"Rolf Mowatt-Larssen and William Tobey Named Senior Fellows"

Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

Spring 2009

Author: Sharon Wilke, Associate Director of Communications

Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, former director of the Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and former head of the Central Intelligence Agency's WMD and terrorism efforts, has joined the Belfer Center as a senior fellow along with William H. Tobey, who was until recently the deputy administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation at the DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).

As director of intelligence and counterintelligence with DOE until January, Mowatt-Larssen and his 600 person organization was responsible for the areas of nuclear terrorism, nuclear proliferation, science and technology, energy security, and counterintelligence. His primary focus was preventing a nuclear terrorism attack on the United States by working to keep nuclear weapons and weapons materials out of the hands of terrorists.

Tobey, a Harvard Kennedy School graduate (MPP '84) who served as DOE deputy administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation from 2006 to 2009, led a team of 400 employees, managed NNSA's $2.1 billion budget, and worked with more than 100 countries to prevent nuclear proliferation and terrorism by detecting, securing, and disposing of dangerous nuclear materials.

At the Belfer Center, Mowatt-Larssen and Tobey will work with the Center's nuclear team on an initiative to reduce the dangers posed by the current unraveling of the global nuclear order. Along with Belfer Center's Graham Allison, Matthew Bunn, Ashton Carter, Steven Miller and others, they will help advance work begun by a Commission of Eminent Persons (launched earlier this year by International Atomic Energy Association Director General Mohamed ElBaradei) to find ways to maximize contributions of nuclear technologies to human well-being while minimizing the risks of nuclear weapons proliferation and nuclear terrorist attacks.

"We are extremely pleased to have Rolf and Will join the Belfer Center as senior fellows," said Allison. "In their respective careers, they have contributed extensively to the intelligence and formation of policies necessary to prevent nuclear proliferation and terrorism. They will bring tremendous insights and expertise to the efforts of our nuclear team and to Harvard."

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