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Homi K. Bhabha is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University, and a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities at University College, London. His book, Location of Culture, was recently reprinted as a Routledge Classic and has been translated into many languages. He has lectured extensively around the world, and most recently delivered the keynote at the Colloquium on Research and Higher Education organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and the Ralph Miliband Lecture at the London School of Economics. He has also served as a Faculty Adviser to the DAVOS World Economic Forum, and holds honorary visiting professorships at the University of Michigan and Tsinghua University, in Beijing, China.
Educated at the University of Bombay and Oxford University, Bhabha advises key arts institutions, including the Institute of Contemporary Arts London, the Whitney Museum of American Arts, New York, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He has published widely in journals and his work has also appeared in a number of collections and anthologies. He sits on a number of editorial boards and is a regular contributor to Artforum.
Bhabha is currently at work on A Measure of Dwelling, a theory of vernacular cosmopolitanism forthcoming from Harvard University Press, and The Right to Narrate, forthcoming from Columbia University Press. In addition to his numerous academic accolades, Bhabha has been profiled in such publications as Chicago magazine, the New York Times, and Newsweek, which named him one of "100 Americans for the Next Century." He has also appeared on numerous radio broadcasts on the BBC and elsewhere.
Robert O. (Bob) Blake is a career Foreign Service officer. He arrived in New Delhi in June 2003 to serve as Deputy Chief of Mission at the American Embassy in New Delhi. Blake entered the Foreign Service in 1985. He has served at the American embassies in Tunisia, Algeria, Nigeria, and Egypt. He also has held a number of positions at the State Department in Washington.
Mr. Blake earned an AB from Harvard College in 1980 and an MA in international relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in 1984. He is married to Sofia Blake. They have two daughters.
Barry R. Bloom is Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health and Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson II Professor of Public Health. He received a bachelor's degree and an honorary ScD from Amherst College, a master's degree from Harvard University, and a PhD from Rockefeller University.
Bloom is widely recognized as a scientist in the areas of infectious diseases, vaccines, and international health. He served as a consultant to the White House on international health policy from 1977 to 1978, was elected President of the American Association of Immunologists in 1984, and served as President of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology in 1985. He was a member of the National Advisory Council of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Advisory Board of the Fogarty International Center at the NIH, the U.S. National Vaccine Advisory Committee, and the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Center for Infectious Diseases of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In addition, Bloom was an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He received the first Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Research in Infectious Diseases, the John Enders Award of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (in 1994), and shared the Novartis Award in Immunology in 1998.
He is currently a member of the World Health Organization Global Advisory Committee on Health Research, and serves as a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Science and Technology in Foreign Assistance, the Ellison Medical Foundation Scientific Advisory Board, the Earth Institute External Advisory Board at Columbia University, and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Wellcome Trust Center for Human Genetics in Oxford, England. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.
Sugata Bose is Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs at Harvard and Director of the Harvard University South Asia Initiative. He specializes in modern South Asian and Indian Ocean history, and has written widely on the subject. His books include Agrarian Bengal: Economy, Social Structure and Politics (1986); South Asia and World Capitalism (1990); Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital in the New Cambridge History of India series (1993); Credit, Markets, and the Agrarian Economy of Colonial India (1994); and, with Ayesha Jalal, Nationalism, Democracy, and Development (1997) and Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy (1998). His new work, A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire, will be published by Harvard University Press. In it, Bose crosses area studies and disciplinary frontiers and bridges the domains of political economy and culture.
He earned his PhD from the Cambridge University, and was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1997.
David T. Ellwood, the Scott M. Black Professor of Political
Economy, has served as Dean of the Kennedy School since July
2004. As Dean, Ellwood sets the School’s strategic direction
and leads its efforts to advance the public interest.
Ellwood joined the faculty in 1980, serving two separate terms
as the School’s Academic Dean. In 1993, he was named Assistant
Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS), where he served as Co-Chair
of President Bill Clinton’s Working Group on Welfare Reform,
Family Support, and Independence. At HHS, Ellwood played a key
role in the administration’s development and implementation
of critical social policy.
