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Belfer Center Fellows and Visiting Scholars2020–2021

TA B L E O F CO N T E N T S

Core Fellows

Sasha Baker .................................2

Vincent Brooks ...........................2

Morgan Brown ............................4

Tom Donilon ................................4

Joseph F. Dunford, Jr. ...............6

Michèle Flournoy........................7

Benjamin Heineman ..................9

Karen Elliott House .................. 10

Syra Madad ..................................11

Susan Rice...................................12

Lori Robinson ............................ 14

Sarah Sewall ...............................15

Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall .....17

Mary Elizabeth Taylor ............. 19

Richard Verma .......................... 19

Joseph Votel ..............................21

Applied History Project

Aaron Wess Mitchell ...............23

Justin Winokur .........................23

Arctic Initiative

Doug Causey .............................26

Joel Clement .............................26

Sarah Dewey .............................27

Halla Hrund Logadóttir ..........28

Sarah Mackie .............................29

Fran Ulmer ................................ 30

Avoiding Great Power War Project

Kurt Campbell ...........................32

Niall Ferguson .......................... 34

Laura Holgate .......................... 34

Anne Karalekas ........................ 36

Ernest Moniz .............................37

Daniel Poneman .......................38

Kevin Rudd ...............................40

David Sanger............................. 41

Mustafa Suleyman .................. 43

Robert Zoellick ........................ 44

Cyber Project

Justin Key Canfil ...................... 46

Naniette Coleman ................... 46

Amanda Current ......................47

Amy Ertan ..................................47

Gregory Falco .......................... 48

Jeffrey Fields ............................ 49

Robert Knake ........................... 49

Priscilla Moriuchi ..................... 50

Nand Mulchandani .................. 50

Bruce Schneier ..........................51

Anina Schwarzenbach ............52

Camille Stewart ........................52

Julia Voo .....................................53

Tarah Wheeler .......................... 54

Defending Digital Democracy Project

Amina Edwards ....................... 56

Robby Mook ............................. 56

Debbie Plunkett ...................... 56

Janice Shelsta ...........................57

Utsav Sohoni .............................58

Defense Project

National Security Fellows

Nazanin Azizian .......................60

Jacquelyn Barcomb ................ 61

Thomas Caldwell ......................62

Lewis Call ...................................63

Merbin Carattini ........................63

Chad Corrigan.......................... 64

Chad Daniels ............................ 65

Susan Davenport .................... 66

Timothy Griffith ........................67

Jack Kiesler............................... 68

Taylor Lam ................................ 69

Isaac Lowe ................................ 69

Patrick Pollak ........................... 70

Chad Senior ................................71

Andrew St. Jean .......................72

Gregory Walsh ..........................73

Roosevelt White .......................74

Matthew Woods .......................75

Economic Diplomacy Initiative

Christopher Li ...........................78

Joshua Lipsky ...........................78

Environment and Natural Resources Program

Bo Bai .......................................... 81

Jing Chen ................................... 81

Marinella Davide....................... 81

Nicola de Blasio ........................82

Alejandro Nunez-Jimenez .... 84

Alexandre Strapasson ........... 84

Cristine Russell .........................85

Cecilia Han Springer............... 86

Fang Zhang .............................. 86

Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship

José Luis de Colmenares ...... 88

Jolyon Howorth ....................... 88

Karl Kaiser ................................. 89

Douglas Lute ............................90

Amanda Sloat ........................... 91

The Future of Diplomacy Project

Douglas Alexander ................. 94

Robert Danin ............................ 94

Paula Dobriansky .................... 96

David Ignatius .......................... 98

Victoria Nuland ........................ 98

Farah Pandith ........................... 99

Dina Powell ...............................101

Marcie Ries...............................102

Thomas Shannon ...................103

Jake Sullivan ............................105

Edward Wong .........................105

Fisher Family Fellows

Julie Bishop ............................. 107

Saeb Erakat ............................. 107

Federica Mogherini ...............108

Peter Wittig .............................109

Geopolitics of Energy Project

Adnan Amin .............................. 111

Juergen Braunstein ................. 111

Homeland Security Project

Nate Bruggeman.....................114

Steve Johnson ......................... 115

Intelligence Project

James Clapper ......................... 118

Sue Gordon............................... 119

Daniel Hoffman ......................120

Bernard Hudson ...................... 121

Rolf Mowatt-Larssen .............. 121

Michael Rogers ....................... 122

Norman Roule ......................... 124

Kevin Ryan ............................... 125

Kristin Wood ........................... 126

Recanati-Kaplan Fellows

Yahya Al-Mheiri ...................... 127

Fawaz Alsumaim .................... 127

Rashid Alsuwaidi .................... 128

Cedric Boucher ....................... 128

James Burnham ..................... 128

Karla Eger-Adgent................. 129

Amir Frayman .........................130

Kelly Gaffney ...........................130

Gregory Gicquiaud ................130

Bruce Guggenberger ............. 131

Or Horvitz ................................. 131

Tomer Shitrit ........................... 132

Wayne Stone ........................... 132

Wilfredo Torres ....................... 133

International Security Program

Gbemisola Abiola .................. 135

David Allen .............................. 135

Augusta Dell’Omo ................. 136

Nicole Grajewski ..................... 137

Kelly Greenhill ......................... 137

Jacqueline Hazelton .............. 139

John Holland-McCowan ....... 139

Vanes Ibric ...............................140

Alex Yu-Ting Lin .....................140

Sean Lynn-Jones ..................... 141

Renanah Miles-Joyce ............ 142

Mina Mitreva ............................ 142

Nathaniel Moir ........................ 143

Jamil Musa ............................... 143

Evan Perkoski .......................... 143

Sara Plana ................................144

Andrew Porwancher .............144

Huseyin Rasit .......................... 145

Robert James Ralson ............ 145

Richard Rosecrance ..............146

Jayita Sarkar ........................... 147

Averell Schmidt ...................... 147

Ashley Serpa-Flack ...............148

Christopher Shay ...................149

Graeme Thompson ................149

Sanne Verschuren ..................150

Audrye Wong .........................150

Korea Project

Andrew Kim ............................. 153

John Park ................................. 153

Gary Samore ........................... 155

Project on Managing the Atom

Ali Ahmad ................................ 158

Giles David Arceneaux ......... 158

Aaron Arnold .......................... 159

Abolghasem Bayyenat ......... 159

Leyatt Betre .............................160

Hyun-Binn Cho .......................160

William D’Ambruoso .............. 161

Denia Djokić ............................. 161

Michael Gallucci ...................... 162

Rebecca Davis Gibbons ....... 163

Amit Grober ............................ 163

Stephen Herzog .....................164

Alexander Kamprad .............. 165

Mailys Mangin ......................... 165

Sahar Nowrouzzadeh ...........166

Ariel Petrovics......................... 167

Nickolas Roth .......................... 167

Mahsa Rouhi ............................ 168

Daniel Salisbury......................169

Aditi Verma..............................169

Alex Wellerstein ..................... 170

Yeajin Yoon .............................. 170

Middle East Initiative

Sultan Al Qassemi .................. 173

Rabah Arezki ........................... 173

Yael Berda ................................ 174

Tugba Bozcaga ....................... 175

Thoraya El-Rayyes ................. 176

Karim Haggag ......................... 176

Amy Holmes ............................ 177

Hilary Kalisman ....................... 178

Jeffrey Karam.......................... 178

Rami Khouri ............................. 179

Andrew March ......................... 181

Hanan Morsy ............................ 181

Yuree Noh ................................ 182

Djavad Salehi-Isfahani .......... 183

Lana Salman ............................184

Muharrem Aytug Sasmaz .... 185

James Snyder ......................... 185

Kelly Stedem ........................... 187

Moshik Temkin ........................ 187

Chagai Weiss ........................... 189

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Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program

