People

Katherine Gordon graduated from Boston College with a B.A. in History and International Relations. She is currently pursuing a master's degree in Global Development Policy from Boston University.

Susan Hockfield, former president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the Marie Curie Visiting Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School for 2012–2013. She is a member of the Belfer Center Board.

Calestous Juma is Professor of the Practice of International Development and Director of the Science, Technology, and Globalization Project. He holds a Ph.D. in science and technology policy studies and has written widely on science, technology, and the environment.

Venkatesh Narayanamurti was formerly the Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Dean of Physical Sciences at Harvard. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University. He has published widely in the areas of low temperature physics, superconductivity, semiconductor physics, electronics, and photonics. 

Henry Lee is the Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Program. Before joining the School in 1979, Mr. Lee spent nine years in Massachusetts state government as Director of the State's Energy Office.

Carolyn Wood is the Assistant Academic Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government. She conducts institutional research, coordinates the academic areas, and supports the Faculty Steering Committee, which provides strategic advice to the Dean.

Brigadier General (ret.) Kevin Ryan is Director of the  Defense and Intelligence Project and a member of the Center's US-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism. A career military officer, he has extensive service in air and missile defense, intelligence, US-Russian military relations and political-military policy.

Laura's research focuses on energy- and environment-oriented technological progress and seeks to: identify and quantify the diverse benefits that derive from policies designed to promote it; map the complex factors that contribute to it; and create tools for policymakers and analysts to manage the systemic uncertainties that accompany it.

Hanna Breetz is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her dissertation explores the interest group politics surrounding alternative fuels in the United States, particularly in the cases of ethanol and coal-to-liquid fuels.