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.
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.
Michal Ben-Josef Hirsch
Research Fellow, International Security Program
Michal's research interests include international relations theory with a focus on the role of ideas and norms in world politics, international institutions and international organizations, conflict resolution, historical justice and memory, transitional justice, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
William Clark
Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy, and Human Development; Co-director, Sustainability Science Program; Faculty Chair, ENRP
Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Area Chair, HKS International and Global Affairs
William C. Clark is the Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development and co-director of Harvard’s Sustainability Science Program.
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.
Tytti Erästö
Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom
Tytti Erästö has a Ph.D. in International Relations from Tampere University, Finland. Her interests include nonproliferation, nuclear disarmament, Middle East politics, conflict management, and English School theory.
Martin Feldstein
George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University
Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Martin Feldstein is the George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University and president emeritus of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Sven-Eric Fikenscher
Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom
Sven-Eric Fikenscher's research focuses on regional security and arms control in the Middle East, status-seeking in international relations, and India's nuclear policy.
Trevor Findlay
Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program
Trevor Findlay is a professor and Director of the Canadian Centre for Treaty Compliance at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, where he holds the William and Jeanie Barton Chair in International Affairs.
Jeffrey Frankel
James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth
Jeffrey Frankel is James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth. He was appointed to the Council of Economic Advisers by President Clinton in 1996, serving until 1999.



