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.
Noora Lori
Research Fellow, International Security Program
Noora Lori is an ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion fellow and a doctoral candidate in Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. Her work examines how migrant labor impacts the institutional development, regime stability, and political opportunity structures of the Arab Gulf states.
Leonardo Maugeri
Roy Family Fellow, Geopolitics of Energy Project
Leonardo Maugeri is an expert on oil, gas, and energy. Since the early 2000s, he was among the few who affirmed that the world's oil was neither running out nor approaching its "peak-production." His latest book is Beyond the Age of Oil: The Myths and Realities of Fossil Fuels and Their Alternatives (March 2010).
Carlotta M. Minnella
Research Fellow, International Security Program
Carlotta Minnella is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. She holds first-class honors degrees in Political Science and International Relations, Security Studies, and Diplomacy from the University of Trieste, the Institute of Political Studies in Paris, and SIOI in Rome.
Vivek Mohan
Research Fellow, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program/Project on Technology, Security, and Conflict in the Cyber Age
Vivek Mohan writes on topics including privacy and surveillance, legislative reform for cybersecurity, net neutrality, ISP regulation, telecommunications and regulatory reform, and Internet governance. He is interested in how emerging technologies being brought to market in a variety of sectors interact with existing laws and regulations.
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.
Rolf Mowatt-Larssen
Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Prior to his appointment as a senior fellow at the Belfer Center, Mr. Rolf Mowatt-Larssen served over three years as the Director of Intelligence and Counterintelligence at the U.S. Department of Energy.
Michael Murphy
Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Mike Murphy is one of the Republican Party’s most successful political media consultants, having handled strategy and advertising for more than 26 successful gubernatorial and Senatorial campaigns. Murphy has been called a “media master” by Fortune magazine and the GOP’s “hottest media consultant” by Newsweek.
Richard Nielsen
Research Fellow, International Security Program
Richard Nielsen is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University. His current research explores why some Islamic clerics adopt and endorse the ideology of militant Jihad while most do not.
David Nusbaum
Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program
David Nusbaum has seventeen years of professional experience as a chemical engineer in the nuclear industry. Throughout his career, he has tried to combine his technical background and broad knowledge in chemical and nuclear engineering with more practical, policy-oriented work.