Laura Diaz Anadon ................. 191

Kelly Sims Gallagher ............. 193

Kaveri Iychettira .....................194

Easwaran Narassimhan ........ 195

Ambuj Sagar ........................... 195

Afreen Siddiqi .........................196

Jeff Tsao ................................... 197

Security and Global Health Project

Margaret Bourdeaux .............199

Technology and Public Purpose Project

Clare Bayley.............................201

Flavia Chen ..............................201

Dana Chisnell .........................202

Lisa Gelobter ..........................203

Devin Gladden .......................204

Gretchen Greene ...................205

Mark Lerner ............................206

Christopher Lynch ................ 207

Dhanurjay (DJ) Patil .............208

Elizabeth Sisson ....................209

Emily Tavoulareas ..................210

Jacob Taylor ............................. 211

Rebecca Williams .................. 212

Belfer Young Leaders and Allison Fellows

Salina Abraham ......................214

Nicholas Anway ......................214

Hamish Cameron ................... 215

John Michael Cassetta .......... 215

Casey Corcoran ...................... 215

Justin DeShazor ..................... 216

Emily Fry .................................. 216

Akhil Iyer .................................. 217

Stefani Jones ........................... 217

Caroline Kim ............................ 218

Allison Lazarus ....................... 218

Abigail Mayer .......................... 219

Mitsuru Mukaigawara ............ 219

Jamaji C. Nwanaji-Enwerem .220

D’Seanté Parks ......................220

Amy Robinson ........................ 221

Usha Sahay .............................. 221

Nicole Thomasian ................. 222

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2 Fellows and Visiting Scholars 2020–2021

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Sasha BakerFellow

Sasha Baker is a senior advisor to Senator Elizabeth Warren and served as Deputy Policy Director for her 2020 presi-dential campaign, where she drafted positions on national security, criminal justice, immigration, and climate policy. Previously, Sasha served in the Obama administration as Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of Defense Ash Carter. After time in the private sector, Sasha began her public service career as a research assistant for the House Armed Services Committee. She later joined the White House Office of Management and Budget as a Presidential Management Fellow, where she worked as a budget analyst in the Homeland and National Security Divisions and as Special Assistant to the OMB Director. Sasha holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School. She is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a recipient of the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service medal.

Vincent BrooksSenior Fellow

Vincent K. Brooks is a career Army officer who retired from active duty in January 2019 as the four-star general in com-mand of over 650,000 Koreans and Americans under arms.

General Brooks, who goes by “Vince,” is a 1980 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, the first class to include women, and he led the 4,000 cadets as the cadet brigade commander or “First Captain.” A history-maker, Brooks is the first African American to have been chosen for this paramount position, and he was the first cadet to lead the student body when women were in all four classes (freshman or “plebe” to senior or “first class-man”). He is also the eighth African American in history to attain the military’s top rank—four-star general in the United States Army.


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He holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point; a Master of Military Art and Science from the prestigious U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; was a National Security Fellow at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government; and also holds an honorary Doctor of Laws from the New England School of Law as well as an honorary Doctor of Humanities from New England Law | Boston.

Widely respected as a speaker and leader of cohesive, innovative organizations, within and beyond the military, his areas of exper-tise are: leadership in complex organizations, crisis leadership, and building cohesive trust-based teams, national security, policy, strategy, international relations, military operations, combating terrorism and countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, diversity and inclusion. He is a combat veteran and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

In retirement, General Brooks is a Director of the Gary Sinise Foundation; a visiting Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; a Distinguished Fellow at the University of Texas, with both the Clements Center for National Security and also the Strauss Center for International Security and Law; an Executive Fellow with the Institute for Defense and Business; and the President of VKB Solutions LLC.

Vince is from a career military family and claims Alexandria, Virginia as home given the long roots in maternal and paternal branches of the family tree. Vince is married to Carol P. Brooks, MA, DSc. a retired Physical Therapist and currently an adult Educator. The two reside in Austin, Texas.


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Morgan BrownFellow

Morgan Brown is a non-resident Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Previously, Morgan was the Senior International Program Consultant for Harvard University, working to expand the global teaching and research mission of the University in over 150 countries. Prior to returning to Harvard, he helped to lead humanitarian response work for Oxfam America. His background includes non-profit and private consulting, business development, political campaigns, and he is a former professional athlete and coach. Morgan holds a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Harvard College and a master’s degree in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was named a Lucius Littauer Fellow. At Harvard College, he was captain of the baseball team and a recipient of both the Michael Rockefeller Fellowship and Francis Burr Scholarship.

Tom DonilonSenior Fellow

Thomas E. Donilon is a non-resident Senior Fellow with the Belfer Center. Donilon is Chairman of the BlackRock Investment Institute. He served as National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama. In that capacity Mr. Donilon oversaw the U.S. National Security Council staff, chaired the cabinet level National Security Principals Committee, provided the president’s daily national security briefing, and was responsible for the coordination and integration of the administration’s foreign policy, intelligence, and military efforts. Mr. Donilon also oversaw the White House’s international economics, cybersecurity, and international energy efforts. Mr. Donilon served as the President’s personal emissary to a number of world leaders, including President Hu Jintao and President Xi Jinping, President Vladimir Putin, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, and Prime Minister Netanyahu.


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Mr. Donilon previously served as Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy National Security Advisor. In that role, he was responsible for managing the U.S. government’s national security policy development and crisis management process. Mr. Donilon chaired the Obama-Biden transition at the U.S. Department of State. During the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, Mr. Donilon headed President Obama’s general election debate preparation effort.

Mr. Donilon chaired the Presidential Commission to Enhance National Cybersecurity. Mr. Donilon is a distinguished fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a non-resident senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, a distinguished fellow at the Asia Society, and a member of the Center on Global Energy Policy Advisory Board at Columbia University. He has been a member of the U.S. Defense Policy Board and the Central Intelligence Agency’s External Advisory Board. He has participated in and led numer-ous policy groups including Co-Chairing with Governor Mitch Daniels the Council on Foreign Relations Independent Task Force on Noncommunicable Diseases.

Mr. Donilon is among the nation’s most experienced policy and presidential advisors. He has worked closely with and advised three U.S. presidents since his first position at the White House in 1977, working with President Carter. He served as assistant secretary of state and chief of staff at the U.S. Department of State during the Clinton administration. In this capacity, Mr. Donilon was responsible for the development and implementation of the department’s major policy initiatives, including NATO expansion, the Dayton Peace Accords, and the Middle East peace process. Mr. Donilon has received the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Award, the National Intelligence Distinguished Public Service Medal, the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joint Distinguished Civilian Service Award, and the CIA’s Director’s Award.


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Mr. Donilon is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Aspen Strategy Group, and the Trilateral Commission. He received his undergraduate degree from Catholic University and his law degree from the University of Virginia. He lives in Washington, DC, with his wife, Ambassador Cathy Russell, and their children, Sarah (20) and Teddy (17). Cathy was U.S. Ambassador for Global Women’s Issues at the State Department from 2013-2017.

Joseph F. Dunford, Jr.Senior Fellow

General Joseph F. Dunford, Jr. (ret.) is a resident Senior Fellow with Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

Before joining the Belfer Center, General Dunford served as the 19th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the nation’s highest-ranking military officer, and the principal military advisor to the President, Secretary of Defense, and National Security Council (Oct. 1, 2015—Sept. 30, 2019).

Prior to becoming Chairman, General Dunford was the 36th Commandant of the Marine Corps. He previously served as Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps from 2010 to 2012 and was Commander, International Security Assistance Force and United States Forces-Afghanistan from February 2013 to August 2014.

