Alan A. Altshuler, former Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, is Ruth and Frank Stanton Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at Harvard University and Co-Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government and the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston. He has been Dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration at New York University, Professor of Political Science and Urban Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Secretary of Transportation for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. His books include The City Planning Process; Community Control; The Urban Transportation System; The Future of the Automobile; Regulation for Revenue; Governance and Opportunity in Metropolitan America; and Mega-Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment. Altshuler received his BA from Cornell University and his MA and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

David Barron is an Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School where he researches local government law. He is the author, among other works, of "Reclaiming Home Rule," which appeared in the June 2003 issue of the Harvard Law Review. He is the co-author, with Gerald Frug and Richard T. Ford, of a casebook on the subject, Local Government Law (West Publishing Company, 2001, third edition), and recently served as chair of the State and Local Government Section of the American Association of Law Schools. He is a former law clerk to Justice John Paul Stevens of the United States Supreme Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Robert D. Behn, Lecturer in Public Policy, is Faculty Chair of the school's executive program, Driving Government Performance: Leadership Strategies that Produce Results. Behn specializes in governance, leadership, and the management of large public agencies and conducts custom-designed executive programs for public agencies. He has served on the staff of Governor Francis W. Sargent of Massachusetts, as a scholar in residence with the Council for Excellence in Government, and on the faculty of the Harvard Business School and Duke University's Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy. Behn is the author of Rethinking Democratic Accountability and Leadership Counts: Lessons for Public Managers. His most recent publication is Performance Leadership: 11 Better Practices That Can Ratchet Up Performance. Behn holds a BS in physics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a PhD in decision and control from Harvard. He is the author of Bob Behn's Public Management Report.

Linda J. Bilmes teaches budgeting and public finance at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Her current research topics include the cost of the Iraq war, federal workforce reform, and public pension liabilities. She is the author "Soldiers Returning From Iraq and Afghanistan: The Long-term Costs of Providing Veterans Medical Care and Disability Benefits". In 2006, she co-authored with Joseph E. Stiglitz "Encore: Iraq Hemorrhage," Milken Institute Review (Fourth Quarter) and "The Economic Costs of the Iraq War: An Appraisal Three Years After the Beginning of the Conflict". During the Clinton administration, she served as Chief Financial Officer and as Assistant Secretary for Management and Budget at the U.S. Department of Commerce. Previously, she spent 10 years with the Boston Consulting Group, where she focused on industrial finance and public sector industrial policies. Earlier in her career, Bilmes worked as a political campaign consultant for candidates in the United States and Latin America. She writes and broadcasts regularly on financial and budget issues in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Financial Times, The Atlantic and other publications. In 1998 she co-authored Gebt uns das Risiko Zuruck (Give Us Back the Risk), a best seller in Germany. Her forthcoming book (The People Factor, Brookings, January 2007) is on federal civil service reform. Bilmes holds a BA and MBA from Harvard University.

Barry Bluestone is the Stearns Trustee Professor of Political Economy and director of the Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. Before assuming this new post, Bluestone spent twelve years at the University of Massachusetts at Boston as the Frank L. Boyden Professor of Political Economy and as a Senior Fellow at the University's John W. McCormack Institute of Public Affairs. He was the founding director of U.Mass.-Boston's Ph.D. Program in Public Policy. As a political economist, Bluestone has written widely in the areas of income distribution, business and industrial policy, labor-management relations, higher education finance, and urban and regional economic development. He contributes regularly to academic, as well as popular journals, and is the author of nine books. The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space, and Economic Change in an American Metropolis, published by the Russell Sage Foundation, is the culmination of nearly five years of research on the new Boston economy. It recounts the industrial and demographic revolution in post-World War II Boston and its impact on racial and ethnic attitudes, residential segregation, and the labor market success of whites, blacks, and Latinos.

Anthony A. Braga, Lecturer in Public Policy, is Senior Research Associate in the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy. His research focuses on working with criminal justice agencies to develop strategic crime-prevention strategies to deal with urban problems such as firearms violence, street-level drug markets, and violent crime hot spots. He has served as a consultant on these issues to the Rand Corporation; National Academy of Sciences; U.S. Department of Justice; U.S. Department of the Treasury; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms; Boston Police Department; New York Police Department; and other state and local law enforcement agencies. He received his MPA from Harvard University and his PhD in criminal justice from Rutgers University.

