John J. DiIulio Jr.

John J. DiIulio Jr. is the Frederic Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion, and Civil Society at the University of Pennsylvania. He has served as founding faculty director of Penn's Robert A. Fox Leadership Program; Fox Leadership International (FLI); Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society (PRRUCS); and Partnership for Innovation, Cross-Sector Collaboration, Leadership, and Organization (PICCLO). He founded three Penn School of Arts and Sciences (SAS)-College of Liberal and Professional Studies (LPS) degree-granting programs: International MPA; Global MPA; and Leadership & Communication. He has won Penn’s two top teaching awards, the Lindback and the Abrams, as well as the Political Science Department’s Henry Teune teaching award.

The first person in his family to graduate from college, Dr. DiIulio was a full-time commuting student at Penn when he earned both a bachelor’s degree (economics and political science) and a master’s degree (political science-public policy) in four years. Three years after receiving his PhD in political science from Harvard University, where he also taught and served as a Head Resident Tutor, he received tenure at Princeton University. He led Princeton’s domestic policy MPA program and founded its Center for Domestic and Comparative Policy Studies. He was the C. Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and founded and directed research centers at Brookings and several other leading think tanks. He has been a contributing editor or written regularly for several dozen journals, magazines, and newspapers.