John Herron Jr.

Jock Herron is a design critic at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and a member of the Design Engineering faculty in partnership with the School of Applied Engineering and Science. His longstanding view that food systems—his research focus—are at the nexus of population and habitat health is rooted in his multi-decade experience co-managing family farms in southern Ohio (grains, gravel, lumber, solar) and as a former chairman of the Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research.

A former senior managing director and partner at Bankers Trust, Jock co-founded BT Ventures as well as Zoologic, an educational software company with over 400 hundred institutional clients on four continents. He co-founded and is a partner of Tidepool Press, a small publishing company focused on non-fiction. Jock formerly chaired the board of the Cambridge Center for Adult Education and served as Vice President of the Worcester Art Museum and on the boards of a number of private companies and other non-profits.

Jock has a doctorate and a MDes with distinction from the GSD. Decades earlier he received a MBA from the University of Chicago and a BA in philosophy from Hampshire College where he was in the first entering class. An active collector of 20th century letterpress books, Jock’s affiliation with the AAS began in 1972 as a summer volunteer in the conservation lab.