David T. Ellwood is an American economist and university administrator. He served as the dean of Harvard Kennedy School and as the Scott M. Black Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University.
Ellwood joined the Kennedy School faculty in 1980 and served two separate terms as the School's academic dean. He served as dean of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government from 2004 through 2015. He is also the Scott M. Black Professor of Political Economy.[1] He is the author of Poor Support: Poverty in the American Family (Basic Books, 1988).
In 1993, he was named Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), where he served as co-chair of Bill Clinton's Working Group on Welfare Reform, Family Support and Independence. At HHS, Ellwood played a key role in the administration's development and implementation of critical social policy.[2]
In 2016, Ellwood became chair of the US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty, an effort funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and run by the Urban Institute. The group of 24 scholars and activists is a "collaborative aimed at discovering permanent ladders of mobility for the poor."[4]
Personal lifeedit
As of 2010[update], he had been married for more than thirty years to his wife, Marilyn. They have two daughters.[citation needed]
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