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
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.
Eben Harrell
Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
Eben Harrell is an associate at the Project on Managing the Atom in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School. His research interests include nuclear security and safety, nuclear nonproliferation, and the future of nuclear energy and climate change.
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.
Steven E. Miller
Director, International Security Program; Editor-in-Chief, International Security; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom
Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Steven E. Miller is Director of the International Security Program, Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly journal, International Security, and also co-editor of the International Security Program's book series, Belfer Center Studies in International Security (which is published by the MIT Press).
Richard N. Rosecrance
Adjunct Professor; International Security Program; Director, Project on U.S.-China Relations
Richard Rosecrance is an adjunct professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he is director of the Belfer Center's Project on U.S.-China Relations. He served on the Policy Planning Council of the Department of State. Most recently, he co-edited No More States? Globalization, National Self-determination, and Terrorism.
Stephen M. Walt
Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs; Faculty Chair, International Security Program
Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs and is faculty chair of the International Security Program.
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.
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.
Calestous Juma
Professor of the Practice of International Development; Director, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project; Principal Investigator, Agricultural Innovation in Africa
Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Calestous Juma is Professor of the Practice of International Development and Director of the Science, Technology, and Globalization Project. He holds a Ph.D. in science and technology policy studies and has written widely on science, technology, and the environment.



