enacted in 1883. But in many ways, charged that a lack of quality in the public sector was constraining as the author notes, it was only the beginning of a drawn-out development. Introducing these reforms in Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, process that saw the federal practice of “jobs for the boys,” as a newspaper article of a century ago put it, stubbornly persist well into r on the web the 20th century. http://ken.sc/jobs4boys Such an outcome is not unique to the United States, she notes. Indeed, the history of patronage in the United States and elsewhere offers lessons for countries that have more Laurence Golborne Dilma Rousseff recently sought to enact similar reforms. “Career civil services were and are politi-

Martin Dempsey Henry Kissinger cally constructed,” she writes, “forged from conflicts and compromises among those who have very different views on how appointments to public sector jobs should be made and who should control them.” onnor Grindle, Edward S. Mason Professor of International Development, offers case studies of patronage and reform efforts in developed countries ranging from Great Britain to Japan. her, jay c g ra p her, jay Photo The director of the David Rockefeller Center ff ta S for Latin American Studies, she also focuses on Latin America for more-contemporary examples of countries that have attempted to d c hell/ H arvar institute civil service systems. These cases demonstrate how reform and Chile proved relatively easy, with reformers Merilee Grindle is “historically grounded and politically contested,” she writes. making compromises in the scope of their civil

e M i t te p han i e For example, Britain and France went through a “gradual process service proposals in order to get them adopted. Yet politicians found S

art, art, of elite compromise” toward new standards, which emphasized ways to circumvent the reforms that were established in law. Thus, Forum | Security Paradox “I believe I am chairman at a time Forum | Irrevocable Choices “The outsider can pick his topic,” education and examinations to determine competence. Educational unlike the experience in developed countries, the widespread use of that seems less dangerous, but is actually more dangerous,” General Henry Kissinger told the audience at an event last April. “He can work standards were also instituted in Prussia and Japan, where reforms patronage still predominates in Latin America, according to Grindle. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Forum at on it for as long as he wants. He can choose the best possible vision came from the ruling class, whose access to education increased their She makes clear that patronage systems are not by definition an event in April. “Although geopolitical trends are ushering in greater levels of it, and he has the option of changing his mind. None of these options w ste m artha art, opportunity for success. corrupt or incompetent, just as civil service systems do not of peace and stability worldwide, destructive technologies are available to exist for the statesman. Issues present themselves, and they have to be a wider and more disparate group of adversaries.” That, Dempsey said, is dealt with in a finite period of time. . . . For a statesman, the choices are Grindle highlights issues that arose in the aftermath of reforms necessarily result in good governance. Likewise, some reform instituted in the United States, Europe, and Japan in the 19th century. initiatives “focus on rules and procedures more than giving attention

the paradox that seems to define the current global security system — irrevocable.” Kissinger returned to Harvard, where he studied and taught w ste t: m artha a counterintuitive “combination of peace and the potential for violence.” until joining the Nixon administration in 1969, to help celebrate the She notes that the very existence of career civil service was threatened to the public purposes of government,” Grindle writes. As a way in the United States, as Congress underfunded the Civil Service forward, she points to a new generation of reformers who emphasize

But he cautioned against a sense of doom and gloom. “We’ve still got a lot university’s 375th anniversary. On stage with Kissinger were former art of tricks up our sleeves . . . but the message is that the margin of error is Kennedy School deans Graham Allison, Dillon Professor of Government, Commission and presidents appointed commissioners who did not efficiency and performance along with creativity and innovation in growing smaller and smaller.” and Joseph Nye, University Distinguished Service Professor, and fully support the Pendleton Act. Issues also arose of who should service to the public. s lr w stte m artha Jessica Blankshain, a Kennedy School doctoral student. p le f to f ro m ckwi se c lo

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For the sixth edition of a book first released more than 30 years ago, Robert Stavins presents 34 chapters written by a veritable “who’s who” of environmental economists, including his own income from farming. Policy changes are needed to support higher contributions to the literature. The most recent edition features two technical education to effect improvements in agriculture and the new sections, “Economics of Natural Resources” and “Corporate productivity of agricultural workers, Juma argues. As a model for Social Responsibility,” along with all-new chapters in its section on Africa, he points to the success of a “smart agricultural revolution,” global climate change. which was launched with the use of technology, in overcoming food Stavins, Pratt Professor of Business and Government, notes that shortages in Latin America and Asia. although economic growth and globalization over the past century Juma cites other factors that are required to spur agricultural have produced prosperity and societal well-being, these factors have growth, such as an enabling infrastructure. He also calls for a shift also heightened pressures on the natural environment. The result is a in educational training, which is now focused on young people depletion of resources such as water and animal species and concerns who seek employment in urban areas, to build technical competence about air and water quality, hazardous waste, and greenhouse gases. in farmers. In addition, he says, entrepreneurship and regional Although these problems have not diminished overall — and climate approaches, which are beginning to develop in Africa with regional change is an especially acute threat — the field of economics is economic communities, can foster agricultural innovation. increasingly making strides to address them, he contends. “Bold leadership driven by heads of state in Africa, supported by “Economic research . . . has improved our understanding of those of developed and emerging economies, is needed to recognize the causes and consequences of excessive resource depletion and the real value of sustainable agriculture,” he writes. inefficient environmental degradation, thereby helping identify sensible policy solutions,” he writes. The book offers a compendium of that research divided into Chinese Village, Global Market 10 sections on such topics as the costs and benefits of environmental New Collectives and Rural Development protection, policy instruments, and sustainability. Stavins wrote or :: Anthony Saich and Biliang Hu coauthored eight of the chapters, including one on an allowance trading program intended to cut emissions of sulfur dioxide and Inside the world’s most populous country, one small village tells one on the problem of the commons — for example, open-access a large story of economic development, in a book that charts the fisheries. Supplementing an increasing number of articles on the “remarkable economic and social transformation” of Yantian. environment that appear in economics periodicals, the book offers Anthony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs and students and teachers the latest insights from leading scholars in a director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and field that continues to evolve. Innovation, and Hu, who served as the center’s senior research fellow, conducted extensive fieldwork in the village of 3,000 residents, which at its peak attracted more than 150,000 migrant workers and The New Harvest established more than 400 foreign-invested enterprises. Agricultural Innovation in Africa “The village is unrecognizable from 30 years ago and, in fact, :: Calestous Juma one could be forgiven for not realizing that it is still a village,” the authors write. “To the outsider, it looks like the kind of thriving In contrast to the “general background of gloom” that surrounds town that has been a product of industrialization and urbanization Africa and the food shortages that beset the continent, Calestous around the globe.” Juma offers a prescription for economic growth and food security. Yantian’s growth came about because of a combination of national He points to three opportunities that can help bolster Africa’s policy and the actions of local officials, the authors write. They point agriculture: advancements in science, technology, and engineering; to five factors that spurred development: policy changes from Beijing the creation of regional markets; and the empowerment of a that emphasized economic growth and encouraged the infusion of new generation of African leaders. Professor of the practice of foreign capital; investment tied to manufacturing and export, which international development and the director of the Agricultural was aided by global consumer demand for cheap products; a ready Innovation in Africa Project, Juma points to “the importance of supply of labor for local factories; the village’s collective structure of boosting support for agricultural research as part of a larger agenda land, which is rented out to the foreign-invested enterprises; and a to promote innovation, invest in enabling infrastructure, build dominant local family that brought capital investment to the village. human capacity, stimulate entrepreneurship and improve the For those interested in China specifically and global development governance of innovation.” in general, the book shows how the country became a key player in

The book begins by examining the link between agriculture and global production, bolstered by local economic development. s lr art economic growth, noting that most people in Africa gain their t ew S MA rtha

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“While it’s winding down, we’ve still To submit a classnote, e-mail t 1969 got about $500 million to go. As the t 1980 [email protected]. Jack Underhill mc/mpa presented national debate on the effectiveness Frannie Boyle mc/mpa writes, “Since continues, we’ve seen over 95,000 The subject line should be a paper at the March conference of the June 2011, I am serving as the appointed 35th 1978 American Society of Public Administra- people get a paycheck.” director of administration for the Prepara- Reunion t “classnotes.” tion in Las Vegas: “Public/Private tory Commission for the Comprehensive 30th t 1983 Partnerships to Strengthen Low- t 1977 Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization on the web Income and Minority Families.” headquartered in Vienna, Austria. The r hks has just taken up his 2013 James Moran 25th 1988 ctbto is currently celebrating its 15th t new post in Cairo as the EU ambassador Find alumni contact information anniversary. It’s time to close the door to t 1970 to Egypt, returning to the region after an 20th t 1993 in the online directory at nuclear testing and open the door for Save the Date absence of 10 years dealing with Asia hks.harvard.edu/about/alumni/ Brian Marson mc/mpa in recent years early entry into force of the ctbt.” coauthored The New Public Organiza- from Brussels. “It is an exciting time 15th t 1998 online-community May 11–12, 2013 tion, created the Institute for Citizen- here, as the long Arab spring continues Julia Chang iop, hksee 1987 is keeping 10th 2003 Centred Service (iccs-isac.org), and led to play out. But there is good reason to busy as president of the U.S.–China Harvard Kennedy School Campus t Return. t 1959 Canada’s award-winning citizen-cen- be optimistic and I’m looking forward Education Trust (uscet), which she to the challenges ahead. Always happy founded in 1999. uscet helps China’s 5th t 2008 Reconnect. Kalvin Platt mcp saw his book, Master tered research and strategy for service Classes of 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993, 1998, to see Harvard contacts when here.” next-generation leaders understand Planned Communities, Lessons from the improvement. After retiring from the American society in the context of the 2003, and 2008: Mark your calendars to return Reflect. developments of Chuck Cobb, published Treasury Board of Canada in 2010, he political, cultural, and economic forces in 2011 by the Urban Land Institute. has served as president of the Public to Cambridge for Reunion Weekend 2013! t 1978 | 35th that have given rise to America and its “I covered 20 communities by my long- Service Excellence Institute, and advises reunion values. Working with 73 institutions, it time client for which I was lead planning governments worldwide on citizen-cen- is unique in its approach to improving consultant. It was exciting and reward- tered service and management improve- U.S.–China relations through American ing to see these communities, begun in ment strategies. “Hi to all classmates!” t 1979 Clarence Sundram hksee is special helped launch and a leader in iPhone/ Bill Hogan and Graham Allison. In working to support food security in the studies education and exchanges. the 1960s through the 1980s, com- Karen de Bartolome mc/mpa writes, advisor on vulnerable persons to New iPad app development for infant stimu- 2008, he founded a utility-scale solar African continent. Julia’s work takes her back and forth pleted and to visit and talk to the people “I’ve taken the plunge to start a new York Governor Andrew Cuomo. A report lation and education. Reiner previously energy development company, Next- t 1972 between Washington, DC, and China. Nancy Neville mpp spent several there. The 200 full-color photographs nonprofit organization to educate and he submitted to the governor recom- served on the board of Khmer Arts, the Light Renewable Power, which was sold Henry Ryan mc/mpa writes, “I have She was recently given an Excellence in years in banking and trading in London, let the reader have their own reaction engage Coloradans in world affairs mending sweeping changes in the Guggenheim Award–winning organiza- to First Solar in 2010. First Solar is the just created a Facebook page about my Achievement Award from the Berkeley including developing a carbon trading to them. I hope they agree that people named Denver World Affairs Council, state’s law and systems for reporting tion supporting the preservation of largest U.S. photovoltaic solar company book, Impure Thoughts, a collection Alumni Association at its annual charter system in Europe for Enron in the mid- and time can bring plans to life!” and investigating abuse and neglect in Cambodian dance and culture. He has and the world’s lowest-cost solar of four novellas. I must confess that they or WorldDenver for short. WorldDenver 90s. She also built and ran a children’s gala in March 2012. residential facilities was recently cov- contributed to the financing of several manufacturer. are not exactly about public policy, works with the U.S. State Department, indoor play center and nursery with two Susan Pepple mcrp, vice president ered in The New York Times. Tony-nominated Broadway productions t 1961 although the first story, The Arsonists, the Denver business community, glob- Greg Kidd mc/mpa writes, “Still work- partners, and homeschooled her daugh- of marketing and business development and provides advisory services to entre- focuses on a series of crimes that start ally focused foundations and other ing in startup land looking for talent in ter. Her charitable work has included Peter Barratt mcp writes, “From for Barry Libman Inc., has been given preneurs in technology, art, and design. with school bullying, currently a topic of partners to promote citizen diplomacy t 1981 Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Vilnius. serving as an honorary trustee of Cambridge I went to Canada, worked at the Champion Award from the Massa- He was named among the top 100 great concern among policymakers.” and international education.” Have been lucky with Twitter and now Milton’s Cottage Trust and as cochair cmhc for two years. Then moved to the David Beck mpp has been promoted investment managers in America by chusetts Health Information Manage- Square. Having fun backing Craiggers. of the Dyspraxia Foundation. Bahamas, where I was the Architect/ Deborah Loeb Bohren mpa writes, to vice president and general counsel at Barron’s and frequently works with fund ment Association. Susan currently com and now Anoni.com. Back to SF. Town Planner of Freeport. Wrote Grand 1974 “After 30-plus years in the private, public Boston Medical Center. Boston Medical managers to improve performance and Matthew Palmer mpa writes, “Thirty t oversees Barry Libman Inc.’s expansion Open to hearing about new start-ups Bahama, Bahama Saga, Freeport Note- and not-for-profit sectors I have decided Center is a private, not-for-profit, 508- ethical practices. years have flown. I’m married and have Sandford Borins mpp recently pub- of services to include online education elsewhere in the world and bringing book, Angelic Verses — none on the to pursue my lifelong passion of fine art bed academic medical center; the larg- three daughters. Along with my twin lished a book titled Governing Fables: for the health information management talent to Silicon Valley.” best-seller list. Presently retired.” photography full-time. To see my work est safety-net hospital in New England; brother I’m cofounder and president of Learning from Public Sector Narratives. professional. She has been a vice presi- t 1982 go to dlbohren.zenfolio.com.” and the primary teaching affiliate of David Kirk mcrp was inducted into The Joseph Group, an investment man- Marguerite Bouvard phd writes, dent at Barry Libman Inc. since its Mark Kleima mpp is still teaching Boston University School of Medicine. Edward “Ted” Atkeson hksee, Major the College of Fellows of the American agement firm serving individual and “I have three granddaughters and my Mark Haas mcrp is ethics officer for founding in 1998. public policy at ucla, with a break this General, U.S. Ret., has turned out to be Institute of Certified Planners at the institutional clients. Presently I serve 12th book of nonfiction will be out this the Institute of Management Consultants Christine Chang mc/mpa was looking winter to teach a crime-control course at Roger Sharpe mc/mpa was invited a writer: five books and innumerable National Planning Conference held in as board chair for our Catholic diocese’s July, The Invisible Wounds of War: usa, the professional association and forward to her first grandchild (a grand- Harvard Law School. Three recent books: to deliver, at the U.S. Department of magazine and newspaper articles. His Los Angeles in April 2012, becoming the foundation and teach my parish’s 8th- Coming Home from Iraq and Afghani- certifying body for U.S. management son, Anthony S. Piazza) born mid-May! The Economist listed When Brute Force Agriculture on August 16 in Washington, latest book is The New Legions: Ameri- first and only attorney in Georgia to have grade Confirmation class. I also serve stan. I have also written six books and consultants. imc usa sets standards of “This year I have enjoyed getting in Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less the 150th anniversary commemorative can Strategy & The Responsibility of earned the faicp designation. David is on a local public school education foun- two chapbooks of poetry; my latest book professional conduct and adjudicates touch again with Tom Sellers mc/mpa Punishment among its books of the year address about U.S. Senator Justin Smith Power. He loves to talk to interested a partner in the Atlanta office of the inter- dation. I just completed my fourth of poems, The Unpredictability of Light, complaints from the public or clients and Clarence Sundram hksee 1980, for 2009; Oxford University Press pub- Morrill (of Vermont), who introduced groups. national law firm Troutman Sanders llp, half-marathon to raise money on behalf won the MassBook award for poetry in of ethics violations by management another hks graduate, and indirectly lished Drugs and Drug Policy: What legislation in 1862 for the national sys- where his law practice focuses on land of local crisis pregnancy health centers. 2010. I’m a resident scholar at the consultants. with Maryann Froehlich mc/mpa. Don Cook mc/mpa worked to organize Everyone Needs to Know last year and tem of state land-grant universities, use, zoning, urban development and Hope everyone is doing well — a special Women’s Studies Research Center at I hope this year will bring more Capital City Village in Austin, Texas. published Marijuana Legalization: What Hilary Rowen mpp continues to signed into law by President Abraham redevelopment, telecommunications, shout out to my mpa classmates!” Brandeis University and was formerly opportunities to catch up with other Based on the Beacon Hill Village Model Everyone Needs to Know this spring. practice insurance regulatory law, which Lincoln. Roger argued that Morrill’s hks folks in person!” begun in Boston in 2001, ccv now has ethics, and other state and local a professor of political science and currently includes interesting issues contributions toward securing a more Richard Shieldhouse mcrp recently 50 members choosing to live well in regulatory matters. David, his wife, poetry at Regis College.” related to the implementation of health democratic society place him among the Jon Elam mc/mpa, while serving returned from a trip to Paquimé, Casas t 1975 their own home. Cambridge@Home Lori Leland, and their two daughters care reform. She and her husband, Gor- greatest of all Americans. Roger, who in his role of general manager for the Grandes, Chihuahua, and Chaco Canyon is our sister village and mentored live in Decatur, Georgia. Ron Seckinger mc/mpa launched don, are continuing an “urban sabbati- works as a guide at the U.S. Capitol, Community Service District in Marin in New Mexico. The primary purpose of t 1968 us to get started. Spymaniac.com, the ultimate online cal” that started as a three-month continues research for his forthcoming County, California, also represented Gathoni Mungai mpa worked in the visit was to understand the visitor Frank Popper mc/mpa continues to guide to spy films. It rates more than sojourn in San Francisco while remodel- book for young readers, The Boy Who the California Climate Registry at the Frank DeRosa mpp, senior vice presi- Afghanistan between 2007 and 2010 experience at two roughly similar teach land-use planning at Rutgers and, 500 spy movies and includes reviews, ing their townhouse in Menlo Park (near Heard President Abraham Lincoln at unfccc climate meetings in Durban, dent of North America Project Develop- helping Afghans create or expand small unesco World Heritage Sites on oppo- with his wife, Deborah Popper, at videos, quizzes, and dozens of articles Stanford). Nearly two years later, they are Gettysburg: The Story of William South Africa, and as a member of the ment for First Solar, was quoted in the and medium businesses. She helped site sides of a heavily fortified border. Princeton. His second published fiction, on various aspects of movies and the still in “The City” and Hilary is walking Wilson Curtin. Education Caucus of the UN in prepar- news of the company’s sale of its 550 carpet manufacturers and gemstone “Contrary to the image created by the The Locavores’ War: A Short History of world of espionage. to work rather than taking the train ing for the Rio+20 meetings in Rio in MW Topaz Solar Farm Power Plant to traders to participate in the international U.S. State Department and by the America’s Future, has just appeared in Stuart Sherman hksee writes, (although she still likes trains). June 2012. Warren Buffett’s MidAmerican Energy market, where they received millions of media, the parts of Chihuahua that Vinay Gupta’s edited collection, The Jeffrey Simon mcp has been working “Retired, retired, retired!!!” Holdings. Frank has worked in the dollars of supply orders from different I visited never felt unsafe. If you’re Future We Deserve. for Governor Deval Patrick, overseeing Robert Reiner mcrp has been named energy field since his days at hks under international buyers. Today, Gathoni is the stimulus program in Massachusetts. to the board of Huggamind, a firm he