Recognized as one of the nation’s leading scholars on
poverty and welfare, Ellwood’s work has been credited with
significantly influencing public policy in the United States
and abroad. He is the author of numerous books and articles,
including “Welfare Realities: From Rhetoric to Reform,” coauthored
with Mary Jo Bane. His book, Poor Support: Poverty in the
American Family, was cited by the New York Times Book
Review and the Policy
Studies Organization as an outstanding book of the year.
Ellwood is a recipient of the David N. Kershaw Award, given
by the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management for
his contributions to the field of public policy, and the Morris
and Edna Zale Award from Stanford University for Outstanding
Distinction in Scholarship and Public Service.
A native of Minnesota, Ellwood graduated summa cum laude from
Harvard College in 1975 and earned a PhD in economics from the
University in 1981.
Tarun Khanna
is the Jorge Paulo Lemann
Professor at Harvard Business
School, where he has
been a member of
the Strategy group since
1993. He holds a
bachelor of science
in engineering degree, summa
cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa,
from Princeton University,
and a PhD in business economics
from Harvard University.
He leads the required Strategy
course in the Harvard
MBA program and the Strategy,
Leadership & Governance
Executive Education
program, and lectures and
consults to companies and
governments worldwide.
Khanna's current research focuses on understanding the drivers of entrepreneurship worldwide. As part of the Emerging Giants project, he seeks to understand how to build world-class companies from emerging markets. A related project, The Dragon and the Elephant, zeros in on China and India, and identifies best practices for local entrepreneurs and multinationals operating in these countries. A recurrent theme through this work is the need to tailor company strategy to local context.
His work has been published extensively in academic journals, including the Journal of Industrial Economics, the Journal of Finance, and the European Economic Review, among many others. Khanna is a coeditor of the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy and the Journal of International Business Studies. He also serves on the editorial boards of numerous quarterlies and journals. His first book, Foundations of Neural Networks, has been translated into Italian and Japanese, and is widely used as a reference text in engineering and applied science departments. Khanna's work has been profiled in news magazines around the world, including the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, the Far Eastern Economic Review, and numerous newspapers in China, India, and elsewhere in Asia and Latin America. He is also a frequent commentator on several television programs.
Yuki Moore Laurenti is President of the Harvard Alumni Association and has been actively involved in leadership roles within the HAA for many years.
Laurenti has chaired
the Nominating
Committee (2000–2001) and the Undergraduate Relations Committee (1996–1998).
Since 1988, she
has served as Trustee of
the Harvard Club of Princeton,
New Jersey, and also has chaired
the Schools Committee
(1988 to the present).
Following her graduation from Radcliffe College, Laurenti signed on with US Trust Company of New York, an investment banking and trust management firm, and has remained with the company to the present. Since 1999, she has held the position of Chief Administrative Officer of the company, which has $80 billion under management.
In addition to her
many professional
achievements, Laurenti has a number of personal accomplishments
to her credit. She was a member of the New Jersey
Economic Development
Authority from 1980 to 1985, Trustee of the Princeton
Day School from 1983 until 1989, and a member of
the Trenton Board
of Education (1987–1990). She has been
a member of the
Princeton Area Community Foundation from 2000 to
the present, and she serves as President of the Isles
Community Development Corporation.
She has also served on the boards of the Stony Brook
Millstone Watershed Association, the Princeton
Chamber Symphony,
and the Trenton-Roebling Community Development Corporation.
Jay
O. Light
is the
Interim Dean of Harvard
Business
School
(HBS)
and Dwight
P. Robinson, Jr. Professor of
Business
Administration.
He is
a graduate of Cornell University
(engineering
physics,
1963)
and Harvard
University (the
joint
Faculty
of Arts
and Sciences–Business
School doctoral
program
in decision
and control
theory,
1970). He worked in data
communications
and satellite
guidance
at the
Jet Propulsion
Laboratory
and in management
consulting before joining
the HBS
faculty
in 1970.
