Alan Garber

Alan Michael Garber (born 1955) is an American physician, health economist, and academic administrator. He is the Provost of Harvard University. Early life and education Garber was born in 1955. He graduated from Harvard College in 1976 with an AB in economics and stayed at Harvard to earn an AM and a PhD in economics. While pursuing his PhD, he enrolled simultaneously at Stanford University, where he received an MD degree in 1983. Career Garber succeeded Steven Hyman as the provost of Harvard University on September 1, 2011. Garber is also the Mallinckrodt Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School, Professor of Economics in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Public Policy in the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.