PRESS RELEASES
February 15, 2013
Future of Diplomacy Project Selects Senior European Officials as Spring 2013 Fisher Family Fellows
By Doug Gavel
The Future of Diplomacy Project has appointed Professor Soli Özel, author and journalist Christopher de Bellaigue, British Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander, and Josette Sheeran, Vice Chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF) as spring 2013 Fisher Family Fellows. In addition, two former Fisher Family Fellows -- former Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran, and former NATO Secretary General Javier Solana -- will be returning to campus in March and April 2013.
January 25, 2013
Harvard Kennedy School Announces Ellis Goldberg as the First Kuwait Foundation Visiting Scholar
The Middle East Initiative (MEI) at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs today announced the selection of the first Kuwait Foundation Visiting Scholar, Professor Ellis Goldberg. Goldberg will be in residence at Harvard for the spring 2013 semester, where he will participate in MEI events, teach a course titled, “Politics of the Arab Spring,” and work closely with Harvard students and faculty.
Three senior fellows were appointed to the Future of Diplomacy Project in 2012.
December 4, 2012
Future of Diplomacy Project Selects Diplomatic and Negotiation Practitioners as Senior Fellows
The Future of Diplomacy Project at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University has appointed former US Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter, and Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Senior Lecturer Brian Mandell as Senior Fellows. They join author and Washington Post Opinion Writer David Ignatius, who has been a non-resident Senior Fellow with the Project since September 2012. All three fellows will actively contribute to the work of the Project by facilitating seminars and negotiation simulations with HKS degree students over the spring semester 2013.
October 22, 2012
Winners of Cuban Missile Crisis Lessons Contest Announced
The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Foreign Policy Magazine have announced the winners and runners-up of the “Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis Contest,” held to mark the 50th anniversary of the crisis that narrowly averted nuclear war in October 1962.
Belfer Center
October 2, 2012
"Former Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman James Cartwright Appointed Senior Fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center"
James Cartwright, former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has been appointed a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School.
August 6, 2012
Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center Launches Website Marking Cuban Missile Crisis 50th Anniversary
Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs today launches a new website to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Designed to help policymakers, students, and interested citizens draw lessons from these critical events half a century ago, www.cubanmissilecrisis.org not only provides background on the crisis that brought the world to the brink of nuclear disaster in October 1962 but also offers tools to understand how it can inform contemporary policy.
Harvard Photo
July 13, 2012
Harvard Kennedy School Receives Gift from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences
By Doug Gavel
The Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS) has given $8.1 million to Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) to support the continuation of the Kuwait Program at HKS Belfer Center's Middle East Initiative. The gift will be used to develop leaders with the capacity to address the many challenging public policy issues facing the region. It will also fund research issues of vital importance in the region, such as education, energy, and water.
July 11, 2012
Michèle Flournoy to Join Belfer Center as a Senior Fellow
Michèle Flournoy, a former fellow with Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, has rejoined the Center as a Senior Fellow after stepping down from her position as U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. As a non-resident Senior Fellow, Flournoy will visit the Kennedy School several times a semester, working with faculty, fellows and students on international security policy matters.
Belfer Center
June 27, 2012
Robert B. Zoellick to Join Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center as Senior Fellow
By Robert B. Zoellick, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Robert B. Zoellick, outgoing president of the World Bank, will join Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs in July as a senior fellow. Zoellick, whose five-year term at the Bank ends June 30, is a former Belfer Center research fellow and an alumnus of the Kennedy School. He has also been named a distinguished visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C.
(AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani, File)
June 2012
New study by Harvard Kennedy School researcher forecasts sharp increase in world oil production capacity, and risk of price collapse
By James F. Smith, Communications Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
A new study by Belfer Center fellow Leonardo Maugeri shows that oil production capacity is surging in the United States and several other countries at such a fast pace that global oil output capacity is likely to grow by nearly 20 percent by 2020. This could prompt a plunge or even a collapse in oil prices. The findings by Maugeri, a former oil industry executive who is now a fellow in the Geopolitics of Energy Project in the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, are based on an original field-by-field analysis of the world’s major oil formations and exploration projects.