On leave
from
Harvard from 1977 to 1979,
he was
the Director
of Investment
and Financial
Policies for the
Ford
Foundation.
Light
was Chairman of the Finance
Area (1986–1988) and a Senior Associate Dean (1988–1994 and 1998–2005)
at HBS. He has
taught investment
management, capital
markets, entrepreneurial finance,
negotiating
ventures,
and the required
first-year course
in finance in the
MBA program. He
also has taught in various
executive programs
for CFOs and for
investment managers.
Light authored The Financial System, as well as numerous articles and cases. His research and course development interests include asset management, risk management for global investment management, negotiation and deal structuring, and corporate finance.
Light is a director
of Harvard Management
Company, a Director of Partners HealthCare (of Massachusetts
General and Brigham & Women 's hospitals)
and Chairman of
its investment committee, a member of the investment
committee of several endowments, a director of several
corporations, a trustee of several
investment funds, a trustee of the Groton School,
and the Chairman
of Microsoft's external Investment Advisory
Committee. He has
also served as a consultant on investments to major
pools of capital.
Anand G. Mahindra is Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1977, and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1981. He returned to India in 1981 and joined Mahindra Ugine Steel Company Ltd. (MUSCO), the country's foremost producer of specialty steels, as Executive Assistant to the Finance Director. In 1989, he was appointed President and Deputy Managing Director of MUSCO. He left that position in 1991, when he became Deputy Managing Director of Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., the country's dominant producer of off-road vehicles and agricultural tractors.
During
his
tenure at MUSCO,
he initiated the
Mahindra Group's
entry into the
fields of real
estate development
and
hospitality
management.
Since 1991,
Mahindra has been
working on a comprehensive
change
program designed
to make Mahindra & Mahindra
an
efficient
and aggressive
competitor in the
new liberalised
economic environment
in India. Mahindra
was appointed
Managing
Director
in 1997 and
Vice Chairman in
2001. Mahindra
was also the
co-promoter
of Kotak Mahindra
Finance Ltd., one
of
India's most
prominent finance
companies
in the private
sector, which
is now known
as Kotak Mahindra
Bank.
Mahindra writes frequently on business and general economic subjects in India's leading business magazines. He takes a keen interest in educational matters. In addition to being a Trustee of the K. C. Mahindra Education Trust, which provides scholarships to students, he is also on the board of governors of the Mahindra United World College of India. He is the cofounder of the Harvard Business School Association of India, a member of the Board of Dean's Advisors at HBS, and serves on the advisory committee of the Harvard University Asia Center.
Venkatesh
(Venky) Narayanamurti
is Dean of Engineering
and Applied Sciences and the John A.
and
Elizabeth S. Armstrong
Professor of Engineering
and Applied Sciences at Harvard University.
He is also the
Dean of Physical
Sciences and a Professor
in the Harvard
Department of Physics. From January 1992 to September
1998, he served
as the Richard
A.
Auhll Professor
and Dean of Engineering,
as well as Professor of Electrical and
Computer Engineering,
at the University
of California at Santa
Barbara. He was
Vice President of Research and
Exploratory Technology
at Sandia National
Laboratories in
Albuquerque, New
Mexico, from May 1987 to January 1992.
He
joined Bell Laboratories
in 1968 and became
Director of Solid-State Electronics Research
in 1981. He has
published widely
in the areas of
low temperature
physics, superconductivity, semiconductor electronics,
and photonics.
He is credited
with developing
the field of phonon
optics—the manipulation
of
monoenergetic acoustic
beams at terahertz
frequencies. He is currently very active
in the field of
semiconductor nanostructures.
