The Belfer Center for Science and
International Affairs

Ashton B. Carter, Director

Eric Rosenbach, Co-Director

Harvard Kennedy School

79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Tel: (617) 495-1400 | Fax: (617) 495-8963

http://www.belfercenter.org | belfer_center@hks.harvard.edu

The Belfer Center is the hub of Harvard Kennedy School’s research, teaching, and training in international security affairs, environmental and resource issues, and science and technology policy.

The Center has a dual mission: (1) to provide leadership in advancing policy-relevant knowledge about the most important challenges of international security and other critical issues where science, technology, environmental policy, and international affairs intersect; and (2) to prepare future generations of leaders for these arenas. Center researchers not only conduct scholarly research, but also develop prescriptions for policy reform. Faculty and fellows analyze global challenges from nuclear proliferation and terrorism to climate change and energy policy.

The Belfer Center’s leadership begins with the recognition of science and technology as driving forces constantly transforming both the challenges we face and the opportunities for problem-solving. Building on the vision of founder Paul Doty, the Center addresses serious global concerns by integrating insights and research of social scientists, natural scientists, technologists, and practitioners in government, diplomacy, the military, and business. The heart of the Belfer Center is its resident research community of more than 150 scholars, including Harvard faculty, researchers, practitioners, and each year a new, international, interdisciplinary group of research fellows. Through publications and policy discussions, workshops, seminars, and conferences, the Center promotes innovative solutions to significant national and international challenges.

The Center’s International Security Program, directed by Steven E. Miller, sponsors and edits the Belfer Center Studies in International Security and the quarterly journal International Security.