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
John P. Holdren
Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program
Member of the Board (on leave), Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
John P. Holdren is on leave to serve as the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy.
David Keith
Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
David Keith has worked near the interface between climate science, energy technology, and public policy for twenty years. His academic appointments are at Harvard where he serves as the Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Henry Lee
Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program
Co-Principal Investigator, Energy Technology Innovation Policy
Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government
Henry Lee is the Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Program. Before joining the School in 1979, Mr. Lee spent nine years in Massachusetts state government as Director of the State's Energy Office.
Nathaniel Logar
Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program/Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group
Dr. Nathaniel Logar studies institutional policies for useable science, policies for integrating user needs into decision processes, and partnerships between federal actors and private entities.
Meagan Mauter
Visiting Scholar, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group
Meagan Mauter's research interests lie at the intersection of energy and water. Now serving as a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Kennedy School, she is working to define structural barriers to the implementation of energy-saving water technologies.
Scott Moore
Giorgio Ruffolo Doctoral Research Fellow, Sustainability Science Program/Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group
Scott Moore's academic background is in political and environmental science, and he has a long-standing interest in China, where he previously worked with the U.S. Department of Energy. At HKS, he will complete an overview of water resource politics in China.
Venkatesh "Venky" Narayanamurti
Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology and Public Policy; Professor of Physics, Harvard; Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program; Co-Principal Investigator, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group
Co-Principal Investigator, Explorations in Cyber International Relations
Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Venkatesh Narayanamurti was formerly the Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Dean of Physical Sciences at Harvard. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University. He has published widely in the areas of low temperature physics, superconductivity, semiconductor physics, electronics, and photonics.
Nidhi R. Santen
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group
Nidhi Santen's research focuses on improving numerical modeling methods to study the trade-offs between different types of environmental and technology policies for electric power system air emissions management.
Chao Zhang
Giorgio Ruffolo Doctoral Postdoctoral Fellow, Sustainability Science Program/Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group
Chao Zhang's research focuses on environmental policy assessment and the role of technologies in achieving sustainability, with emphasis on the application of modeling tools and environmental system analysis methods. Chao is contributing to collaborative work with the Initiative on Sustainable Energy Development in China.
Laura Diaz Anadon
Associate Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program; Director, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group; Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy
Member of the Board,, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Laura's research focuses on energy- and environment-oriented technological progress and seeks to: identify and quantify the diverse benefits that derive from policies designed to promote it; map the complex factors that contribute to it; and create tools for policymakers and analysts to manage the systemic uncertainties that accompany it.



