Donald Haider
Position: Professor, Management and Strategy
Organization: Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Location: Evanston, IL
Professor Haider has been a faculty member at the Kellogg School of Management since 1973. His responsibilities include directing the school’s Center for Nonprofit Management, and his research interests lie in management of public and nonprofit organizations, public finance and economic development. His governmental experience includes budget director and chief financial officer for the City of Chicago, deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury, and assistant to three directors of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. He currently serves on a number of boards, including Chicago Catholic Charities, the U.S. Rugby Foundation, and the LaSalle National Bank Corporation. Professor Haider is the only academic to be named both a Congressional Fellow (1967-68) and a White House Fellow (1976-77). His current research and writings adapt business sector literature on strategic alliances to nonprofit organizations. Professor Haider received a BA from Stanford University and a MA and PhD in Political Science from Columbia University.