Alan Curtis is the President and CEO of the Eisenhower Foundation in Washington DC. Dr. Curtis was the Executive Director of President Carter's Interagency Urban and Regional Policy Group. He served as Urban Policy Adviser to U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Patricia Roberts Harris, the first Black woman to be named a cabinet secretary and later administered the employment and crime prevention demonstration program in public housing that was part of President Carter's National Urban Policy. Earlier, he was co-director of the Crimes of Violence Task Force of President Johnson's National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. He replicated the national Quantum Opportunities youth mentoring and life skills training evidence-based model with funding from the Obama Administration, the Ford Foundation and the Hewlett Foundation. Dr. Curtis is co-author, or editor of many books and Foundation reports. He holds an A.B. in Economics from Harvard, an M.Sc. in Economics from the University of London and a Ph.D. in Urban Policy and Criminology from the University of Pennsylvania.