Alan Curtis is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Eisenhower Foundation

Eisenhower Foundation

The Eisenhower Foundation continues the work of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders and the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence The Eisenhower Foundation continues the work of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (the Kerner Riot...

. http://www.eisenhowerfoundation.org This private sector organization continues the work of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (the Kerner Riot Commission) (1967–68) and the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence (1968–69).

Education and Positions

Dr. Curtis has an A.B. in Economics from Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

, an M.Sc. in Economics

Economics

Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...

 from the University of London

University of London

-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

 and a Ph.D. in Urban Studies and Criminology

Criminology

Criminology is the scientific study of the nature, extent, causes, and control of criminal behavior in both the individual and in society...

 from the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...

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• 1977 to 1981—Executive Director of President Carter's Urban and Regional Policy Group, Urban Policy Advisor to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and Administrator of the Federal Urban Initiatives Anti-Crime Program (Carter’s administration),

• 197x-1977 - Co-Director of the Crimes of Violence Task Force (Johnson administration)

Dr. Curtis has served on many Boards and advisory committees, including Independent World Television

Independent World Television

The Real News is a member-supported English language progressive, global online video news network. Launched in 2007 by Paul Jay, who produced CounterSpin, a news program that aired on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and founding Chair of the Hot Docs! international documentary film festival,...

, Partners for Democratic Change

Partners for Democratic Change

Partners for Democratic Change, also sometimes called simply Partners, was a non-government organization founded in 1989. The goal of the organization is to recruit leading social entrepreneurs to establish independent Centers for Conflict Resolution and Change Management around the world...

, the American Academy of Political and Social Science

American Academy of Political and Social Science

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, the National African American Male Collaboration and the Congressional Human Rights Foundation.

Books written

• Violence, Race and Culture, published by D.C. Heath
• Youth Investment and Community Reconstruction, the Tenth Anniversary Report of the Eisenhower Foundation (with Elliott Currie)
• Investing in Children and Youth, the Foundation’s Twenty-Fifth Anniversary update of the Kerner Riot Commission
• The Millennium Breach: Richer, Poorer, and Racially Apart, (Thirtieth Anniversary update of the Kerner Riot Commission)
• Youth Investment and Police Mentoring
• To Establish Justice, To Insure Domestic Tranquility, the Foundation’s Thirtieth Anniversary Update of the National Violence Commission.

Books edited

• Patriotism, Democracy and Common Sense: restoring America’s promise at home and abroad, Rowman & Littlefield (2004) http://www.eisenhowerfoundation.org/formulate.php
• American Violence and Public Policy, Yale University Press
  Yale University Press
  Yale University Press is a book publisher founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day. It became an official department of Yale University in 1961, but remains financially and operationally autonomous....
  
  
• "Locked in the Poorhouse: Cities, Race, and Poverty in the United States (with Fred R. Harris) Rowman & Littlefield

External links

• Model programs for youth development, crime prevention, public school reform, high school drop out prevention, GED acquisition, job training, job placement and the reintegration of ex-offenders (http://www.eisenhowerfoundation.org/replicating.php)
• http:www.eisenhowerfoundation.org/docs/Media%20Forum%20Bios.pdf
• Eisenhower Foundation Web Site www.eisenhowerfoundation.org (http://www.eisenhowerfoundation.org/index.php)
• Kerner Report (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerner_Commission), (http://www.eisenhowerfoundation.org/docs/WashPostKernerProphecyMar1.pdf) (http://www.eisenhowerfoundation.org/docs/BostonSunGlobeKernerReport30.Mar1.pdf)
• Milton S. Eisenhower (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_S._Eisenhower)
• Patriotism, Democracy, and Common Sense: restoring America’s promise at home and abroad (http://www.eisenhowerfoundation.org/formulate.php)