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
Stephen J. Ramos
Research Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
Stephen J. Ramos is a Research Fellow with The Dubai Initiative. He received his doctoral degree from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) in 2009. His dissertation explored the multiple roles and meanings of infrastructure within rapidly urbanizing circumstances, looking specifically at the case of Dubai.
Aaron Rapport
Research Fellow, International Security Program
Aaron Rapport is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. In addition to the Belfer Center's International Security Program, his dissertation research on strategic assessment and U.S. military interventions is supported by the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.
Michael Robbins
Research Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
Michael D.H. Robbins is a Research Fellow with The Dubai Initiative and a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Michigan. His dissertation examines the institutional and contextual factors that account for the success or failure of Islamist parties in the Arab world.
Richard N. Rosecrance
Adjunct Professor; Senior Fellow, International Security Program; Director, Project on U.S.-China Relations
Richard Rosecrance is an adjunct professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he is director of the Project on U.S.-China Relations. He served on the Policy Planning Council of the Department of State. Most recently, he co-edited No More States? Globalization, National Self-determination, and Terrorism.
Eric Rosenbach
Executive Director for Research, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Prior to his work at the Belfer Center, Rosenbach was a professional staff member on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and served as the national security advisor for U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel.
William Rosenberg
Senior Research Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy
William Rosenberg's career spans fourteen years as a corporate lawyer and an energy and environmental consultant, eleven years as a real estate developer and venture capitalist, and thirteen years of public service.
Robert Rotberg
Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Professor Rotberg is Director of the Program on Intrastate Conflict and President of the World Peace Foundation. He is also the author and editor of numerous books and articles on U.S. foreign policy, Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean.
Lawrence Rubin
Research Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
Dr. Lawrence Rubin is a Dubai Initiative Research Fellow. Rubin's research focuses on religion and international security, inter-Arab foreign policies, Islam and politics, and nuclear proliferation.
Cristine Russell
Senior Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources Program
Cristine Russell is a former national science reporter for The Washington Post and is the current president of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing. Ms. Russell's research focuses on science writing and how to improve news media coverage of controversial science policy issues.



