Mailing address
Belfer 302B
Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs
79 JFK St.
Cambridge, MA, 02138
Henry Lee
Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program
Co-Principal Investigator, Energy Technology Innovation Policy
Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Lecturer in Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government
Contact:
Telephone: (617) 495-1350
Fax: (617)-495-1635
Email: henry_lee@harvard.edu
Experience
Henry Lee is the Jassim M. Jaidah Family Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Program within the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, Faculty Co-Chair of the School’s International Infrastructure Program, and a Lecturer in Public Policy. Before joining the School in 1979, Mr. Lee spent nine years in Massachusetts state government as Director of the State's Energy Office and Special Assistant to the Governor for environmental policy. He has served on numerous state, federal, and private boards and advisory committees on both energy and environmental issues, and has worked with private and public organizations, including the InterAmerican Development Bank, the State of Sao Paulo, the U.S. Departments of Energy and Interior, the Intercontinental Energy Corporation, General Electric, and the EPA. His recent research interests focus on environmental management, geopolitics of energy, China’s energy policy, global climate change, regulation of electric and water utilities, and public infrastructure projects in developing countries. Mr. Lee is the author of recent papers on the security and economic implications of expanding LNG trade, and China’s oil initiatives in the Middle East.
Winter 2008
"Fuel for Thought"
Magazine or Newspaper Article, John F. Kennedy School of Government Bulletin
By Madeline Drexler, Henry Lee, Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program and William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy, and Human Development; Co-director, Sustainability Science Program; Faculty Chair, ENRP;
As the Biofuel industry surges with investments and new entrepreneurial players, Kennedy School scholars are analyzing it working to develop new ways to create carbon-neutral fuels. Madeline Drexler writes on the Kennedy School's input on this emerging new way to lower greenhouse gas emissions and become less dependent on non-renewable energy resources.
Summer 2007
"Policy Options for Reducing Oil Consumption and Greenhouse-Gas Emissions from the U.S. Transportation Sector"
Discussion Paper
By Kelly Sims Gallagher, Director, Energy Technology Innovation Policy, Gustavo Collantes, Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy, John P. Holdren, Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, Henry Lee, Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program and Robert Frosch, Senior Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
The goal of this paper is to contribute to the current policy debate about how to effectively limit or reduce oil consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from the U.S. transportation sector.
June 5, 2007
Implications of a Future Global Biofuels Market for Economic Development and International Trade
Report
By Henry Lee, Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program, William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy, and Human Development; Co-director, Sustainability Science Program; Faculty Chair, ENRP;, Robert Lawrence, Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment and Gloria Visconti, Affiliate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy; Fellow, Center for International Development
Summary report from a joint ENRP/Sustainablity Science Program workshop convening experts from academia, international institutions, government, and the private sector to explore possible implications of emerging global biofuels markets for economic development and international trade.
January 2007
"Searching for Oil: China's Oil Initiatives in the Middle East"
Discussion Paper
By Henry Lee, Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program and Dan Shalmon
Explores China’s relationships with oil-producing countries in the Middle East and the possible geopolitical implications of its widening market reach.
13 April 2006
Tame Oil's Wild Price Ride with a Tax
Op-Ed, The Christian Science Monitor
By Henry Lee, Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program
Volatile oil prices keep energy companies from investing in alternatives. With the onslaught of high oil prices, war in the Middle East, an increasingly bellicose Iran, and the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, energy security has reemerged as a major public policy priority.
April, 2005
Dawning of a New Era: The LNG Story
Discussion Paper
By Henry Lee, Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program
March 14, 2005
Cape Wind Damage
Op-Ed, The Boston Globe
By Henry Lee, Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program
January, 2003
Assessing the Challenges Confronting Distributive Electricity Generation
Discussion Paper
By Henry Lee, Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program
August, 2000
"Coal or Gas: The Cost of Cleaner Power in the Midwest"
Discussion Paper
By Henry Lee, Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program and Shashi Verma, Fellow
December 1995
"Electricity Restructuring and the Environment"
Discussion Paper
By Henry Lee, Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program
Competition may offset many of the environmental shortcomings of the past regulatory regimes, although it is possible that competition will result in older, dirtier coal plants being kept on-line and used more often.
