BROWSE EXPERTS AND FELLOWS
Belfer Center researchers include Harvard faculty members, project directors and other expert staff, senior fellows and fellows. They contribute frequently to outside publications, advise government officials, participate in special commissions, brief journalists and policymakers, and share research results with specialists and the public.
LEGEND: 
Fellow
Hassan Abbas
Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program
Dr. Hassan Abbas received his Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. His research interests are Pakistan's nuclear program and the Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan controversy; religious extremism in South and Central Asia, and Islam and the West.
General (ret.) John P. Abizaid
Senior Advisor, Preventive Defense Project
General (ret.) Abizaid retired from the U.S. Army in May 2007, after 34 years of active service. After graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point, he rose from infantry platoon leader to become the youngest four-star general in the Army and the longest-serving commander of U.S. Central Command.
Doug Ahlers
Adjunct Senior Fellow
Doug Ahlers is currently working on a book that examines the role of the Internet in the changing power dynamic between individuals/groups and nation-states. A resident of New Orleans, he started the Kennedy School Broadmoor Project, a collaborative redevelopment effort between the hurricane-devastated Broadmoor neighborhood and KSG.
May Al-Dabbagh
Research Associate, The Dubai Initiative
May Al-Dabbagh is a research associate with The Dubai Initiative, research fellow and lecturer at the Dubai School of Government (DSG) where she is director of the Gender and Public Policy Program and faculty advisor for the Women and Leadership Development Program.
Graham Allison
Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government; Faculty Chair, Dubai Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School
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.
Laura Diaz Anadon
Project Manager, Energy Research, Development, Demonstration & Deployment Policy, Energy Technology Innovation Policy
Anadon's current research interests include: the intersection between science, technology and environmental policy; energy-technology evaluation and its use in the development of energy policy, particularly in the context of environmental constraints; and the role of international cooperation in addressing the world's energy problems.
Kayhan Barzegar
Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program
Kayhan Barzegar is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Science and Research Campus, Islamic Azad University, and a lecturer at the School of International Relations in Tehran.
Emma Belcher
Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom
Emma Belcher is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Ms. Belcher’s dissertation examines international cooperation to prevent proliferation of weapons of mass destruction through the Proliferation Security Initiative.
Michal Ben-Josef Hirsch
Research Fellow, International Security Program
Michal Ben-Josef Hirsch’s research interests include international relations theory with a focus on the role of ideas and norms in world politics, U.S. foreign policy, conflict resolution, historical justice and memory, transitional justice, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Rasmus Bertelsen
Research Fellow, Dubai Initiative
Rasmus Bertelsen is a Research Fellow with The Dubai Initiative. Previously, he was a Research Fellow in the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program.
