James P. Honan (Faculty Co-Chair) is the Faculty Chair of the Emirates Leadership Initiative Executive Education program and has served on the faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) since 1991. He is a faculty member at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), a member of the Executive Committee of the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University, an Educational Co-Chair of the Institute for Educational Management (IEM) and is Faculty Chair of Non-profit Financial Stewardship (NFS) at HKS, a fully online executive education program

James has global experience in teaching and leading executive education programs and professional development institutes. His teaching and research interests include financial management of non-profit and education organizations, strategic planning, organizational performance measurement and management issues, and higher education administration. He holds a B.A. from Marist College (NY), an M.A. and Ed.S. in Higher Education from George Washington University (DC), and an Ed.M. and Ed.D. in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from Harvard University

Deval Patrick is a professor of practice and co-director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. Patrick is a graduate from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. After law school, he clerked for a federal appellate judge and then launched a career as an attorney and business executive, becoming a staff attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in the Clinton administration, a partner at two Boston law firms and a senior executive at two Fortune 500 companies

He teaches a seminar on business and government interactions to second year Master in Public Policy students (BGP-150Y); a seminar on business and public policy for students in the second year of the Kennedy School and Harvard Business School.

Tarek Masoud is a Professor of Public Policy and the Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he is also Faculty Chair of the Middle East Initiative and the Co-Chair of the Emirates Leadership Initiative

His research focuses on political development in Arabic-speaking and Muslim-majority countries. He is the author of Counting Islam: Religion, Class, and Elections in Egypt (Cambridge University Press, 2014), of The Arab Spring: Pathways of Repression and Reform with Jason Brownlee and Andrew Reynolds (Oxford University Press, 2015), as well as of several articles and book chapters. Masoud is a 2009 Carnegie Scholar, a trustee of the American University in Cairo, a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Democracy, and the recipient of grants from the National Science Foundation and the Paul and Daisy Soros foundation, among others. He holds an AB from Brown and a Ph.D.

Janina Matuszeski is a Lecturer in Public Policy. Her interests include program evaluation, development economics, political economy and research involving digital map data (GIS). Most recently, she worked for Oxfam America as Senior Research Coordinator, Community Finance Department, overseeing the operational and impact research for Oxfam America’s Saving for Change microsavings program in Mali, Senegal, Cambodia, El Salvador, and Guatemala

Prior to this she served as as a water and sanitation Peace Corps Volunteer in Mali. She also worked at ideas42, a microfinance research center at Harvard, focusing on small business development projects in India. She holds a PhD in economics from Harvard University, with specialties in development economics, political economy and macroeconomics, and a BA from Amherst College in chemistry and physics