Honor and Opportunity: John P. Holdren, director of the Center’s Science, Technology, and Public Policy program, was installed in May as guest professor of Tsinghua University, a prestigious three-year non-resident appointment to the university known as “
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"Belfer in Brief"

Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

Winter 2008-09

Belfer Center Programs or Projects: Managing the Atom; Science, Technology, and Globalization

Juma: Harnessing Knowledge to Address Global Challenges

  As a guest of the Japanese Prime Minister's office in late spring, the Center's Calestous Juma spoke to an international gathering of more than 100 science ministers on the need for collective initiatives to harness the world's body of scientific and technical knowledge to address challenges facing the global community. Juma, who heads the Center's Science, Technology, and Globalization project, proposed urgent investments in new international biotechnology research partnerships and institutional reforms in research and higher education to facilitate closer cooperation between government, business and academia.

Acting on his belief in the need to link technology and higher education, Juma recently founded the Victoria Institute of Science and Technology on the shores of Lake Victoria in Kenya.

Carnesale: Providing a Non-nuclear Option

Albert Carnesale, a member of the Center’s board of directors, chaired a blue-ribbon committee of the National Academies’ National Research Council charged by Congress to analyze the need for a non-nuclear weapon with the ability to accurately strike a target anywhere in the world within an hour. The report, released in August by the 18-member Committee on Conventional Prompt Global Strike (CPGS), advised Congress to fund the research and development of the Conventional Trident Modification (TCM) program, which calls for converting two of the 24 Trident missiles currently deployed on each of 12 submarines from nuclear to non-nuclear warheads.

Belferites Out and About

Naseem Khuri has been named executive director of the Belfer Center’s Dubai Initiative. A graduate of Harvard Kennedy School, Khuri previously served as a senior advisor to the Kennedy School Negotiation Project.

Hassan Abbas, research fellow with the Belfer Center’s International Security Program/Managing the Atom, was interviewed by numerous media regarding the resignation of Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf and the future of Pakistan. Abbas served in the administrations of both Benazir Bhutto and Musharraf.

The Belfer Center congratulates three of its staff who got married over the summer. Best wishes to the Center’s Neal Doyle, Amanda Swanson, and Sasha Talcott.

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