Your Next Big Idea Is Here

Your Next Big Idea Is Here

Your next big idea is here. harris.uchicago.edu Welcome to the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. What sets the University of Chicago apart? We lead with a focus on inquiry and a commitment to impact. We empower individuals to challenge conventional thinking in pursuit of original ideas. UChicago research has led to revolutionary theories of economics and tools to effect social change. In all we do, we are driven to dig deeper, push further, and ask bigger questions—and to leverage our knowledge to enrich all human life. 92 140+ 100+ Nobel Laureates affiliated Interdisciplinary Research Programs, initiatives, with the University, including Centers and Institutes and partnerships in six Nobel Prize winners currently over 48 nations and on faculty at UChicago on every continent 1 1 The University of Chicago CHICAGO HIGHLIGHTS American Writers Museum The 606 / Bloomingdale Trail Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art Chicago is: The Windy City. Bahá’í Temple The City of Big Shoulders. The Plant vertical farm The City that Works. Design Museum of Chicago National Museum of Mexican Art Chicago is known by many names Garfield Park Conservatory but its spirit is singular. One of River cruise architecture tours The Second City comedy club the great American cities and the largest city in the Midwest, TO-DO LIST Chicago offers all the perks of an Cubs or White Sox game international metropolis. Lakefront beach barbecue Free music and movies in Millennium Park And the University of Chicago campus, with its dramatic mixture of Gothic and Postmodern Live jazz at the Green Mill architecture, its world-famous Frank Lloyd Wright Free contemporary art exhibitions home, quirky student-run cafés, and more Nobel at Hyde Park Art Center Prize winners than just about anywhere else in Talks and exhibitions at the DuSable the world, is the setting for your next big idea. Museum for African American History 2 The University of Chicago Harris Public Policy 2 The Keller Center is setting the standard for SUSTAINABLE DESIGN CERTIFICATIONS SUSTAINABLE DESIGN on UChicago’s campus and among policy schools around the globe, reflecting Harris’ commitment to policy impact and civic engagement while accommodating the School’s substantial growth. PETAL CERTIFIED The Keller Center: UChicago’s Home of Public Policy Now more than ever, in every sector, the world needs truth-seekers, thoughtful leaders, and policy innovators. Opened in 2019, the Keller Center offers a world-class destination for students, scholars, and civic leaders from around the globe to come together in fostering collaboration, catalyzing idea exchange, facilitating innovative policy research, and empowering people to drive social impact in Chicago and around the world. 3 The University of Chicago Turn your passion for doing good into measurable social impact. For more than 30 years, the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy has been a driving force for rigorous thinking and evidence-based approaches to address the world’s most important problems. Harris Fast Facts 54 18 #3 full-time centers, institutes, ranked for faculty members and urban labs policy analysis* 9 3,500+ 12 degree programs, alumni certificate plus joint degrees worldwide programs *U.S. News & World Report, 2019 4 The University of Chicago Interested in a specific policy field? We’ve got you covered. 5 The University of Chicago From global conflict to urban development, Harris and the University of Chicago offer a path for you to pursue whichever field you want to explore. You’ll work with our world-class faculty whose innovative research is driving change every day. Students enrolled in the Master of Public Policy program can take up to six electives outside of Harris —truly seizing all that UChicago has to offer. Specialized certificate programs enable you to engage more deeply with a topic of interest and demonstrate expertise in a policy area to employers. Top Policy Areas ECONOMIC & FISCAL HEALTH FINANCE & TRADE ENERGY “The reason I came to Chicago, and Harris in particular, is because this is the richest, densest, most incredible intellectual community in the world. I’ve taught or gone to some of the best universities on the planet, and I’ve never been anywhere like this before.” CHRIS BLATTMAN Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies “By studying public policy, you can equip yourself with the necessary tools and methods to analyze important issues and then come up with effective solutions for the critical problems that face society today.” ANJALI ADUKIA Assistant Professor 6 The University of Chicago Child Development Data Science and Education and Data Analytics The Center for Human Potential and Public Policy A collaboration between Harris and the (CHPPP) aims to understand the