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
Doug Ahlers
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.
Aisha Ahmad
Research Fellow, Initiative on Religion in International Affairs/International Security Program
Aisha Ahmad is a doctoral candidate in Political Science at McGill University. Her dissertation, "Between the Mosque and the Market: An Economic Explanation of State Failure and State Formation in the Modern Muslim World" traces the successes and failures of political Islamic movements in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Somalia.
Joseph Aldy
Faculty Affiliate, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
Joe Aldy is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Nonresident Fellow at Resources for the Future. His research focuses on climate change policy, energy policy, and mortality risk valuation. Previously, he served as the Co-Director of the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements.
Ronald G. Allen , Jr.
Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom
Lieutenant Colonel Allen entered the Air Force in 1994 after receiving his commission through the Air Force ROTC program at Texas A&M University. Prior to his current assignment, Colonel Allen was commander of the 625th Strategic Operations Squadron at Offutt AFB, Nebraska.
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
Associate Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program; Director, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group; Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy
Laura's research areas include energy technology policy, private sector innovation, innovation institution design, water and energy consumption linkage, and the intersection of science and environmental policy. Laura holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cambridge and a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School.
Pierpaolo Barbieri
Ernest May Fellow in History and Policy, International Security Program
Pierpaolo Barbieri is the author of Hitler's Shadow Empire: Nazi Economics and the Spanish Civil War (Harvard University Press, forthcoming 2012). His current project is on informal empire in Latin America, focusing on financial history and U.S.–Latin American relations.
Michael Beckley
Research Fellow, International Security Program
Michael Beckley is a doctoral candidate in political science at Columbia University. His research focuses on U.S. and Chinese foreign policy, and his dissertation challenges the theory that China is displacing the United States as the world's dominant power.
Michal Ben-Josef Hirsch
Associate, 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.
