 The Belfer Center | |
| Named after | Robert A. Belfer |
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| Formation | 1973 |
| Type | Think tank |
| Headquarters | 79 John F. Kennedy Street |
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Director | Meghan O'Sullivan |
Parent organization | Harvard Kennedy School |
| Website | belfercenter |
TheRobert and Renée Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, also known as theBelfer Center, is a research center located at theHarvard Kennedy School atHarvard University inCambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States.
From 2017 until his death in October 2022, the center was led by directorAsh Carter, formerU.S. Secretary of Defense and co-directorEric Rosenbach, a former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense.[1] Its current executive director is Natalie Colbert.[2] The current director isMeghan O'Sullivan.[3]
The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs is the hub of Harvard Kennedy School's research, teaching, and training in international security and diplomacy, environmental and resource issues, and science and technology policy.[4]
During the Cold War,Paul M. Doty, a Harvard biochemist, was concerned about the US-USSR relations at the time. After realizing the lack of courses onarms control and international university in universities, Doty thought of a program in Harvard dedicated to these areas.[5]
In 2012, theStanton Foundation provided funds for a paidWikipedian in residence at the Belfer Center. This became controversial due to links between the Belfer Center and the Stanton Foundation (the directors of each are a married couple) and public concerns aboutconflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia.[6] The center is organized into subgroups with specific areas of focus.[7][8]
A 2021 investigative report by student group Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard found that many of the center's climate initiatives were funded in part by fossil fuel companies, and that the center had allegedly taken several steps to cover up that fact.[9][10][11]
...Laura Diaz Anadon, a chemical engineer and director of the energy technology innovation policy group at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government....
...how much water does shale gas consume per unit of energy produced...a 2010 paper by ...Laura Diaz Anadon... of Harvard's Belfer Center has data on exactly that question ...
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