Kennedy School-ITESM Linkage for Public Policy Education

Faculty:

Merilee Grindle, Edward S. Mason Professor of International Development, KSG (Faculty Chair)
Mary Hilderbrand, Fellow in International Development, KSG (Director)
Mary Jo Bane, Thornton Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and Management, KSG
L. David Brown, Lecturer in Public Policy, KSG
Julie Wilson, Harry Kahn Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, KSG 
Robert Lawrence, Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment, KSG 
Robert Behn, Lecturer in Public Policy, KSG
Fernando Reimers, Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education
José Gómez-Ibáñez, Derek C. Bok Professor of Public Policy and Urban Planning, KSG
Sandra Oliveira, Program Administrator

In January 2003, the Kennedy School and the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM, or “the Tec”) signed an initial four-year linkage agreement designed to support the Tec’s new public administration masters program, develop avenues for academic collaboration, and provide opportunities for Kennedy School faculty and students to learn about Mexican public policy issues. We have carried out a variety of successful activities, including a series of curriculum and case teaching workshops; preparation of a number of new teaching cases on Mexico; three executive programs; summer courses for Tec masters-degree students on micro-finance, energy policy, and poverty-alleviation policy; a joint research project on poverty and poverty alleviation; workshops on government reform and on legitimacy and accountability for NGOS; a series of student grant competitions; and recurring visits back and forth between KSG and EGAP faculty. Major lines of ongoing collaborative work currently include poverty, government reform, and non-profit management.

Numerous other KSG faculty and staff, as well as some Graduate School of Education faculty, have participated in teaching, research, visits, workshops, and consulting with Tec faculty.

Collaborating Institutions: Kennedy School of Government, Hauser Center for Non-Profit Organizations, Escuela de Graduados en Administración Pública y Políticas Públicas (EGAP), based on three Tec campuses—Monterrey, Mexico City, and State of Mexico.
 

Download an overview of the Mexico Program (PDF flyer)
 

Student Research Grants: This program now offers a limited number of grants for Kennedy School students. These grants support field research in Mexico on issues relevant to public policy and international development. Grants will vary in amount but will generally be limited to no more than $2,500. The fall application deadline is Friday, 7 November 2008; the spring application deadline is Friday, 10 April 2009.

Download student grant application: PDF | Word

2008 Spring Break Opportunity in Oaxaca: Two Kennedy School students will have the opportunity to work on rural development issues in southern Mexico over Spring Break.  Application deadline will be in late February 2009.

Mexico Program Calendar - download as PDF

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