Roger B. Porter is IBM Professor of Business and Government. Joining the Kennedy School faculty in 1977, he has served for more than a decade in senior economic policy positions in the White House, most recently as Assistant to the President for Economic and Domestic Policy from 1989 to 1993. He served as Director of the White House Office of Policy Development in the Reagan Administration and as Executive Secretary of the President’s Economic Policy Board during the Ford Administration. He is the author of several books including Presidential Decision Making and Efficiency, Equity and Legitimacy: The Multilateral Trading System at the Millennium. An alumnus of Brigham Young University, Porter was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, where he received his BPhil degree. He was a White House Fellow from 1974 to 1975 and received his MA and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University.
Contact
roger_porter@hks.harvard.edu
Harvard Kennedy School
79 John F. Kennedy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Subfields
American Politics
Academic Interests
Bureaucracy | Climate Change | Education Policy | Environmental Policy | Institutions | Parties, Campaigns, & Elections | Public Policy
Research Methods
Historical Methods | Qualitative Methods
Geographic Regions of Study
Japan | Europe | United States