Leadership

Ronald Ferguson
Lecturer in Public Policy
Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Ronald F. Ferguson, Lecturer in Public Policy, is an economist and Senior Research Associate at the Weiner Center for Social Policy and has taught at Harvard since 1983. His teaching and publications cover a variety of issues related to education and economic development. Much of his research since the mid-1990s has focused on racial achievement gaps, appearing in publications of the National Research Council, the Brookings Institution, and the U.S. Department of Education, in addition to various books and scholarly journals. He participates in a variety of consulting and policy advisory activities, including work with school districts on closing achievement gaps. He is the creator and director of the Tripod Project for School Improvement and is also the Faculty Chair and Director of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University. Dr. Ferguson earned an undergraduate degree from Cornell University and a PhD from MIT, both in economics. The father of two, he has been happily married to Helen Mont-Ferguson for 27 years.

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