Joseph P. Kalt
Senior Economist
Joseph P. Kalt is Senior Economist with Compass Lexecon and is based in Boston, Massachusetts and Tucson, Arizona. He is also the Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and Visiting Professor, Eller College of Management, The University of Arizona. He is a world-renowned expert on antitrust economics and regulated industries, with special emphasis on the energy, natural resource, transportation, and communications sectors. His publications include: The Economics and Politics of Oil Price Regulation; Drawing the Line on Natural Gas Regulation (with Frank C. Schuler); Petroleum Price Regulation: Should We Decontrol? (with Kenneth Arrow); and New Horizons in Natural Gas Deregulation (with Jerome Ellig). Prof. Kalt has testified frequently before the U.S. Congress, federal and state regulatory commissions and in state and federal legal proceedings on matters of competition policy, mergers and industry regulation. In addition, he has consulted and published widely in the area of natural resource economics and policy, the political economy of regulation, and economic development.
Prof. Kalt is also co-director of the award-winning Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. He is a principal author of the Harvard Project’s The State of the Native Nations and co-editor with Stephen Cornell of What Can Tribes Do? Strategies and Institutions in American Indian Economic Development. Since 1987, the Harvard Project has worked for and with indigenous governments, enterprises, organizations and communities world-wide, providing research, advisory services and executive education on issues of nation building and economic development.
Prof. Kalt joined the faculty at Harvard in 1978. He has served as the Kennedy School's academic dean for research, chair of degree programs, chair of Ph.D. programs, and chair of the economics and quantitative methods section. He is a member of the board of directors of the Sonoran Institute, a member of the National Advisory Council of the Big Sky Institute, and a member of the boards of trustees of the Fort Apache Heritage Foundation of the White Mountain Apache Tribe (Arizona) and The Communications Institute. He served as advisor to Canada’s Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, a commissioner on the President’s Commission on Aviation Safety, and on the Steering Committee of the National Park Service’s National Parks for the 21st Century.
Professor Kalt received his Ph.D. and M.A. in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles, and his B.A. in economics from Stanford University.