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/Project on India and the Subcontinent
Dr. Hassan Abbas received his Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. A Britannia Chevening Scholar, he received a LLM in international law from Nottingham University, UK. A former Pakistani government official and a fellow at Harvard Law School, he is the author of Pakistan's Drift into Extremism: Allah, the Army and America's War on Terror. Mr. Abbas also runs the blog Watandost.
General (ret.) John P. Abizaid
Senior Advisor, Preventive Defense Project
John P. Abizaid retired from the United States Army in May 2007, after thirty-four 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 United States Central Command.
Doug Ahlers
Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Doug Ahlers helped pioneer e-commerce and online advertising. He co-founded Modem Media, Inc., which created Internet strategies for Fortune 500 companies. He 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.
Kwang-Chan Ahn
Research Fellow, International Security Program
Kwang-Chan Ahn served 37 years in the Republic of Korea’s (ROK) Army—in the fields of operations, intelligence, and strategy—and retired as Major General in 2002. He earned his Ph.D. in law from Dong-Guk University, Seoul, Korea, in 2003 and is the former chairman of the ROK’s National Emergency Planning Commission.
May Al-Dabbagh
Research Fellow, The Dubai Initiative, Kennedy School of Government/The Dubai School of Government, UAE
May Al-Dabbagh earned her PhD in psychology from the University of Oxford. Her doctoral thesis was entitled, "Working Women in Saudi Arabia: A Study of Stress and Well-Being.” She is primarily interested in gender and public policy with a focus on countries of the Gulf Cooperative Council. She has a BA in psychology from Harvard, magna cum laude.
Joseph Aldy
Co-Director, Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements
Joe Aldy's research addresses questions about climate change policy, mortality risk valuation, energy subsidies to low-income households, and energy policy.
Graham Allison
Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government; Faculty Chair, Dubai Initiative
Member of the Board
Director of Harvard's major 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.
Ivan Arreguin-Toft
Research Fellow, International Security Program
Ivan Arreguin-Toft is a postdoctoral fellow in the International Security Program at the Belfer Center. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from The University of Chicago. His current research focuses on the the widely assumed but poorly researched question of the utility of barbarism—the systematic and deliberate violation of the laws of war in pursuit of a military objective—as a strategy in war. This research is expected to result in a book manuscript, tentatively entitled Worse than Death: The [F]utility of Barbarism in War.
Mohammad Arzaghi
Research Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
Mohammad Arzaghi is currently an assistant professor of economics at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. He received his PhD in economics from Brown University. His dissertation is titled: “Networking, Location Decisions, and Aggolomeration in Advertising.” He previously worked for the World Bank and as a researcher at the US Census Bureau and National Bureau of Economic Research.
Boaz Atzili
Research Fellow, International Security Program
Boaz Atzili holds a PhD in political science from MIT and a BA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His dissertation is titled: “Border Fixity: When Good Fences Make Bad Neighbors.” He studies the effect of territorial norms on relations between states, the international relations of weak states, and the international politics of the Middle East. His papers are published in International Security and SAIS Review of International Affairs (forthcoming).
