People
Graham Allison
Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School
Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School
Faculty Chair, Dubai Initiative
Member of the Board
Director of Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Graham Allison has for three decades been a leading analyst of U.S. national security and defense policy with a special interest in terrorism.
Kathleen Araújo
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Science, Technology, and Public Policy
Kathleen Araújo completed her Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and focuses on science, technology, and policy challenges of strategic national imperatives.
Paul C. Avey
Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program
Paul Avey is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. His dissertation examines conventional wars and crises in asymmetric nuclear relationships.
Tom Bielefeld
Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
Tom Bielefeld is a physicist specializing in security policy research and analysis. He is currently pursuing a doctorate in physics with the University of Bremen on "Studies in Nuclear Security: Preventing and Preparing for Nuclear and Radiological Terrorism."
Andrew Brown
Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
Andrew Brown was born in London and educated in England. For nearly thirty years, he has worked as physician. He developed an interest in the 20th century history of science which led him to examine the influence of scientists on political leaders.
Matthew Bunn
Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom
Member of the Board
Matthew Bunn is an Associate Professor at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. His research interests include nuclear theft and terrorism; nuclear proliferation and measures to control it; and the future of nuclear energy and its fuel cycle.
Nicholas Burns
Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics, Harvard Kennedy School
Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Faculty Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Nicholas Burns is Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics. He is Director of the Future of Diplomacy Project and Faculty Chair for the Programs on the Middle East and on India and South Asia. He serves on the Board of Directors of the School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
John Carlson
Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
John Carlson is Counselor to the Nuclear Threat Initiative, Washington, D.C., and Nonresident Fellow at the Lowy Institute, Sydney, Australia. He is also a member of VERTIC's International Verification Consultants Network and adviser to the Asia Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament.
Albert Carnesale
Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
International Council Member, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Chancellor Emeritus and Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Ashton B. Carter
Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities
Former Chair of International & Global Affairs faculty, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy (1993–1996), U.S. Department of Defense
Member of the Board (on leave), Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs
Former Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (April 2009–October 2011)
Dr. Ashton B. Carter is on leave to serve as Deputy Secretary of Defense.