Karl E. Case is the Katherine Coman and A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics at Wellesley College, where he has taught for 29 years. He is also a founding partner in the real estate research firm of Case Shiller Weiss, and serves as a member of the Boards of Directors of the Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation (MGIC), Century Bank, and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. He is a Director of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives. For the last 20 years, Professor Case’s research has focused on real estate markets and prices, and he has authored several studies that attempt to isolate the causes and consequences of boom and bust cycles and their relationship to regional economic performance. He is author or co-author of five books as well as numerous articles in professional journals.

David M. Cutler is the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics in the Harvard Department of Economics and Kennedy School of Government, and he also serves as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for Social Sciences. His work in health economics and public economics has earned him significant academic and public acclaim. He served on the Council of Economic Advisers and the National Economic Council during the Clinton administration, advised the presidential campaigns of Bill Bradley and John Kerry, and has held positions with the National Institutes of Health and the National Academy of Sciences. Currently, Professor Cutler is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a member of the Institute of Medicine. He is the author of Your Money or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America’s Health Care System (Oxford University Press, 2004).

John D. Donahue is the Raymond Vernon Lecturer in Public Policy and Director of the Weil Program in Collaborative Governance. His teaching, writing, and research center on the distribution of public responsibilities across levels of government and sectors of the economy. Since 1999 he has codirected Spring Exercise, an integrative policy simulation that caps the MPP core curriculum. Donahue has written or edited 11 books, including Disunited States; The Privatization Decision (four translations); and most recently The Warping of Government Work (forthcoming). He served in the first Clinton Administration as an Assistant Secretary and then as Counselor to the Secretary of Labor. Donahue has consulted for a wide range of business and governmental organizations and serves as a trustee or advisor to several nonprofits. A native of Indiana, he holds a BA from Indiana University and an MPP and PhD from Harvard.

Ronald Ferguson, Lecturer in Public Policy, is an economist and Senior Research Associate at the Wiener Center for Social Policy. He has taught at the Kennedy School since 1983. Recent publications include several on education policy and a co-edited volume titled Urban Problems and Community Development, published by Brookings Institution Press. Ferguson participates in a variety of consulting and policy advisory activities on issues of education, employment, youth development, and urban development. These have recently included, for example, work with public school districts on racial and ethnic achievement gaps, expert testimony in school finance cases, and committees at the National Research Council dealing with educational testing, school reforms, and youth development programming. He received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and his PhD from MIT, both in economics. His household includes three boys and his wife, Helen, to whom he has been blissfully married for 26 years.

Gerald Frug is the Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Educated at the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard Law School, he worked as a Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, in Washington, D.C., and as Health Services Administrator of the City of New York, before he began teaching in 1974 at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He joined the Harvard faculty in 1981. He is the author, among other works, of City Making: Building Communities Without Building Walls (Princeton University Press, 1999). He is co-author, with David Barron and Richard T. Ford, of the casebook Local Government Law (West Publishing Company, 2001, third edition.)

Arnold M. Howitt is an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy and Executive Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government at the Kennedy School. His recent research focuses on transportation, environmental regulation, and urban physical development issues. He also is Director of a Kennedy School executive session and research program on domestic preparedness for terrorism. Howitt is the author of Managing Federalism, a study of the federal grant-in-aid system; co-author and co-editor of Perspectives on Management Capacity Building; and, among other publications, a contributor to Regulation for Revenue: The Political Economy of Land Use Exactions; Going Private; and Essays in Transportation Economics and Policy. He received his BA from Columbia University and his MA and PhD in political science from Harvard University.

Linda Kaboolian is Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government. Her research and teaching focus on multi-stakeholder problem solving processes in the workplace and around public policy issues. She works with labor and management groups around improved organizational performance and service to diverse communities. She has a number of projects in public education, water, policing, and the social services industries. She recently published The Concord Handbook distilling several years of fieldwork about organizations that bridge racial, ethnic and class divides. Professor Kaboolian received her PhD from the University of Michigan and has served in the state, federal and nonprofit sectors.

Jim Levitt is director of the Internet and Conservation Project at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. His research focuses on how communications and transportation networks have enabled dramatic shifts in land use over the course of American history, and how a new generation of networks -- the Internet and express delivery systems – is enabling further changes in how and where Americans live, work, trade, learn, play, and interact with nature. Levitt developed corporate strategy related to the emergence of the Internet and electronic commerce for Fortune 50 sized companies as a Principal at GeoPartners Research, Inc. He is active as a Director of several environmental organizations, including the Massachusetts Audubon Society and the Quebec-Labrador Foundation. Levitt is a graduate of Yale College and the Yale School of Management.

Bruce Sacerdote is an Associate Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. With Phineas Baxandall of the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, he co-wrote the Rappaport Institute Policy Brief entitled, Betting on the Future: The Economic Impact of Legalized Gambling.

Guy Stuart is an Associate Professor of Public Policy. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1994 and then worked for four years in Chicago in the field of community economic development. During this time he served as the Director of the FaithCorp Fund, a nonprofit community loan fund. At the Kennedy School he teaches courses on management and community financial institutions, which cover such topics as microfinance and credit unions. His book Discriminating Risk traces the historical origins of today's mortgage loan underwriting criteria in the United States and examines current underwriting practices. He is currently conducting research on racial and economic segregation in the United States and on microfinance and thrift cooperatives in India and Latin America.

Sam Bass Warner, Jr. is Visiting Professor of Urban History at MIT, and was formerly William Edwards Huntington Professor of History at Boston University and Jack Meyerhoff Professor of Environmental Studies at Brandeis. His many books include Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston 1870-1900, The Private City, Philadelphia in Three Periods of Its Growth, and The Urban Wilderness: A History of the American City. His new book is Greater Boston: Adapting Regional Traditions to the Present.

Julie Boatright Wilson is the Harry S. Kahn Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, Associate Academic Dean, Secretary of the Kennedy School, and Director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy. The Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy was established in the fall of 1987 as an applied research center at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. The Center conducts research and teaches courses in the policy areas of health, poverty, human services, criminal justice, education, and labor. The goal of the Center is to bring a multi-disciplinary approach to these subjects, integrating the analytical, political, and managerial perspectives essential to the development and analysis of social policy. Wilson is interested in poverty policy, family policy, and the history of urban race relations. Among her recent projects are several case studies on the historical development of poor neighborhoods, and studies on child abuse and neglect and strategies for strengthening families' capacities to parent. Prior to her work at the Wiener Center, she spent three years at the New York State Department of Social Services, where she directed the Office of Program Planning, Analysis, and Development.

Christopher Winship is the Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology at Harvard University and a research associate in Harvard’s Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. He has chaired the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Standing Committee on Public Service and the expert panel appointed by Kennedy School Dean David Ellwood to evaluate the Rappaport Institute in 2005. Prior to coming to Harvard in 1992, he was a Professor of Sociology, Statistics, and Economics at Northwestern University as well as a senior faculty research associate at the university's Institute for Policy Research. His current research interests include crime fighting in Boston, particularly the work of the Boston Ten Point Coalition, a group of black ministers who work with the Boston police to reduce youth violence, and the ways that residents of Boston and surrounding communities are involved with nonprofit groups.

Richard J. Zeckhauser is Frank Plumpton Ramsey Professor of Political Economy. Much of his conceptual research examines possibilities for democratic, decentralized allocation procedures. Many of his policy investigations explore ways to promote the health of human beings, to help markets work more effectively, and to foster informed and appropriate choices by individuals and government agencies. His joint papers in 2004 to 2005 include: Social Comparisons in Ultimatum Bargaining (Scandinavian Journal of Economics); Racial Profiling (Philosophy and Public Affairs); Informational Strategy and Regulatory Policy Making (Minnesota Law Review); How Individuals Assess and Value the Risks of Climate Change (Climatic Change); Eliciting Honest Feedback in Electronic Markets (Management Science); and Aggregation of Heterogeneous Time Preferences (Journal of Political Economics). Zeckhauser's current research projects are directed at pharmaceutical pricing, deception, and reputations, bad apples and bad bets in social policy, trust in Islamic and Western nations, information economics and Italian Renaissance art, the blending of negotiations and auctions, and collaborative undertakings between the public and private sectors.