38 harvard kennedy school 39 alumni publications interested, I have been summarizing the at the Evolution Theatre. The book seven years on the start-up of cmu’s national Affairs and was thus able trip on a blog, shieldhouse.org.” deals with two separate conspiracy campus in Qatar. to renew contacts with Harvard while theories. The first concerns the pursuing my research. A rewarding Zachary Tumin mpp writes, “Following Sally Tom hksee joined Frontier Nursing 400-year-old question of the real experience.” up on my book, Collaborate or Perish! University in 2009, the online successor authorship of the works by Shake- this spring I published ‘Viral By Design,’ to the second oldest (since 1939) James Faier mpp had a great Pesach! speare. The second deals with all the at Harvard Business Review blogs, and nurse-midwifery education program in “My kids (Aaron, 8, Zev, 6, and Isaac, 3) questions surrounding the death of at Reuters.com, ‘Let’s Tackle the Right the country. “I teach professional roles/ asked insightful questions. We enjoyed Christopher Marlowe. The last half of Education Crisis.’” issues courses and basic clinical skills. lovely weather. Completing the holiday the book is a nonfiction proof that Mar- I serve as a commissioner of the Accred- at sunset Saturday, we went to have ice lowe was the actual author. The web itation Commission for Midwifery cream. Debbie made my Isaac’s Sunday site is TheShakespeareConspiracy.com. t 1983 | 30th Education (acme) and as coordinator by going to get him a bagel after sunset. reunion Heather Grady mpa, after many years of the accreditation site visitors commit- All Pesach he would respond to food Ferdous Begum mc/mpa spoke in April of working abroad, relocated to New tee. In 2010, I qualified as a Certified requests with “a bagel with cream at the Harvard University Women and York in 2004, working first for former Professional Dog Trainer (cpdt-ka) and cheese!” In my work (writing and litiga- Public Policy Program (wappp) seminar Irish President Mary Robinson, and now I conduct classes with pet parents tion patents and TMs), I am studying our “Older Women Gain a Foothold: Reach- at the Rockefeller Foundation as vice and their dogs every week. Yes, indeed, new patent act. Stay tuned on that.” president for foundation initiatives. I have thoroughly gone to the dogs ing for Full Human Rights on Paper and John Heim mc/mpa will be a visiting “My portfolio includes international and and love every minute of it! Clients and Governing Fables: Learning from The New Legions: A Good Man Beyond,” and was recently in Mexico professor of economics and economet- U.S. domestic grant-making, and spans dogs call me ‘the treat lady.’” Public Sector Narratives American Strategy & Mark Shriver mc/mpa 1993 City, attending and addressing an rics at suny Albany during the 2012–13 many areas including health, agricul- Sandford Borins mpp 1974 The Responsibility of Power “In this intimate portrait of an extraordinary 800-person conference organized by school year. the city’s program for older adults and ture, employment, transportation, t 1986 “Governing Fables advocates the importance Edward “Ted” Atkeson hksee 1982 father-son relationship, Mark K. Shriver cepal, the United Nation’s Economic climate change, and impact investing. David Boghossian mc/mpa writes, of narrative for public servants, exemplifies it discovers the moral principles that guided Commission for Latin America and the One daughter is in college and another t 1987 “In The New Legions: American Strategy & “So suggestible. An e-mail from the his legendary father and applies them to his Caribbean, based in Chile. She spoke is exploring colleges now. I keep in Nancy (Sam) Barnes mc/mpa retired with a rigorously selected and analyzed set of the Responsibility of Power, Major General alumni office is sufficient to elicit a on the “Women Life Cycle and Human touch with several good friends from from unpd in 2009 and is now based in narratives, and imparts narrative skills (U.S. Army, Ret.) Edward Atkeson reviews own life. When Sargent ‘Sarge’ Shriver classnote. An apparent character weak- Rights.” Ferdous is a former member hks days, and have had the opportunity Maputo, Mozambique — home for the politicians and public servants need in their — founder of the Peace Corps and architect of ness. But having sold the software the political and military strategies that have of the un cedaw Committee and a to collaborate with different professors past 30 years. “I still do some consulting careers. Governing Fables turns to President Johnson’s War on Poverty — died company that consumed the past brought us to this point and proposes an Bangladeshi national. and centers over the years.” — most recently in South Sudan — and 10-plus years’ effort, it seems a decent narratology, the inter-disciplinary study of innovative solution: shifting the burden from in 2011 after a valiant fight with Alzheimer’s, travel to visit friends and places I have Bart Mitchell mpp in January became moment. I am once again at large, narrative, for a conceptual framework that thousands of tributes poured in from friends always wanted to visit.” the U.S. military to friendly indigenous president and ceo of The Community t 1985 mentoring start-ups, consulting to and strangers worldwide. These tributes, is applied to a set of narratives engaging life fighters who have been recruited, trained, Builders, Inc., which is America’s largest Carlos Cavalier mpa writes, “This cloud technology companies of all sizes, Nadine Hack mc/mpa co-led a discus- within public organizations, focusing on and equipped for operation in their native which extolled the daily kindness and nonprofit urban housing developer. year we will cross the $400 million sales writing the odd op-ed, and exploring sion in October 2011 among 100 partici- works produced during the last 25 years in environments.” humanity of “a good man,” moved his son “I also had the chance to join a number mark at Alqueria while our most exciting new opportunities in sustainable busi- pants titled “Bottom-Up Entrepreneurship the U.S. and UK. The genres discussed Mark far more than those who lauded of other U.S. housing developers on project continues to be the purchase ness. Looks like I am likely to embark for Democracy and Development” with include British government narratives Sarge for his big-stage, headline-making an amazing trip in March 2012 to Israel, of milk from small farmers in former on my fifth or sixth career — another Iqbal Quadir, founder and director of the Legatum Center for Development and inspired by and reacting to Yes, Minister, Schelling’s Game Theory: accomplishments. After a lifetime searching where we met with city officials and guerrilla territories. We are getting ready character flaw, or perhaps just a short neighborhood activists in Haifa to supply them with credit and inputs attention span. Happy to compare notes Entrepreneurship at mit. In June 2011, for the path to his father’s success in the public British appeasement narratives, American How to Make Decisions and Tel Aviv to talk about strategies to to increase their farm productivity and with others with similar and/or diver- she delivered the closing keynote political narratives, the Cuban Missile Crisis Robert Dodge mc/mpa 1990 arena, Mark instead turns to a search for the address their community development boost their incomes!” gent interests.” speech at the UN Global Learning Forum narrative, jury decision-making narratives, secret of his father’s joy, his devotion to others, and affordable housing challenges.” in Turin, Italy: “Learning in Global Organi- “Thomas Schelling, who wrote the Maria Nuria De Cesaris mc/mpa Nancy Cuddihy mc/mpa writes, “The zations.” In May 2011, she published a and heroic teacher narratives. In each genre foreword for this book, won the Nobel Prize and his sense of purpose.” Bruce Pitt hksee left his government still lives and work in Ciudad Guayana, past 26 years have been joy-filled and piece on Forbes.com titled “How Deeply lessons are presented regarding both effective ses position in 1995 and formed Vincu- which last year celebrated its 50th included a decade at the nys Department in economics for ‘having enhanced our Engaging Stakeholders Changes Every- lum Solutions, Inc. (vsi). “We have been anniversary. “Trying to combine my of Health, marriage and motherhood management and essential narrative skills.” understanding of conflict and cooperation thing.” In January 2011, she was named Scared Sick: providing advanced analytics, manage- passion for cooking with my passion for (husband, Ted, is an attorney and through game-theory analysis.’ This came one of the “Top 100 Thought Leaders in The Role of Childhood Trauma ment, and financial systems expertise to urbanism, I have initiated Comida daughter, Abigail, is 16), nonprofit after he had taught a course in game theory Trustworthy Business Behavior.” The North American Idea in Adult Disease federal and state customers since that Urbana (Urban Food), a brand of Italian administration, and consulting for the and rational choice to advanced students and time. vsi is an sas Affiliate Consulting pasta sauces and appetizers. Also, I Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Now Mike Trial mc/mpa is retired from fed- Robert Pastor mpa 1974 Meredith Wiley mc/mpa 1993, government officials for 45 years. In this Partner for North America and Canada. am campaigning for Henrique Capriles, I am a broker with Stone House Proper- eral service and living on the family “In The North American Idea, eminent scholar book, Dodge provides, in language for a Robin Karr-Morse We continue to rely on thought leader- Venezuela’s opposition presidential ties, a real estate firm specializing in tree farm in Missouri. As with most and policy‐maker Robert A. Pastor explains broad audience, the concepts that Schelling “The first years of human life are more ship from hks in our efforts to design candidate, hoping things will change fabulous country homes in Columbia retirees, his time is taken up by volun- that nafta’s mandate was too limited to and implement systems that help iden- soon in my country.” County, New York, and the Berkshires.” teer activities — and he has found that taught. Armed with Schelling’s understanding important than we ever realized. Scared Sick tify and mitigate social harms. The sef the insights he received at Harvard address the new North American agenda. To connects psychology, neurobiology, Kevin Lamb mpp, in a year of transition, Jim Doane mc/mpa competed in the of game theory methods and his approaches program was transformational. I would provide great benefit to even the small- reinvigorate the continent, the leaders of received an MS in organization develop- Delaware State Golf Association’s Fall to problems, the general reader can improve endocrinology, immunology, and genetics to really enjoy hearing more about the est organizations. He has also pub- nafta need to start with an idea based on a ment at the Weatherhead School of Classic, where he and his partner, Gary daily decision making.” (See Dodge’s profile of demonstrate how chronic fear in infancy and endeavors of my classmates.” lished a reminiscence of the 1960s Management at Case Western Reserve Barth, came in first with a net score of 59. principle of interdependence. If one country early childhood — when we are most called Black and Gold. Schelling, page 31) University and established Keystone fails, all three are harmed, and if one grows, Katarina Engberg mc/mpa writes, helpless — lies at the root of common t 1984 Global Consulting, based in Qatar. As David Wohl mc/mpa became, in April, they all benefit. Drawing on firsthand “I took time off from my job in the Swed- diseases in adulthood. . . . Highlighting case managing partner, Kevin leads the firm’s the executive director of the Tucson Ted Bacino hksee reports that the ish MoD, went back to school (Uppsala experience as a policy‐maker and analyst, studies and cutting-edge scientific findings, work on organization design and devel- Industrial Development Authority, which movie version of his novel, The Shake- University), and concluded, in 2011, my Pastor shows how this idea — once woven into opment, with particular focus on higher finances housing and economic devel- the book shows how our innate fight-or- speare Conspiracy, was set to go before phd thesis ‘The EU’s Collective Use of education planning. For the past 18 opment projects using tax-exempt the national consciousness of the three flight system can injure us if overworked in the cameras this summer. The play Force: Exploring the Factors Behind Its years, Kevin directed university planning bonds, a community investment loan countries — could mobilize public support for the early stages of life. Persistent stress can version opened in Rockford, Illinois, and First Military Operations.’ I spent the at Carnegie Mellon, including the past fund, and other tools. “I’m excited about continental solutions to problems that have will have its next production in Colum- spring semester of 2010 as an affiliate trigger diabetes, heart disease, obesity, using my experience and education bus, Ohio, in October and November with The Weatherhead Center for Inter- confounded each nation working on its own.” depression, and addiction later on.”

