Arnold M. Howitt is Executive Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government and a faculty member at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
In his transportation and environmental research, Dr. Howitt is currently studying regulatory policy on automobile-related air pollution in China, a subject he has worked on extensively in the United States. From 2001-2003, he was a member of a US National Research Council/National Academies panel that studied the effectiveness of the federal Clean Air Act and made recommendations for change in Air Quality Management in the United States (National Academies Press, 2004). From 1993-2003, he directed a series of studies of transportation and air quality policy making in the U.S. federal government and in 15 states on behalf of the U.S. Department of Transportation and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He has also worked on these issues in Jap-an and Mexico and is a contributor to Air Quality in the Mexico Megacity (Kluwer, 2002). From 1998-2001, he served part-time at MIT as Executive Director of the Cooperative Mobility Program, an international transportation research program.
Dr. Howitt participates in several executive training programs for senior Chinese officials. He is faculty co-chair of the Beijing Executive Public Man-agement Training Program and teaches in the China's Leaders in Development Program and the China and Vietnam HIV/AIDS Public Policy Training Programs.
Dr. Howitt received his B.A. degree from Columbia University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University. He has written numerous professional articles and is author/editor of several books.
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