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Harvard Center for Public Leadership
Established2000; 25 years ago (2000)
MissionTo inspire and enhance the capacity for principled, effective public leadership in government, politics, civil society, and business.
DirectorAnthony Foxx
OwnerHarvard Kennedy School
Address79 John F. Kennedy St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Coordinates42°22′17″N 71°07′20″W / 42.37145°N 71.12210°W / 42.37145; -71.12210
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WebsiteOfficial website

The Center for Public Leadership (CPL) is an academic research center of Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University that provides teaching, research and training in the practical skills of leadership for people in government, nonprofits, and business. The center works to prepare its students to exercise leadership in a world responding to a rapidly expanding array of economic, political, and social challenges.

History

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The groundwork for the Center for Public Leadership (CPL) began in 1983 through various leadership course offerings at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) by faculty members, including Ron Heifetz. As these courses continued to grow in popularity, then-Dean of HKS, Joseph Nye, worked with Heifetz to secure financial support from philanthropists Leslie and Abigail Wexner, who embraced the idea of establishing a new center focused on the arts and practice of public leadership.[1]

Former CPL Director David Gergen
Former CPL Director David Gergen

During discussions with the Wexner Foundation in 1999, Dean Nye invited a new member of the HKS faculty, David Gergen—former presidential advisor who served during the administrations of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton—to serve as co-director with Heifetz.[1]

CPL officially opened its doors in 2000, and for the first two years Heifetz and Gergen worked together to build an organizational structure that would propel CPL into the future.[2] In 2002, Gergen took over as sole director and Heifetz returned to teaching.

Gergen’s leadership expanded CPL to include a dozen different student fellowships that made it possible for a diverse group of students of great promise to attend HKS and to graduate with little or no debt.[3] In 2010, CPL expanded further after merging with the HKS Hauser Center for Civil Society, the first merger of two centers in the history of HKS.[4]

Gergen stepped down as director in 2018 after almost two decades of leadership. During his tenure, Gergen established millions of dollars in financial support for students and built the core scholarship, education, and community programs for the center. Today, there are over 1,000 CPL alumni in positions of leadership, including U.S. Congress and in countries around the world.

Leadership

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Current Director

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CPL Director Anthony Foxx
CPL Director Anthony Foxx

Anthony Foxx currently serves as the Director of CPL. Foxx is the Emma Bloomberg Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and served as the 17th U.S. Secretary of Transportation under President Barack Obama.[5]

Past Directors

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David Gergen, former presidential advisor who served during the administrations of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton, served as CPL director from 2000 to 2018. In 2018, Gergen was succeeded by American diplomat Wendy R. Sherman.[6] Sherman directed CPL until early 2021, when she was appointed United States Deputy Secretary of State under President Joe Biden.[7] In May 2021, Sherman was succeeded by Hannah Riley Bowles, Roy E. Larsen Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management at HKS and Co-Director of the HKS Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP).[8] In February 2022, former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick joined Bowles as a co-director of CPL.[9] Previous directors also include Max Bazerman[10] and Ron Heifetz.[11]

Faculty and staff

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CPL faculty affiliates include more than 40 faculty from across Harvard University, including Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Business School, and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The Center additionally employs more than 20 staff members supporting administration, research, events, engagement, fellowship support, and other Center activities.[12]

Research initiatives

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The Center for Public Leadership faculty research programs translate scholarship and education into applied, practice. The following research initiatives are based at the Center for Public Leadership:[13]

Fellowships

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The Center for Public Leadership's fellowship programs provide tuition support and cohort-based co-curricular programming to students pursuing master's degrees at Harvard Kennedy School and other graduate schools across Harvard University.[14] Fellowship programs include:

  • Gabrielle Bacon Climate Leadership Fellowship — for students dedicated to preserving and enhancing our shared environment.
  • Emirates Leadership Initiative (ELI) Fellowship — for students from the United Arab Emirates and the Middle East looking to lead in a global marketplace.
  • Equity Fellowship - for students to understanding and dismantling barriers to equity across society.
  • George Leadership Fellowship — for joint-degree students at Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School entering the private and public sectors.
  • Gleitsman Leadership Fellowship — for entrepreneurs and agents of social change.
  • David M. Rubenstein Fellowship — for outstanding students innovating in public policy and business.
  • Wexner Israel Fellowship — for inspired and active mid-career students from Israel.
  • Zuckerman Fellows Program — for outstanding students in business, law, and medicine.