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(thanks very much, hks) to help improve just appeared in the Journal for the Soci- and National Security” emphasized how articles from the ministerial meetings at doing great work in government, assignments (in Kosovo, Haiti, and pundit, appearing regularly on Fox tronic recycling nonprofit.T he cacrc economic and housing conditions in ety for International Development. crucial an educated work force is to his natoSource website and follow him business, and public life. Apart from Mozambique). Retirement in late 2006 News, cnn, and other venues. was featured on the Robert Redford Tucson.” national security. on Twitter, @natoSource. using the opportunity to tour the region liberated his Country & Americana musi- Sundance Channel’s “Big Ideas for a Russell Hawkins mc/mpa, in addition Jerry Hoover mc/mpa took a one- intensively, and to explore its beauty cal alter ego, Jeep Rosenberg, to Small Planet — Recycle.” Her organiza- to his work with the Korean Business Neville Vanderburg mc/mpa retired E. Shippen Bright mc/mpa was year leave of absence from Feather River and diversity, I started a blog, writing on relaunch a long-simmering performing tion has won the deq Environmental Center of the Korean Embassy in South from the U.S. Army in 2000 and has selected for a Fulbright Scholar Award College and was appointed as the princi- t 1988 | 25th various issues. Interested classmates career. In April of this year he won a Leadership award for 2009–2012. She Africa, is freelance writing for South started a small business, served on the to teach social entrepreneurship in the pal deputy program manager for the reunion can find me at pushpendrarai.com. major Nashville-based songwriting con- sits on the National Technical Advisory Africa’s award-winning business maga- county gop executive committee, ran for Czech Republic at Charles University Afghan Police training throughout test, and has appeared three times at Board for a new national certification for Ellie Cohen mpp, president of prbo, zine, Leadership. “Maybe next I will alderman, and became a grandparent and University of Economics, Prague. Marjorie Stockford mc/mpa returned Afghanistan. The program was adminis- Seaside, Florida’s 30-A Songwriters’ the electronic recycling industry — R2. was named “Conservation Advocate of write a book about secrets of African (twice). He watched proudly as his son Currently, Ship is the director of mission to Portland, Maine, two years ago tered by DynCorp International. Prior Festival in the company of Rodney Crow- She is on the board of the Companion the Year” by Bay Nature Magazine, in leadership.” Ben joined the Army and went to advancement with Audubon Alaska, with her 11-year-old daughter, Kanha to this he served as the interim United ell, Joan Osborne, John Oates, Mary Animal Alliance, which now runs the the San Francisco Bay Area. To see Afghanistan. In 2008 he was elected working to “keep the pieces together” (kan-YA), who she adopted from Cambo- Nations police commissioner in Sudan George Mazza mpa, senior counsel, Gauthier, and other top writers, so he’s local community shelter to become recent media coverage of this, search chair of the Parish and Community in the Last Frontier. He is working dia in 2002. Recently she started a new and senior police advisor in Iraq for the Office for Civil Rights, Office of Justice making some progress. Details at no-kill. She is a founding board member online for “Ellie Cohen, Bay Nature.” Development Leadership Table for the on protecting some of the world’s most business, Your LifeLines (yourlifelines. U.S. Department of State. Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, jeeprosenberg.com. of Louisiana Progress. Mississippi Annual Conference of the important migratory habitat and on com), through which she helps individu- Takeo Hirata mc/mpa was general edited “Report on Sexual Victimization Reinhard Junghanns mc/mpa left as United Methodist Church. Having outer continental shelf drilling, climate als write their own personal histories. Steve Slavsky hksee finally got around David Cunliffe mc/mpa was reelected secretary of the Japan Football Associa- in Prisons and Jails,” which the Review head of cooperation at the delegation of entered seminary in 2010, he antici- change, old-growth forests, and other It combines her passions for writing, to retiring. “At least for a while until I get to Parliament in 2011 but his Labour tion when Japanese women’s soccer Panel on Prison Rape released in early the European Union to El Salvador in pates completing his Masters of Divinity important bird areas. people, and history. She is also starting bored. Splitting time between Virginia Party lost. “I ran for Labour leadership began its repopularization. Victory at April 2012. Just Detention International August 2011. During four years on the degree in 2013. He currently serves research on her second book which will and Arizona and everything in between and came second! Now rebuilding.” the 2011 fifa World Cup gave hope to (jdi), a leading inmate-advocacy organi- Havi Echenberg mc/mpa writes, job he contributed to establishing sector three United Methodist congregations detail the lives of female high-wheel (plus the West Coast). Any other sef 93 the people hit by the Japan earthquake. zation, applauded the release of the “Spending time with classmates at our budget support as preferential aid deliv- Tami Kesselman mpa is cochair of the in Walnut, Mississippi. He and Cathy bike racers in the late 19th century. folks out there?” He wrote a book analyzing social and report, noting that it played a key role in reunion was just the energizer I needed ery modality of the EU to El Salvador, to high-profile United Nations ‘unwired 4 celebrated 34 years of marriage in July. business aspects of the growth of Japa- closing the House of Detention, a notori- to bring back to my job as a policy Meredith Wiley mc/mpa has co- implementing a project on social pre- mdg Solutions’ Global Campaign, a nese women’s soccer. He holds one of ous housing unit of the Orleans Parish Ginger Young mpa founded Book analyst with the Library of Parliament. t 1993 | 20th authored (with Robin Karr-Morse) a vention of youth violence, to launching multi-agency UN initiative bringing the most popular classes at Waseda Prison in New Orleans. Harvest in 2011, a nonprofit that collects In telling others about what I’m doing, reunion second book just released: Scared Sick: and strengthening a “structured stake- social media and mobile technology University, where he remains a profes- new and gently used children’s books I remembered what I loved about the job The Role of Childhood Trauma In Adult holder dialogue.” On the occasion of his solutions to Millennium Development sor at the Graduate School of Sports t 1990 and places them in the hands and and why I wanted it in the first place. Virginia Huth mpp is currently at the Disease. It is a groundbreaking book departure he was awarded the condeco- Goal (mdg) challenges. Beginning with Sciences. This year he became head of homes of children who need them. Thanks, classmates!” General Services Administration as the revealing how fear, experienced chroni- ration of the Orden of the Liberator of a global online campaign, soliciting the Research Institute for Strategy of William Decker mc/mpa recently “Since we began 15 months ago, we ses director of the Office of Acquisition cally in early childhood, lies at the root Slaves José Simeón Cañas. In September world input to the process, unwired Lauren Fishbein mpp was a member Natural Resources, utilizing his experi- moved to the Center for Consumer Infor- have distributed more than 50,000 Policy, Integrity & Workforce. “I’ve got of many common physical diseases as 2011, Reinhard was head of cooperation culminated in the March 2012 Leaders’ of the U.S. Department of Justice team ence in miti to set a new energy strat- mation and Insurance Oversight in books to low-income children in central two sons, ages five and seven. In my well as emotional and behavioral at the delegation of the European Summit at the United Nations in nyc. that blocked the at&t/T-Mobile merger egy for Japan. dhhs. cciio is part of the Affordable North Carolina. Our goal is to improve sparse free time I am still enjoying run- pathologies. Building on emerging Union to Venezuela. Tami was also a speaker at tedx UN Care Act — the national health care in 2011. Fishbein has served as an ning, cooking, and the garden. Occa- Johan Klehs hksee served as chair and school outcomes by enabling underre- research about the core physical Plaza in January 2012. reform law. “I’m involved in setting up attorney in the Telecommunications sionally I even get out for swing dancing. Matthew Keenan mc/mpa is working in a member of the California State Board sourced children to own books and to systems governing health, especially the Affordable Insurance Exchanges that & Media Enforcement Section since Looking forward to seeing my class- media relations for The Hubbell Group, a Sam Liccardo mpp was elected in of Equalization (1995–2003) and a build home libraries of books they have the relationship between the brain and are to be available in every state as of joining the Antitrust Division via the mates at our 20-year reunion next year!” public relations firm in Hingham, Mas- 2006 to represent the downtown district member of the Franchise Tax Board. He selected. Learn more at www.bookhar- the endocrine and immune systems, January 1, 2014. Since graduation I’ve Honors Program in 1997. sachusetts. His work focuses on compa- of America’s 10th largest city, San Jose, also served for 14 years as a member of vestnc.org. I’d love to hear from class- Catriona McDonald mpp, founder it identifies routine societal practices been with the Public Policy Institute at nies in the financial services, health care, where he has advocated for affordable the California State Assembly and for mates involved in similar work.” Marjorie Kline mc/mpa spoke in June and president of Linchpin Strategies, that — while unintentional — are trau- aarp, the Advisory Committee on the and professional services fields. housing, mass transit, fiscal and pen- 4 years as a member of the San Leandro in Washington, DC, to the Biennial Semi- a Washington, DC, public policy and matic to developing nervous systems Food and Drug Administration (the sion reform, and environmental sustain- City Council. He is one of those unique nar of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in advocacy firm, was recognized by and echo throughout our lives. This Glenn Schmitt mpp has deployed Edwards Commission), and the Work- t 1991 ability. He is considering a mayoral run individuals who can blend the focus of Government. Her topic was “Press, National Journal as among the top own- follows Ghosts From the Nursery: again, this time to Afghanistan, where group for Electronic Data Interchange Miriam Ines Siebzehner mc/mpa in 2014. He and his fiancée, Jessica public policy and political strategy. Politics and Power in 2012.” Also, Marjo- ers of woman-owned lobbying firms in Tracing the Roots of Violence (1998). he is the advisor to the legal staff of the as a board member. My wife, Laura writes, “Last year in May we met with Garcia-Kohl, live in downtown San Jose. Currently, he is president of Johan Klehs rie continues her interest in art and will Washington, DC, as recognized by 209th Corps of the Afghan National Diamond, and I both live and work in some of our classmates at Harvard. It & Company, Inc., a strategy and govern- have a solo show of her oil paintings peers and clients. Following the Ken- Army. He is a lieutenant colonel in the Jose Solorio mpp is finishing his sixth the District.” was an experience to see and keep up t 1994 ment relations firm in California. in Washington this November. nedy School, Catriona worked for U.S. Army Reserve and deployed to Iraq year in the California State Assembly. with those that participated in the 20th Michelle Cammarata mpp writes, Chris Granda mpp writes, “Living in Senator Edward Kennedy, served as in 2005. Glenn is on leave from his He is married and has two children and Bob Levy mc/mpa has just been elected Reunion. After taking a leave from the Dale Kreisher mpp sends greetings to “I recently adopted a delightful boy beautiful (but ominously warm for this Appropriations Committee associate senior staff position at the U.S. Sentenc- lives in Santa Ana, which is located in by his Plantation, Florida, colleagues as Ministry of Health in 2010–11, I returned all K-School friends! “This past year has from Russia. Dmitry (Dima) is two and a time of year) northern Vermont, running for Congressman Steny Hoyer ing Commission in Washington, where central Orange County. Jose also started City Council president pro-tem. to a new position as national supervisor been an eventful one: I got married on half years old and loves life in his new my own energy efficiency program (D-Maryland), and then was legislative he directs its 50-person Office of the Solorio Scholars program to help of standards implementation in the June 18 of last year to Ms. Kawing Man, family and country.” consulting shop, and serving as the director for Congresswoman Rosa Research and Data. more students from central Orange medical administration. I have slowed and nine months and four days later, t 1989 chair of the select board for the town DeLauro (D-Connecticut). Her firm Bob Durfey mc/mpa writes, “Our County apply to good colleges. down a bit, but continue my profes- we welcomed our daughter, Cari, to the Diana Yin mpp writes, “Family (hus- of Richmond (population 4,090).” focuses on advancing philanthropic little ‘Joe-man’ graduated from the Coast Monika Aring mc/mpa consults on sional activities as a researcher in world! I will finish my tenure at the U.S. band, two kids aged five and three) and policy initiatives at the federal level, Guard Academy in May (third genera- developing skills and jobs for economic Rick Noriega mc/mpa was named one health policy. Everything is good.” Embassy in Beijing this July, and begin I moved from nyc to Shanghai this past t 1996 tion). Daughters Sarah and Carolyn work growth. She recently analyzed global of the top 100 influential Hispanics by Japanese training in DC this fall in with an emphasis on education July. Already experiencing the differ- Jeffrey Jones hksee writes, “Under against human trafficking. I started a skills gaps for unesco, and helped the Hispanic Business Magazine. Rick is preparation for my next assignment at and health care issues. ences in business, political, and eco- my name J.A. Jones, I published my first t 1992 phd program (in organizational leader- IaDB forge a 10-year partnership with also the president and ceo of avance, Embassy Tokyo. Best to all, and keep Chris McNeill hksee is the directing nomic climate. I was a partner with a novel, Heat, based on the true story of a ship) while doing executive coaching multinationals to train and hire 1 million a leading national early-childhood Jorge Benitez mpp visited nato head- in touch!” attorney of the Paducah, Kentucky, trial management consulting firm,S agence doctor who went into the South Carolina young people in Latin America. In 2010– quarters to cover the recent meeting of in Boston.” Group, specializing in business intel- education organization. Through his Pushpendra Rai mc/mpa is back at office for the Kentucky Department of swamps in the 1960s to treat indigenous 11 she consulted with usaid’s Global foreign and defense ministers for the ligence. I’m now focusing on the fifth guidance, avance was named one of the World Intellectual Property Organization Public Advocacy. He and his wife, Mela- John Hlinko mpp is living in New York blacks for parasitic and nutritional Development Alliance Division, training Atlantic Council, where he is a senior rewrite of my novel, which is mostly set top 25 nonprofits by Hispanic Business (wipo) headquarters in Geneva, after nie, have two sons, Walker and Whitson. City, where he heads Left Action, a net- diseases. The doctor had his own devils usaid staff from around the world and Magazine for five consecutive years. fellow. He discussed nato/Syria, nato/ work of over 1 million progressive activ- in modern-day China. Please visit!” and angels. And that’s the focus of spending two years in Singapore, where Charles Rosenberg mc/mpa capped outside contractors on building success- Recent attention from the Obama Libya, and Russia’s participation in the ists. Earlier this year he released his first the book.” he set up their regional office for the his UN internal consulting career work- ful alliances with private sector compa- administration, through its Race to the Chicago summit with U.S. Ambassador book, Share, Retweet, Repeat: Get Your Asia-Pacific. “Returning to the Alpine ing with Undersecretary-General for t 1995 Vince Juaristi mpp published Back nies to solve shared business and Top campaign, has put early childhood (and former csia Fellow) Ivo Daalder, Message Read and Spread, which was region from a brief equatorial sojourn! Management Chris Burnham mc/mpa Nancy Jo Craig mc/mpa is currently to Bizkaia, a Basque-American memoir development problems. Her article on education on the forefront. A recent Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmus- ranked by Amazon.com as the #1 “hot It was wonderful to reconnect with hks 1992 on enterprise-wide management the executive director of the Capital Area about a surprise trip he took with his “The Billion Dollar Solution That Isn’t” report titled “U.S. Education Reform sen, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei new release” in the web marketing alumni in Singapore, all of whom are reform, following on peacekeeping Corporate Recycling Council, an elec- elderly father back to Spain to visit their Lavrov, respectively. You can read his category. John is also a frequent on-air

42 harvard kennedy school 43 :: CLASSNOTES | summer 2012 | www.hks.harvard.edu/alumni FROM THE FIELD Kent Lucken mc/mpa 2001 Basque roots and the land his father program office for the federal ses Leith Greenslade mpa, in January My new book, the historic and humor- fled in 1948 after Franco’s rise to power. workforce. 2012, was honored to join the new mdg ous The Unofficial Baptist Handbook, The book has performed wonderfully Health Alliance, established by the explores matters related to Scripture, Sandy Wollschlager mc/mpa received well. Vince donates 100 percent of the United Nations’ Secretary General and church life, and Baptist identity.” a 2011 Minnesota Changemakers Award book proceeds to the Juaristi Scholar- Ray Chambers, UN special envoy for Far East By Midwest from Minnesota Women’s Press for col- Ron Seckinger mc/mpa just launched ship Program, a foundation he estab- malaria, as vice-chair of child health. laborating with Minnesota Public Televi- Spymaniac.com, the ultimate guide to lished years ago to help kids go to The alliance is composed of leaders sion and the American Association of spy movies! Eight years in the making, college. “Buy a copy on Amazon or from the private, public, and nonprofit University Women to make a 30-minute the site rates more than 500 movies and Barnes & Noble. It’s a good read and sectors who work together with UN documentary, Women Making Change. has articles, quizzes, and a discussion a good cause!” agencies, corporations, nonprofit orga- forum. Please check it out and spread nizations, and academic institutions to Frederique Lehoux mpp writes, “After the word. t 1997 accelerate progress toward Millennium several years in Africa doing humanitar- Development Goals 4, 5, and 6. The Stefan Wisbauer mpa writes, “Still ian relief work, I’ve moved Down Under Rafael Alunan III mc/mpa sends alliance operates under the umbrella of in London, we welcomed our second — Australia and now Fiji! I’m advising greetings from Manila! “I will be with “Every Woman, Every Child,” a global daughter, Julia, into the world in February Pacific island countries on climate you in spirit during our reunion next movement to improve the health of of this year. Her sister, Carmen, is now change and natural disaster risk month (May 2012). Time really flies. women and children. three-and-a-half years old. Paid work is (working for the Secretariat of the Pacific 1996–97 was an idyllic time spent in focused on health care right now (per- Kent Lucken Community). A fascinating region of Cambridge amongst good fellas. The Peter Hatch mpp writes, “After eight sonal & population health management, atolls and larger islands that I enjoy walks to hks, the Square, the Yard, or years in government, Democratic poli- prevention and chronic condition man- discovering with my academic husband, up and down the Charles River from tics, and progressive advocacy, the last agement — thepreventionplan.com), Christian, and our two children, Yann, Peabody were priceless. I will join you two as state director for U.S. Senator charity work on cnvc.org, and I am carry- Kent Lucken, left; with eight, and Leo, four.” in a silent prayer for our classmates who Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York), I have ing around ideas on conflict manage- When Kent Lucken mc/mpa 2001 volunteered for Mitt Romney’s Romney for President have passed on; for those who may helped launch a new social venture. policy director Lanhee Stephanie Mickle mpp was recently ment I would like to see come to life. not be in good straits today, wherever I am coo of BeneStream, a mission- first presidential campaign, in 2008, he offered credentials in interna- Chen, center, at Romney selected as one of the 40 under 40 Any contact from classmates on any of they may be; and for peace and stability driven company that helps close the National Campaign Most Influential People of Color on the above is welcome, and I hope to Headquarters, in Boston. around the globe. Have a great reunion! gap on the $100 billion of annually tional finance and as a former diplomat steeped in knowledge of Capitol Hill by Loop21 and Impact. God bless you all!” read news from many others.” unclaimed public benefits for America’s foreign affairs. But he also possessed an unusual attribute to help Guy Swan nsf retired from 35 years Kurt Creager hksee, concluding a working families. Our low-cost, technol- of active service in the U.S. Army as four-year appointment as executive ogy-driven services enable large t 1998 | 15th a candidate seeking to make a name for himself in the state that lieutenant general and joined the Asso- director of the asu Stardust Center for employers to seamlessly enroll their reunion ciation of the United States Army in Affordable Homes & the Family in Phoe- low-income workforce in food stamps hosts the first nominating contest. Christopher Browne mpa was Arlington, Virginia, as vice president nix, has affiliated with otak Inc. as or other benefits, delivering a 15–30% appointed in May 2011 as deputy com- for education and executive director director of housing and community annual increase in income to their eli- “When he decided to run,” governor in 2002. At the time, began soon after graduating from missioner of policy and communications for the Institute of Land Warfare. development. otak is a transdisciplinary gible employees. It is an exciting change Lucken joked, “I think I was the Lucken had recently graduated from the Kennedy School. He serves as for New York State Homes and Commu- design company committed to building to be working in the social entrepreneur only Republican from Iowa here the Kennedy School, which he says president of the U.S.-Asia Institute, a Atsuhito Tanaka mc/mpa is still nity Renewal, the state’s housing sustainable communities. With seven and start-up worlds. My wife, Hilary, in Boston.” helped him learn about “the changing un-associated ngo that he has repre- working for the Ministry of Internal agency. “In this position, I am proud to United States offices and a growing and I live in New York City with our Affairs and Communication (mic) of work under Governor Andrew Cuomo, Now he is poised to help his nature of American society” from sented on trips to Asia, where he has practice in the Middle East and North daughters Veronica, five, and Japan. “I worked on finance and taxa- who has been a visionary in the field of candidate in the general election the perspective of someone who had also traveled on behalf of Citigroup, Africa, otak is affiliated with hanmi Beatrix, two.” tion systems at the local government affordable housing development.” matchup against President Barack spent most of his career as a U.S. and he recently joined the Belfer level in mic. In addition, I worked for Global, based in Seoul, South Korea. Francisco Ingouville mc/mpa is a Obama; Lucken has served since the diplomat, beginning when Cold War Center’s International Council. Kyoto city government in charge of “Feel free to drop me a line and say consultant and trainer at Ingouville, Daniel Garcia-Diaz mpp was recently policy planning and also tackled big hello if you are in the Portland, Oregon Nelson and Associates, the firm he appointed acting director in the U.S. start of the campaign on Romney’s hostilities still existed. His assign- Though seemingly disparate, projects, such as the 2005 Japan Inter- area this summer.” founded in Argentina 10 years ago and Government Accountability Office’s foreign policy and national security ments included stints in Rome, foreign service and finance require Financial Markets & Community Invest- national Expo in Aichi as manager of the Nicolas Ducote mpp was appointed which now has offices in Peru and Bra- advisory team for the Asia-Pacific Moscow, Tbilisi, Zagreb, Sarajevo, similar skills, Lucken says, such as ment team. “I am responsible for a port- finance division. At present, I work in undersecretary for political affairs in the zil. Under his direction the firm has region. In that role, he counsels the and Ljubljana; he also served in the negotiation and advocacy for a large folio of work that evaluates the Beijing as the representative of clair, government of the City of Buenos Aires trained corporation, ngo, and govern- candidate on issues ranging from Soviet Union as it collapsed, and organization. His time abroad has Beijing, in order to promote and tighten effectiveness of federal housing policy, in December 2010. ment managers in win-win negotiation, trade policy with China to ballistic observed elections in its newly also stoked his interest in working on friendship between Japanese and leadership, and innovation in over 30 assistance to financial institutions, and Yasukazu Fuse mc/mpa has written Chinese local governments through countries in several languages. He economic development. Still living in missile threats from North Korea. formed independent states. a political campaign, something he his eighth book (hikaruland.co.jp). human exchange programs and a published On the Same Side, a book Maryland and busy raising a 13-year-old Lucken has also worked on grassroots “I had a view of what strong knows from firsthand experience is mutual corporation of public policy.” Amy Gray mpa has been working on of negotiation stories, in 2005. He had boy and a nine-year-old girl!” campaigning, including in his home- leaders were about,” Lucken says. a precious privilege. Hughes Turner nsf is the deputy global sustainable development and a third son, Sancho, in 2008. Kyle Kimball mpp was recently named town of Le Mars, Iowa, where he “When I encountered Governor “I was in some tough places,” anti-poverty initiatives and campaigns. chief of staff at the Department of Veter- Lora-Ellen McKinney mc/mpa writes, executive vice president and chief finan- introduced Romney to a “huge Romney . . . I just felt that he was the he says. “It shaped my view. I wanted “Based in Washington, DC, traveling and ans Affairs (VA), where he and the VA “1. I wrote and performed a solo play, cial officer of the New York City Eco- turnout” of people during an event strongest, most capable person to to be a participant in the political working with social movements in Latin chief of staff manage the day-to-day Match.Bomb, chronicling my online nomic Development Corporation. America, Africa, Asia, and Europe seek- before the 2012 caucus. be president I’d ever met.” process. I felt like these people don’t operations of the 310,000-employee dating experiences, described by a Maria Figueroa Kupcu mpp received ing higher standards for human rights It helped in Iowa, he says, that He praises in particular Romney’s have the ability to participate. For department. Prior to this position he led reviewer as ‘poignant, funny and sadly Tufts University’s 2012 Boryana Damya- and environmental impacts in World longtime friends of his family trusted experience in both the public and those of us in America who have the the Career Development Group at the realistic. McKinney has the uncanny nova Award for Corporate Social Respon- Bank, imf, and national development National Counterterrorism Center. He ability to put into words the experiences sibility for her work with global corporate him when he vouched for his candi- private sectors, a background he freedom to do so, I think we should investments and policies. I spend as was also a charter member of the Office that most women try to block out or are and nonprofit clients on environmental date. That sense of trust marks his shares with the candidate. Lucken add our voice and get involved.” much time as possible in nature and am of the Director of National Intelligence too flustered to retell.’ 2. Did you know sustainability, social-impact initiatives, relationship with Romney, whom he now works in international banking LR trained as a yoga teacher — both keep s during its stand-up. His initial career that the ‘separation of church and state’ and stakeholder engagement. The award me sane! Happy path of public service has known since working on behalf as a managing director at Citigroup Senior Executive Service (ses) assign- in American historic documents came was presented by the Tufts Institute for to all my fellows from hks!” of his successful bid for Massachusetts Private Bank in Boston, where he ment was at the U.S. Office of Personnel from Baptist founding papers? That Kraft Global Leadership and the Advisory Com- a rt Management, where he oversaw the Mac & Cheese was a Baptist invention? a stew ma rth

