Jerry Mechling is a prominent author and lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School. His studies focus on the impacts of information and digital technologies on individual, organizational, and societal issues. Mechling was formerly a Fellow of the Kennedy School Institute of Politics, served as an aide to the Mayor and Assistant Administrator of the New York City Environmental Protection Administration, and as Director of the Office of Management and Budget for the City of Boston. He is primary author of Eight Imperatives for Leaders in a Networked World, a series of policy papers.”]