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...second highest governing body, for a six-year term that began in 2002. The Economic Recovery Advisory Board, which Obama first announced in Nov. 2008, will be headed by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul A. Volcker. Volcker’s supporting cast is a collection of premier economists from academia and Washington, as well as wealthy Wall Street representatives. “We’re tapping a broad and diverse range of opinion from across the country, because an historic crisis demands an historic response,” Obama said according to a posted transcript of the Friday press...
Harvard Kennedy School professor Ashton B. Carter may return to the Pentagon after nearly a decade in academia. Carter, the former assistant secretary of defense for international security policy under the Clinton administration, is expected to be named to the Pentagon’s top acquisition and technology job as early as this week, Reuters reports. The announcement would come as a flurry of Harvard professors—including many of Carter’s colleagues at the Kennedy School—prepare to head south for Washington to join the Obama administration. News of Carter’s likely...
...Harvard in four—or eight—years, if not sooner. Undoubtedly, these professors will return with new knowledge to impart upon their students, or great experiences to share at the very least. As Harvard attempts to successfully prepare its students for the world outside of academia, professors’ real-life experiences as Washington insiders will provide fodder for their courses when they return. Moreover, though many of the departing professors certainly do not need further validation with regard to their accomplishments, their actions in Washington will add to their prestige and thus benefit Harvard when they...
Freeman is the twelfth Harvard professor and fourth Law School professor to depart academia for the Obama administration...
...said he will continue to work on health care policy in D.C. Cutler first came to Harvard in 1991 as an assistant professor, received tenure in 1997, and recently finished a 5-year stint overseeing the Faculty’s social science departments as divisional dean. Outside academia, Cutler has served on President Clinton’s Council of Economic advisers and on the National Economic Council, in addition to advising both Bill Bradley’s and John Kerry’s presidential bids. He has been consulting with Obama since at least April 2007. Cutler, who specializes...