Alan Anthony Altshuler (born March 9, 1936, in Brooklyn, New York City) is an American educator and government official.
Altshuler is the Ruth and Frank Stanton Professor in Urban Policy and Planning, Emeritus, at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design and Harvard Kennedy School.
Since 1988, Altshuler has been director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, and until 1998, director of the Ford Foundation Program on Innovations in American Government.
[3] At Harvard, Altshuler also served as founding director of the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston from 2000 to 2004.
Altshuler is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.