A native of Boston, General Dunford graduated from Saint Michael’s College and was commissioned in 1977. He has served as an infantry officer at all levels, including command of 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines, and command of the 5th Marine Regiment during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM.


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General Dunford also served as the Assistant Division Commander of the 1st Marine Division, Marine Corps Director of Operations, and Marine Corps Deputy Commandant for Plans, Policies and Operations. He commanded I Marine Expeditionary Force and served as the Commander, Marine Forces U.S. Central Command.

His Joint assignments included duty as the Executive Assistant to the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Chief of the Global and Multilateral Affairs Division (J-5), and Vice Director for Operations on the Joint Staff (J-3).

A graduate of the U.S. Army Ranger School, Marine Corps Amphibious Warfare School, and the U.S. Army War College, General Dunford also earned master’s degrees in Government from Georgetown University and in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Michèle FlournoySenior Fellow

Michèle Flournoy is a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Michèle Flournoy is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of WestExec Advisors, and former Co- Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), where she currently serves on the board.

Michèle served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from February 2009 to February 2012. She was the principal advisor to the Secretary of Defense in the formulation of national security and defense policy, oversight of military plans and operations, and in National Security Council deliberations. She led the develop-ment of the Department of Defense’s 2012 Strategic Guidance and


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represented the Department in dozens of foreign engagements, in the media and before Congress.

Prior to confirmation, Michèle co-led President Obama’s transi-tion team at the Defense Department. In January 2007, Michèle co-founded CNAS, a bipartisan think tank dedicated to developing strong, pragmatic and principled national security policies. She served as CNAS’ President until 2009, and returned as CEO in 2014. In 2017, she co-founded WestExec Advisors, a strategic advisory firm.

Previously, she was senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies for several years and, prior to that, a distin-guished research professor at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University (NDU).

In the mid-1990s, she served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Threat Reduction and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy.

Michèle is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including: the American Red Cross Exceptional Service Award in 2016; the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service in 1998, 2011, and 2012; the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ’s Joint Distinguished Civilian Service Award in 2000 and 2012; the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service in 1996; and CARE’s Global Peace, Development and Security Award in 2019. She has edited several books and authored dozens of reports and articles on a broad range of defense and national security issues. Michèle appears frequently in national and international media, including CNN’s State of the Union, ABC’s This Week, NBC’s Meet the Press, BBC News, NPR’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered and PBS’ News Hour, and is frequently quoted in top tier newspapers.

Michèle serves on the boards of Booz Allen Hamilton, Amida Technology Solutions, The Mission Continues, Spirit of America,


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CARE, and The U.S. Naval Academy Foundation. She serves on the advisory boards of SINE, Equal AI, and The War Horse and on the honorary advisory committee of The Leadership Council for Women in National Security. Michèle is a former member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, the CIA Director’s External Advisory Board, and the Defense Policy Board. She is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Strategy Group and is a Senior Fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

Michèle earned a bachelor’s degree in social studies from Harvard University and a master’s degree in international relations from Balliol College, Oxford University, where she was a Newton-Tatum scholar.

Benjamin HeinemanSenior Fellow

Mr. Heineman is a graduate of Harvard College (1965), Oxford University (1967 -- graduate degree/political science) and Yale Law School (1971). A former Rhodes Scholar, editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal and law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, he practiced law in Washington before serving at HEW from 1977-1980, ending his tenure there as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. Mr. Heineman was then managing partner of the Washington office of Sidley & Austin, focusing on Supreme Court and test case litigation. He is the author of books on British race relations and the American presidency. In 1987, Mr. Heineman became Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of the General Electric Company located in Fairfield, Connecticut. In 2004, he was named GE’s Senior Vice President for Law and Public Affairs. Mr. Heineman is a member of the American Law Institute; a member of the Council on Foreign Relations; a member of the Board of Trustees of the Center for Strategic and International Studies; a member of the Board of Transparency International-USA; a member of


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the Board of Trustees of the National Constitution Center; and a member of the Board of Managers and Overseers of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. In May 2011, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.

While at the Belfer Center, he will research and write on a wide variety of public and private sector issues, including the global anti-corruption movement, corporate citizenship and social responsibility, the changing role of the corporate general counsel and the inside legal department, the corporate response to terror-ism, corporate governance, and corporations and public policy.

Karen Elliott HouseSenior Fellow

Karen Elliott House is a senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

Elliott House retired in 2006 as publisher of The Wall Street Journal, senior vice president of Dow Jones & Company, and a member of the company’s executive committee. She is a broadly experienced business executive with particular expertise and experience in international affairs stemming from a distinguished career as a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and editor.

She is author of On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines—and Future, published in September 2012 by Knopf.

During a 32-year career with Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal, Elliott House also served as foreign editor, diplomatic correspondent, and energy correspondent based in Washington, DC. Her journalism awards include a Pulitzer Prize for inter-national reporting for coverage of the Middle East (1984), two Overseas Press Club awards for coverage of the Middle East and of


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Islam and the Edwin M. Hood award for Excellence in Diplomatic Reporting for a series on Saudi Arabia (1982).

In both her news and business roles, she traveled widely over many years and interviewed world leaders including Saddam Hussein, Lee Kwan Yew, Zhu Rongji, Vladimir Putin, Shimon Peres, Benjamin Natanyahu, Saudi King Abdullah, Hosni Mubarak, Margaret Thatcher, Richard Nixon, Helmut Kohl, George H.W. Bush, the late King Hussein and Yasser Arafat. She has appeared frequently on television over the past three decades as an executive of the Wall Street Journal and as an expert on international relations.

Elliott House has served and continues to serve on multiple non-profit boards including the Rand Corp., where she is chairman of the board, the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Asia Society, the German-American Council, and Boston University. She also is a member of the advisory board of the College of Communication at the University of Texas. She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin where in 1996 she was the recipient of the University’s “Distinguished Alumnus” award. She studied and taught at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics and she holds honorary degrees from Pepperdine University (2013), Boston University (2003) and Lafayette College (1992). She also is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Syra MadadFellow

Dr. Syra Madad is nationally recognized leader and epidemiologist in public health and special pathogens preparedness and response. She is Senior Director, System-wide Special Pathogens Program at New York City Health + Hospitals, the nation’s largest municipal healthcare delivery system. She is Principal Investigator of NYC Health + Hospitals Institute


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for Diseases and Disaster Management. In addition, Dr. Madad is Core Faculty in the National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center (NETEC), funded by CDC and ASPR. She is a Fellow at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Health Security’s Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity, Senior Fellow in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Behavioral Informatics & Technological Enterprise Studies and Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Federation of American Scientists. Dr. Madad holds a Doctoral degree in Health Science with a con-centration in Global Health from Nova Southeastern University and Master of Science in Biotechnology with a concentration in Biodefense and Biosecurity from the University of Maryland. She also holds numerous certifications and trainings in all-hazards CBRNE, emergency management and infection prevention and control. Dr. Madad has been part of and led numerous infectious disease responses from Ebola to Zika and recently, COVID19. She has over 50 publications and has been a guest speaker at over 70 scientific/medical conferences around the world. Dr. Madad plays one of the lead roles in the Netflix docuseries, Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak, which follows a handful of leaders through-out the world on the frontlines to prevent the next outbreak.

Susan RiceSenior Fellow

Ambassador Susan E. Rice served President Barack Obama as National Security Advisor and U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations. In her role as National Security Advisor from July 1, 2013, to January 20, 2017, Ambassador Rice led the National Security Council Staff and chaired the Cabinet-level National Security Principals Committee. She provided the President daily national security briefings and was responsible for coordinating the formulation and implementation of all aspects of the Administration’s foreign and national security policy, intelligence, and military efforts.


