Kenneth Grant
Senior Policy Scholar

Kenneth Grant is a senior policy scholar at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy. He has provided consulting expertise to tribes and bands in the United States and Canada in the areas of governmental restructuring, institutional capacity, and economic development. In addition to co-authoring several studies, he has also supported litigation testimony for tribes needing economic analysis pertaining to issues of treaty rights and/or tribal policies.

During the course his professional career, Mr. Grant has worked closely with Native American leaders on projects ranging from cost-benefit analysis and enterprise feasibility to tribal sovereignty. Specific projects included litigation-related analysis pertaining the economics and public policy of tribal taxation authority, assessing the social and economic impacts of tribal enterprises, facilitating discussions among state, federal, and tribal authorities concerning the use and regulation of natural resources, and assisting tribes undertaking self-governance and constitutional reform. He is most recently a co-author of the report Alaska Native Self-Governance Policy Reform: Toward Implementation of the Alaska Natives Commission Report. Mr. Grant also has specific industry experience in the oil and gas sectors.

Mr. Grant is currently a research fellow with The Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He earned a B.A. from Middlebury College in economics (1986) and a master's degree in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government (1993).