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Emma Belcher

Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom

Contact:
Telephone: (617)-384-7473
Fax: 617-496-0606
Email: emma_belcher@ksg.harvard.edu

Experience

Emma Belcher is a joint research fellow in the Belfer Center’s International Security Program and Project on Managing the Atom and 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. She is also a research assistant at the Jebsen Center for Counter Terrorism Studies and recently published a chapter in Weapons of Mass Destruction and Terrorism, Russell Howard and James Forest, eds., titled “Interdiction and Law Enforcement: Practical Measures that Should be Strengthened.”

Ms Belcher holds a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the school’s journal of international affairs — The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs. She also holds a B.A. (Hons) in political science and a Diploma in Modern Languages (Arabic) from the University of Melbourne, Australia.

In 2005 and 2006, Ms Belcher served as a policy adviser on national security and international affairs in Australia’s Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. She has also served as an intern at the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis and in the Weapons of Mass Destruction Branch in the Department of Disarmament Affairs at the United Nations. Between 2000 and 2002, she was a public affairs officer at the Embassy of Australia in Washington D.C.