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As U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) and a member of President Obama’s Cabinet, Rice worked to advance U.S. interests, defend universal values, strengthen the world’s security and prosperity, and promote respect for human rights. In a world of 21st Century threats that pay no heed to borders, Ambassador Rice helped rebuild an effective basis for interna-tional cooperation that strengthened the United States’ ability to achieve its foreign policy objectives and made the American people safer.

Ambassador Rice served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 1997—2001. In that role, she formulated and implemented U.S. policy towards 48 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and oversaw the management of 43 U.S. Embassies and more than 5,000 U.S. and Foreign Service national employees. Rice was co-recipient of the White House’s 2000 Samuel Nelson Drew Memorial Award for distinguished contributions to the formation of peaceful, cooperative relationships between states. From 1993-1997, she served as Special Assistant to President William J. Clinton and Senior Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council at the White House, as well as Director for International Organizations and Peacekeeping on the National Security Council staff. From 2002-2008, Rice was a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, where she conducted research and published widely on U.S. foreign policy, transnational security threats, weak states, global poverty and development. She began her career as a management consultant with McKinsey and Company in Toronto, Canada. She has served on numerous boards, including the Bureau of National Affairs, National Democratic Institute and the U.S. Fund for UNICEF.

Rice received her Master’s degree (M.Phil.) and Ph.D (D.Phil.) in International Relations from New College, Oxford University, England, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She was awarded the Chatham House-British International Studies Association Prize for the most distinguished doctoral dissertation in the United Kingdom in the field of International Relations in 1990. Ambassador Rice received her B.A. in History with honors from


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Stanford University in 1986, where she was awarded junior Phi Beta Kappa and was a Truman Scholar. In 2017, French President Francois Hollande presented Ambassador Rice with the Award of Commander, the Legion of Honor of France, for her contributions to Franco-American relations.

A native of Washington DC, Ambassador Rice is married to Ian Cameron, and they have two children.

Lori RobinsonSenior Fellow

General (ret.) Lori J. Robinson is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center. After 37 years of military service, Gen. Robinson retired this year (2018) as Commander, United States Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command (USNORTHCOM). She is the first woman in U.S. history to lead a combatant command. At the Belfer Center, Robinson shares her insights on leadership, public service, and international security issues with faculty, staff, and students, including National Security Fellows.

USNORTHCOM, which Gen. Robinson led, connect homeland defense, civil support, and security cooperation to defend and secure the United States and its interests. NORAD conducts aero-space warning, aerospace control, and maritime warning in the defense of North America. Prior to her assignment as commander of USNORTHCOM, she commanded the Pacific Air Forces and was Air Component Commander for U.S. Pacific Command at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii.

Robinson entered the Air Force in 1982 through the ROTC pro-gram at the University of New Hampshire. She served in a variety of positions as an Air Battle Manager, including instructor and Commander of the Command and Control Operations Division at


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the Air Force Fighter Weapons School, and Chief of Tactics in the 965th Airborne Warning and Control Squadron. She commanded an operations group, a training and air control wings, and deployed as Vice Commander of the 405th Air Expeditionary Wing, leading more than 2,000 Airmen flying the B-1 Lancer, KC-135 Stratotanker, and E-3 Sentry aircraft in operations ENDURING and IRAQI FREEDOM.

General Robinson was an Air Force Fellow at The Brookings Institution in Washington, DC., and served at the Pentagon as Director of the Secretary of the Air Force and Chief of Staff of the Air Force Executive Action Group. She was also Deputy Director for Force Application and Support and the Directorate of Force Structure, Resources and Assessment with the Joint Staff at the Pentagon in Washington, DC. Following these assignments, she was Director and Legislative Liaison in the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force at the Pentagon. She also served as the Deputy Commander of the U.S. Air Forces Central Command, and Deputy Commander of the Combined Force Air Component with the U.S. Central Command, Southwest Asia, and Vice Commander of the Air Combat Command, Langley Air Force Base, Virginia.

Sarah SewallSenior Fellow

Sarah Sewall is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center. Concurrently, she is the Speyer Distinguished Scholar and Professor at Johns Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC., a Senior Fellow at InQTel, and serves on the boards of the Center for Naval Analyses and Creative Associates.

An expert on security and on human rights, she served as Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy and Human Rights from 2014 to 2017 and earlier as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Peacekeeping and Humanitarian


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Assistance. Her appointment at the Belfer Center brings her back to the Kennedy School where she was a member of the faculty for a decade and headed the School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.

As Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy and Human Rights from 2014-2017, Sewall was responsible for more than 2000 employees and a $5 billion budget overseeing issues that included counterterrorism, law enforcement, conflict prevention, refugees, human rights, and global justice. She was a key architect of the Obama administration’s Combating Violent Extremism (CVE) policy, which the United Nations ultimately adopted and renamed Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE). While Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Clinton administration, she established a U.S. peacekeeping office and advised the Secretary of Defense on peace operations and humanitarian assistance. At DoD, she was awarded the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service.

Prior to her work in the Obama administration, Sewall taught foreign policy courses at Harvard Kennedy School for more than a decade. While Director of the Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, she launched the MARO (Mass Atrocities Response Operations) Project to assist the U.S. military with contingency planning to protect civilians from large-scale vio-lence. Many of her recommendations for reducing the impacts of conflict on civilian populations were incorporated into U.S. Army doctrine.

Sewall is the author or co-author of a number of publications including Chasing Success: Air Force Efforts to Reduce Civilian Harm (Air University Press, 2016); Mass Atrocity Response Operations: A Military Planning Handbook, with Raymond, D. & Chin, S. (Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, 2010); and A Radical Field Manual, The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual. (University of Chicago Press, 2007).


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Sewall has taught at the Naval War College and served on the U.S. Secretary of Defense’s Defense Policy Board. She graduated from Harvard and received her doctorate from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.

Elizabeth Sherwood-RandallSenior Fellow

Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall is a non-resident Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and a Distinguished Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology with joint appointments at the Nunn School of International Affairs and the Strategic Energy Institute.

Prior to returning to Harvard and the Belfer Center, Sherwood-Randall served as Deputy Secretary at the U.S. Department of Energy from October 10, 2014 to January 20, 2017. In her capacity as Deputy Secretary, she was the Department’s chief operating officer, overseeing a budget of nearly $30 billion and a workforce of more than 113,000 people. She provided strategic direction for DOE’s broad missions in nuclear deterrence and proliferation prevention, science and energy, environmental management, emergency response, and grid security. While at DOE, she devel-oped and implemented a new approach to fulfilling the agency’s growing responsibilities for grid resilience and emergency response to meet evolving natural, physical, and cyber threats.

Earlier in the Obama administration, she was the White House Coordinator for Defense Policy, Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Arms Control in 2013-2014, with responsibility for U.S. defense strategy, policy, and budget planning. She served from 2009 to 2013 as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European Affairs at the National Security Council, with responsibility for advising the President and leading the


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interagency process on U.S. policy toward 49 European countries, NATO, the European Union, and the OSCE.

In the Clinton administration, Sherwood-Randall served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia from 1994 to 1996. She led the effort to denuclearize three former Soviet states, for which she was awarded the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service and the Nunn-Lugar Traiblazer Award.

Sherwood-Randall has worked at the Kennedy School on two prior projects. She was a Founding Principal of the Harvard-Stanford Preventive Defense Project, where she collaborated with current Belfer Center Director Ash Carter from 1997-2008. Between 1990-1993, she was Associate Director of the Belfer Center’s Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project, which she co-founded with former Center Director Graham Allison.

Sherwood-Randall attended college at Harvard and then earned a graduate degree at Oxford University, where she was among the early ranks of female Rhodes Scholars. After finishing her edu-cation, she began her career working for then-Senator Joe Biden as his chief advisor on foreign and defense policy. She has also worked at Stanford University, the Council on Foreign Relations, and The Brookings Institution.