Narayanamurti is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. He is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the Indian Academy of Sciences. Over the years, he has served on numerous advisory boards of the federal government, research universities, and industry. He currently serves on the Advisory Board for the University of California's Miller Institute for Basic Science, the Cornell University Engineering Dean's Leadership Council, the Advisory Board of the Mathematics and Physical Sciences Directorate of the National Science Foundation, and the Governing Board of the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies at Sandia National Laboratories. In addition to his duties as Dean and Professor, Narayanamurti lectures widely on solid-state, computer, and communication technologies, and on the management of science, technology, and public policy.
John P. (Jack) Reardon, Jr. is Associate Vice President for University Relations and Executive Director of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). He oversees the HAA University-wide alumni programs carried out through Clubs and Continuing Education, and electronically through Post Harvard. He also has oversight for College-specific programs tied to Classes and Reunions.
Reardon
holds an AB from
Harvard and an
MBA from the University of Pennsylvania. He began
his
service at Harvard
in 1965 as Assistant
Director of Admissions and
Financial Aid (1965 –1968). Since that time, he has served in a number of capacities, including Director of Admissions and Financial Aid (1971–1975), Senior Tutor in Kirkland House (1971–1975), Special Assistant to the Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development (1974–1977), Associate Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid for Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges (1975–1977), and Director of Athletics (1977–1990).
Anthony (Tony) Saich is Daewoo Professor of International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government (KSG) and Director of the Harvard University Asia Center. He is also Director and Faculty Chair of Asia Programs at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (KSG), and Director and Faculty Chair of the China Public Policy Program. From 1994 until July 1999, he was the representative for the China Office of the Ford Foundation. Before that, he was Director of the Sinological Institute at Leiden University in the Netherlands. His teaching and research focus on the interplay between state and society in Asia and the respective roles they play in determining policymaking and framing socioeconomic development. He has written several books on developments in China, including China: Politics and Government; Revolutionary Discourse in Mao's China (with David E. Apter); and The Rise to Power of the Chinese Communist Party. He studied political science in Britain and has taught at universities in China, England, Holland, and the United States.
Amartya K. Sen is Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2005. He is best known for his work on famine, human development theory, welfare economics, and political liberalism. Sen returned to Harvard after serving as Master of Trinity College in Cambridge, England.
Sen studied at Trinity as well as at Presidency College in Calcutta, India. He was Professor of Economics at Delhi University and the London School of Economics. He later became the Drummond Professor of Political Economy at Oxford University and a Fellow at Oxford's All Souls College. From 1988 to 1998, Sen was at Harvard in his first term as Lamont University Professor. He has served as President of the Econometric Society, the Indian Economic Association, the American Economic Association, and the International Economic Association. Formerly Honorary President of Oxfam International, Sen is now its Honorary Advisor.
His many books have been translated into more than 30 languages, and his research extends to economics, philosophy, and decision theory, including social choice theory, welfare economics, theory of measurement, development economics, moral and political philosophy, and the economics of peace and war. His most recent book, Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny, will be published in 2006.
Sen
has received honorary doctorates
from major universities around the
world. Among the awards he has received are the "Bharat Ratna" (the
highest honor awarded by the President
of India), the Lifetime
Achievement Award by the Indian
Chamber of Commerce, the Senator
Giovanni Agnelli International Prize in Ethics, the
Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger
Award, the Presidency of the Italian
Republic Medal, and the Eisenhower Medal.
Surat Singh, an international lawyer, negotiator, and educator,
is President of the Harvard Club of India and President of the
Harvard University Alumni Clubs of Asia. He holds three master
of laws degrees—from Delhi, Oxford, and Harvard universities—and
holds a doctor of laws degree from Harvard.
