The Program Faculty Team
This program is led by full-time Harvard University faculty members, as well as adjunct lecturers and guest speakers, who have been chosen for their issue expertise and their proven ability to teach senior executives. Our team has a firsthand knowledge of the practical problems facing state and local executives and a deep understanding of the skills and knowledge needed to address those challenges.
William C. Apgar Jr., Lecturer in Public Policy, returned to the Kennedy School after leave to serve as Assistant Secretary of Housing at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). He is also a Senior Scholar at Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies where he leads a research effort on accessing capital for community development. He also coordinates the Joint Center's research on home remodeling activity and writes the biannual report of the Center's Remodeling Futures Program. Active in community affairs, he is a founding member of the board of Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH), Inc., a nonprofit organization that acquires, rehabilitates, owns, and manages housing affordable to the nation's low- and moderate-income households.
Linda Kaboolian is a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government. Her research and teaching focus on multi-stakeholder problem solving processes around workplace and public policy issues. She works with labor, management and community groups around improved organizational performance and service to diverse communities. She has a number of projects in public education and the water industry. Her new book, Win-Win Labor-Management Collaboration in Education was published this year. She co-authored Working Better Together: A Practical Guide for Union Leaders, Elected Officials and Managers and The Concord Handbook distilling several years of fieldwork about organizations that bridge racial, ethnic, and class divides. While she now serves as a neutral mediator, she was an elected officer and chief bargainer of a union, and a senior manager in the federal government. She has also served in the state and local and non-profit sectors. Kaboolian received her PhD from the University of Michigan.
Ron David has pursued a multi-path career in medical, governmental and most recently, theological service. He was chief resident in pediatrics at the Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh, served as a fellow in neonatal-pediatric medicine at Magee Women's Hospital, and was on the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Medicine. He later served as Chief Medical Officer for the D.C. Health and Hospitals Public Benefit Corporation. In public service, Dr. David was Deputy and later acting Secretary of Health for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. A concern for health and healing in human communities has been the common thread running through his clinical, teaching, research and administrative experiences. He has a particular interest in the dialectic of women’s health, power and politics; and maternal and child health as it is manifested in infant mortality rates and how it is affected by public policy and civic discourse. Dr. David holds a B.A. in psychology and an M.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo and has done postgraduate training at the University of Pittsburgh and at Harvard. In 2003, he earned a Master of Divinity Degree from Virginia Theological Seminary and he is now associate chaplain at the Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
Dan Fenn is Adjunct Lecturer in Executive Programs at the Kennedy School of Government and former Director of the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, which is part of the National Archives and Records Administration. He was most recently special assistant to the Chancellor, University of Massachusetts, Boston. His earlier government experience includes service as a staff assistant to President John F. Kennedy, Commissioner and Vice-Chairman of the United States Tariff Commission, and Special Assistant to Senator Benjamin A. Smith (D) of Massachusetts. He has also served as a Selectman in his hometown of Lexington, Massachusetts. He is the author or editor of numerous books and articles.
David C. King, Associate Director of the Institute of Politics and Lecturer in Public Policy, teaches about the U.S. Congress, interest groups, and political parties. He is the author, coauthor, and coeditor of three books focusing on Congress and on public confidence in government. King joined the Kennedy School faculty in 1992 after receiving he PhD from the University of Michigan. He chairs Harvard’s Program for Newly Elected Members of the U.S. Congress. In the wake of the 2000 presidential elections, he chaired the Task Force on Election Administration on behalf of former presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. King oversees several large national surveys that explore youth attitudes about politics, and his current research is on political polarization.
Elizabeth K. Keating is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and is affiliated with the Kennedy School’s Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations and the Center for Business and Government's Regulatory Policy Program. Her research focuses on nonprofit and governmental accountability as well as financial distress. Recent articles have assessed nonprofit financial performance, nonprofit executive compensation, audits of credit unions and large nonprofit organizations, and bankruptcy risk. She has taught accounting at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, the Stern School of Business at New York University, and the Not-for-Profit Institute at Columbia University. Prior to becoming an academic, Keating ran a consulting firm serving nonprofit organizations and worked as a credit officer and research analyst on Wall Street. She is a CPA and received her PhD in management from the Sloan School of Management at MIT and her MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York University.
Marty Linsky, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, has been full-time faculty since 1982, except from 1992 to 1995 when he was Chief Secretary/Counselor to Massachusetts Governor William Weld. He teaches exclusively in the school's executive programs and chairs several of them. A graduate of Williams College and Harvard Law, Linsky has been Assistant Minority Leader of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, writer for the Boston Globe, and editor of The Real Paper. He is coauthor with Heifetz of Leadership on the Line, coauthor with Ed Grefe of The New Corporate Activism, and author of Impact: How the Press Affects Federal Policy Making.
Mark H. Moore is the Hauser Professor of Nonprofit Organizations and Faculty Director of the Hauser Center. He founded and served as chair of the Kennedy School's Committee on Executive Programs for more than a decade. His research interests are public management and leadership, civil society and community mobilization, and criminal justice policy and management. His publications include:Creating Public Value Through State Arts Agencies;Creating Public Value: Strategic Management in Government; Buy and Bust: The Effective Regulation of an Illicit Market in Heroin; Dangerous Offenders: The Elusive Targets of Justice;From Children to Citizens: The Mandate for Juvenile Justice; and Beyond 911: A New Era for Policing. Moore's work focuses on the ways in which leaders of public organizations can engage communities in supporting and legitimitizing their work and in the role that value commitments play in enabling leadership in public sector enterprises.
Julie Wilson is the Harry S. Kahn Senior Lecturer in Social Policy. She is also Director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, Associate Academic Dean, and Secretary of the Kennedy School. She is interested in poverty policy, family policy, and urban race relations. Among her recent projects are several case studies on the historical development of poor neighborhoods and studies on strategies for strengthening families’ capacities to parent. Wilson spent three years at the New York State Department of Social Services, where she directed the Office of Program Planning, Analysis, and Development.