Born and raised in California, she is married to Jeffrey Randall, a neurosurgeon, and they have two college-aged sons.


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Mary Elizabeth TaylorFellow

Mary Elizabeth Taylor is a non-resident Fellow. Taylor has spent the past decade navigating the highest levels of the United States federal government, earning an esteemed reputation for building bipartisan consensus through challenging political environments. From 2018-2020, Taylor served as the 32nd Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs, becoming the first African American and youngest person to hold the post. She was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Reporting directly to the Secretary of State, Assistant Secretary Taylor served as the State Department’s lead interlocutor with the Legislative Branch, overseeing a team of 60 Department profes-sionals facilitating dialogue and coordination with Congress. From 2017-2018, Taylor served in the White House as Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs. She led the successful, bipartisan Senate confirmation strategies of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, CIA Director Gina Haspel, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Prior to the White House, Taylor worked on the United States Senate floor for Majority Leader McConnell.

A native Washingtonian, Taylor earned her bachelor’s degrees in Political Science and Spanish from Bryn Mawr College.

Richard VermaSenior Fellow

Rich Verma is Vice Chairman and Partner at The Asia Group, a leading strategic and business advisory firm head-quartered in Washington, DC. He previously served as the U.S. Ambassador to India from 2014 to 2017, where he led one of the largest U.S. diplomatic missions and championed historic prog-ress in bilateral cooperation on defense, trade, and clean energy.


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As a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at Belfer, Ambassador Verma will focus on American diplomacy, key developments in Asia, and U.S. national security policy.

Ambassador Verma was previously the Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs, and also served for many years as the Senior National Security Advisor to the Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He was a member of the WMD and Terrorism Commission and a co-author of their landmark report, “World at Risk.” He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, and his military decorations include the Meritorious Service Medal and Air Force Commendation Medal.

In addition to his role at The Asia Group, Ambassador Verma is a Senior Fellow at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service and Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. The Ambassador also co-chairs the Center for American Progress’ U.S.-India Task Force, which has charted an actionable bilateral agenda to deepen U.S.-India ties. He also serves on a number of boards and commissions, including the National Endowment for Democracy, the U.S.-India Strategic Partnership Forum, Malaria No More, Lehigh University, the MGM Public Policy Institute, Paladin Capital Strategic Advisory Group, and the T. Rowe Price corporate board.

Ambassador Verma is the recipient of the State Department’s Distinguished Service Award, the Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship, the Chief Justice John Marshall Lifetime Achievement Award, and was ranked by India Abroad as one of the 50 most influential Indian Americans. He holds degrees from the Georgetown University Law Center (LLM), American University’s Washington College of Law (JD), and Lehigh University (BS).


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Joseph VotelSenior Fellow

General (ret.) Joseph L. Votel is a non-resident Senior Fellow with Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

Gen. Votel most recently served as Commander of the U.S. Central Command—responsible for U.S. and coalition military operations in the Middle East, Levant and Central and South Asia. During his 39 years in the military he commanded special operations and conventional military forces at every level. His career included combat in Panama, Afghanistan and Iraq. Notably he led a 79-member coalition that successfully liberated Iraq and Syria from the Islamic State Caliphate. He preceded his assignment at CENTCOM with service as the Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command and the Joint Special Operations Command.

Votel was recognized with the Distinguished Military Leadership Award from the Atlantic Council; the U.S.—Arab Defense Leadership Award from the National Council on U.S.—Arab Relations; the Distinguished Service Award from the National Medal of Honor Society; the SGT James T. Regan Lifetime Achievement Award from the “Lead the Way” Foundation; and the Freedom Award from the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

A 1980 graduate of the United States Military Academy, Votel earned masters’ degrees from the U.S. Army Command and Staff College and the Army War College. He and his wife, Michele, reside in Lake Elmo, Minnesota. They have two grown sons, a daughter-in-law, and a granddaughter.

APPLIED HISTORY PROJECT

STAFF CONTACT

Raleigh [email protected]

Applied History is the explicit attempt to illuminate current challenges and choices by analyzing historical

precedents and analogues. Mainstream historians begin with an event or era and attempt to provide an account of what happened and why. Applied Historians begin with a current choice or predicament and analyze the historical

record to provide perspective, stimulate imagination, find clues about what is likely to happen, suggest possible

interventions, and assess probable consequences.


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Aaron Wess MitchellAssociate

Dr. A. Wess Mitchell served as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs from 2017 to 2019. In this role, he was responsible for diplomatic relations with the 50 countries of Europe and Eurasia, as well as the institutions of NATO, the EU and OSCE. At State Department, Mitchell played a principal role in formulating Europe strategy in support of the 2017 National Security Strategy, led the Interagency in building instruments to counter Russian and Chinese influence in Europe, and spearheaded new diplomatic initiatives for Central Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean and Western Balkans. Prior to joining the State Department, Mitchell cofounded and served as President and CEO of the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). He is the author of three books, including most recently Unquiet Frontier: Rising Rivals, Vulnerable Allies and the Crisis of American Power (with Jakub J. Grygiel) and The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire (Princeton University Press, 2018).

Justin WinokurAssociate

Justin Winokur is an Associate on the Applied History Project at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He is also a PhD Student in International History at the University of Virginia, where he studies international, diplomatic, and Cold War history. He formerly served as a Research Assistant and Project Coordinator for the Project, which attempts to illuminate current challenges and choices by analyzing historical precedents and analogues.


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Prior to joining the Belfer Center, Justin was a Research Assistant at Harvard’s American Secretaries of State Project and the Institute for European Politics in Berlin, Germany. He graduated summa cum laude from Connecticut College, where he studied International Relations with minors in French and German.

ARCTIC INITIATIVE

STAFF CONTACT

Brittany [email protected]

The Arctic Initiative strives to increase understanding and improve policies to respond to what is happening

in the changing Arctic region by initiating new research; by convening policymakers, scientists, and politicians;

and by developing a new generation of public and private officials with a much greater knowledge of

the factors that are affecting the Arctic ecosystems and their implications for the environmental, social,

and economic systems around the globe.


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Doug CauseyAssociate

Douglas Causey is Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Alaska Anchorage and Principal Investigator of the DHS Arctic Domain Awareness Center of Excellence. He arrived to UAA in June 2005 from Harvard where he was Senior Fellow of the Belfer Center and Senior Biologist at the Museum of Comparative Zoology. An ecologist and evolutionary biologist by training, he has authored over two hundred publications on the environmental correlates of Arctic climate change, and he and his students are actively conducting research in the Aleutian Islands, the northern Bering Sea, and Northwestern Greenland. His Greenlandic research efforts are funded by NSF and are components of the Piniariarneq and Pikialasorsuaq initiatives. He has published extensively on policy issues related to the Arctic environment, Arctic environmental security, and bioterrorism and public health.

Joel ClementSenior Fellow

Joel Clement is an Arctic Initiative Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs with a background in climate and energy issues, resilience and climate change adaptation, landscape-scale conservation and management, and Arctic social-ecological sys-tems. Prior to joining the Kennedy School, Mr. Clement served as an executive for seven years at the U.S. Department of the Interior. In September 2017, he was awarded The Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage and resigned from public service in October of that year. Since then he has received multiple awards for ethics, courage, and his dedication to the role of science in public policy. He has been featured and interviewed on CNN, MSNBC, PBS,


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ABC, NBC, CBS, and Democracy Now and has been published by the Washington Post, Denver Post, the Guardian, and NBCThink.

Before serving in the federal Government, Mr. Clement was the Conservation Science Program Officer for a private foundation where he focused on climate-change adaptation strategies, land-scape-scale conservation, and improving geospatial data-sharing capacity. In addition to his role at the Harvard Kennedy School, he is an Associate with the Stockholm Environment Institute and a Senior Fellow with the Union of Concerned Scientists, where he works to expose political interference in science and promote public understanding of the importance of independent science in policymaking.

