Joseph
P. Kalt
Joseph P.
Kalt is the Ford Foundation Professor of International
Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School
of Government at Harvard University . Along with
Profs. Stephen Cornell and Manley Begay of The University
of Arizona, he directs the Harvard Project on American
Indian Economic Development. In addition, he is
the author of numerous studies on economic development
and nation building in Indian Country, co-editor
(with Stephen Cornell) of What Can Tribes Do?
Strategies and Institutions in American Indian Economic
Development , and a principle author of the
Harvard Project's The State of the Native Nations
. Since 1987, the Harvard Project has worked
for and with tribes and tribal organizations, providing
research, advisory services, and leadership education
on issues of nation building. Together with the
University of Arizona 's Native Nations Institute
for Leadership, Management, and Policy, the Harvard
Project has formed The Partnership for Native Nation
Building .
Since 2005,
Prof. Kalt has been a visiting professor at The
University of Arizona's Eller College of Management.
He is also faculty chair for nation building programs
at the Native Nations Institute. Professor Kalt
has served as the faculty chair of the Harvard University
Native American Program, as well as the Kennedy
School 's Academic Dean for Research, chair of degree
programs, chair of Ph.D. programs, and chair of
the economics and quantitative methods section.
He is a member of the Board of Trustees of The Communications
Institute. He served as advisor to Canada 's Royal
Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, a commissioner
on the President's Commission on Aviation Safety,
and on the Steering Committee of the National Park
Service's National Parks for the 21st Century.
Professor
Kalt's work in Indian Country includes serving as
mediator in the negotiation of the historic agreement
which settled endangered species disputes between
the White Mountain Apache Tribe and the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service and which resulted in the Executive
Order providing for tribal assumption of authority
in natural resource matters. Along with Prof. Keith
Allred, Prof. Kalt also mediated the long-standing
jurisdictional dispute between the Nez Perce Tribe
and the North Central Idaho Jurisdictional Alliance
of cities and counties. Prof. Kalt has testified
as an expert on American Indian policy and economics
in federal and tribal courts, and before the United
States Congress. He is a trustee of the White Mountain
Apache Tribe's Fort Apache Heritage Foundation,
and has represented various tribes in the negotiation
of contracts, the rewriting of tribal constitutions,
the reform of tribal governments, the design of
tribal enterprises, and the securing of compensation
for treaty violations and land confiscation. In
2005, Professor Kalt received the National Center
for American Indian Enterprise Development's First
American Leadership Award for his contributions
to research in public policy affecting Native peoples.
Prof. Kalt
is a native of Tucson , Arizona . He and his wife,
Judy Gans, have two children. He received his Ph.D.
(1980) and M.A. (1977) in Economics from the University
of California at Los Angeles , and his B.A. (1973)
in Economics from Stanford University .
Contact:
Tel. (617) 495-4966
Email: joe_kalt@harvard.edu
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