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.
Paul C. Avey
Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program
Paul Avey is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. His dissertation examines conventional wars and crises in asymmetric nuclear relationships.
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.
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.
Dara Kay Cohen
Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Faculty, International Security Program
Member of the Board,, Belfefr Center for Science and International Affairs
Dara Kay Cohen's research and teaching interests span the field of international relations, including international security, civil war and the dynamics of violence during conflict, and gender and international relations. Her current book project examines the variation in the use of sexual violence during recent civil conflicts.
Ryan Ellis
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program/Information and Communications Technology and Public Policy Project
Ryan Ellis writes and researches on topics related to cybersecurity, infrastructure politics, homeland security, and communication law and policy. He holds a Ph.D. in communication from the University of California, San Diego.