Sarah DeweyFellow

Sarah Dewey is a postdoctoral research fellow with the Belfer Center’s Arctic Initiative. She holds a PhD and MS in Oceanography from the University of Washington and a BS in Geology & Geophysics from Yale University, and her field experi-ence centers on the use of aerial platforms to observe the western Arctic Ocean.

Dr. Dewey’s current research quantifies time and space scales of ice-ocean interaction and links them to the scope of environmen-tal policy, strategic response, and mitigation of marine pollution. Besides her passion for fieldwork, a background in journalism and environmental education has fed Dr. Dewey’s interest in science education, outreach, and the connection between geophysical research and policy.


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Halla Hrund LogadóttirCo-Founder, Arctic Initiative Fellow, ENRP

Halla Hrund Logadóttir is the Co-founder and Co-Director of the Arctic Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School and a fellow at the Kennedy School’s Environment and Natural Resource Program. In Iceland, her home country, Ms. Logadóttir serves on the advisory board to the Minister of Industry, Innovation, and Tourism on Iceland’s Energy Fund and collaborates with the country’s leadership on environmental and Arctic issues. She is the Founder of the Arctic Innovation Lab; a platform established to encourage solution-based dialogue on Arctic challenges and an advisor to Arctic Today, a key media on circumpolar issues. Previously, Ms. Logadóttir was the director of the Iceland School of Energy at Reykjavík University where she continues to lecture on Arctic policy.

Ms. Logadóttir is a frequent commentator on environment, energy, and innovation within the Arctic. She co-curates the World Economic Forum’s Arctic Transformation Map and was one of the 15 invited writers in United Nations Chronicle’s special edition on sustainable energy published in relation to COP21. She is the co-author of the Harvard Kennedy School case, “Iceland’s Energy Policy: Finding the right path forward”, taught at Harvard and internationally since 2012.

Among her other roles include being the Co-founder of Girls4Girls non-profit; a global mentorship program which aims to arm young women with the courage, vision, and skills needed to take on public leadership. Earlier, Ms. Logadóttir worked on an entrepre-neurship training program in Togo, West Africa, on the “Aid for Trade Initiative,” at the OECD in Paris, and as an EU and bi-lateral relations for Iceland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs in Brussels.


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Ms. Logadóttir studied political science, economics and trade at the University of Iceland, the London School of Economics, and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University She holds a mid-career MPA degree from the Harvard Kennedy School which she served as a Louis Bacon Environmental Leadership Fellow at the Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership.

Sarah MackieFellow

Sarah Mackie is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Belfer Center’s Arctic Initiative. She holds a law degree from the University of Cambridge and an LLM in environmental law from Newcastle University. A qualified lawyer in England and Wales, she has worked as a Judicial Assistant for the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales.

Dr. Mackie recently completed a PhD on comparative environ-mental law in the Arctic, with a particular focus on endangered species protection across Arctic jurisdictions. This research was conducted at a number of Arctic and other institutions including Newcastle University, Harvard Law School, Ilisimatusarfik (Greenland), the Arctic Centre (University of Lapland, Finland) and the KG Jebsen Centre for the Law of the Sea (University of Tromso, Norway).

Dr. Mackie has published a number of journal articles, including in the Harvard Environmental Law Review; authored a chapter of a book on environmental security in the Arctic Barents Region; and has presented at the Arctic Circle Assembly (Iceland) and at the Polar Law Symposium (Finland and Norway). Her current research explores issues of endangered species protection law in the Arctic nations and the Arctic Ocean.


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Fran UlmerSenior Fellow

Fran Ulmer is chair of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission, where she has served since being appointed by President Obama in March 2011. In June 2010, President Obama appointed her to the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. From 2007 to 2011, Ms. Ulmer was chancellor of Alaska’s largest public university, the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA). Before that, she was a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Institute of Social and Economic Research at UAA. She is a member of the Global Board of the Nature Conservancy and on the Board of the National Parks Conservation Association.

Ms. Ulmer served as an elected official for 18 years as the mayor of Juneau, a state representative, and as Lieutenant Governor of Alaska. She previously worked as legal counsel to the Alaska Legislature, legislative assistant to Governor Jay Hammond, and Director of Policy Development for the state. In addition, she was the first Chair of the Alaska Coastal Policy Council and served for more than 10 years on the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission. She has served on numerous local, state, and federal advisory committees and boards. Ulmer earned a J.D. cum laude from the University of Wisconsin Law School and has been a Fellow at the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government.

AVOIDING GREAT POWER WAR PROJECT

STAFF CONTACT

Thomas [email protected]

The Avoiding Great Power War Project is an interdisciplinary effort to investigate, analyze, and produce

policy-relevant research on great power relations. The Project builds upon a basic premise: that the historical

record of great power conflict can serve as an aid to understanding the dynamics between today’s great

powers, namely the United States, China, and Russia.


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Kurt CampbellSenior Fellow

Kurt M. Campbell is a non-resident senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center.

Dr. Kurt Campbell is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Asia Group, LLC, a strategic advisory and capital man-agement group specializing in the dynamic Asia-Pacific region. He also serves as Chairman of the Center for a New American Security, as a non-resident Fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center, as a member of the Defense Policy Board at the Pentagon and is on the Board of Directors for Standard Chartered PLC in London. From 2009 to 2013, he served as the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, where he is widely credited as being a key architect of the “pivot to Asia.” For advancing a comprehen-sive U.S. strategy that took him to every corner of the Asia-Pacific region, Secretary Hillary Clinton awarded him the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Award (2013) — the nation’s highest diplomatic honor. Campbell was recognized in the Queen’s New Year’s list of honors in 2014 as an Honorary Officer of the Order of Australia and as an Honorary Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his work in support of American relations with Australia and New Zealand respectively. He also received top national honors from Korea and Taiwan.

Dr. Campbell was formerly the CEO and Co-Founder of the Center for a New American Security and concurrently served as the director of the Aspen Strategy Group and Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Washington Quarterly. He was the founder and Chairman of StratAsia a strategic advisory and consultancy that supported American firms across Asia. He was the Senior Vice President, director of the International Security Program, and Henry A. Kissinger Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Campbell was also Associate Professor of public policy and international relations at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and assistant director of the Center for



Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. He was also the Vice Chairman of the Pentagon Memorial Fund and has served on the Board of Directors of Metlife, Inc of New York.

Dr. Campbell previously served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asia and the Pacific, Director on the National Security Council Staff, Deputy Special Counselor to the president for the North American Free Trade Agreement in the White House, and White House fellow at the Department of the Treasury. He was an officer in the U.S. Navy Reserves, serving on surface ships, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and in the Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Advisory Unit. For his service, he received Georgetown University’s Asia Service Award, the State Department Honor Award, the Republic of Korea medal for service, and the Department of Defense Medals for Distinguished Public Service and for Outstanding Public Service.

He is the author or editor of ten books including Difficult Transitions: Why Presidents Fail in Foreign Policy at the Outset of Power, and Hard Power: The New Politics of National Security. He also recently published a book about his experiences in Asia, entitled The Pivot: The Future of American Statecraft in Asia. Dr. Campbell was a contributing writer to The New York Times and has written a regular column for the Financial Times. Dr. Campbell is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group, the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and the Trilateral Commission.

He received his B.A. from the University of California, San Diego, a Certificate in music and political philosophy from the University of Erevan in Soviet Armenia, and his Doctorate in International Relations from Brasenose College at Oxford University where he was a Distinguished Marshall Scholar. He is married to Dr. Lael Brainard, and together they live in Washington, DC with their three daughters.



