Matthew Weinzierl

BOARD MEMBER
Sr. Assoc. Dean for Faculty Development and Research, Harvard Business School

Matt Weinzierl is Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research at Harvard Business School, where he is the Joseph and Jacqueline Elbling Professor of Business Administration and previously served as Faculty Chair of the MBA Program. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research and teaching focus on the optimal design of economic policy, in particular taxation, with an emphasis on better understanding the philosophical principles underlying policy choices, and on the commercialization of the space sector and its economic implications. He is the coauthor with Brendan Rosseau of Space to Grow: Unlocking the Final Economic Frontier, and he is co-editor of the National Tax Journal. Prior to completing his PhD in economics at Harvard University in 2008, Professor Weinzierl served as the Staff Economist for Macroeconomics on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and worked in the New York office of McKinsey & Company.