Malcolm K. Sparrow

Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government

**Malcolm K. Sparrow** is Professor of the Practice of Public Management at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and is Faculty Chair of the school’s executive program “Strategic Management of Regulatory and Enforcement Agencies.” He served 10 years with the British Police Service, rising to the rank of Detective Chief Inspector. He is also a patent-holding inventor in the area of computerized fingerprint analysis and is dead serious at tennis. He holds an MA in mathematics from Cambridge University, an MPA from the Kennedy School, and a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Kent University at Canterbury.