Archon Fung

Archon Fung
Born (1968-04-06) 6 April 1968 (age 56)
NationalityAmerican
Academic career
FieldTransparency in public and private governance, participatory democracy
InstitutionHarvard University
Alma materMIT
AwardsNational Science Foundation Training Fellowship in Democratization
WebsiteOfficial website Edit this at Wikidata

Archon Fung (born 6 April 1968),[1] is the Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Democracy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and co-founder of the Transparency Policy Project. Fung served as an assistant professor of public policy at the Kennedy School from July 1999–June 2004, then as an associate professor of public policy at the Kennedy School from July 2004–October 2007, and finally as a professor of public policy from October 2007–March 2009 before being named as the Ford Foundation Chair of Democracy and Citizenship in March 2009. In 2015, he was elected to the Common Cause National Governing Board.[citation needed]

Fung has authored five books, three edited collections, and over fifty articles appearing in journals including American Political Science Review, Public Administration Review, Political Theory, Journal of Political Philosophy, Politics and Society, Governance, Journal of Policy and Management, Environmental Management, American Behavioral Scientist, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, and Boston Review.

  1. ^ "Fung, Archon, 1968-". Library of Congress. Retrieved 5 November 2014. data sheet (b. 04-06-68)