Niall FergusonSenior Faculty Fellow

Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a senior fellow of the Center for European Studies, Harvard, where he served for twelve years as the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History. He is also a visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing, and the Diller-von Furstenberg Family Foundation Distinguished Scholar at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC. His previous book, Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist, won the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Prize. He is an award-making filmmaker, too, having won an international Emmy for his PBS series The Ascent of Money. His many other prizes include the Benjamin Franklin Prize for Public Service (2010), the Hayek Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2012) and the Ludwig Erhard Prize for Economic Journalism (2013). In addition to writing a weekly column for the Sunday Times (London) and the Boston Globe, he is the founder and managing director of Greenmantle LLC, an advi-sory firm. His new book, The Square and the Tower, was published in the U.S. in January.

Laura HolgateSenior Fellow

Ambassador Laura S.H. Holgate served as U.S. Representative to the Vienna Office of the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency from July 11, 2016 to January 20, 2017. The United States Mission to International Organizations in Vienna works with seven major organizations of the United Nations system based in Vienna: the International Atomic Energy Agency; the UN Office on Drugs and Crime; the Preparatory Commission of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization; the UN Office of Outer Space Affairs; the Wassenaar



Arrangement; the UN Commission on International Trade Law; and the UN Industrial Development Organization. In this role, Ambassador Holgate advanced President Barack Obama’s commitment to design and implement global approaches to reduce global threats and seize global opportunities in the areas of nuclear nonproliferation, nuclear security, verification of the Iran Deal, nuclear testing, counterterrorism, anti-corruption, drug policy, export control, and the Nuclear Suppliers Group. She also promoted gender balance in the staff and programming of the Vienna-based international organizations.

Ambassador Holgate was previously the Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism and Threat Reduction on the National Security Council. In this role, she oversaw and coordinated the development of national policies and programs to reduce global threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons; detect, identify, secure and eliminate nuclear materials; prevent malicious use of biotech-nology; and secure the civilian nuclear fuel cycle. She was also the U.S. Sherpa to the Nuclear Security Summits and co-led the effort to advance the President’s Global Health Security Agenda.

From 2001 to 2009, Ambassador Holgate was the Vice President for Russia/New Independent States Programs at the Nuclear Threat Initiative. Prior to that, Ambassador Holgate directed the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fissile Materials Disposition from 1998 to 2001, and was Special Coordinator for Cooperative Threat Reduction at the Department for Defense from 1995 through 1998, where she provided policy oversight of the “Nunn-Lugar” Cooperative Threat Reduction program.

Ambassador Holgate received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in politics from Princeton University and a Master of Science Degree in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and spent two years on the research staff at Harvard University’s Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government. She is a past President of Women in



International Security and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She and her husband live in Arlington, Virginia.

Anne KaralekasAssociate

Dr. Karalekas is a 2020-2021 Associate of the Applied History Project. With a dual career in business and as an historian, she has held management and executive positions with McKinsey & Co., the Washington Post, and Microsoft, and she is currently writing the first full-scale biography of Robert A. Lovett, the statesman and financier. She is the recipient of the Truman Library Institute’s 2018 biennial Scholar’s Award.

Dr. Karalekas is the author of the first published history of the Central Intelligence Agency, which has remained a basic and widely cited source since its release by the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (the Church Committee).

She has served as a Director of DigitalGlobe, Inc. and as a Trustee of Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. She is a longtime member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Dr. Karalekas was educated at Wheaton College (A.B., Phi Beta Kappa, in European History) and Harvard University (A.M. in Modern European History and Ph.D. in Twentieth Century Diplomatic History). She studied with Ernest R. May.



Ernest MonizSenior Fellow

Ernest J. Moniz served as the thirteenth United States Secretary of Energy from 2013 to January 2017. As Secretary, he advanced energy technology innovation, nuclear security and strategic stability, cutting-edge capabilities for the American scientific research community, and environmental stewardship. He strengthened the Department of Energy (DOE) strategic partnership with its seventeen national laboratories and with the Department of Defense and the broader national security establishment. Specific accomplishments included producing analytically-based energy policy proposals that attracted bipartisan support and statutory implementation, leading an international initiative that placed energy science and technology innovation at the center of the global response to climate change, and negotiating alongside the Secretary of State the historic Iran nuclear agreement. He reorganized a number of DOE program elements, elevated sound project and risk management, and strengthened enterprise-wide management to improve mission outcomes.

Dr. Moniz previously served in government as DOE Under Secretary from 1997 until January 2001 with science, energy and nuclear security responsibilities and from 1995 to 1997 as Associate Director for Science in the Office of Science and Technology Policy with responsibility for the physical, life and social sciences. He was a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and of the Defense Threat Reduction Advisory Committee from 2009 to 2013. He also served on the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future that provided advice to the President and the Secretary of Energy on nuclear waste management.

Dr. Moniz received a Bachelor of Science degree summa cum laude in physics from Boston College, a doctorate in theoretical physics from Stanford University, and eight honorary doctorates1,



including three from European universities. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and received the 1998 Seymour Cray HPCC Industry Recognition Award for vision and leadership in advancing scientific simulation. Among other awards, he is the recipient of the Distinguished Public Service Medals of the Department of Defense and of the Navy. He also was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Makarios III (Cyprus) and of the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator (Portugal). Moniz received the Charles Percy Award of the Alliance to Save Energy and the Right Stuff Award of the Blue-Green Alliance Foundation. He is a Fellow of the American Physics Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Humboldt Foundation, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Dr. Moniz is a resident of Brookline Massachusetts with his wife Naomi of more than four decades, their daughter Katya, and grandchildren Alex and Eve. He is a very modestly accomplished but very enthusiastic practitioner of fly-fishing and soccer.

Daniel PonemanSenior Fellow

Daniel Poneman is a Senior Fellow with the Belfer Center and the President and Chief Executive Officer of Centrus Energy Corp., which provides enrichment, fuel, and fuel services to utilities that operate nuclear reactors throughout the world. Prior to his appointment in October 2014, Poneman had been Deputy Secretary of Energy since 2009, in which capacity he also served as Chief Operating Officer of the Department. Between April 23, 2013, and May 21, 2013, Poneman served as Acting Secretary of Energy.

Poneman’s responsibilities at the Department of Energy spanned the full range of President Obama’s all-of-the-above energy strategy, including fossil and nuclear energy, renewables and energy efficiency, and international cooperation around the world.



He led 2009 negotiations to address Iran’s nuclear program and participated in the Deputies’ Committee at the National Security Council. He played an instrumental role in the Department’s response to crises from Fukushima to the Libyan civil war to Hurricane Sandy, and led the Department’s efforts to strengthen emergency response and cybersecurity across the energy sector.

Poneman first joined the Department of Energy in 1989 as a White House Fellow. The next year he joined the National Security Council staff as Director of Defense Policy and Arms Control. From 1993 through 1996, Poneman served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Nonproliferation and Export Controls at the National Security Council. Prior to assuming his responsibilities as Deputy Secretary, Poneman served as a prin-cipal of The Scowcroft Group for eight years, providing strategic advice to corporations on a wide variety of international projects and transactions. Between tours of government service, he prac-ticed law for nine years in Washington, DC—first as an associate at Covington & Burling, later as a partner at Hogan & Hartson.

Poneman received A.B. and J.D. degrees with honors from Harvard University and an M.Litt. in Politics from Oxford University. He has published widely on energy and national security issues and is the author of Nuclear Power in the Developing World and Argentina: Democracy on Trial. His third book, Going Critical: The First North Korean Nuclear Crisis (coauthored with Joel Wit and Robert Gallucci), received the 2005 Douglas Dillon Award for Distinguished Writing on American Diplomacy. Poneman is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.



