Douglas Ahlers

Doug Ahlers, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, teaches a course on the management of disaster recovery which blends case teaching with field-research. He founded the Harvard Kennedy School Broadmoor Project, a collaborative redevelopment effort between the Katrina-devastated Broadmoor New Orleans neighborhood and the Kennedy School. San Francisco in preparing to recover faster after a disaster strikes. Ahlers has been a Fellow at the Preventative Defense Project at Stanford Universitys Center for International Security and Cooperation, a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs, and a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard. Mr. Ahlers is the cofounder of Modem Media (now Publicis Modem) and is on the Smithsonian Institutions National Board and the board of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. He attended Simon's Rock College and received his BA from URI and MJ from LSU.