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
Afreen Siddiqi
Visting Scholar, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
Afreen Siddiqi is broadly interested in quantitative systems-level analysis of the energy-water nexus and its policy implications. She is also a Research Scientist in the Engineering Systems Division at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she is currently working on structured cross-domain interactions of large-scale systems.
Robert N. Stavins
Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Member of the Board; Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
Director, Harvard Environmental Economics Program
Chair, Environment and Natural Resources Faculty Group
Chairman, Ph.D. Programs in Public Policy and Political Economy & Government
Co-Chair, Kennedy School-Harvard Business School Joint Degree Programs
Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Robert N. Stavins is the Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government, Director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program, and Chairman of the Environment and Natural Resources Faculty Group.
Ian J. Stewart
Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom
Ian Stewart is a nuclear technologies and proliferation specialist who comes to the centre from the "Project on Proliferation Procurement and Anti-Proliferation in the Private Sector" which is based at King's College, London. This project aims to identify new ways to prevent proliferation-related trade from supporting WMD programs of concern.
Zachary Tumin
Special Assistant to the Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
Zach leads the Belfer Center's project in Information and Communications Technology and directs the Harvard component of a joint Harvard-MIT initiative in cyber security.
Wilfred Wan
Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program
Wilfred Wan's research interests include institutional change, international institutions (particularly in security), nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament, and IR theory. He has a Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine.
Rebecca Ward
Stanton Nuclear Security Predoctoral Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom
Rebecca Ward is a Ph.D. candidate in the Nuclear and Radiation Engineering Program at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests are nuclear nonproliferation analysis and optimization of safeguards resource allocation strategies.
Alex Wellerstein
Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
Alex Wellerstein received Ph.D. from the Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, in October 2010. His work focuses on the history of nuclear secrecy in the United States from the Manhattan Project through the War on Terror ("Knowledge and the Bomb: Nuclear Secrecy in the United States, 19392008").
Yvonne Yew
Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program
Yvonne Yew is a research fellow with the International Security Program and Project on Managing the Atom. A former Singapore diplomat, she has worked on regional and multilateral issues in Asia and in Europe.
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.



