John M. Harrington

As a SAIS Senior Lecturer in the International Economics program since 2015, taught full time Statistics for Data Analysis and Econometrics in the Master of Arts in International Relations (MAIR) program; Quantitative Methods I (Basic Econometrics) in the Masters of International Economics and Finance (MIEF) program; and Mathematics and Statistics first course in the on-line Master of Arts in Global Risk (MAGR). Prior to the full-time teaching position, was Johns Hopkins SAIS Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2002-2015, assisting the dean in all faculty and curricular issues; developed interactive DVD-based courses on pre-calculus and calculus for economists that have been turned into streaming video self-study courses required of entering MAIR students and used by other degree programs; prior to assuming the Associate Dean position, taught statistics, econometrics and mathematics for economics at Johns Hopkins SAIS as a professorial lecturer for 27 years; concurrently with teaching at Johns Hopkins SAIS, in a 20-year government career at the US Department of State, directed economics education for foreign affairs professionals at the Foreign Service Institute; later directed the Office of Regional Economic Policy dealing with Latin America and the Caribbean following a year as a student at the National War College; continued to address economic policy toward Latin America and the Caribbean through association with several nonprofit organizations, including Caribbean/Latin American Action and the US-Mexico Chamber of Commerce, while at the same time overseeing special programs at SAIS; during the 2001–02 academic year, held a joint appointment as interim associate dean for Academic Affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and senior fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies at The Johns Hopkins University where he taught quantitative methods in the MPP program from 1998-2002; B.S. in mathematics and PhD, economics, Georgetown University.