Eric Henson is the Director of the Ittapila Program for Nation Building Education and Outreach and is a lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard School of Design. Mr. Henson also works in economics consulting with Compass Lexecon.

Prior to joining the Project and Compass Lexecon, he was an Industry Analyst at Fidelity Investments in Boston, where he assisted in the development of quantitative models to forecast outperformance of S&P 500 Industry groups. From 1995 to 1996, Mr. Henson was the manager of the United States Economic Database at Haver Analytics in New York City.

Mr. Henson holds a BBA in business economics from the University of Texas at San Antonio (1992), an MA in economics from Southern Methodist University (1995), and an MPP from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard (1998). As a student at Harvard, Mr. Henson focused on the interaction of government and business. His thesis examined the importance of a Uniform Commercial Code for economic development on Native American Reservations, and he was a Christian Johnson Native American Fellow.