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Administration

The Heller School Administration

  • Lisa Lynch, Ph.D.   •   Dean and Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy

  • Martin Black   •   Assistant Dean, Career Development

  • Doris Breay   •   Senior Assistant Dean, Academic and Student Services

  • Lynn Davis   •   Assistant Dean, Admissions

  • Ron Etlinger   •   Chief Administrative Officer

  • Walter Leutz, Ph.D. '81  •   Associate Dean, Academic Personnel

  • Leslie Godoff '71   •   Director, Development and Alumni Relations

  • Constance Horgan, Sc.D.   •   Associate Dean, Research

  • Claudia Jacobs ’70   •   Director, Communications Initiatives

  • Elaine Kennen   •   Associate Director, Research Accounting

  • Ravi Lakshmikanthan, M.A. '99   •   Assistant Dean, Student Records and Enrollment

  • Linda Purrini   •   Associate Director, Operations

  • Karina Sheerin   •   Director, Financial Control, Budgeting and Analysis

  • Kristen Stevens   •   SENIOR Executive Administrator and Assistant to the Dean

Educational Program Directors

  • Susan Parish, Ph.D.   •   Director, Ph.D. Program

  • Laurence R. Simon, Ph.D.   •   executive Director, programs in Sustainable International Development and director, M.a. in sustainable international development

  • Marion Howard, M.A. '04   •   Associate Director, M.A. in Sustainable International Development

  • A.K. Nandakumar   •   Director, M.S. Program

  • Brenda Anderson, Ph.D.   •   Director, M.B.A. Program

  • Michael Doonan, Ph.D. ’02   •   Director, M.P.P. Program

  • Alain Lempereur, Ph.D.   •   Director, M.A. in Coexistence and Conflict

  • Jon Chilingerian, Ph.D.   •   Director, Executive Education Program

  • Sarita Bhalotra, M.D., Ph.D. ’99   •   Co-Chair, Undergraduate Program in Health: Science, Society and Policy

Heller Board of Overseers

  • Samuel O. Thier, M.D., Chair

  • Rhonda S. Zinner, Vice Chair

  • G. Lawrence Atkins, Ph.D. ’85

  • Ellen Block

  • Karen Feinstein, Ph.D. ’83

  • Moses Feldman ’62

  • Len Fishman

  • Linda Frieze

  • Thomas P. Glynn III, M.S.W. ’72, Ph.D.’77, Immediate Past Chair

  • Leonard Goodman

  • Peter E. Heller

  • Jonathan Katz, Ph.D. '81

  • Paula Paris, M.M.H.S. '79

  • Gail Robinson, Ph.D. ’80

  • Susan Rothenberg

  • M. Bryna Sanger, Ph.D. ’76

  • Lynn Schneider

  • Phyllis N. Segal

  • Adam Sheer '92

  • David F. Squire*

  • Lisbeth Tarlow

*emeritus

Heller Alumni Association Board

  • Paula Paris, M.M.H.S. ’79, President

  • Cecilia Rivera Casale, Ph.D. '79, Vice President

  • Stephane Acel-Green, M.B.A. '02

  • Nick Alex, M.P.P. '09

  • Ban Al-Mahfodh, M.A. ’07

  • Eric Cahow, Ph.D. ’04

  • Victor Capoccia, Ph.D. ’78

  • Sarah Emond, M.P.P. '09

  • Murray Frank, Ph.D. ’74

  • Lillian Glickman, M.S.W. ’71, Ph.D. ’81

  • Yara Halasa, M.S. '06

  • Oscar Harrell, Ph.D. ’95

  • Miriam R. (Lipson) Hodesh, M.B.A. ’07

  • Colin Holmes, M.A. ’07

  • Laura Lorenz, Ph.D. '08

  • Chrisann Newransky, M.A. ’05

  • Gustavo Payan, M.A. ’05

  • Deborah Pearlman, Ph.D. ’90

  • M. La Verne Reid, Ph.D. '99

  • Lauren Reilly, M.B.A. '09

  • Megan Briggs Reilly, M.B.A. ’03

  • Amy Maizel Seeherman, Ph.D. '78

  • Deborah Rahmin Silberstein, Ph.D. '09

  • Nina Silverstein, Ph.D. ’80

  • Jason Soloway, M.M. ’01

  • Lynne Sullivan, M.B.A. ’02

  • Julio Urbina, Ph.D. ’01

  • Ghenet Weldeslassie, M.A. ’99

  • Natasha H. Williams, Ph.D.'03