Rate My Professor Jeremy Weinstein

Jeremy Weinstein is Dean and Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, with a joint appointment as Professor of Government in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He holds a BA from Swarthmore College and an MA and PhD in political economy and government from Harvard University. Prior to his current roles at Harvard, Weinstein served as the Kleinheinz Professor of International Studies at Stanford University, where he founded and directed Stanford Impact Labs and co-directed the Immigration Policy Lab. He has held senior positions in the U.S. government, including Deputy to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations during President Obama’s second term, Chief of Staff at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, and Director for Development and Democracy on the National Security Council staff at the White House during President Obama’s first term.

Weinstein is an award-winning researcher and teacher whose work focuses on civil wars and political violence, ethnic politics, the political economy of development, democracy and accountability, and migration. He is the author of Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence, co-author of Coethnicity: Diversity and the Dilemmas of Collective Action, and co-editor of Crime, Insecurity, and Community Policing. He also co-authored System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot. For his research, Weinstein received the International Studies Association’s Karl Deutsch Award. His career includes leadership in initiatives bridging academic research with practical policy solutions at both Stanford and Harvard.