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
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.
Kathleen Araújo
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Science, Technology, and Public Policy
Kathleen Araújo completed her Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and focuses on science, technology, and policy challenges of strategic national imperatives.
Charles G. Cogan
Associate, International Security Program
Chuck Cogan is a historian. Cogan's articles and reviews have appeared in French Politics and Society, Défense Nationale, the Harvard French Review, and other publications. His book French Negotiating Behavior: Dealing with "La Grande Nation" was published by the United States Institute of Peace Press in December 2003.
Chuck Freilich
Senior Fellow, International Security Program
Chuck Freilich was Israel's deputy national security adviser. He has published a book on Israeli national security decision-making. His primary areas of expertise are U.S. Middle East policy, Israeli national security policy, and Middle Eastern affairs. He earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University.
Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson
Associate, International Security Program
Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson holds a B.A. in Politics and History from Brandeis University. He is presently a doctoral candidate in the Political Science Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His dissertation examines the strategies rival states use to exploit or support the security interests of declining great powers.
Juliette Kayyem
Lecturer in Public Policy
Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Juliette N. Kayyem, the national security and foreign policy columnist for the Boston Globe and on the faculty at the Harvard Kennedy School, has spent nearly fifteen years in counterterrorism, homeland security, and emergency management arena.
Rami Khouri
Senior Fellow, Middle East Initiative
Rami Khouri serves as editor-at-large of the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper. He is also the director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut.
Noora Lori
Research Fellow, International Security Program
Noora Lori is an ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion fellow and a doctoral candidate in Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. Her work examines how migrant labor impacts the institutional development, regime stability, and political opportunity structures of the Arab Gulf states.
Martin B. Malin
Executive Director, Project on Managing the Atom
Martin B. Malin is the Executive Director of the Project on Managing the Atom at the Belfer Center. His research focuses on arms control and nonproliferation in the Middle East, U.S. nonproliferation and counter-proliferation strategies, and the security consequences of the growth and spread of nuclear energy.



