Douglas Ahlers
Douglas Ahlers is on the faculty of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government where he teaches courses on disaster recovery management and community-based recovery. He founded the Harvard Kennedy School Broadmoor Project, a collaborative redevelopment effort between the Katrina-devastated Broadmoor neighborhood of New Orleans and the Harvard Kennedy School. He is a co-founder of the Recupera Chile project at Harvard, which works with three earthquake- and tsunami-damaged communities in Chile to support them in their recoveries. He is also co-founder of the Acting in Time Advance Recovery Initiative that works with the Cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles to help them in advance of a disaster to be better able to recover after a disaster.
Ahlers has been a Fellow at the Preventative Defense Project at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation, a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, a faculty affiliate of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, and a faculty affiliate of the Harvard Program on Crisis Leadership. He also serves on the Smithsonian Institute's National Board.
