Joseph Kalt
Co-Founder and Co-Director of HPAIED and Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy (Emeritus), Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University
Co-Founder and Co-Director of HPAIED and Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy (Emeritus), Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University
Prof. Kalt joined the faculty at Harvard in 1978 and is a specialist in the economics of industrial organization, antitrust, economic development, government regulation and taxation. He is widely recognized for his work in economic development on American Indian reservations and among First Nations in Canada. In 1987, he founded (with Stephen Cornell) the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. He continues to serve as the Project’s co-director and is a principal author of The State of the Native Nations: Conditions under U.S. Policies of Self-Determination (with the Harvard Project), co-editor and a primary author of What Can Tribes Do? Strategies and Institutions in the Economic Development of American Indian Reservations (with Stephen Cornell), a principal author of Rebuilding Native Nations: Strategies for Governance and Development (ed. M. Jorgensen), and co-editor of Universities and Indian Country (with Dennis Norman).
In 2005, Professor Kalt received the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development’s First American Leadership Award for his research on public policy affecting Native peoples. In 2010, he and Professor Cornell received the National Congress of American Indians’ award for Public Sector Leadership.
Professor Kalt is a member of the Board of Directors of the Native Governance Center and chairs the Board of Directors of the White Mountain Apache Tribe’s Fort Apache Heritage Foundation, Inc. He has also served as vice-chair of the Board of Directors of the Sonoran Institute, and is a member of the Board of Advisors of the National Institute for Civil Discourse, the Navajo Nation’s President’s Council of Economic Advisors, and the Advisory Board of the Chickasaw Nation’s Community Development Enterprise.
A native of Tucson, Arizona, Professor Kalt received his Ph.D. (1980) and M.A. (1977) in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles, and his B.A. (1973) in Economics from Stanford University.