PEOPLE

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.

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. 

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.

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 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.

Karin Vander Schaaf was formerly Harvard Medical International's Manager of Administrative Operations and Program Manager in Dubai, UAE for the Dubai Healthcare City project. She holds a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Graduate Certificate of Special Studies in Administration and Management from the Harvard Extension School.   

Gabe Chan is a Public Policy Ph.D. candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School where he studies energy technology innovation economics and policy.

Yue Guo is a research fellow in the Center for Science, Technology & Education Policy, Tsinghua University, and a doctoral candidate in the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University. His chief research interests are science and technology policy, energy policy, and policy process.

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.