44 harvard kennedy school 45 alumni publications mittee for Endowment Responsibility. Suzanne Smith mc/mpa plays in the ees and an operational budget of $259 Maria is a director at Brunswick Group, t 2000 Florence Community Band. million. a global strategy and communications Clayton Bond mpp writes, “I have Margaret Stock mpa published a book consultancy, where she helped found written a book, Djakarta Djournal, which t 2001 called Immigration Law and the Military the csr practice. She lives in New York includes impressions of Indonesia and Nathaniel Beers mpa was appointed with the American Immigration Lawyers City with her husband and two children. reflections on identity and other topics the chief of the Office ofS pecial Educa- Association (aila) publications organi- I’ve been thinking about during my Juanita Olaya mpa writes, “Our friend tion of DC Public Schools in July 2011. He zation. adventurous year of sabbatical. Sale and classmate Thomas Stanger mpa continues to see patients at Children’s proceeds benefit YayasanS uwitno, a passed away April 26, 2012, at the age National Medical Center. t 2002 of 42, after a severe illness, near his charity that provides free hiv testing and hometown of Kitzbühel, Austria. care to low-income Indonesians.” Alzhan Braliev mpa writes, “At the Hyung (Daniel) Du Choi mc/mpa was moment I am working as an expert in appointed deputy minister/spokesman Beyond his impressive CV and his wit, Richard “Buzz” David hksee is the the EU project ‘Civil Service Reform and to the Prime Minister’s Office in Korea. curiosity, and intelligence, he was a president and ceo of the Amarillo Eco- Modernization of the Government of “I left the newspaper where I worked for good person as only really good people nomic Development Corporation. Buzz Kazakhstan’ and consulting the Agency 20-plus years, including assignments can be. This is his most impressive joined the Amarillo edc in 2004 and on Civil Service Affairs and the Academy as Washington bureau chief and chief legacy and a treasure for those of us leads the organization in its mission to of Public Administration. Pursuing the political correspondent. This move was the American Heart Association, Heart who knew him, his closest friends, his promote business expansion in the idea of bringing the best international motivated by my wonderful education colleagues, and his family. His daugh- greater Amarillo area that builds a stron- Share, Retweet, Repeat: Get Your Disease is a comprehensive account of the Raising Wisdom experience and practice to Kazakhstan at hks and your friendship.” ters, Theresa and Clara, will experience ger, more diversified economy. He Message Read and Spread leading cause of death in the West.” Kim Feinberg hksee 2006 in order to improve the quality of these him through our stories. He remains served previously as the director of Peter Emerson mc/mpa continues to John Hlinko mpp 1994 institutions. Currently married with three “This book is an opportunity to hear the in our hearts forever.” economic development for Pinellas do international consulting while wear- kids — two sons and a daughter.” “Named by Amazon.com as the #1 ‘hot new dreams, visions and wishes of our youth. The ing several hats at Harvard. He is also Seeing Green Jay Olson mc/mpa wrote to say he County (Florida) Economic Development. release’ in the web marketing category, Share, question is what are we doing about real Buzz and his wife, Amy, live in Amarillo, Bill Chipman mc/mpa has written on the National Finance Committee for Annabel Hertz mc/mpa 2004 was getting married May 20 in Manhat- Retweet, Repeat shows you how to master the problems in the world today? What actions tan, “which is nice. Since graduation Texas, and enjoy the Southwest lifestyle. and published his first novel, Sucker’s the Obama Campaign, as he was in “Described as a ‘timely, energetic and Dance, and anticipates finishing his 2008. Peter still serves as a director of art of Facebook, Twitter, and other social will generations truly appreciate and judge in 1998, I have been continuously Henry Gonzalez mpa writes, “Gloriana second, Last Seen in the Caribbean, in the Southern African Enterprise Devel- witty’ story of a young woman ‘on a mission you by? What changes will your actions and employed at the nyc Office of Manage- and I are really happy to have Ignacio in media platforms to launch a truly explosive the spring of 2012. Both are available opment Fund, which allows him to to puncture the stasis of Reagan-Bush ment and Budget. I am now an assistant our lives. He is now seven months and viral campaign, even with a tiny budget or no choices make? Drawing wisdom from for e-readers through all standard for- spend time in southern Africa. He environmental policy’ (Book Review, director in the Financing Policy Unit we feel blessed by how much joy he budget at all. Whether you’re spreading the celebrities such as Anthony Hopkins, Russel mats, and in independent bookstores married Kari Catalano in May 2011. there as well as treasurer of a variety brings to our family. We keep enjoying Huffington Post, April 4, 2012), Seeing near Boston, Cambridge, Cape Cod, and He has a stepdaughter and divides his word about your small business, advocacy Simmons, Fran Drescher and Hugh Masekela of financing entities, including the our life in Paris, where I am engaged in Green pays homage to the DC scene, the Islands. More information is avail- time between New York City and East campaign, blog, or any other project, Hlinko (to name a few), this book asks us to hear the nyc Transitional Finance Authority and academia and research around microfi- international — and office — politics, and able on his website, billchipman.com. Hampton, New York. shows you how to harness the power of viral voices of our youth, and make choices that the Hudson Yards Infrastructure nance and impact investing. Hope to idealism. The novel also explores the rocky marketing to compete with even the biggest will positively impact their lives, their world Corporation.” see many of you here!” Adrian Hills mc/mpa, after 18 months Lan Liu mpa/id has focused on writing and rewarding terrain of family and personal as the UN’s chief of staff for its peace- about and teaching leadership in the of the big boys.” and future. Focused on conversations Karen Kalish mc/mpa (“loved hks so keeping mission in Haiti (minustah), past years. “I have written a few books relationships from the perspective of a surrounding the challenges facing our youth, t 1999 much I stayed a second year, full load, returned to New York in February 2012 to in Chinese about management and multicultural protagonist in ‘a felicitously Marge Medd mc/mpa, as a guber- non-degree”) has transitioned out of the Raising Wisdom asks us what we will impress take up a special assignment on financ- leadership. In 2010, I published an Eng- Monitoring Democracy fast-moving, tightly organized narrative.’ natorially appointed board of trustee nonprofit she started, Cultural Leader- and deliver for our children.” ing of troops and police deployed to the lish book, Conversations on Leadership Judith Kelley mpp 1997 (Amazon book reviews). A thoughtful romp member of the University of Maine ship (a yearlong program that teaches 15 UN missions around the world. He (Wiley). The last two times I got back to System, most recently chaired the curious, courageous teens to be social “Monitoring Democracy argues that the through the ngo world of 1992, Seeing Green continues to maintain a base in Brook- Harvard were in 2010 and 2011, both to search committee for a new president justice activists — “troublemakers of the practice of international election monitoring ‘provides a refreshing contrast to today’s stale One Good Day: The Adventures lyn and returns Down Under to visit attend hbs’s annual leadership confer- at the University of Maine at best kind”), and started another non- and polarized politics and reminds us that of Rocky and Scout family every year. ence, when I also stopped by hks.” is broken, but still worth fixing. By analyzing Farmington. profit inS t. Louis — home works! The the evolving interaction between domestic hope is possible.’” Robert Martin hksee 2006 Teacher Home Visit Program, which John Judge mc/mpa is the newly Yutian Meng mpa/id writes, “I miss Peter Redmond mc/mpa is senior trains and pays teachers in underper- named president and ceo of the Appa- you all!” and international politics, Kelley refutes “In One Good Day, Robert Martin shares a advisor for global operations at the forming schools to make home visits to lachian Mountain Club in Boston, Mas- prevailing arguments that international heartwarmingly simple story about friendship Peace Corps in Washington, DC, manag- Oscar Schiappa-Pietra mc/mpa, Gather at the Table: get parents involved in their children’s sachusetts, overseeing management of efforts cannot curb government behavior and diversity, through a young person’s eyes. ing initiatives on volunteer safety and after completing a more than three-year education. Academic achievement, the oldest outdoor recreation and con- The Healing Journey of Slavery security, support, and partnerships. assignment with undp in Papua New and that democratization is entirely a Martin grew up never knowing his father, but attendance, and parental engagement servation organization in the United Redmond is in his 10th year with the Guinea, returned to Peru to assist in the domestic process. Yet, she also shows that and a Son of the Slave Trade his happy childhood in suburban Philadelphia are up, and discipline issues are down. States. His focus is broadening the Peace Corps, having previously served transition to a newly elected national democracy promotion efforts are deficient Thomas Norman DeWolf hksee 2005, inspired him to mentor other young people. “It’s working!” constituency, helping more kids and as deputy associate director for global government. He is now the ceo of Sharon Leslie Morgan families get outdoors, and expanding and that outside actors often have no As a 28-year police professional and the operations, director of overseas staff Robert La Mont mpa/id is working AgroAndino srl, a company specializing conservation leadership. Previously, power and sometimes even do harm.” “A black woman and a white man journey chief of police for a large suburban police training, and country director in Pan- in public policy as an attorney for the in the production and export of indig- John served as chief development offi- into the heartland of America to confront department for the past 14 years, he has the ama. Peter lives in Potomac, Maryland, Hawaii House of Representatives Judi- enous fruits such as goldeberry under cer for the City of Springfield, Massa- with his wife, Melissa, and their three ciary Committee. “I am looking at the organic and fair trade certifications, and the traumatic legacy of slavery and how it privilege of helping many young people chusetts; founded and led Judge Co. Heart Disease tenacious teenagers. “Big shout out to possibility of working in Sri Lanka or heads a program for training emerging contributes to the lingering racism that through difficult moments.” llc; and transformed a financially trou- Regis de Silva mc/mpa 2004 fellow mpa ’99 grads David Morehouse elsewhere overseas in the coming year.” Latin American political leaders. permeates society today. Their example offers bled chapter of Habitat for Humanity. and Charlie Stringer — its been too “Heart disease is the number one killer in a healing pathway for others who aspire to Kevin O’Keefe nsf retired from the He also cofounded the New Frontier James Seward mpp writes, “I wish long, my friends.” U.S. Marine Corps in 2004 after 26 I could have been at the 10-year the United States and in the West. It consumes a more egalitarian future.” Society of the John F. Kennedy Library the largest share of the health care budget Mark Schissler nsf, a major general years of service. He is currently a career Foundation. (See story page 8.) reunion, but I have to be in Myanmar in the U.S. Air Force, has a new position member of the Senior Executive Service (Burma). I am covering East Asia at the because of the extent of the problem and the Sandra Robinson hksee was recently at headquarters of the U.S. European serving as director of the Office of World Bank as a lead financial sector named chief operating officer of the cost of diagnostic and treatment options Command in Stuttgart, Germany. He’s Plans, Policy & Analysis, Bureau specialist, and I have been at the bank District of Columbia Department of available. Prevention and care both start with now the director of policy, strategy, of Political-Military Affairs, U.S. since graduation. How time flies! Kerin Health, where she is responsible for knowledge. Written by a past president of partnering, and capabilities. Department of State. and I now have two little daughters, day-to-day management of 735 employ-

