Archon Fung

Professor Fung is Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government at the Harvard Kennedy School and Director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. His research explores policies, practices, and institutional designs that deepen the quality of democratic governance. He focuses upon public participation, deliberation, and transparency. He co-directs the Program on Democracy and the Informed Public at the Ash Center. His books include Full Disclosure: The Perils and Promise of Transparency (Cambridge University Press, with Mary Graham and David Weil) and Empowered Participation: Reinventing Urban Democracy (Princeton University Press). He has authored five books, four edited collections, and over fifty articles appearing in professional journals. He received two S.B.s — in philosophy and physics — and his Ph.D. in political science from MIT.

Professor Fung was a Senior Scholar in Ethics in 2006-2007, and became a Faculty Associate of the Ethics Center at the end of that year. He has been a member of the Faculty Committee since 2009.