Daniel Carpenter

Daniel Carpenter is the Allie S. Freed Professor of Government and Chair of the Department of Government at Harvard University.  He works on the political economy of regulation, especially in pharmaceutical regulation, financial regulation and the regulation of AI.  His recent research on AI regulation includes analyses of the adaptability of FDA-like approval regulation to AI governance and mathematical models of wargaming-informed underwriting for catastrophic AI risk. A Guggenheim Fellow and an elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, he was recently named a Harvard College Professor for his excellence and innovation in teaching.  He received his undergraduate degree in government from Georgetown University and his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago.