Alan Curtis

President and CEO of the Eisenhower Foundation

Alan Curtis is the president and CEO of the Eisenhower Foundation. He was Crimes of Violence Task Force Co-Director on President Lyndon Johnson’s National Violence Commission, Executive Director of President Jimmy Carter’s interagency Urban Policy Group, and Urban Policy Advisor to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Dr. Curtis has testified before Senate and House committees and served on many boards, including the Congressional Human Rights Foundation and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. In addition to published articles in The New York Times and Washington Post, he has written or edited, among other books, Criminal Violence; Locked in the Poorhouse; American Violence and Public Policy; Patriotism, Democracy and Common Sense; and Healing Our Divided Society. He holds an A.B. from Harvard, an M.Sc. from the University of London, and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.