Dr. John Donahue  

John "Jack" Donahue is currently Executive Director of Visions of Governance for the Twenty-First Century, a  research program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University.  He is also the Faculty Chair for the Kearns Program on Business, Government, and Education and the Raymond Vernon Lecturer in Public Policy.

His teaching, writing, and research deal with public sector reform and the allocation of responsibilities across levels of government and between public and private sectors.   His recent books include Making Washington Work:  Tales of Innovation in the Federal Government (Brookings, 1999), an edited volume profiling federal winners of the Innovations in American Government Award, as well as Disunited States (Basic, 1997) and Hazardous Crosscurrents: Confronting Inequality as Government Shifts Toward the States (Twentieth Century Fund, 1999), which explor the tilt toward the separate states in the American government's center of gravity.  Donahue is also the author of The Privatization Decision (published in five languages) and the co-author (with Robert B. Reich) of New Deals: The Chrysler Revival and the American System..

From 1993-95 Donahue served in the Clinton Administration, first as an assistant secretary then as counselor to the secratary of labor, where he helped to frame Administration positions on job training reform, tax preferences for postsecondary education, and the hiring of disadvantaged workers.  Donahue has been a consultant to the World Bank, the National Economic Council, and Price Waterhouse, and severs as an advisor or trustee for several non-profit organizations.  He and his wife, Maggie Pax, have two young children, Kate and Ben.