Justin de Benedictis-Kessner
Emma Bloomberg Associate Professor of Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government Harvard University
Justin de Benedictis-Kessner is the Emma Bloomberg Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he leads the Local Politics Lab. His research focuses on urban politics and policy. His work investigates how politics shapes and is shaped by some of the most important policy areas that concern local governments, such as housing, transportation, policing, and economic development. He also teaches in Harvard's MPP program on politics and ethics, and leads an experiential field lab that partners student teams with cities and towns to work on applied urban policy problems.