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Mae, five, and Ellsie, three, and we’re ongoing sociopolitical struggle and looking forward to being back in the mix Annabel Hertz mc/mpa has published David Buchwald mpp (class of 2005, Jim Sideras hksee was selected as writings by Russell Simmons, Magic carted around a 107-degree DC as Mom still living in Arlington, Virginia. So drop conflict. in DC and reconnecting with East Coast her first novel, Seeing Green, a thought- who waited until 2007 to graduate so fire chief ofS ioux Falls Fire Rescue. sffr Johnson, Frances Fisher, and many oth- visited old ksg pals. In January I began a me a line if you’re in DC, and I’ll hope to classmates. ful romp in the Washington-ngo-politi- that he could get a JD), having become a is one of fewer than 150 internationally ers. Proceeds go to support education position as early childhood education Jose Luis Sagripanti hksee was asked catch up soon.” cal world of 1992. tax lawyer for both businesses and not- accredited fire departments. He has for orphan and vulnerable children/ enrollment and nutrition manager at the by the Ministry of Health of Peru to eval- Brendan Boyle mpp is currently for-profits and a city councilman in written more than 25 articles on the fire youth in South Africa. To order please ywca of Minneapolis, a nonprofit operat- uate biosecurity in operations with the serving his second term in the Pennsyl- Laila Kuznezov mpa/id, after spend- White Plains, New York, is now running service and ems. Last year, he presented email me a or visit tomorrow.org.za.” ing three childcare centers serving more |  most dangerous viruses and bacteria vania House of Representatives. He was ing 2005–2009 working on economic t 2003 10th for the New York State Assembly. A Dem- to the Chinese National Earthquake than 300 children, 70 percent of whom isolated from samples coming from the just appointed the new chairman of the development projects in Iraq, took time Lisa George mpp was appointed global reunion ocrat, he is running against an incum- Response System in Beijing to help live in low-income families. I’m thrilled Amazon jungle, the deserts, and the House Democratic Campaign Commit- off to move home to New York City, head of the Macquarie Group Founda- bent Republican, but nonetheless hopes develop their critical infrastructures to to have the opportunity for leadership Catherine Barber mpa/id enjoyed humid mountain valleys of Peru. Among tee. As chairman, he is responsible for have a baby boy, switch careers (he tion, Australia’s largest corporate phil- that he can do the Class of 2005 proud. respond to mass casualty incidents. He and combining many interests: access running the British Embassy in Sofia, additional technical issues, Jose Luis is overseeing all Democratic campaigns joined the consulting firm Monitor anthropic entity in December 2011. In also traveled to Paramaribo, Suriname, to high-quality early childhood educa- Bulgaria, for the past year. “Now back advising the promotion of a national for the state House in 2012. Group in its economic development Eric Ciliberti mc/mpa recently joined this role, she will be responsible for the where he advised government officials tion, diverse families, public policy, and in my normal job as deputy head of policy in biosecurity that should keep group), and get married. “I’m now in PricewaterhouseCooper’s Washington strategic and operational activities of Melissa Brandt mpa and Steffen on emergency all hazards response singing dorky introductions (a tradition mission. Great opportunity to explore thousands of highly infectious samples Dubai — come visit!” federal practice as a senior associate. the foundation globally. Since its incep- Brandt mpa 2005, along with big sister planning. He has spoken at several begun at ksg, Fall 2004).” the Balkans and welcome friends to (currently unsecured and unaccounted tion in 1985, the foundation has Sophie, are proud to announce the birth Brian Patterson hksee writes, “Greet- Lisa Hoffstein hksee is the founder world conferences, most recently the sunny climes.” for) at the geographical point of origin donated more than $160 million to chari- Robert Vanourek hksee writes, “Triple of their second daughter, Emilie Char- ings of a good heart and the power of a and president of The Katie at the Bat Counter Terror Conference in London, without transiting to Lima and from ties around the world. Together with Crown Leadership: Building Excellent, Maria Cristina Caballero mc/mpa lotte, on January 31, 2012. The family good mind; I remain grateful to all, Team — a nonprofit helping kids hit England. there potentially to Miami and the Macquarie staff in the 2011 financial Ethical, and Enduring Organizations was writes, “I wanted to let you know that resides in Alameda, in the San Francisco as you have enriched my life, and I think home runs in life. “We work with inner- rest of the world. year alone, the foundation contributed published by McGraw-Hill in July. See the Committee to Protect Journalists, Bay area. Melissa works as a principal in of our time together often. From my city children throughout Philadelphia t 2006 $27.8 million to more than 1,300 not-for- triplecrownleadership.com. Interviews based in New York, recently created Thomas Seamands hksee was recently energy procurement at pg&e, focusing hks experience I have been elected to offering athletic instruction and play, profit organizations. Macquarie Group is with 60-plus organizations in 11 coun- a Wikipedia page about my journalistic selected for promotion to major general primarily on the utility’s commercial serve as president of the United South character development, leadership Amy Bean mpp was recently named a global provider of banking, financial, tries. Great read.” career.” and is serving as the G1 (director of implementation of cap-and-trade under & Eastern Tribes, a group of 26 federally training, academic support, and nutri- executive director of the Foundation for advisory, investment, and funds man- human resources) for forces command California’s landmark greenhouse gas recognized tribal nations — now in my tion and fitness in our year-round com- the Education of Young Women. Through Gayle Gao mc/mpa and Hermann agement services with more than 70 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. law, AB 32, and Steffen works as a third term. I also moved to Spokane, prehensive programs. I am also the public-private partnerships, feyw starts t 2007 moved to Shanghai in the autumn of offices in 28 countries. senior financial analyst at Google. Washington, and have taken on an author of self-published Katie at the Bat, and supports all-girl public schools 2010. “Now I am working for Beiersdorf Calvin Stevens hksee has written a Prosy Abarquez-Delacruz hksee additional role as a national senior a self-esteem offshoot of “Casey at the across the state of Texas. These schools Dimitry Leger mc/mpa joined the AG (the brand owner of Nivea, Eucerin, self-help motivational learning book, Mary Casey hksee is setting up an writes, “Hi all, writing for Asian Journal, strategist for Blue Stone Strategy Group. Bat,” and would like to find an estab- provide a college-preparatory experi- advertising agency Young & Rubicam’s and La Prairie) to cover Asia and Austra- Four Steps in Developing Your Attitude, Amelia Earhart Ballyarnett Friendship have a weekly column, Rhizomes (like In Peace & Friendship.” lished publisher. I am a proud long- ence to urban, economically disadvan- Geneva office in January as a branding lia. Hermann is working for Global Commitment and Enthusiasm. Society in Derry-Londonderry, Northern orchids, they adhere to bark, soil, any standing board member of the Freire taged young women. feyw now serves and digital marketing specialist. “Previ- Financial Technology to manage its Ireland, where Amelia Earhart landed Nicholas Retson hksee has taken earth matter, and grow new shoots like Charter School.” more than 2,000 students, grades 6–12, ously, I worked as a communication day-to-day business. If by any chance in 1932 after flying solo across the a position as senior counsel for the world-class citizens who migrate to t 2004 in Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Lubbock, strategist at undp in Haiti and in you come to Shanghai, please do let us Atlantic! Mary is inviting Harvard alumni Defense Acquisition Regulation System Dan Kildee hksee is the Democratic different countries and make a differ- Ft. Worth, and Houston. Amy lives in Geneva. Prior to that I was a Global know! We have no kids yet, so we are Ernest Antoine hksee is working on to join the society and invites anyone Office. “Our organization is responsible candidate for the U.S. Congress in the ence). Check out my column by Googling Dallas with her husband and three boys Leadership Fellow of the World Eco- more flexible to hang out with you.” a coaching for leadership development interested to contact her. for writing and publishing all of the 5th District of Michigan, and is unop- ‘Prosy Delacruz’ and ‘Asian Journal’ and (Max, four, Riggs, four, and Henry, nomic Forum and a staff writer at For- program for current and emerging lead- acquisition rules and regulations for posed in the primary. The 5th District is keep up with my travels, columns on Ken Kelash mc/mpa writes, “Serving Regis DeSilva mc/mpa, after leaving seven months). tune magazine, The Miami Herald, The ers in the Pacific. “Participants are Department of Defense contracting.” a traditionally Democratic seat, now leadership, art, spirituality, reproductive in the Minnesota State Senate for the Partners Harvard Medical International Source magazine, the hip-hop bible, members of disabled people’s organiza- held by his uncle, retiring Congressman Cuong Nguyen Canh lky fellow health, life, soul connections, and just past four years has been an amazing in 2011, returned to work on interna- Isabel Millan Valdes mpa has been and a writer at mtv News.” tions who have disabilities themselves. Dale Kildee. Dan is currently the presi- writes, “Hi friends, five-plus years loving every day that is given as a gift experience. I’d recommend elected tional programs at his former hospital, living in Viña del Mar, on the coast of Twenty-four participants from seven dent and ceo of the Center for Commu- passed by but I still love the time I spent Robert Martin hksee has written a and privilege to be here in my adopted office as a career option to anyone Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Chile, since 2007. During this period, countries took part in a two-week work- nity Progress, a national nonprofit public at hks. It was wonderful and helpful to children’s book titled One Good Day: country that I so love, the United interested in public policy issues. “I also became executive chairman she has been leading the Congressional shop. I now conduct Skype-based policy center devoted to the revitaliza- me. I was promoted to trade counselor The Adventures of Rocky and Scout. “The States.” Redistricting was not kind to me this of Global Medical Knowledge, Inc., Advisory Service at the Library of Chil- coaching clinics for four participants, tion of vacant and abandoned proper- of the Vietnam Embassy to France in book is about diversity, friendship, and year, so I will be looking for the next an ngo that is dedicated to improving ean National Congress. Always willing to Stela Bokun mpp writes, “I am about two who are deaf and two who are blind ties in America’s cities and towns. He August 2011. Warm regards to all.” learning that being with your friends great public service opportunity when global health by providing technology- learn from public policy challenges and to take on the most important job in my and one who is a psychiatric survivor!” previously served as a county commis- always makes a good day.” I finish this legislative session. I’m based medical education and faculty successes in other countries, as well Nishan Degnarain mpa/id has taken life, that of being a parent.” Stela was mpp, after seven years in sioner and county treasurer in Genesee looking forward to seeing my class- Ken Biberaj development free or at affordable cost as advances in program evaluation a 12-month sabbatical from McKinsey to Mitch Metzner hksee has completed expecting a little boy, Derin Arsal, on business — helping to revitalize the County, where his hometown of Flint mates at next year’s reunion.” to developing countries. My book Heart methods, she invites you all to exchange return to Mauritius. He has been work- a doctoral program in human services May 10. Russian Tea Room — has decided to run is located. ing as the senior economic advisor to Claudiu Lucaci hksee is a former press Disease will be published this summer leading and research experiences in at Capella University and has recently Collie Burnett hksee has completed for City Council on the Upper West Side the minister of finance (and vice-prime secretary for the Romanian government, as part of a series for laypeople put these areas. Terry Mutchler hksee, a former AP accepted a position as executive direc- his 12th year as president and ceo of of Manhattan. “We have had a great minister) on a long-term economic a former consul general in Los Angeles, out by Harvard Medical School.” journalist turned lawyer, is the executive tor of youth services with Operation Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters. “We response so far and plan on focusing on director of Pennsylvania’s Office of Open growth program to move Mauritius from Kindness Los Angeles. currently an anchorman and executive Alison Byrne Fields mpp writes, t 2005 came out of the economic downturn supporting small businesses, improving Records. She recently signed with the a middle-income to a high-income coun- producer at Romanian Public Television, “After seven years of watching corpo- Lois Merriweather Moore hksee stronger than ever, thanks to my hksee education, and building a more livable Tony Akaki hksee wrote a book sup- Marsal Lyon Literary Agency to represent try, and developing an Africa strategy. a phd in sociology, and author of the rate America get it wrong, I struck out was elected vice-president of the Bill in nonprofit management.T hank you, community for the future. I encourage porting the Save Mabira Crusade, a her upcoming memoir, For the Record: He was recently appointed to the Mon- book Shaping the Wellbeing. He is also on my own and started my own com- & Melinda Gates Foundation, Gates Harvard.” fellow alumni to sign up for updates nascent movement of environmentalists A Journalist, a Senator and a Closet. etary Policy Committee, which advises an associate lecturer at the University of Millennium Scholars Alumni Associa- about our campaign on ken2013.com.” pany. Aggregate is a creative strategy in Uganda that opposes the proposed the independent Central Bank on the Paz Guzman Caso de los Cobos Bucharest and the National School for tion. The Gates Millennium Scholars group that works with progressive non- plan by Ugandan President Yoweri Farooq Niaz hksee attended the interest rate. “Looking forward to warmly mpa is working for the Belgian Aid Political Science and Administration. Philipp Bleek mpp is an assistant profit organizations and philanthropic Museveni to give nearly one-quarter of 2005 winter session of eldp. “The Program came out of a $1 billion educa- Agency, negotiating budget support for professor at the Monterey Institute of welcoming ksg alum to our island!” Maria Rosa Montes mc/mpa has foundations to bring people and the Mabira Forest to the Sugar Corpora- batch consisted of 26 officers of the tional grant from the Bill and Melinda health and education policies in poor International Studies, teaching and Kim Feinberg hksee writes, “Raising published her first novel, Vendaval, resources together to create social and tion of Uganda to grow sugarcane. The government of Pakistan. The case Gates Foundation. The intent of the African countries. In 2012 Paz will join researching gloomy nuclear, biological, Wisdom is the third of my published historical fiction set in the early 1980s policy change. We’re based in Seattle book, titled Mabira Forest Giveaway: studies were quite educative and grant was to fund historically underrep- the European Commission to work in the and chemical weapons–related policy books created to raise awareness in Bolivia, when political and social (which — forget Disney — is the happiest A Path to Degenerative Development, useful. We enjoyed the stay at hks.” resented scholars to serve as leaders for Economic and Financial Department. issues in lovely Monterey, California. place on Earth) and thriving. This around the needs of our youth around America’s future. There are currently conflict polarized families and society provides a powerful argument for saving Snimer Sahni hksee, after working Since graduation the family has He’s taking a faculty leave for the means, of course, that we always need the world. It is a conversation between 9,500 alumni members. and the country’s fragile democracy the environment and fighting to pre- more than 35 years, is now retired from expanded considerably, Victor, three, 2012–2013 academic year to serve as smart, passionate people to join the South African and American celebrities struggled to survive. A shocking discov- serve Uganda’s forests and natural full-time employment, but busy catching Clare Sanford mpp writes, “October Itziar, two, and soon to come a new senior advisor to the Assistant Secretary team. Drop me a line if you get the and youth on different subjects — a ery by the protagonist leads her to a resources. up with other things in life. brought second son Nathaniel Kirby baby! “My husband, Jean, is doing great of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and chance.” beautiful coffee table book with fore- personal search intertwined with the Sanford, who while in utero had been as an entrepreneur leading woorank. Biological Defense Programs, and is word by Sir Anthony Hopkins with com. We both miss Cambridge.”

