Prof. Hugh O’Doherty

Harvard Kennedy School

Adjunct lecturer in public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, USA. He has taught leadership and conflict resolution at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, the University of Maryland, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government. At the University of Maryland, he directed the Ireland-US Public Leadership Program for “emerging” leaders from all the political parties in Ireland. In Northern Ireland, he directed the Inter-Group Relations Project, an initiative bringing together political and community leaders in Ireland to establish protocols for political dialogue.

Hugh has consulted extensively with a wide variety of clients including the Irish Civil Service, the American Leadership Forum, the Episcopalian Clergy Leadership Program and the Mohawk Community Leadership Program in Canada. He has also consulted in Bosnia, Croatia and Cyprus and has addressed the United Nations Global Forum on Re-Inventing Government. He earned an M.Ed and Ed.D from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.