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.
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LEGEND:
Fellow
Joseph E. 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.
Graham Allison
Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School
Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School
Faculty Chair, Dubai Initiative
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
Member of the Board,, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
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.
Kathleen Araújo
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Science, Technology, and Public Policy
Kathleen Araújo completed her Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and focuses on science, technology, and policy challenges of strategic national imperatives.
Paul C. Avey
Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program
Paul Avey is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. His dissertation examines conventional wars and crises in asymmetric nuclear relationships.
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 2013). His current project is on informal empire in Latin America, focusing on financial history and U.S.–Latin American relations.
Michal Ben-Josef Hirsch
Research Fellow, International Security Program
Michal's research interests include international relations theory with a focus on the role of ideas and norms in world politics, international institutions and international organizations, conflict resolution, historical justice and memory, transitional justice, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Sujata K. Bhatia
Associate, Science, Technology, and Globalization
Sujata K. Bhatia, M.D., Ph.D., P.E. is a physician, bioengineer, and professionally licensed chemical engineer who serves on the teaching faculty of biomedical engineering at Harvard University. She is the Assistant Director for Undergraduate Studies in Biomedical Engineering at Harvard.
Tom Bielefeld
Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
Tom Bielefeld is a physicist specializing in security policy research and analysis. He is currently pursuing a doctorate in physics with the University of Bremen on "Studies in Nuclear Security: Preventing and Preparing for Nuclear and Radiological Terrorism."
Jessica Blankshain
Research Fellow, International Security Program
Jessica Blankshain is interested in the organizational economics of the U.S. military and defense establishment. She is currently a doctoral student in Political Economy and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School and also teaches a Harvard College undergraduate course on the Economics of National Security.