48 harvard kennedy school 49 :: CLASSNOTES | summer 2012 | www.hks.harvard.edu/alumni alumni publications Arnon de Mello mpa just launched is challenging but very interesting and ing world to work — Brazil and my won- we had a new prime minister who still Sequaz.com, a social media analytics rewarding. I miss the lifestyle of a full- derful country of birth, South Africa.” maintained me in my position. Have tool. The application helps people better time student, but that makes the experi- a great day.” Mario Ramirez mpp recently moved to understand their followers. “Find out ence we had all the more meaningful. Washington, DC, after accepting a com- Alex Gallo mpp recently stepped who are your most active followers. Get I also wish it was possible to see ksg mission as a captain in the U.S. Air down as deputy director of the Combat- to know your influencers and engage classmates (friends!) much more Force, where he is serving as an emer- ing Terrorism Center at West Point and with them.” frequently.” gency medicine physician at Andrews joined the Armed Services Committee Colleen Gross Ebinger mpp and her Siri Trang Khalsa mc/mpa has happily Air Force Base. Before going on active in the U.S. House of Representatives as husband, Fritz, welcomed their new settled in the south of France after more duty, he completed his residency train- a professional staff member. Alex is daughter, Cora Rose, into the family on than two years in Afghanistan. She is ing and ems fellowship in Nashville, responsible for centcom and africom December 30. Big brother Ben (2.5) is now working in Monaco as director of Tennessee, where he served as a medi- policy issues for the full committee. overjoyed. They live in Minneapolis. global affairs for Peace and Sport, cal consultant to the Nashville Police Gonzalo Gutierrez hksee has been peace-sport.org. Peace and Sport was Academy and special operations units Emmanuel Ezekwere hksee writes, appointed as ambassador of Peru to the founded in 2007 under the patronage of after graduation. His wife, Andrea, is a “I and my wife, Ifeoma, are pleased to People’s Republic of China. He has been H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco for the physician at nih, and they were expect- share the joy of the arrival of our baby in Beijing since November 2011. purpose of putting sport at the service ing their first son in July. girl on January 3, 2012. She’s quite pop- of peace. Donna Hockey mpp and Tammer Zein- ular with her siblings Tochukwu, 10, El-Abedein were expecting a baby boy, Adaeze, 10, and Ifeoma Jr. 5. She’s a Richard Mutule Kilonzo hksee, chief The Sex-Wise Parent: A People’s Guide Aid Dependence in Cambodia: t 2008 | 5th their second child, on June 27, 2012. delight and we all love her. Best executive of Export Processing Zones reunion The Parent’s Guide to to the Federal Budget How Foreign Assistance regards.” Authority Kenya, is responsible for 42 Emilyzen Ignacio mpp and Roy Cer- Mattea Kramer mpp 2011 Undermines Democracy zones in Kenya that employ more than Morra Aarons-Mele mc/mpa writes, vantes mpp attended ucla together and Protecting Your Child and John Felix mc/mpa designed and Sophal Ear hksee 2012 40,000 people and process $0.5 billion “My husband, Nicco, and I are settled in crossed several paths in the public pol- Strengthening Your Family “From history of the budget process to detail taught a new undergraduate class at in exports. He has been the lead advisor Lexington and have two little boys. My icy field, including the Public Policy and about the ongoing conflict in Washington, “International intervention liberated Northeastern University titled The Art Janet Rosenzweig mc/mpa 2008 of the $25 billion multi-modal lapsset company, Women Online (wearewom- International Affairs Summer Institute from charts explaining where every federal Cambodia from pariah state status in the of Environmental Protection. “Found “High-profile cases of child sex abuse have Corridor Development Project. As the enonline.com), is proud to announce the at UC Berkeley. The two graduated with myself frequently referring to notes I dollar goes to simple explanations of budget early 1990s and laid the foundations for national coordinator of the Sub-Saharan launch of our new database of social- a mpp from hks in 2008 and finally tied been dominating headlines, and the premise took while taking classes taught by terminology, A People’s Guide to the Federal more peaceful, representative rule. Yet the Africa Transport Policy Program, World good-minded social media influencers, the knot on April 21. Emilyzen and Roy of The Sex-Wise Parent is that promoting Malcolm Sparrow and Ron Heifetz. Budget — a new book from National Priorities country’s social indicators and the integrity Bank, he has contributed to the formula- themissionlist.com. continue to practice public sector perfor- sexual health and safety starts at home. This Those classes turned out to be invalu- tion of transport sector and trade facili- mance auditing/management consult- Project — covers it all in a way everyone can of its political institutions declined rapidly able in framing class objectives and Karim Bardeesy mpp has traded the book is intended to equip parents to be the tation policies in 35 member countries. ing in California. understand. Released to coincide with the within a few short years, while inequality grew outlines.” typewriter for the briefing book and now primary sexuality educators of their kids, He is a director of the Kenya Investment heated 2013 federal budget debate and the 2012 serves as director of policy for Ontario Tatiana Isachenko hksee has written coaching them in infusing accurate dramatically. Conducting an unflinching Heather Franzese mpp is director of Authority & Export Promotion Council. Premier Dalton McGuinty. He and Rachel a book, prepared and defended her presidential election, A People’s Guide to the investigation into these developments, Ear Good World Solutions, a nonprofit tech information about the human body with Curt Paddock hksee is the director Pulfer welcomed Jasmine into the world habilitation thesis, and was awarded a Federal Budget includes an extensive glossary, reveals the pernicious effects of aid start-up that uses technology to their family’s values about sexuality.” of the Will County, Illinois, Land Use on March 30, 2012. full doctorate degree and full professor’s increase transparency in supply chains political cartoons, and up-to-the-minute dependence and its perversion of Cambodian Department. The department is the title. “All these were achieved also and catalyze economic empowerment. Benjamin Branham mpp returned to numbers and explanation of President democracy. International intervention and recipient of the American Society for thanks to my participation in the hks The organization’s Fair Wage Guide has the administration of Mayor Michael Upworldly Mobile Obama’s 2013 budget request. The guide is for foreign aid resulted in higher maternal (and Public Administration’s 2012 Public practice of trade policy course.” increased target workers’ earnings by 20 Bloomberg in March as executive vice every American who wants to participate in a Integrity Award. The award is given Ranjini Manian hksee 2009 possibly infant and child) mortality rates and percent. Labor Link, its newest tool, president of external affairs at the New J.R. Johnson hksee recently joined the to the public sector organization judged “With real-life examples from world leaders process that affects all of us. It serves as a unprecedented corruption by the mid-2000s. deploys mobile phone surveys to farmers York City Economic Development Corpo- staff of U.S. European Command head- to have made the greatest contribution foundation for voters, and is perfect for use by Similarly, in example after example, Ear finds and workers in global supply chains. ration. He previously served as vice quarters in Stuttgart, Germany. He has that inspire emulation, Upworldly Mobile is to ethical performance in the public president in the New York public affairs started up a new program for the Office the ideal companion for Indian managers educators and students alike.” the more aid dependent a country, the more Jun Goshima mc/mpa has been service. practice of Edelman. of the Director of National Intelligence distorted its incentives to develop practicing child psychiatry in Okayama, dealing with expatriate colleagues and global Daniels Pavluts mc/mpa writes, that will coordinate assets across nato Japan, for four years. “This March, I Todd Desgrosseilliers hksee, recently workplaces.” sustainably.” “The year at ksg has proved to be a and the Allies for future operations World Scouting: Educating for completed the yearlong mission to promoted to colonel in the U.S. Marine life-changing experience indeed — both across Europe and Africa. Global Citizenship support mental health care in Minamis- Corps, assumed command of The Basic personally and professionally. Our family anriku-cho, Miyagi, which started right School in Quantico, Virginia, in June. Omar Khan mpa is presently based The Great Experiment: Eduard Vallory hksee 2011 The Last Iron Curtain: has been blessed with two wonderful after the quake and tsunami last year. in Islamabad, Pakistan, and working for “Many works have been written on scouting An Exploration of the Romanian- sons in the meantime — one four and Stergos Epsimos hksee is an attorney The States, the Feds, and Your Through the experience, I’ve found at law in Kos, Dodecanese, Greece. At the Department for International Devel- worldwide, but most of them were centered eight months old. We are doing well. Healthcare Moldovan Possible Reunification community mental health care is a field opment, Government of United King- Professional life has been exciting too — the time of his studies at hks, he was in a particular country or moment of history. Stoica Cristinel Popa mpp 2013 that a combination of my specialties dom, as a governance advisor. He loves Josh Archambault mpp 2010, my endeavors with strategy/policy con- also an elected member of the Regional This book, based on the first existing (psychiatry and mc/mpa) can truly help. roaming around in mountains and is Tom Miller, Jim Capretta, “Although the fall of the Soviet Union and sultancy and business advocacy have Council of the Dodecanese islands. On Now a bit relaxed, thinking about going trying to read as much as possible. He Amy Lischko, Jennifer Powell academic research on world scouting, explains the end of communism had been predicted landed me in the role of Minister of November 2010 he was reelected, this back to humanitarian assistance over- loves to meet any hks alums passing in a very comprehensible way the main many decades before it happened, few Economy of Latvia as of October 2011. time as a member of the Regional “Published in the midst of the Supreme Court seas again.” through Islamabad. Omar is married and characteristics of world (boy and girl) Everything we did at Harvard makes Council of the South Aegean for the battle over President Obama’s health care law, non-Germans thought that Germany would period 2011–2014. Since his hks stud- has two sons, Asad and Saad. scouting, the largest youth movement on the Ellen Kennedy mc/mpa writes, sense, and I’m looking forward to catch- this new book proposes that the states take the ever reunify. . . . Nowadays the reunification ies, he has also trained in leadership Cleopatra Kitti hksee writes, planet, existing in more than 165 countries “Though ksg seemed more than enough ing up with the ksg friends!” lead in health care reform, as Massachusetts of Germany is seen as something settled, that mid-career education, I decided to pur- studies at ceibs (China, 2009) and dsg “Greetings from Cyprus and the Eastern of the five continents with more than 30 Laurine Platzky hksee writes, “After should have and would have taken place sue my doctorate at Northeastern. I have (uae in conjunction with hks, 2010) Mediterranean, where perspectives did in 2006, and that Washington facilitate coordinating the 2010 fifa World Cup for million young people worldwide. Using new sooner or later. Few however know that completed the course work and find and in negotiations at skolkovo are transformed through new natural the transition, rather than try to dictate the Western Cape, life is slightly less data and storytelling, the work covers the myself immersed in research for my (Russia, 2011). resource paradigm, transition of power every move. According to the book, the Romania was split in a similar way to pressured, allowing time to support main elements that distinguish the scout doctorate. I intend to defend in 2012. Thomas Eyambe hksee writes, “Hi all, in economics, politics, and society from Massachusetts reform plan — which has won Germany during the Second World War and Brazil in its preparation for the 2014 movement over the world, and explains its I am currently the interim president at hope you are all doing fine. Nothing new the Arab spring to the European finan- both praise and criticism for Republican that unlike Germany, it failed to reunify at fwc. What a privilege and what an excit- cial crisis. Enjoy Pittsburgh! I am sorry to origin, evolution, operating system, and Berkshire Community College — so life has happened since 2008 except that presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney (who the end of the Cold War.” miss it. See you in Europe for next time.” the soundness of its values.” was governor when the law was passed) — is not the answer for other states.” 50 harvard kennedy school 51 FROM THE FIELD Dan Murrey mpp 1992 Robert Maw hksee was appointed Janet Rosenzweig mc/mpa authored remains in developing and emerging tough environment. This is a dream that municipal judge for Los Ranchos de The Sex-Wise Parent: The Parent’s market countries in Africa, Central Asia, was shaped during my year at the Ken- Albuquerque, New Mexico. Guide to Protecting Your Child and and the Middle East.” nedy School, and it will be a chance to Strengthening Your Family (Skyhorse, put in practice the ideas and the network Matt Nohn mpp writes, “Greetings to Julie Wormser mc/mpa recently Southern Hospitality 2012). Janet, who spent decades work- I acquired there. Looking forward to shar- everyone: My wife, Sabrina, and I got became the executive director of The ing in public and nonprofit child wel- ing this experience with all of you!” married, and Ida, our wonderful daugh- Boston Harbor Association and has fare before completing the mc/mpa ter, was born. I am a university professor loved putting hks skills like negotiation Robert Flaechsig hksee writes, program, was inspired by Barbara Kell- for urban management and international and policy analysis to work. She and her “Haven’t written a book — yet. Haven’t erman’s Leadership Literacy class to cooperation at mundus-urbano.eu and family live in North Cambridge and love had a baby — yet. However, I sailed in write this book to help parents do what freelance, mainly for the Gates Founda- visitors. rough waters all around the Arabian public systems cannot — ensure the tion. Cheers!” Peninsula — call it ocean of Arabian sexual health and safety of children. Mystery and Saudi Politics. I went div- Stephen Ozoigbo hksee is currently Janet is a research associate for Prevent t 2009 ing — deep into Saudi affairs among a trade and investment consultant with Child Abuse America and a lecturer at Asanga Abeyagoonasekera hksee tribes and families, including the Club of the trade office of the Government of the University of Pennsylvania, Fels has been appointed executive director Brethren who govern people and rule Catalonia (acc10) in Silicon Valley, Cali- Institute of Government. She welcomes of the Lakshman Kadiragamar Institute land. A legal advisor recommended that fornia. “In this capacity, I am respon- contact from alumni interested in child for International Relations and Strategic I write a book — urging me to hand it to sible for a diverse array of international sexual abuse prevention programs for Dan Murrey, left, unveils Studies, the national think tank of Sri him first. Assessing whether it should project management and advisory ser- their community. In January 2011, Dan Murrey mpp 1992 had just lost his bid for the “Power by the Lanka. At 34, he is the youngest execu- land in a drawer or on a shelf. Truly, live American People” stock vices that are geared toward increasing Katerina Savvaidou hksee writes, tive director appointed to this position. every day as if it was the last —’cause reelection to the Mecklenburg County Commission in Charlotte, car at the nascar Hall bilateral trade relations between Catalo- “Since my graduation I have endeavored He was previously the chairman of the one day it will be.’” of Fame, far left; helps nia and the United States. These rela- Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Agency launch a community to expand my experiences and compe- North Carolina, when Mayor Anthony Foxx asked him to take tions are centered on investment, and the former Ceylon Fishery Harbours Tadesse Gole hksee is at ait in Athens. garden with volunteers tencies. Since 2008, I have been ele- innovation, and internationalization.” Corporation. “My L21 program at the on another public service commitment. The Queen City had from the Charlotte vated to the position of lecturer at the Gregory Hooker hksee, of dia, reports Community Health Clinic, Yasmin Padamsee mc/mpa works for Faculty of Law of Aristotelion University. Kennedy School gave me a remarkable that he and Brigadier General Jay Silve- been chosen as the site of the 2012 Democratic National Convention, center; and partners with the Livelihoods and Food Security Trust Since January 2010 I have been with knowledge about leadership. I wish to ria (of the U.S. Air Force) recently a community group to (lift) Fund managed by unops. lift is the PwC Greece Tax and Legal Line of develop this institute to be a leading served together in Iraq during overlap- and Foxx wanted Murrey to serve as executive director for the refurbish the Amay James addressing the underlying problems of Service, holding the position of senior think tank. Sri Lanka suffered a 30-year ping deployments in support of the Recreation Center, right. poverty in nearly all of Myanmar’s most tax manager and serving also as its war and now is the right time to U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. Both were host committee. develop.” Dan Murrey food-insecure regions. Working with Knowledgement Team country leader. working as part of the small residual Murrey had been sanguine Civic engagement goes back a partners, lift aims to be a collective and I have continued to build up my knowl- Zekeriya Akcam hksee was chief U.S. military presence in Iraq, focused about his loss, and was even looking long way for the man who entered influential voice promoting program edge and experience, both academic advisor to the prime minister of Turkey on building ties with the Iraqi govern- forward to resuming his role as a Harvard Medical School in 1987 with coherence, innovation, and learning. and professional, in the areas of tax law, when he received his degree from Exec- ment and fostering an enduring rela- as well as other social services. Two “Within lift, I manage the $10 million- fiscal and budget policies, and their tionship for security cooperation. Jay citizen activist. “Nobody likes to lose, an undergraduate degree in religion utive Education. “Now I have been years later, the Republican wave swept a-year Learning and Innovation Fund implementation in Greece.” appointed as ambassador of Turkey to oversees one of the marquee programs but there are plenty of ways to from Davidson College in North that provides a platform for enhanced in the growing relationship — Iraq’s him out. Jack Sim hksee writes, “Life was in Indonesia and started my new post contribute without being in elected Carolina. During his third year, he policy engagement on agriculture, food efforts to purchase and field U.S. F-16 It was Murrey’s almost Zen-like reverse for me: I started 16 businesses March 14, 2012. All the best.” office, and I was committed to doing enrolled at Harvard Kennedy School security, and rural development. Austra- fighters. Greg works on intelligence from the age of 24, created a family, hksee has been elected ability to organize and problem-solve lia, Denmark, the European Union, Tess Alcantara issues of mutual interest to the United so,” he says. “I didn’t think I would to get a better understanding of how and, four kids later, retired at 40 and board president of Leadership Monterey without self-aggrandizement that the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, States and Iraq. be asked to do so quite so quickly, social and bureaucratic issues impact founded the nonprofitW orld Toilet Orga- Peninsula, a nonprofit organization that earned him the confidence of his Switzerland, and the United Kingdom though.” health care. His joint medical nization. When I attended hks Executive offers executive education programs Timothy Ma hksee stepped down from medical partners, fellow commis- set up lift with an initial amount of Education, it was my first time in univer- aimed at growing the number of quali- being the executive director of Senior Or in such a high-profile way. degree and master in public policy $100 million.” sioners, and ultimately the mayor. For Citizen Home Safety Association after Besides being tasked with raising $37 in 1992 shaped his entire approach sity. The fraternity was invaluable. Now fied people who play active roles in him, leading a national convention Taufiq Rahim mpp is one year into I’m studying for a master in public community volunteering, acts as a cata- serving 16 years and growing it into the million, Murrey would be responsible to health care. focused on issues to which he is running Project Encounter, a uae-based administration at Lee Kuan Yew School lyst for bringing groups together to bet- biggest social enterprise in Hong Kong. “I understand the importance for preparing Charlotte for 35,000 personally dedicated — health care, nonprofit initiative to promote construc- of Publicy Policy and hope to graduate ter connect and address community “Will contribute my second half to of the context in which people live,” tive engagement within and between at 55 this year.” social enterprise and social entrepre- guests, including President Barack sustainable energy, and civic engage- issues, and helps make coordinated and he says. “Attending to the health of communities. “Check us out!” aligned decisions that will positively neurship movement.” Obama. But unlike serving as county ment — is doubly rewarding. Jamie Snashall mc/mpa writes, “I think our community is as important as Rendani Randela hksee is currently impact the region. “Last year, I was also Ranjini Manian hksee writes, commissioner, being executive He acknowledges being unpre- the only change from last year’s note is director would require a 16-month attending to the health of individuals. working for the national treasury in that Narelle and I welcomed a baby boy appointed as a commissioner of the “Upworldly Mobile, my new book pub- pared for some aspects of the job. “I Economic Development Commission of leave of absence from his orthopedic That’s what it means to be focused South Africa. named Darcy William in October 2011. lished by Penguin, has gone into its was used to running a mature busi- the City of Marina in Monterey County.” second print run in six months. It is the practice with no guarantee that his on bigger-picture systemic issues.” Jose Romo mpp, as head of the Unit We are still in Canberra and would love ness, not showing up on Day 1 as the first interactive cultural intelligence tool of Planning of the Mexican Institute of to hear from colleagues thinking of mak- Anthony Bostwick hksee completed job would still be there when he Murrey took on an early leadership for new managers working with or in only employee,” he says. “Building a Social Security, recently published the ing the trip ‘Down Under.’” infrastructure in ppp and was recently on returned. role in his practice and eventually India and addresses behavioral skills start-up into a thriving, productive book The Mexican Institute of Social Shehzad Tarique hksee left his central a brief assignment in Montevideo, Uru- “It was a tough decision, but I became ceo of the 900-employee busi- along with business skills as the winning entity with a 16-month life span has Security: Evolution, Challenges and bank role in uae and is now continuing guay, presenting a paper. g r ap h y b io nd o Photo Lo ow: combination! Dr. Shashi Tharoor has eventually decided that it was a really ness. His passion for community Perspectives, to contribute to develop- his main interest of advising and con- been a unique challenge.” Gonzalo Fanjul mc/mpa is starting written a brilliant foreword, and Ravi important moment for our city and health care and education pushed him ing strategies that respond to the shared sulting with the International Monetary Serving as executive director an exciting new professional adventure. Venkatesan, former chairman of Micro- our region,” says Murrey. “I took into politics. In 2008, the Democratic challenges experienced by the social Fund to provide support to the regula- for Charlotte in 2012 has reignited “After more than a decade at Oxfam soft India, has called it ‘an extraordi- wave that turned North Carolina i n 2012; Be l otte security systems of the world. The book tory bodies so as to enhance their International, I am now setting up a a leap of faith because it was critical Murrey’s passion for politics, narily practical manual for succeeding describes the way Mexico is working to supervisory and regulatory frameworks small think tank on poverty (+Social: blue for the first time in 32 years swept C h a r l that Charlotte get it right.” although he won’t allow himself to in the new flat world.’” o f build social security for the 21st century, in banking sector supervision, anti- him into a seat on the County Board y masocial.org). It will be based in Spain consider running for office again. At based on the implementation of suc- money laundering, microfinance, non- and focused on migration policies; pri- Antonio Nuñez Martin mc/mpa is

of Commissioners, which oversees o u rtes least not until after President Obama cessful strategies to secure the financial bank activities, and local capacity vate sector and development; and the new director for social policies at the education and health care funding, is officially renominated. s MN viability of social security. building. “My area of interest and focus social exclusion in Spain’s increasingly C p row: to

