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
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.
Kayhan Barzegar
Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program
Kayhan Barzegar is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Science and Research Campus, Islamic Azad University, and a lecturer at the School of International Relations in Tehran.
Emma Belcher
Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom
Emma Belcher is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Ms. Belcher's dissertation examines international cooperation to prevent proliferation of weapons of mass destruction through the Proliferation Security Initiative.
Tom Bielefeld
Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom
Tom Bielefeld is pursuing a doctorate in physics with the University of Bremen. His research interests comprise nuclear and missile nonproliferation, radioactive sources security, radiological attack preparedness and response, and nuclear forensic science.
Philipp C. Bleek
Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program
Philipp Bleek is a Ph.D. candidate in international relations in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. His dissertation explores whether and under what conditions states pursue and acquire nuclear weapons in response to rival proliferation.
Matthew Bunn
Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom; Co-Principal Investigator, Energy Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment (ERD3) Policy Project
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.
R. Nicholas Burns
Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics
Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Ambassador Nicholas Burns is Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Member of the Board of Directors at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
Dr. Ashton B. Carter
Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project (on leave), Harvard & Stanford Universities
Chair of International & Global Affairs faculty (on leave), John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy (1993-1996), U.S. Department of Defense
Member of the Board (on leave), Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs
Dr. Ashton B. Carter is on leave from the Harvard Kennedy School to serve as Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics.