After a seven-year stint at Harvard and Oxford, Singh returned
to India and began working with the then-Attorney General of
India, G. Ramaswamy. Since then, he has participated in some
of the most important cases of India. He represented members
of parliament in a landmark bribery case against the Attorney
General of India; argued the case for regularization of over
1,500 unauthorized colonies affecting 2.6 million people in New
Delhi; helped protect the environment against unscrupulous encroachment
in a case defending the 700-year-old monument Konark Puri Sun
Temple; successfully argued for a 66 percent increase of salary
for 30,000 government employees in New Delhi; and petitioned
for a ban on lottery sales in New Delhi. He also argued, along
with the Solicitor General of India, on behalf of the Power Grid
Corporation of India in a case involving a foreign investment
of US $16 billion in India. He has been engaged by the government
of the Republic of South Africa to advise on the constitutional
validity of taxation laws. In addition, he assisted the United
States Supreme Court by submitting an amicus curiae brief in
the famous case of Senator John McCain vs. the Federal Election
Commission. He frequently appears on television as an expert
on international and Indian law.
Singh has been widely recognized for his distinguished service
to society. He was named an Eminent Jurist in 1997 by then-Delhi
Chief Minister Shri Sahib Singh Verma. He was awarded the International
Award for Distinguished Leadership by the American Institute
(1998) and named Social Scientist of the Year by the National
Environmental Science Academy (1999). The International Peace
Award was also conferred on him by the International Educators
for World Peace (2001).
Singh is President of the All-American Universities Alumni Association.
He has also served as Secretary of the Oxford Cambridge Society
of India and continues to serve on its executive committee. He
is the author of three books: Law Relating to Prevention
of Terrorism,
How To Be a Top Lawyer, and Judging Judgments of
the Indian Supreme Court; How Wise, How Otherwise?, as well as many articles.
Theda Skocpol is Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, Director of the Center for American Political Studies, and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. She received her BA in 1969 from Michigan State University, and her PhD in 1975 from Harvard University. Skocpol has served as President of the Social Science History Association (1996) and of the American Political Science Association (2002 2003). She has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Social Insurance, and has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
For the past fifteen years, Skocpol's research has focused on United States politics in historical and comparative perspective. Her analyses of public social programs are collected in Social Policy in the United States: Future Possibilities in Historical Perspective. Skocpol's Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States won five scholarly awards: the J. David Greenstone Award of the American Political Science Association; the Outstanding Book Award of the Political American Sociological Association; the 1993 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award of the American Political Science Association; the 1993 Allan Sharlin Memorial Award of the Social Science History Association; and the 1993 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of Phi Beta Kappa. Her most recent book is Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life.
Active in civic as well as academic life, Skocpol was included in policy discussions with President Bill Clinton at the White House and Camp David. She writes for scholarly journals, appears on television and radio, and is frequently quoted by journalists. At Harvard, Skocpol is coordinating a major research project on civic engagement in American democracy, considering the rise and development of voluntary associations from 1790 to the present.
Lawrence H. Summers took office as 27th President of Harvard University on July 1, 2001. An eminent scholar and admired public servant, Summers has served in a series of senior public policy positions, most recently as Secretary of the Treasury of the United States.
Summers received a bachelor of science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975 and his PhD from Harvard in 1982. By that time, he had taught for three years as an economics faculty member at MIT. In 1983, he returned to Harvard as Professor of Economics. In 1987, he was named Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy and received the Alan T. Waterman Award of the National Science Foundation. In 1993, he was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal.
Active in civic as well as academic life, Skocpol was included in policy discussions with President Bill Clinton at the White House and Camp David. She writes for scholarly journals, appears on television and radio, and is frequently quoted by journalists. At Harvard, Skocpol is coordinating a major research project on civic engagement in American democracy, considering the rise and development of voluntary associations from 1790 to the present.
Summers went to Washington, D.C., in 1991 as Vice President of Development Economics and Chief Economist of the World Bank. In 1993, he was named as the nation s Undersecretary of the Treasury for International Affairs. In 1995, he was promoted to Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, and, in 1999, he was confirmed by the Senate as Secretary of the Treasury. At the end of his term, he was awarded the Alexander Hamilton Medal. After leaving the treasury department, he served as the Arthur Okun Distinguished Fellow in Economics, Globalization, and Governance at the Brookings Institution in Washington. Summers s many publications include Understanding Unemployment (1990) and Reform in Eastern Europe (1991).
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