Porter, Roger B.

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PORTER, Roger B.

PORTER, Roger B. American, b. 1946. Genres: Politics/Government. Career: White House, Washington, DC, special assistant to the president and executive secretary of the Economic Policy Board, 1974-77; Harvard University, assistant professor to associate professor of public policy, 1977- 81; White House, special assistant to the president, 1981-82, deputy assistant to the president and director of White House Office of Policy Development, 1982-85. Harvard Unversity, Professor of Business and Government, 1985- 89; White House, Assistant to the President for Economic and Domestic Policy, 1989-93; Harvard University, IBM Professor of Business and Government, 1993-; The Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, Senior Scholar, 1993-. Publications: Presidential Decision Making, 1980; The U.S. U.S.S.R. Grain Agreement, 1984. Address: Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.