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Arnold M. Howitt, the Executive Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, specializes in public management and intergovernmental relations. Currently, he is conducting research on emergency management and on transportation and environmental policy issues.
Dr. Howitt is Faculty Co-Chair of the Kennedy School's Crisis Management executive program and teaches in the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative. From 1999-2003, he directed the Executive Session on Domestic Preparedness, a program on terrorism sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice. This project conducted research on preparedness and worked closely with local, state, and federal officials in emergency management, law enforcement, and public health. In addition, he was a faculty member at the National League of Cities annual conference (2004) and the National Governors Association Policy Academy on Homeland Security and Bioterrorism (2002-2003), was a member of an Institute of Medicine/National Academies panel on assessing the federal Metropolitan Medical Response System program (2000-2002), and served on the Governor's Bioterrorism Coordinating Council in Massachusetts (2002). Dr. Howitt is co-author and co-editor of Countering Terrorism: Dimensions of Preparedness (MIT Press, 2003) and a contributor to Preparing for Terrorism: Tools for Evaluating the Metropolitan Medical Response System Program (National Academies Press, 2002).
Dr. Howitt participates in several executive training programs that the Kennedy School conducts in partnership with China's Tsinghua University. He is faculty chair of the Beijing Executive Public Management Training Program and teaches in the China's Leaders in Development Program and the HIV/AIDS Public Policy Training Program in China and Vietnam. He also teaches in the Executive Leadership Development Program for Pakistan at the Kennedy School.
In his transportation and environmental research, Dr. Howitt is currently studying regulatory policy on automobile-related air pollution in China, a subject he has extensively worked on in the United States. From 2001-2003, he was a member of a National Research Council/National Academies panel that studied the effectiveness of the federal Clean Air Act and made recommendations for change in Air Quality Management in the United States (National Academies Press, 2004). From 1993-2003, he directed a series of studies of transportation and air quality policy making in the U.S. federal government and in 15 states, which were supported by the U.S. Department of Transportation and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He has also worked on these issues in Japan and Mexico and is a contributor to Air Quality in the Mexico Megacity (Kluwer, 2002). From 1998-2001, he served part-time at MIT as Executive Director of the Cooperative Mobility Program, an international transportation research program.
Dr. Howitt is also the author of Managing Federalism (CQ Press, 1984), a study of the federal grant-in-aid system; co-author and co-editor of Perspectives on Management Capacity Building (SUNY Press, 1986); and a contributor to Taking the High Road: A Transportation Agenda for Strengthening Metropolitan Areas (Brookings, 2005), Essays in Transportation Economics and Policy (Brookings, 1999); Going Private (Brookings, 1993); Regulation for Revenue: The Political Economy of Land Use Exactions (Brookings, 1993); and Reagan and the States (Princeton University Press, 1987).
Dr. Howitt received his B.A. degree from Columbia University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University. He has been a faculty member and administrator at Harvard since 1976. Dr. Howitt has extensive experience in executive education and has consulted with public agencies in several states and in the federal government.
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