Harvey Sapolsky

Harvey Sapolsky is a professor emeritus of public Policy and organization and former director of the MIT Security Studies Program. Professor Sapolsky completed his BA at Boston University and a MPA and PhD in political economy and government at Harvard University. He has worked in a number of public policy areas, including health, science, and defense, and specializes in analyzing the effects of institutional structures and bureaucratic politics on policy outcomes. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Michigan and the U. S. Military Academy at West Point. In the defense field he has served as a consultant or panel member for the Commission on Government Procurement, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Office of Naval Research, the Naval War College, the U.S. Army, Draper Laboratory, the RAND Corporation, John Hopkins’ Applied Physics Laboratory, the National Research Council, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Veterans Affairs. As always, he remains interested in U.S. defense politics, military innovation, the structure of the defense industry, and the strategy of restraint.