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Executive Office for the Prime Minister of Development Program as one of the national media outlets as the Supreme Nick Dimopoulos hksee writes, “I of Homeland Security’s geospatial policy at Aviva. He and his wife were structuring the largest European energy executive serving with the National Spain. three participants among 37,000 Corps Court weighed the future of the federal trust I find all the sefs in great health. portfolio manager in Washington, DC, expecting their first child in June 2012. efficiency programs (about 500 million Commission for Review of Research and employees. In addition to executive health care law. You can learn more Have just realized the exorbitant cost of where he leads the coordination of euros, financed by the European Invest- Development Programs of the United Neil McCullagh mc/mpa is working Danijela Milićhksee moved back to leadership education, the Level 4 about the book at greatexperiment.org. marrying a daughter. Thank goodness location-based systems and technolo- ment Bank) in Bucharest. The programs States Intelligence Community. Previ- in Boston for the American City Coalition New York City in 2011 and is working at Leadership Development Program my two other children are boys, who gies across dhs. He recently earned a are now success stories and basically ously, he served as executive for innova- and enjoying living in Cambridge. Sohaib Athar mpp has been working the International Civil Service Commis- offers participants an opportunity will soon head overseas for their stud- doctorate in information systems and will change the look/leaving standards tion, integration, and interoperability for “Happy to see many classmates who with the Pakistan office of theW orld sion at the United Nations headquarters to develop and lead an initiative of ies. My wife and I are reacquainting communication at Robert Morris of half of Bucharest.” the information sharing environment reside in Massachusetts or who are Bank as a consultant. “I work on urban on developing proposals for the estab- national significance. ourselves in the children’s absence University in Pittsburgh. and jointly received “Best Cyber Presen- passing through. Please let us know governance and development; disaster lishment and enhancement of human Tidhar Wald mpp is the EU conflict and (just kidding). Enormous infrastructure tation” at the December 2010 Govern- if you are coming.” Chris Walker mpp will be joining Ohio risk reduction and recovery; program Andrijana Krasnec mc/mpa moved resources management policies in the humanitarian policy advisor for Oxfam challenges in Australia to accommodate ment Technology Research Alliance State as an assistant professor of law this design and implementing; and monitor- to Brussels last summer to work in the UN system. Danijela previously spent International in Brussels. In this posi- Olutoyin Oloniteru hksee was the mining boom brought about by conference. David is also a lifetime fall. He will be teaching administrative ing and evaluation. Missing all my class- Croatian Mission to the EU, as a head of seven years living and working in tion, he is responsible for analysis, pol- appointed by Kayode Fayemi, governor China’s economic growth and appetite member of the Senior Executive Asso- law, constitutional litigation, and legisla- mates and peers immensely, and hope ecofin Unit. On July 1, 2013, Croatia will Europe, most recently as chief of human icy development, and advocacy of Nigeria’s Ekiti State, as director-gen- for minerals. Please make contact if ciation and was elected to its board of tion. Chris currently works for Kellogg to be in more regular touch with them become the 28th member of the EU. resources at the Special Tribunal for strategies designed to engage with eral/head of information and communi- traveling in this part of the world.” directors in 2011. Huber, a litigation boutique in Washing- from now on.” For Andrijana, it is a huge professional Lebanon. Prior to that, she was head European Union institutions and key cation technology (ict) for Ekiti State ton, DC. He and his wife, Jen, are excited Manisha Dookhony mc/mpa writes, challenge and personal honor to sit at of human resources services at the member states on their conflict, secu- Jeimy Cano hksee has been working government. The appointment took Ramaswami Balasubramaniam to move to Columbus, and were expect- “Traveling around the world in over a the meetings of EU ministers of finance Organization for the Prohibition of rity, and humanitarian policies and on a new book on information security effect April 1, 2012 — interestingly, at the mc/mpa has started an institute dedi- ing their second child (another boy) dozen countries, I have met in each in the time of the biggest reform of the Chemical Weapons in The Hague. She practices. After graduation, Tidhar management, scheduled for publication completion of his hksee Program tagged cated to the research of public policy in this summer. destination friends from Harvard. These EU since its formation. The EU will come also worked as HR manager at the worked for the Office of the United in November 2012. “Likewise, I’m par- Governance as Leadership. “It is my India. It is called graam (Grassroots meetings and my own practice of the out of the crisis stronger, with Croatia Institute for Democracy and Electoral Nations High Commissioner for Human ticipating in a new organizational design pleasure that this course will prove useful Carlos Zepeda hksee created Organi- Research and Advocacy Movement). Kennedy School learning have taught on board. Her husband, Tomo, works as Assistance in Stockholm. Rights in Geneva, after a brief stint as a for the IT area based on process, where in my new role and service to humanity zational Management Advisors llc, a Apart rom undertaking community- me the depth and value of Harvard. an EU correspondent for a Croatian consultant for the Organization for Eco- I’m part of a consulting group to achieve in the public sector in Nigeria. This is nonprofit and organizational efficiency based research, it also hopes to create Boboye Oyeyemi hksee was promoted Whether in politics in Mauritius or as daily paper. nomic Cooperation and Development this goal. Recently got married to Gabri- a great opportunity to serve my people.” consulting practice in South Florida, in an advocacy platform to change public to the rank of deputy corps marshal in advisor to the governments of Burundi (oecd) in Paris. ela, who is a Mexican girl.” February of 2010 to assist nonprofit and policies. “Am also leading an anti- Patrice Kunesh mc/mpa writes, “Soon the services of the Federal Road Safety Diego Osorio mc/mpa writes, “Greet- and Rwanda, Harvard teachings were by nongovernment agencies. He special- corruption movement in my city, called after completing the mpa program, I was Corps, Nigeria, and recently completed a Stacey Williams mpp and David Tier Joel Engardio mc/mpa completed the ings to all my friends. I left the World me. My rich post-Harvard interactions izes in administrative infrastructure and Mysore Against Corruption. Have launched into the world of public service one-year course at the National Institute mc/mpa are excited to announce their 2011 New York Marathon last November Bank and I am back with the United with people who have at times known grant preparation. He has successfully released my first book in the Kannada as the deputy solicitor for Indian affairs for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, engagement! The two met while role- and is currently running for public office Nations. Since March 2012, I have been terrible difficulties and atrocities of war completed projects in Bogotá, New York, language on corruption and how to for the Department of the Interior. hks Jos, Nigeria. Boboye was elected a fel- playing as legislators in David King’s in San Francisco. He is seeking a seat posted to Monrovia, Liberia, serving have taught me that with strong will and Atlanta, Miami, and Ft. Lauderdale. fight it. Am continuing to hold adjunct leadership and policy courses have low of the Chartered Institute of Logis- U.S. Congress and Lawmaking course on the Board of Supervisors (city with unmil as a political affairs officer.” ethics, there is a way to shape a better faculty positions at the University of been invaluable to my work. Also of tics and Transport, London. during the fall of 2009. Currently, the council) in November 2012. The San future — an area very dear to our hks Ssenteza Paul hksee says the hks Iowa and Cornell University.” immeasurable benefit and joy has been couple is in Washington, DC. Stacey Francisco Chronicle recently said of his t 2010 community.” Rodrigo Salvado mpa/id is happy to experience “has enabled my elevation the tremendous continuing collegiality works in the outreach department of the campaign: “Joel Engardio is getting Armando Barrera Barrios hksee announce that continuing with the tradi- to the chief executive position of Sign- Olabode Abikoye hksee was part of Jgishigdelger Dulamdorj hksee says, of my classmates.” American Planning Association, while attention from city insiders thanks to his writes, “got married and got my phd. tion, two more babies have joined the Health, a national ngo in Uganda. the ime class of 2010. “At the time, I was “Hi guys, how are you doing?” David has finished his time on the U.S. smart website and fundraising capabili- I am currently a researcher on public Nicole LeFavour hksee sends greetings Salvado-Macitti family in January. Juan Produced a study on services for deaf head of the public-private partnership Army staff at the Pentagon and will soon ties.” Engardio would like to give credit policy working for the Mexican Senate. Ros Grady mc/mpa, as of March 2012, from Idaho. “Tough decision not running Martin and Juan Ignacio are the newest people and opened the first-ever function in one of Nigeria’s commercial depart for his next assignment in Gar- to Steve Jarding’s managing campaigns Greetings.” has the new role of conjoint professor for the Idaho Senate again this year. proud members of the Harvard mpa/id preschool program for deaf children banks. In December 2010, some profes- misch, Germany. class at hks. Engardio’s campaign and ceo of the new Center for Interna- Running for Congress, though, is a wild bunch. “Family is ready to receive visitors in Uganda. Representing the cso/ngo sional colleagues and I founded an James Beverly mc/mpa was elected to website address is engardio.com. tional Finance and Regulation, an aca- adventure. I am traveling starting this in Tunis. Cheers from all the six!” perspective in the national volunteer investment banking and asset manage- serve as the Georgia State House Repre- demic center of excellence supported by week and have remembered how much t 2011 Hideko Hadzialic mc/mpa writes, movement.” ment company with a primary focus on sentative for District 139. He will proudly Marco Sordo hksee is “working and our federal government, the New South I love meeting new people and seeing “After enjoying courses on negotiations, infrastructure and agriculture in sub- serve on the following committees: studying for my professional education Chloe Arensberg mc/mpa is the White Paul Ritchie mc/mpa has been Wales government, various universities, new sides of a place. Idaho is beautiful conflict resolutions, leadership, strate- Saharan Africa. We have launched the Children and Youth, Health and Human because I would like to complete my House producer for cbs News and works appointed as press secretary to the and industry members. and I do love it. There is a certainty gic management, globalization, and first agriculture fund in Nigeria, and we Services, Small Business Development, preparation in order to be a good finan- to coordinate the network’s coverage of Australian federal leader of the opposi- about things that I took from all of you corporate social responsibility, I have are presently investing in agriculture and Special Rules. James has been Brandt Hershman hksee, Indiana cial analyst. This task started a long time President Obama and his administra- tion, Tony Abbott. Paul and his family and Harvard. Never afraid of a challenge embarked on a new journey to work at across the value chain. You may please actively engaged as a resident, father Republican state senator for Buck Creek, ago, and I hope I will be successful.” tion. Since graduating from hks, she has have moved to Canberra for the or the unknown, I know in the next the UN Development Programme (undp) visit us at aterioscapital.com.” of three, and small business owner in will replace former Senator Connie Law- accompanied the president on much of appointment. The next Australian seven months I have to somehow tran- Christopher Sproule hksee, the chief in Bhutan as deputy resident represen- Macon, Georgia, for more than 15 years. son, who left in March to become Indi- his domestic travel and on trips to election is set for August 2013. Kathi Apostolidis hksee says volunteer scend political party, be myself, and metropolitan medical response system tative. While small, Bhutan is a dynamic ana’s secretary of state, as senate France, Australia, Indonesia, South activity in health care and patient rights Muhammad Bhatti hksee joined un- give this everything I’ve got.” coordinator for Las Vegas Fire & Rescue, country, contributing its philosophy to Thor Steingraber mc/mpa has majority floor leader — the top leader- Korea, and Colombia. She’s very much advocacy was booming in May. “I was habitat Pakistan as HR manager/head was selected in September 2011 as an development discourses at the global returned to Los Angeles to assume ship post appointed by the senate presi- Alejandro Lozano hksee attended looking forward to the 2012 campaign. invited to speak at five national and inter- of HR and OD in December 2010. honoree to receive vegas inc’s Health level, which may feed into post-2015 a position at the Music Center as vice dent pro tem. The majority leader serves the Collaborative Governance program national medical/advocacy/social media Care Headliner Award in Emergency Muhammad Bello hksee has just agendas. I look forward to interacting president of programming. The Music Jeanette Cajide mc/mpa launched an as a senior advisor to the pro tem and in in 2010. “I am convinced that my country, in health care conferences!” Services for his work in strengthening been confirmed as the elected dean of across different sectors with all who are Center is one of the nation’s largest iPhone app, Blurtt, which helps people a variety of roles including administra- Mexico, needs prepared and professional the faculty of social and management Josh Archambault mpp served as community preparedness and response interested in development.” performing arts centers and a major find an image that best conveys what tive management, oversight of the sen- public servants. Furthermore, public sciences at Kaduna State University, editor and coauthor of a new book, The capabilities. public/private partnership with they really want to say, add a caption, ate floor, and development of legislative representatives with a unique objective: in line with the university’s tradition. Ziad Haider mpa, having completed Great Experiment: The States, the Feds, the County of Los Angeles. and share with family, friends, or the priorities. Brandt will also continue in commitment to public value. At present Belaynesh Teklay hksee changed jobs “I joined the university in December his joint degree with Georgetown Law, is and Your Healthcare. The book lays out Blurtt community. The app helps people from Addis Ababa city Government Boris Svetogorsky hksee participated his role as chair of the Senate Commit- I am the candidate of the Partido 2011. My vision for the faculty is to be serving as a White House Fellow in the a blueprint to reset the relationship better convey emotion, tone, and mean- Finance Bureau head to deputy director in the Leaders in Development program tee on Tax and Fiscal Policy. Accion Nacional for local deputy of my tops in teaching, research, and commu- Office of the Deputy Attorney General in between states and the federal govern- ing than just words alone. Blurtt allows state — San Luis Potosí. Many of my general of the Ethiopian Revenue and the U.S. Department of Justice. “I hap- in June 2009. “At the moment I am Takehiko Imai hksee moved on to Rio nity service that will impact positively on ment on health reform, and closely you to create memes similar to the pop- legislative proposals are based on the Customs Authority. pily see a number of hks classmates in designated as minister to the Embassy de Janeiro in July, starting a new assign- the lives of all stakeholders. I would examines the 2006 Massachusetts ular and viral “Texts from Hillary Clinton” academic and personal experience I had and around Washington.” of Uruguay to the Holy See — Vatican. ment to boost infrastructure projects. Mihai Tudorancea hksee announces appreciate alumni support for, and health care reform law. With an intro- in under a minute right from your phone. at Harvard Kennedy School of Govern- Warm regards.” “Lots of chance for me to implement the that in May his company celebrated its information on, exchange programs and Jen Haugh mpa formed Haugh Commu- duction by Harvard Medical School Dean The company hopes politicos will learn ment Executive Education.” takeaways from ime 2010 at hks!” fifth anniversary. “In this short period of scholarships that will help us develop nications, a writing and editing service Kirankumar Topudurti hksee has Jeffrey Flier, the book drew praise from and use the app to express how they Will McDonald mc/mpa returned to the time we have succeeded in implement- the capacity of members of the faculty.” that helps students with academic been selected for the U.S. Army Corps The Wall Street Journal, syndicated really feel about the political landscape Steven King hksee was recently UK and is currently director of UK public ing local financial analysis and reporting papers and job-seekers with résumés of Engineers Level 4 Leadership columnist Cal Thomas, and other or their own lives. selected to be the U.S. Department David Bray hksee has been named the for Romanian municipalities and in lead Senior National Intelligence Service and cover letters, in 2011. In the fall,

