Leadership & Directors
Meet the people responsible for driving McCourt’s mission to become the most impactful and inclusive public policy school in the world.
Executive leadership
Carole Roan Gresenz
Dean, McCourt School of Public Policy
Leslie Evertz
Director of Strategic Initiatives
R. Daniel Kelemen
Associate Dean for Faculty
McCourt Chair
Jon Kuhl
Executive Director of Communications and Marketing
Sharon Mar
Chief of Operations & Administration
Jason McKnight
Associate Dean of Student Affairs
Michelle Rice
Senior Business Manager
Barbara Schone
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Teaching Professor
Academic program directors
We train future leaders to design, analyze and put effective policies into practice in the public, private and nonprofit sectors.
Day Manoli
Faculty Director, MS-DSPP
Associate Professor
Adam Thomas
Faculty Director, MPP
Teaching Professor
Franck Wiebe
Faculty Director, MIDP
Professor of the Practice of Public Policy
Chloe Schwenke
Faculty Director, EMPL
Teaching Professor
Nuku Ofori
Faculty Director, MPM
Associate Teaching Professor
James P. Habyarimana
Faculty Director, JPPP
Distinguished Professor
Research Center directors
Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy’s research centers, institutes and initiatives are dedicated to advancing public policy scholarship to address today’s most critical issues.
Jim Simpson
Executive Director, Center on Faith + Justice
Jeff Strohl
Director, Center on Education and the Workforce
Joan Alker
Executive Director, Center for Children and Families
Sabrina Corlette
Founding Co-Director, Center on Health Insurance Reforms
Kevin Lucia
Founding Co-Director, Center on Health Insurance Reforms
JoAnn Volk
Founding Co-Director, Center on Health Insurance Reforms
Kristin Nicholson
Director, Government Affairs Institute
Gene Sperling
Director, Economic Dignity Lab
Marguerite Roza
Director, Edunomics Lab
Thomas Toch
Director, FutureEd
Sebastian Jilke
Co-Director, Better Government Lab
Mo Elleithee
Managing Director, GU Politics
Amy O’Hara
Executive Director, Massive Data Institute
Whitney Tate
Executive Director, gui2de
Thomas DeLeire
Director, Health Care Financing Initiative
Luisa Boyarski
Director, Center for Public & Nonprofit Leadership
Andrea Headley
Director, Evidence for Justice Lab