forces driving Computation Institute, the Center for Data Science inequality of opportunity for children and to and Public Policy brings together experts in data develop interventions to close the gaps in cognitive science and public policy to conduct research and and non-cognitive skills between economically create computational and data-driven solutions to advantaged and disadvantaged children. large-scale social problems. The Behavioral Insights and Parenting Lab at The Policy Analytics Initiative promotes CHPPP studies the parental investments that data-informed policy decision-making and aims to promote children’s success and how behavioral accelerate the use of data analytics in public policy. tools can leverage these investments to increase their return. The Certificate in Data Analytics enables you to harness the power of machine learning and acquire sought-after skills. NOTABLE FACULTY Steven Durlauf Steans Professor in Educational Policy NOTABLE FACULTY Dan Black Ariel Kalil Professor Director of the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy; Co-Director, Behavioral Insights Brett Goldstein and Parenting (BIP) Lab Senior Fellow, Special Advisor for Urban Science; Senior Advisor to The Pearson Institute Susan Mayer Professor Emeritus Guillaume Pouliot Assistant Professor ALUMNI INCLUDE Alejandra Meraz Velasco, MPP’00 ALUMNI INCLUDE Former Superintendent of Todos Pela Educação Kevin Hartman, MBA’98, MPP’98 and Consultant to State Secretariat of Education Head of Analytics, Google of São Paulo Hilarie Koplow-McAdams, AM’87 Michael Shaver, MPP’96 Venture Partner, New Enterprise Associates President and CEO, Children’s Home Society of Florida Andrew McMahon, MPP’09 Nancy Staudt, PhD’10 Partner, Ridgeline Dean, Washington University Law School Board Advisor, Dcode 7 The University of Chicago Economic Policy Energy and The Center for Economic Policy’s mission is Environmental Policy to educate students on financial markets and The Energy Policy Institute at the University of securities; show them an integrated view of how Chicago (EPIC) is an interdisciplinary research these markets interact in a general equilibrium and training institute focused on the economic and context; and give them the economic tools to social consequences of energy policies. It is a joint analyze the regulatory and legal framework in initiative of Harris Public Policy, the Social Sciences which financial markets operate. Division, and the University of Chicago Booth The Certificate in Economic Policy provides School of Business. you strong economic training, technical skills, and an understanding of financial markets. NOTABLE FACULTY Michael Greenstone Milton Friedman Professor in Economics and NOTABLE FACULTY the College; Director, Becker Friedman Institute; James Heckman Director, Energy Policy Institute at Chicago (EPIC) Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor, Economics and the College; Affiliate Professor; Koichiro Ito Director, Center for Social Program Evaluation Associate Professor Damon Jones Ryan Kellogg Associate Professor Professor; Deputy Dean for Academic Programs ALUMNI INCLUDE Robert Rosner Kandie Alter, MPP’06 William E. Wrather Distinguished Service Professor Assistant Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank in the departments of Astronomy & Astrophysics of Chicago’s Payments Policy Group and Physics; Enrico Fermi Institute María Méndez, MPP’09 ALUMNI INCLUDE Economist, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Mudassar Imran, AM’80, AM’92 (SSD) Former Sr. Energy Economist, World Bank Thomaz Srougi, MPP/MBA’04 Founder & CEO, dr.consulta (São Paulo, Brazil) David Okada, AM’93 Sr. Manager, Business Core & Finance Programs, Southern California Edison Matt Turner, AM’82 Professor of Geology at UW Madison 8 The University of Chicago Healthcare International Development The Certificate in Health Administration and Policy The Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution focuses on how to guide healthcare organizations of Global Conflicts and the Pearson Global Forum through various economic, ethical, and social issues, are the first of their kind dedicated solely to the as well as the financial demands of the complex field. study and resolution of global conflicts. The program is offered as part of the Harris Public The Certificate in International Development, Policy degree through the UChicago School of offered with The Pearson Institute, focuses on Social Service Administration’s Graduate Program comparative development, political economy, in Health Administration and Policy (GPHAP). and applied methodology. There is an optional concentration in global health and the program includes a pathway to a paid The Certificate in Global Conflict Studies, offered summer internship. with The Pearson Institute,

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