Kevin RuddSenior Fellow

Mr. Rudd served as Australia’s 26th Prime Minister (2007-2010, 2013) and as Foreign Minister (2010- 2012). He led Australia’s response during the Global Financial Crisis, reviewed by the IMF as the most effective stimulus strategy of all major economies. Australia was the only major developed economy not to go into recession. Mr. Rudd was a co-founder of the G20, estab-lished to drive the global response to the crisis, and which through its actions in 2009 prevented the global economy from spiraling into depression.

As Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Mr. Rudd was active in regional and global foreign policy leadership. He was a driving force in expanding the East Asia Summit to include both the U.S. and Russia in 2010, having in 2008 launched an initiative for the long-term transformation of the EAS into a wider Asia Pacific Community. On climate change, Mr. Rudd ratified the Kyoto Protocol in 2007 and legislated in 2008 for a 20% mandatory renewable energy target for Australia. He represented Australia at the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Summit which produced the Copenhagen Accord, for the first time committing states to not allow temperature increases beyond two degrees. He was a member of the UN High Level Panel on Global Sustainability and is a co-author of the report “Resilient People, Resilient Planet” for the 2012 Rio+20 Conference. Mr. Rudd drove Australia’s success-ful bid for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council for 2012-14. His government also saw the near doubling of Australia’s foreign aid budget to approximately $5 billion, making Australia then one of the top ten aid donors in the world. He also appointed Australia’s first ever Ambassador for Women and Girls to support the critical role of women in development and reduce physical and sexual violence against women.

Mr. Rudd is President of the Asia Society Policy Institute in New York. ASPI is a “think-do tank” dedicated to second track



diplomacy to assist governments and businesses on policy chal-lenges within Asia, and between Asia, the U.S. and the West. He is also Chair of the Independent Commission on Multilateralism where in 2015-6 he leads a review of the UN system. Mr. Rudd is a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School where in 2014-15 he completed a major policy report on “Alternative Futures for U.S.-China Relations.” He is a Distinguished Fellow at Chatham House in London, a Distinguished Statesman with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, and a Distinguished Fellow at the Paulson Institute in Chicago. Mr. Rudd is a member of the Comprehensive Test Ban Organization’s Group of Eminent Persons. He is proficient in Mandarin Chinese, serves as a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and co-chairs the China Global Affairs Council of the World Economic Forum.

Mr. Rudd in his private capacity has established the National Apology Foundation to continue the work of reconciliation and closing the gap with indigenous Australians, as well as the Asia Pacific Community Foundation.

David SangerSenior Fellow

David E. Sanger, adjunct lecturer at the Kennedy School and a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, is a national security correspondent and a senior writer at The New York Times. In a 36-year reporting career for The Times, he has been on three teams that have won Pulitzer Prizes, most recently in 2017 for international reporting. His newest book, “The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage and Fear in the Cyber Age,’’ published in 2018, examines the emergence of cyber-conflict as the primary way large and small states are competing and undercutting each other, changing the nature of global power.



He is also the author of two previous Times best sellers on foreign policy and national security: “The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power,” published in 2009, and “Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power,” published in 2012. For The Times, Mr. Sanger has served as Tokyo bureau chief, Washington economic correspondent, White House correspondent during the Clinton and Bush administrations, and chief Washington correspondent.

Mr. Sanger spent six years in Tokyo, writing about the emergence of Japan as a major American competitor, and then the country’s humbling recession. He wrote many of the first articles about North Korea’s emerging nuclear weapons program. Returning to Washington, Mr. Sanger turned to a wide range of diplomatic and national security issues, especially issues of nuclear proliferation and the rise of cyberconflict among nations. In reporting for The Times and “Confront and Conceal,” he revealed the story of Olympic Games, the code name for the most sophisticated cyberattack in his-tory, the American-Israeli effort to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program with the Stuxnet worm. His journalistic pursuit of the origins of Stuxnet became the subject of the documentary “Zero Days,” which made the short list of Academy Award documentaries in 2016. With his Times colleague Bill Broad, he also described, in early 2017, a parallel cybereffort against North Korea.

Mr. Sanger was a leading member of the team that investigated the causes of the Challenger disaster in 1986, which was awarded a Pulitzer in national reporting the following year. A second Pulitzer, in 1999, was awarded to a team that investigated the struggles within the Clinton administration over controlling technology exports to China. He has also won the Weintal Prize for diplomatic reporting for his coverage of the Iraq and Korea crises, the Aldo Beckman prize for coverage of the presidency, and, in two separate years, the Merriman Smith Memorial Award, for cover-age of national security issues. “Nuclear Jihad,” the documentary that Mr. Sanger reported for Discovery/Times Television, won the duPont-Columbia Award for its explanation of the workings of the



A. Q. Khan nuclear proliferation network. That coverage was also a finalist for a Pulitzer.

A 1982 graduate of Harvard College, Mr. Sanger was the first senior fellow in The Press and National Security at the Belfer Center. With Graham T. Allison Jr., he co-teaches Central Challenges in American National Security, Strategy and the Press at the Kennedy School of Government.

Mustafa SuleymanSenior Fellow

Mustafa is Vice-President of AI Policy at Google. He was previously co-founder of DeepMind, one of the world’s foremost technology companies, which was acquired by Google in 2014. Until 2020 he led its Applied AI efforts integrating the company’s cutting edge research across a wide range of Google products with billions of users. Mustafa is a passionate advocate for the ethical stewardship of technology for social benefit. He launched DeepMind Health in 2016 and later helped create Google Health to consolidate health efforts across Google. He also led DeepMind’s application of AI in the field of energy, first reducing 40% on the cost of cooling Google’s data centres then boosting the value of Google’s renewable energy by an unprecedented 20%. Previously as a skilled negotiator and facilitator, Mustafa has worked all over the world for a wide range of clients, such as the UN, the Dutch Government and WWF. Mustafa sits on the boards of The Economist and UK Research & Innovation, which directs all R&D funding for the UK.



Robert ZoellickSenior Fellow

Robert B. Zoellick is the non-executive chairman of AllianceBernstein, a leading global investment management firm that offers high-quality research and diversified investment services to institutional investors, individuals, and private wealth clients in major world markets. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. In addition, Zoellick serves on the boards of Temasek, Singapore’s Sovereign Wealth Fund, and Laureate International Universities. He also is a member of the board of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, chairs the Global Tiger Initiative, and is a member of the Global Leadership Council of Mercy Corps, a global humanitarian agency.

Zoellick was the President of the World Bank Group from 2007-12, U.S. Trade Representative from 2001 to 2005, and Deputy Secretary of State from 2005 to 2006. From 1985 to 1993, Zoellick served as Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury and Under Secretary of State, as well as the White House Deputy Chief of Staff.

Zoellick is a recipient of the Distinguished Service Award, the Department of State’s highest honor, the Alexander Hamilton Award of the Department of the Treasury, and the Medal for Distinguished Public Service of the Department of Defense. The German government awarded him the Knight Commanders Cross for his achievements in the course of German unification. The Mexican and Chilean governments awarded him their highest honors for non-cit-izens, the Aztec Eagle and the Order of Merit, for recognition of his work on free trade, development, and the environment.

Zoellick holds a J.D. magna cum laude from the Harvard Law School, a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and a bachelor’s degree (Phi Beta Kappa) from Swarthmore College.

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The cyber problems that confront today’s leaders are substantial and diverse: how to protect a nation’s most critical infrastructure from cyber attack; how to organize, train, and equip a military force to prevail in

the event of future conflict in cyberspace; how to deter nation-state and terrorist adversaries from conducting attacks in cyberspace; how to control escalation in the event of a conflict in cyberspace; and how to leverage

legal and policy instruments to reduce the national attack surface without stifling innovation. These are just

a few of the motivating questions that drive our work.

The aim of the Belfer Center’s Cyber Project is to become the premier home for rigorous and policy-

relevant study of these and related questions


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