Phil Hardwick
Coordinator of Capacity Development

Phone: 601-354-6011
Fax: 601-354-6481
Email: phil.hardwick@msstate.edu

Phil Hardwick is Coordinator of Capacity Development at the John C. Stennis Institute of Government, Mississippi State University, where he works with communities on strategic planning and leadership development. Prior to joining the Stennis Institute in August of 2003 he was Vice President of Community and Economic Development at Mississippi Valley Gas Company. He is a Past-President of the Mississippi Association of Partners in Education, the Mississippi Main Street Association, the Mississippi Economic Development Council and the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the USA International Ballet Competition. He received his undergraduate degree from Belhaven College and his MBA from Millsaps College. He is also a graduate of the Senior Executives in State & Local Government executive program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. During his military service he was Security Team Leader for Army One, the Presidential helicopter. In his spare time he is a prolific writer. His award-winning column appears bi-weekly in the Mississippi Business Journal and in Dolan Media business journals around the country. In his spare time he writes mystery novels.