HARVARD SQUARE EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATES - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance

Anthony Saich is the Director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He teaches courses on comparative political institutions, democratic governance, and transitional economies, with a focus on China. In his capacity as Ash Center Director, Saich also serves as the Director of the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and the Faculty Chair of the China Public Policy Program, which provides training programs for national and local Chinese officials. Saich first visited China as a student in 1976 and continues to visit each year. Currently, he is a guest professor at the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University, China. He also advises a wide range of government, private, and nonprofit organizations on work in China and elsewhere in Asia. He is a trustee member of the China Medical Board of New York and International Bridges to Justice and sits on the executive committees of the John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Asia Center, both at Harvard University. Saich serves as the Harvard representative of the Kennedy Memorial Trust and previously was the representative for the Ford Foundation's China Office from 1994 to 1999. Prior to this, he was director of the Sinological Institute at Leiden University in the Netherlands. His current research focuses on politics and governance in post-Mao China, China's urbanization and rural-urban inequality in China; and the interplay between state and society in Asia and the respective roles they play in the provision of public goods and services at the local level. His most recent books include Governance and Politics of China (Third Edition, 2010); Providing Public Goods in Transitional China (2008); Revolutionary Discourse in Mao's Republic (with David Apter, 1998); The Rise to Power of the Chinese Communist Party (1996); and China's Science Policy in the 80s (1989); He has edited books on China's urbanization (with Shahid Yusuf, 2008), HIV/AIDS (with Joan Kaufman and Arthur Kleinman, 2006), and the reform of China's financial sector. He holds a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Letters, University of Leiden, the Netherlands. He received his master's degree in politics with special reference to China from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, and his bachelor's degree in politics and geography from the University of Newcastle, UK.

Job Titles:

• Director of China Programs

Edward Cunningham is Director of China Programs and the Asia Energy and Sustainability Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School, and is an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy. He previously served as an Assistant Professor in Boston University's Department of Earth and Environment. Cunningham graduated from Milton Academy, Georgetown University, Harvard University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and received his Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at M.I.T. He also attended Peking University and was selected as a Fulbright Fellow to the P.R.C., during which time he conducted his doctoral fieldwork as a visiting fellow at Tsinghua University. He is fluent in Mandarin and Italian, and focuses his academic work on energy markets, energy policy, and the political economy of development. He served as the program officer of the China Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School and speaks regularly at industry and academic conferences on issues relating to energy, industrial policy, competitiveness, and governance. He serves as a board member of the Community Therapeutic Day School in Lexington, MA. Cunningham is the author or a contributing author of: Global Taiwan (M.E. Sharpe, 2005); "China's Energy Governance: Perception and Reality", Audits of Conventional Wisdom Series (M.I.T. Center for International Studies, 2007); "China and East Asian Energy: Prospects and Issues", Australia-Japan Research Centre (ANU, 2008); "Why Pollute? Explaining the Environmental Performance of Chinese Power Plants", China Economic Quarterly (September 2008); "Greener Plants, Grayer Skies? A Report from the Front Lines of China's Energy Sector", Energy Policy vol. 37:5 (May 2009); "Fueling the Miracle: China's Energy Governance and Reform", in Joseph Fewsmith (ed.) China Today, China Tomorrow: Domestic Politics, Economy, and Society, Rowman and Littlefield, (August 2010); and "Energy Innovation in China: The Promise of Rapid Incrementalism" in Barry Naughton (ed.) The Political Economy of China's Technology and Innovation Policies, (forthcoming). He is currently completing a book on China's energy markets and energy governance during the modern reform period.

Nancy Humick has been immersed in the world of independent schools for over 20 years. Nancy was the Director of Admission and Financial Aid for 17 years at Kent Place School, a prestigious independent preparatory school in Summit, New Jersey, where she was also a member of the Administrative Team. The Wall Street Journal has ranked Kent Place School as one of the top 20 secondary schools in the United States based on college and university placement. Please see, How to Get into Harvard. Nancy and her husband Tom have a daughter, Nicole Colson, who teaches English at Milton Academy, and who was educated at The Peck School, St. Paul's School, Williams College, Oxford University and Harvard University.

Thomas Humick is an attorney who is admitted to practice law in the states of Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey. For many years he was a partner and member of the Management Committee at Schenck, Price, Smith & King, LLP, a law firm with offices in New Jersey and New York. As an attorney, Tom represented private and public school boards for over 30 years and has extensive knowledge regarding school and placement issues. He has published articles regarding educational issues and has served on the board and executive committee of The Peck School, an independent school in New Jersey. Tom has been selected to membership in the American Board of Trial Advocates, the Editorial Board of New Jersey Lawyer, The New Jersey Supreme Court District X Ethics Committee, Who's Who in American Law, and Who's Who in America.