54 harvard kennedy school 55 :: CLASSNOTES | summer 2012 | www.hks.harvard.edu/alumni she will begin a master in design of the president or executive secretary. States (hhcri.org). Mark continues to Dean’s Council Sean M. Rowland mc/mpa 1997 MEMBERS Nada Simon Joseph D. Roxe Malvika Singh studies program at the Harvard Gradu- Eduardo lives in Mexico City with his work for Cargill, Inc., where he was In Memoriam Peter L. Malkin, chair Carla Abourjeily Charles Rozwat mc/mpa 2010 Valerie C. Sorbie Tomas Uribe Mosquera hks 1985 Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, Maha Al Juffali-Ghandour ate School of Design to perform research wife and two children. recently promoted to commercial man- David M. Rubenstein Pernille Spiers-Lopez vice chair Sharon L. Allen on the combination of public art and ager — institutional marketing, working Gene Owens hks 1991 Sean C. Rush mc/mpa 2007 Lois F. Stark John Reed hksee writes, “Classmates, Geraldine Acuña mpp 1996 Wendy D. Appelbaum hksee 2003 Thomas Stanger mpa 1998 Vincent J. Ryan Liora Sternberg wind energy. with pension funds, endowments, and Elena Ambrosiadou Barbara J. Beck just checking the system to make sure Mohammad Safadi Fredericka O. Stevenson foundations to help them meet their Christine Weeks mpp 2011 Shigeru Aoi Clare F. Beckton mc/mpa 2005 Asim Keskin mpa/id was appointed we can engage in the transformation Paul Sagan Camelia Sucu Thomas C. Barry Stephanie K. Bell-Rose mpa 1984 investment objectives. Kim Samuel-Johnson Vickie K. Sullivan as deputy general director of iskur of sharing.” Robert L. Beal Nicoletta Bernardi Ralph L. Schlosstein Ellen S. Susman Robert A. Belfer Carol L. Bernick (Turkey’s public employment agency) Eduard Vallory hksee writes, “This Mark Schwartz mpp 1979 Mary Green Swig Rick Rhodes hksee recently assumed Steven J. Berger Donna L. Block in March 2012. April, Palgrave Macmillan published my Andrew M. Sieg mpp 1992 Robin Talbert a new role as administrator for the Office James L. Bildner mc/mpa 2011 Susan Bogart David M. Silfen Davia B. Temin book World Scouting: Educating for Scott M. Black Cecilia G. Boone Kevin Knutson hksee has been hired of Rural Affairs at the Texas Department Steven J. Simmons Linda Kaplan Thaler Global Citizenship (worldscouting- Mary M. Boies Maria E. Brennan as the regional vice president for man- of Agriculture in Austin, Texas. Gabriela A. Smith mpa 1991 Lynn B. Thoman Joseph F. Campbell mpp 1978 Kim R. Brizzolara thebook.net). The contributions of the Carl-Henric Svanberg Kelly Thompson agement at Partners, Inc., a municipal Richard E. Cavanagh Maxine H. Burton Aaron Scheinberg mpa/id is very scout movement to the ngo world are Gabriel Sunshine Emily Tong Cecilia Chan Mary K. Carrington government consulting firm specializing Christen Sveaas Beatrice Trussardi hksee 2007 excited to have recently joined the veter- very relevant, as I explained on the pro- Timothy C. Collins Deborah G. Carstens in operations improvement, strategic Anthony Tamer Kathleen M. Valenti ans’ nonprofit,T he Mission Continues Anthony P. Conza Joan F. Chrestay hksee 2004 gram Strategic Management for Leaders A. Alfred Taubman Lauren J. Wachtler planning, service sharing, financial Jamie A. Cooper-Hohn mpa 1994 Kathy Cloninger (missioncontinues.org), as the new of Non-Governmental Organizations. Sidney Topol Deidra J. Wager planning/budgeting, performance Howard E. Cox Jr. Linda C. Coughlin director of strategy and research. Marvin S. Traub Janet C. Walkow I am glad to be able to share this news Jorge A. del Calvo mpp 1981 Laurie Cunnington management, and process improve- Donald Y. Tsang mc/mpa 1982 Claudia Walters with you all!” James A. DeNaut mpa 1989 Darlene Daggett ment. He will oversee client relations Suat Seyitoglu hksee writes that he Agâh U˘gur Elise Walton Bharat Desai Cecile R. de Jongh Enzo Viscusi Celeste R. Warren and project management for the east- was born in 1972 and graduated from Glenn Dubin Cristina de Manuel Keenoy Brooke N. Wade Marie C. Wilson the Public Administration department of Anne Finucane Joanne Downey ern half of the United States from the t 2012 Malcolm H. Wiener Ellen Wingard Zachary A. Friedman mpp 2004 Sonnie Dockser firm’s Cincinnati office. Gazi Üniversity of Ankara in 1996. He Dorothy S. Zinberg Erin Wolf Victor Perez Centeno hksee is presi- Enrique Garcia Lauren Embrey worked in the Health Ministry for eight Constantinos A. Zombanakis Katherine Majzoub mpp has, since dent of the World Network of Young Clifford Gundle Ivelisse R. Estrada years and as district governor for five mpa 1988 Stacy G. Fisher HKS Alumni Board graduating, been working with hms Leaders and Entrepreneurs (wnyle.org), E. James Hahn years in various Turkish cities. Over the James W. Harpel Janie M. Fong of Directors Professor Ted Kaptchuk to launch the where he continues to champion the Women’s Carolee Friedlander past five years, he has been working as Jane Hartley Program in Placebo Studies and the implementation of innovative entrepre- Alan G. Hassenfeld Leadership Board Carol Fulp EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE a deputy governor in Turkey. He took Pamela F. Gallin Therapeutic Encounter, an interdisciplin- neurship and leadership development Ken Hersh Wendy Pangburn courses from National Security Aca- John D. Incledon EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Denise J. Gatling mc/mpa 1986, chair ary network of scientists, scholars, and programs with focus on youth and demia of Turkish War Colleges in 2001 Tasso Jereissati Barbara Annis, chair Sandra V. Gooch Poranee “Pam” Kingpetcharat clinicians drawn from across Harvard women in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Haifa F. Al Kaylani, Sheila T. Harrell mpa/id 2005, vice chair and enrolled in Management School of James A. Johnson University who are committed to examin- Americas. Recently, Victor was elected Nicholas Josefowitz international vice chair Kathy Harris Jorge Jaramillo Sheffield University of UK in 2002.S oon Peggy A. Traub, treasurer Linda W. Hart hksee 2010, 2012, secretary ing the biological basis of the placebo chairman of the World Conference of Thomas Kalaris after returning to Turkey, he took his Joseph E. Kasputys Loreen J. Arbus Poppy Holzworth Douglas A. Levine response and the implications of medical Young Leaders and Entrepreneurs (wnyl- Beth Jacobs master’s degree from the Political Sci- John F. Keane Sr. Roxanne M. Cason hksee 2002 mpa 2008, member at large ritual, the patient-provider relationship, eworldconference.org), and as such has Marilyn T. Keane Michelle Gadsden-Williams Janis L. Jones ences Department of Ankara University MEMBERS set an ambitious worthy mission: to George A. Kellner Maureen Gaffney hksee 2002 Laurie McDonald Jonsson cultural context, and the power of Gayane Afrikian mc/mpa 2005 in 2006. As a member of Transatlantic Nemir A. Kirdar Jean M. Grant hksee 2003 hksee 2002 imagination, trust, and hope in the influence positively the life of 100 mil- Marilyn Averill mc/mpa 2000 Latifa Kosta Patricia S. Harris Fawziah Abdul Karim Network 2020, he participated in the lion youth worldwide by 2020. Rudy N. Brioché mpp 2000 healing process. “I will be extending George Kounelakis Dana Hollinger Stacey Keare mpp 1994 Global Young Leaders Forum in Ireland James Carras mc/mpa 1980 Edward M. Lamont Jr. Renee E. LaBran Sheila Klehm my stay in the Boston area to begin Clarence Ichwekeleza hksee writes, Cathryn Cluver mpa 2010 (2008) and Chicago (2010). Prior to Nicholas W. Lazares Francine LeFrak Patricia O. Kouba Harvard Medical School in the fall and Téa Collins mpa 2005 entering Harvard Kennedy School, he “Just saying hi for now and keeping Brandt C. Louie Neena S. Mehta hksee 2002 Toni Holt Kramer Hien Dao mpp 2007 welcome returning visitors in exchange connected.” Nicholas C. Lovegrove mpp 1982 Carol Perrin Roelfien A. Kuijpers also attended the Young Professional Paul D. Hodge for stories of life beyond Beantown.” Andrónico Lukšic´ Lara J. Warner Jacqueline L. Landry Summit program of German Marshal mc/mpa 2000, haa Liaison Mark Kelly hksee writes, “Already this Yoko Makino mc/mpa 1999 Dianne Laurance CORPORATE MEMBERS Kyle Kimball mpp 1998 Terence Meehan mpa is in his first Fund (gmfus) in March 2011 in Brussels. George W. Mallinckrodt Barbara F. Lee year has felt like 12 months squashed Janice B. Howroyd | Act•1 Alison A. Loat mpp 2004 W. A. Manoukian Robin Leeds year of a phd program in public adminis- As one of his most important experi- into three. Completing the Governance Personnel Services Kate F. Mullally mpa 1998 James B. Metzger Renee B. Levow tration and policy at Rockefeller College, ences, he received a certificate from the Mary Stoddart | Best Buy Yasmin Padamsee mc/mpa 2008 as Leadership Exec Ed course was an Anthony P. Morris Yanchun Li Eileen Foley and Shana L. Teal Pennebaker mpp 2008 suny at Albany. His research focuses program of Public Leaders in Southeast excellent opportunity to step back to Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Carol A. Locke Warshaw | bny Mellon Wealth Greg A. Rosenbaum on the organization of the conservative Europe of Harvard Kennedy School on mc/mpa 1982 Ann W. Lovell reflect on governance. But my work in Management mpp 1977, haa Liaison Sharmin Mossavar-Rahmani Paola Lukšić movement in the United States. June 2011 in Greece. developing countries did not stop. So Meghan FitzGerald and Pradeep Singh mpa 1991 Marilyn C. Nelson Seraina Maag hksee 2009 Aida Sabo | Cardinal Health Vanessa Tantillo mpp 2009 hksee is moving to Hong hksee writes, “I am while completing the course I still trav- Christian L. Oberbeck Julianne Malveaux Anna Molero Laura Shaw Specialty Solutions Juan Verde mpp 1998 Marvin E. Odum Florine Mark Kong to pursue a Global mba at hkust, moving from hqda, G-8 after accepting a eled to more than 10 countries. Thank Jacqueline P. Kane | Jacquelyne K. Weatherspoon Idan Ofer Ellen McLaughlin hksee 2002 goodness for the internet!” The Clorox Company mc/mpa 1991, haa Liaison first best in Asia and sixth best world- position as the Army Medical Command Nelson Ortiz mc/mpa 1983 Carol Bailey Medwell Michelle Gadsden-Williams and wide, according to The Financial Times. chief of the Manpower Documentation Minnie R. Osmeña mc/mpa, hksee Louise Messara Philip Mainga hksee writes, “Driving Lara J. Warner | Credit Suisse Stephen G. Pagliuca Ellen Mignoni Branch. Effective May 7, 2012 I will be Government Performance was the great Mechthilde Maier and Carola Tariq Parvez hksee was in Phuket Derwin J. Pereira mc/mpa 2006 Precious Moloi-Motsepe working for the Army medcom in San Wahl | Deutsche Telekom recently as an instructor in an interpol course that changed my thinking at hks. Richard L. Plepler Ellen J. Moore Jan Babiak and Beth A. Brooke | Antonio, Texas. I hope 2012 is as fruitful Problem-solving tactics and strategies Thierry G. Porté Barbara Morrison training workshop for counterterrorism Ernst & Young for all my former classmates!” Jerome L. Rappaport mpa 1963 Marilyn C. Nelson experts from different countries. was my great take. Keep it up, hks.” Suzanne M. McCarron and Beth Ramzy Rasamny Maria Nieradka Snyder | ExxonMobil Corporation “An excellent program which Mark Tracy mc/mpa was recently David K. Richards Gun Nowak Ayoka Mopelola Olusakin hksee Graciela Meibar | Mattel Inc. James E. Rogers Jr. Anna Ouroumian hksee 2003 enhanced global police connectivity elected to the board of directors of writes, “Hi everyone! I enjoyed our inter- Patricia S. 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56 harvard kennedy school 57 ways and r on the web means http://ken.sc/definition_citizen Ash’s Vision

“After 200 years we’re tempted to conclude that are largely expended dealing with particular governance deal with whether, to what extent, we’ve found ‘the answer’ to human governance, governmental programs, activities or legislation, in whom, and how to invest the powers of govern- not only for ourselves but for the world. Yet, in or the presumed need for them. Yet these issues ment so that they can be applied effectively and the annals of history many other ‘answers’ have are transitory. They pass through the ‘system’; consistent with the principles of democracy. come and gone. If this constitutional democracy they are the fodder for the workings of democracy “The ‘machinery’ that does the processing, is to be truly the long-term answer, least of all and its governance mechanisms. Not that so to speak, needs as much intellectual attention should we take it for granted. On the historical they aren’t important; they are among the end as does the subject matter being discussed. And scale, it is still in its infant and fragile stage. products of a working democracy. that is especially so at this time in history.” “Democracy and its governance need ‘Or, viewed with a more compelling metaphor, From a memo written by Roy Ash in 1999, continual attention. The academic and other debates about governmental programs and legis- t setting out his thoughts on what intellectual intellectual communities are probably more lation struggle with where and to what end ground an academic center studying democracy engaged than at any time in the past thinking to apply government authority (power). should seize. about governmental matters. But such efforts Alternatively, debates about democracy and

His uncanny ability with numbers helped him quickly rise in the ranks, becoming bookkeeper, teller, and operations officer Joseph Nye: “Roy was before the Second World War changed the direction of his life. committed to the idea of Joining the Army Air Force as a private in 1942, he entered the good governance and making our democracy work Statistical Control Unit — the legendary home to famous “whiz better. He matched this kids” like Robert McNamara, who would become the president commitment with a of Ford and the U.S. secretary of defense, and Charles “Tex” generosity of spirit that helped to create the Ash Thornton, who would become Ash’s business partner — and Institute. I was fortunate as was a captain by the time the war ended. dean to have a chance to Ash was admitted to Harvard Business School without an work with such a fine man.” Roy Ash, left, and Lila Ash, undergraduate degree and graduated first in his class. center, with Joseph Nye, After stints with Bank of America (this time as chief right, at the center’s statistician) and Hughes Aircraft, Ash struck out with Thornton founding in 2003. Definition of Citizen on their own, taking a $1.5 million loan to buy a small electronics company and turn it into what would become Litton Industries, a multi-billion-dollar conglomerate. which the American people and their leaders have adapted With President Nixon’s election in 1968, Ash was called to the country’s governance to the inevitable flow of changing Washington to chair the Presidential Advisory Council on circumstances and needs, all the while maintaining and Roy Ash grew up during “He was a perfect definition of what Executive Organization, later known as the Ash Commission. reinforcing the basic tenets of democracy.” Roy Ash, right, with the Great Depression and went to Caspar Weinberger you’d want a citizen to be,” said Steven The panel was instrumental in the creation of the Office of The center has worked hard to do just that. work after high school. He surged on budget day, 1974, Goldsmith, Dan Paul Professor of Practice Management and Budget, which Ash subsequently led, and also “We are deeply grateful for the support Roy and Lila Ash to success as a businessman in the year Ash became who worked closely with Ash in thinking the Environmental Protection Agency, the Nuclear Regulatory provided to the Ash Center,” said Anthony Saich, director of the Roy Ash director of the the great optimism that defined Office of Management about what shape the Ash Center could Commission, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ash Center. “Without their foresight and direction, the center 1918–2011 America’s postwar boom. And and Budget. take. “He served his government. He Administration. As the Watergate scandal consumed the White would never have come to fruition as an energetic hub of he was called to public service, participated in the marketplace in an House and sent the United States into constitutional convulsions, academic scholarship on democracy, bridging the gap between helping create a new vision for enormously successful way. He gave back both personally and Ash “became a surrogate president, administering the Nixon the ideal of democracy and the imperfect practice of its real-world government management. in terms of investments. And he thought very seriously about policies,” The New York Times reported in 1974. So perhaps it was incarnations around the world.” Yet for all the personal success how to leave a legacy for the country.” appropriate that he would eventually look to the Kennedy School. “Roy Ash was a man of vision, of action and reflection,” said that he achieved, Roy Ash saw Ash was born in Los Angeles in 1918. He started working as a In the late 1990s, according to the Ash Center’s executive Dean David Ellwood at the time of his death. “Early on, he saw the democracy as a fragile thing. The mission he embarked on with cash collection messenger for Bank of America after graduating director, Marty Mauzy, Harvard President Neil Rudenstine risks and challenges associated with making democracy work, and the Kennedy School, through the founding of what is now the from high school at 16. (He would eventually become a board suggested to Ash that the Kennedy School would be a natural his inspiration, his hard work, and his financial support directly Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, was to member.) fit for his interests. But Ash was interested in democracy writ led to the Ash Center’s deep and abiding focus on democracy and strengthen that unique form of government. “Partly because my youth and height made me acutely shy, large. Although he recognized the importance of effective gover- democratic institutions across the world. He was a very great man. Ash died last December at his home in Los Angeles. He was 93 partly because my parents didn’t insist on college, I passed up nance, his concern was with the “system” of democracy itself. We will aspire to represent and advance the vision and values and had been suffering from Parkinson’s disease. With his passing, further studies and began looking for work,” Ash said in an In a memo on the Ash Center, he titled one section embodied in his life for generations to come.” the Kennedy School lost one of its great supporters and America interview with the Los Angeles Times in 1977. “A Retrospective View from 2052.” Ash is survived by his wife, Lila; sons Charles, James, and lost a great citizen. “Success will have been achieved,” Ash wrote, “if 50 years from Robert; daughters Loretta Danko and Marilyn Hanna; nine

ated press o c i ated ass stewart martha now the [Ash Center] will have contributed . . . to the wisdom with grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. s RDO

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A graduate of Harvard Why are you so involved College and Harvard Kennedy with Harvard Kennedy School School, Geraldine has served as today? What unites all hks a governmental consultant in her alumni is the desire to make the b native Philippines, where she world a better place — and I worked on projects for the don’t know where you can find nation’s Supreme Court, the that anywhere else. I love the Senate president’s office, and spirit and the mission of the the Department of Trade and school. Dean Ellwood is provid- a Industry. She decided to pursue ing positive leadership and her JD (at Columbia Law School) direction, and I’m very excited because, as she puts it, “I about where the Kennedy School thought it could help me be is heading. The Alumni Office is more effective. The law just definitely looking for ways for intrigued me.” alumni to plug back in and to be c more involved. I think seeking to How are you able to fulfill engage and opening the doors your passion for public to all alumni is important; every- service while working in the body has a part to play in their private sector? Of course, most communities. So many alumni of us who apply to hks aspire to are working on incredible initia- enter a public service profession. tives and we’d like to celebrate Clearly, right now I’m in the pri- them. The energy and talent they vate sector, but it’s so fluid these d can bring back to the school is days—so just because some amazing. That’s what I am alumni are not working in gov- currently committed to doing— ernment right now, or in the pub- helping the school facilitate the lic sector, doesn’t mean we are involvement of alumni and not fulfilling what we wanted to remind them why they came accomplish when we entered to the Kennedy School in the hks. There are so many forms of first place. g public service, including giving e back financially.S o if you are in Geraldine Acuña the private sector now, you can, f for example, help provide finan-

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