Hauser Leaders Program

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The Hauser Leaders Program allows high-profile leaders from across sectors to join CPL for up to two semesters to advise students and lead events. Hauser Leaders spend their time on campus teaching skill-building and leadership development workshops, engaging with key external stakeholders, and advising students and alumni[15]

CPL Hauser Leader Leo Varadkar, former Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland during his visit to Harvard
CPL Hauser Leader Leo Varadkar, former Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland during his visit to Harvard

Current Hauser Leaders (Spring 2025)[16]

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  • Jacinda Ardern – 40th Prime Minister of New Zealand (2017–2023)
  • Wendy Sherman – U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (2021–2023)
  • Leo Varadkar – 14th Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland (2017–2020, 2022–2024)

Former Hauser Leaders (Alphabetical)

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Gleitsman Program in Leadership for Social Change

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Through a gift of $20 million from the estate of Alan Gleitsman, the center endowed the Gleitsman Program in Leadership for Social Change in 2007.[17] The program supports the annual Gleitsman International Activist Award and Gleitsman Citizen Activist Award, Gleitsman Leadership Fellows,[18] and social change scholarship.

Gleitsman Citizen Activist Award Winner Wendy Kopp, Founder of Teach for America
Gleitsman Citizen Activist Award Winner Wendy Kopp, Founder of Teach For America

Gleitsman Citizen Activist Award Winners (Alphabetical)

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Gleitsman International Activist Award Winners (Alphabetical)

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References

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  1. ^ a b "The secret behind good leadership". www.ft.com. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  2. ^ "A timeline of Harvard Kennedy School's history". www.hks.harvard.edu. 2021-01-01. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  3. ^ gazetteimport (2006-06-01). "Wexners pledge additional $6.3 million to center". Harvard Gazette. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  4. ^ "Hauser Center To Be Renamed, Merged into Center for Public Leadership | News | The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  5. ^ "New leadership for HKS's Center for Public Leadership". www.hks.harvard.edu. 2024-01-23. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  6. ^ "Wendy Sherman to succeed David Gergen at HKS's Center for Public Leadership". Harvard Gazette. 2018-08-28. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
  7. ^ Axelrod, Tal (2021-01-16). "Biden selects Wendy Sherman for No. 2 State Department post". The Hill. Retrieved 2022-03-08.
  8. ^ "Announcing Harvard Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership". www.hks.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  9. ^ "Deval Patrick appointed professor of practice and co-director of HKS's Center for Public Leadership". Harvard Gazette. 2022-01-27. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  10. ^ "Center for Public Leadership - Max Bazerman Named Co-Director of CPL". 2015-05-20. Archived from the original on 2015-05-20. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
  11. ^ "Ron Heifetz". Cambridge Leadership Associates. 2017-10-02. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
  12. ^ "Our Community". www.hks.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2024-01-28.
  13. ^ "Initiatives and Research". cpl.hks.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-08.
  14. ^ "Fellowship FAQs". cpl.hks.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-08.
  15. ^ "Hauser Leaders Program". cpl.hks.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
  16. ^ "Hauser Leaders Program". www.hks.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  17. ^ "Center for Public Leadership - Gleitsman Program in Leadership for Social Change". centerforpublicleadership.org. Archived from the original on 2010-09-10.
  18. ^ "Gleitsman Leadership Fellowship". Retrieved 2017-11-20.
  19. ^ a b gazetteimport (2003-04-17). "International activists honored at Kennedy School:". Harvard Gazette. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  20. ^ a b "Gleitsman Award honors Fartuun Adan and Ilwad Elman". Harvard Gazette. 2015-11-16. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  21. ^ "New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to Receive Gleitsman Activist Award". www.hks.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  22. ^ HarvardCPL (2008-04-28). 2005 Gleitsman International Activist Award. Retrieved 2025-05-05 – via YouTube.
  23. ^ "Sasha Chanoff wins 2013 Gleitsman International Activist Award". Harvard Gazette. 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  24. ^ a b Research, ​Center for Near East Policy (2002-04-29). "1999: A Lucrative Year For Mr. Larsen and his Wife". Israel Behind the News. Retrieved 2025-05-05. {{cite web}}: |first= has generic name (help); zero width space character in |first= at position 1 (help)
  25. ^ "2022 Gleitsman Award winner Syeda Ghulam Fatima Gilani on courage, activism, and the fight to end bonded labor". www.hks.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  26. ^ a b "China Labour Press Release No.8 (2005-05-05) | China Labour Bulletin". clb.org.hk. Retrieved 2025-05-05.


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