Roger B.

Porter
Born 1946
Education B.A. (1970)
B.Phil.
M.A.
Ph.D.
Alma mater Brigham Young University
Oxford University
Harvard University
Occupation University professor and researcher
Religion The Church of J esus Christ of
Latter-day Saints
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roger Blaine Porter (born 19 J une 1946) is an American
professor currently serving as the IBM Professor of Business
and Government at Harvard University. He is the Master of
Dunster House,
[1]
one of the twelve undergraduate houses or
colleges at Harvard. He is also a Senior Scholar at the
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in
Washington, D.C.
[2]
Porter grew up in Utah, Iowa, and New York and attended
Brigham Young High School in Provo, Utah. He attended
Brigham Young University (BYU) for two years and was a
member of the varsity men's tennis team
[3]
before serving a
mission for The Church of J esus Christ of Latter-day Saints
in the United Kingdom.
[4]
He received his B.A. from BYU
and was selected as a Rhodes Scholar and a Woodrow Wilson
Fellow earning a B.Phil. from Oxford University. He earned
his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University.
He was selected as a White House Fellow (197475) and served as Special Assistant to the President and
Executive Secretary of the Presidents Economic Policy Board (197477) in the Ford White House. He joined
the faculty at the J ohn F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1977.
[5]
Porter returned to government service at the beginning of Ronald Reagans administration, serving as executive
secretary of the Cabinet Council on Economic Affairs and as director of White House Office of Policy
Development. He rejoined the Harvard faculty in the fall of 1985 as the IBM Professor of Business and
Government and faculty chair of the Senior Managers in Government Program. He returned to the White House
at the beginning of George H. W. Bush's administration, where he served as Assistant to the President for
Economic and Domestic Policy from 1989 to 1993.
[6]
Porter has twice served as director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard
(1995-2000 and 2008-2011). His teaching and research interests range widely. In 1987 he inherited Harvards
course on The American Presidency from Richard Neustadt and he has taught the course ever since except for
the years when he was serving in the White House. He also teaches a large graduate course on The Business-
Government Relationship in the United States as well as courses and modules on managing policy
development, decision making, and economic policy.
His books include Presidential Decision Making, The U.S.-U.S.S.R. Grain Agreement, and edited volumes on
Efficiency, Equity, and Legitimacy: The Multilateral Trading System at the Millennium, and most recently, New
Directions in Financial Services Regulation.
He is a member of the Presidents Commission on White House Fellows, a member of the board of directors of
the White House Historical Association, a trustee of the Gerald R. Ford Foundation,
[7]
and a member of the
advisory board of The Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University.
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Presidential Decision Making
The U.S.-U.S.S.R. Grain Agreement
Foreign Economic Policymaking in the United States: An Approach for the 1990s (with Raymond
Vernon)
Seattle, the WTO, and the Future of the Multilateral Trading System (edited with Pierre Sauve)
Efficiency, Equity, Legitimacy: The Multilateral Trading System at the Millennium (edited with Pierre
Sauve, Arvind Subramanian and Americo Beviglia Zampetti)
New Directions in Financial Services Regulation (edited with Robert R. Glauber and Thomas J . Healey)
^ "Dunster House website"
(http://dunster.harvard.edu/main/about).
1.
^ "Roger B. Porter at Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars" (http://www.wilsoncenter.org
/index.cfm?fuseaction=sf.profile&person_id=3453).
Retrieved 14 J uly 2011.
2.
^ BYUCougars.com profile of Porter
(http://www.byucougars.com/Profile.jsp?ID=6947)
3.
^ "Of Convictions and Commitments" essay by
Porter (http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications
/books/?bookid=107&chapid=1198)
4.
^ "Roger B. Porter's Faculty Profile at Harvard
Kennedy School" (http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about
/faculty-staff-directory/roger-porter).
5.
^ "Roger Porter" (http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about
/faculty-staff-directory/roger-porter). Kennedy School
of Government. Retrieved 2008-05-10.
6.
^ LittleSis profile (http://littlesis.org/person
/8864/Roger_B_Porter)
7.
profile of Porter's role at the Center for Business and Government (http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg
/news/roger_porter_faculty_spotlight.htm)
NNBD listing (http://www.nndb.com/people/617/000172101/)
Walker's Research profile of Porter (http://www.walkersresearch.com/profilePages/Show_Executive_Title
/Executiveprofile/R/Roger_Blaine_Porter_100008158.html)
Roger B. Porter (http://byucougars.com/athlete/m-tennis/roger-porter) at BYUCougars.com
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