Matthew Bunn
Martha Stewart
"Managing the Atom's Matthew Bunn Named Associate Professor of Public Policy"
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Winter 2008-09
Belfer Center Programs or Projects: International Security; Managing the Atom; Science, Technology, and Public Policy
The Belfer Center’s Matthew Bunn, co-principal investigator for the Belfer Center’s Project on Managing the Atom (MTA), was appointed associate professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School in July. HKS Dean David Ellwood announced Bunn’s appointment.
Bunn’s research at the Belfer Center has focused on nuclear theft and terrorism, nuclear proliferation and measures to control it, and the future of nuclear energy and its fuel cycle. Before joining the Kennedy School in 1997, Bunn served for three years as an advisor to the Clinton administration in the Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he played a major role in U.S. policies related to the former Soviet Union. He also worked at the National Academies of Sciences and is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. For his efforts to improve international security by formulating policies to decrease the risk of nuclear theft, Bunn has received several awards that include the American Physical Society's Joseph A. Burton Forum Award and the Federation of American Scientists' Hans Bethe Award.
Bunn also is lead author of the Managing the Atom’s annual report “Securing the Bomb,” a comprehensive yardstick of global progress toward locking down nuclear materials and weapons worldwide. Commissioned by the Nuclear Threat Initiative, the report has been credited for suggesting a number of nuclear security measures later implemented by the government.
"Matt is enormously knowledgeable, creative, productive, and effective,” said John Holdren, director of the Center’s Science, Technology, and Public Policy program and co-principal investigator with Bunn for the Project on Managing the Atom. “I think he's the best generator anywhere of practical ideas for reducing the dangers we continue to face from nuclear weapons.”
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