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
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.
Lewis M. Branscomb
Director Emeritus of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program; Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Corporate Management
Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Matthew Bunn
Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom
Member of the Board
Matthew Bunn is an Associate Professor at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. His research interests include nuclear theft and terrorism; nuclear proliferation and measures to control it; and the future of nuclear energy and its fuel cycle.
Nicholas Burns
Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics, Harvard Kennedy School
Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Faculty Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Nicholas Burns is Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics. He is Director of the Future of Diplomacy Project and Faculty Chair for the Programs on the Middle East and on India and South Asia. He serves on the Board of Directors of the School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.



