Jody Freeman, professor of law at Harvard University, helped to pressure the government of former president George W. Bush in a lawsuit to regulate greenhouse gases. Freeman is now advising Barack Obama to the president on how best to combat global warming.
Freeman is one of at least 11 Harvard professors who have joined the government of Obama, the most since the sixties in President John F. Kennedy enrolled at the university intellectuals often based in Cambridge, the state of Massachusetts. A new staff are being recruited from the Department of Economics, Kennedy School of Public Administration and Law School.
Obama, a graduate in law from Harvard in 1991, is surrounded by intellectuals who, as president, have gravitated toward public service. Bring expertise in public policy and partisan politics, not ideology that characterized the Bush Administration, said Jeffrey Frankel, Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at Harvard’s Kennedy School
