Joe Kalt

Joe Kalt is the Ford Foundation Professor (Emeritus) of International Political Economy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is also co-director of the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. Joe is a native of Tucson, Arizona and holds PhD and master’s degrees in economics from UCLA, and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Stanford University. He specializes in the economics of natural resources, economic development, antitrust, and regulation, and serves as a senior economist with Compass Lexecon, an FTI Consulting company. He serves on the boards of trustees/directors of the National Institute for Civil Discourse and the Chickasaw Nation Community Development Endeavor, LLC. Joe also serves as chairman of the board of the White Mountain Apache Tribe’s Fort Apache Heritage Foundation. He and his wife now reside in Tucson and the Pryor Mountains of Montana.