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, 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.
Dianne R. Pfundstein
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, International Security Program
Dianne Pfundstein received her Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University in May 2012, where her dissertation, "Credibility is Not Enough: The United States and Compellent Threats, 1945–2011" was nominated for the Bancroft prize.
Marisa L. Porges
Research Fellow, International Security Program
Marisa L. Porges served as a counterterrorism policy adviser in the U.S. Departments of Defense and the Treasury and was an international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. A former naval flight officer in the U.S. Navy, Marisa is a doctoral candidate at King's College London.
Matt Waldman
Research Fellow, International Security Program
Matt Waldman practiced as an international lawyer based in London, after which he served as a foreign affairs and defense advisor in the UK and European Parliaments. He has worked on Afghanistan and the region since 2005, most recently as a senior UN official in Kabul covering conflict resolution and reconciliation with the Taliban.
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.
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.
Ashton B. Carter
Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities
Former Chair of International & Global Affairs faculty, 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
Former Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (April 2009–October 2011)
Dr. Ashton B. Carter is on leave to serve as Deputy Secretary of Defense.
Evelyn Krache Morris
Research Fellow, International Security Program
Evelyn Krache Morris received her Ph.D. in the history of U.S. foreign relations from Georgetown University. Her dissertation examined the United States' use of herbicides in South Vietnam under President John F. Kennedy. Her next project is a study of how the global illicit drug trade has influenced U.S. relations with Mexico and Afghanistan.
Henrik Larsen
Research Fellow, International Security Program
Henrik Larsen is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Southern Denmark and the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS). Mr. Larsen's dissertation introduces NATO as a case of Western democracy promotion and examines the link between democracy promotion, national narratives, and economic power.
Joseph S. Nye
Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Joseph S. Nye, Jr. is University Distinguished Service Professor and former Dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
