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Guide to HKS Center and Program Fellows

Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation

The Roy and Lila Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation fosters excellence in governance and strengthens democratic institutions worldwide. Through its research, education, international programs, and government innovations awards, the Center fosters creative and effective government problem solving and serves as a catalyst for addressing many of the most pressing needs of the world’s citizens.
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Ash Research Visiting Scholars

Faculty, doctoral, and postdoctoral students serve as Visiting Fellows for varying tenures throughout the academic year at the Ash Center. The Center supports scholarship focused on its core research areas including innovations in public participation and political participation in non-democracies.

Visit website.  Contact: Bruce Jackan (Associate Director for Knowledge Building and Research)

  

The Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia / Rajawali Fellows

The Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia leverages the considerable talent and experience of all HKS faculty, post-graduate fellows, and senior researchers and links to Harvard’s substantial Asia resources. Spanning initiatives across Asia, our many programs address a wide spectrum of public policy issues in the region.

Visit website.  Contact: Julian Chang (Executive Director)

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Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

The Belfer Center is the hub of the 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.
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Environment and Natural Resources Program

The Environment and Natural Resources Program’s mandate is to conduct policy-relevant research at the regional, national, international, and global level, and through its outreach initiatives to make its products available to decision-makers, scholars, and interested citizens.

Visit website.   Contact: Amanda Swanson (Program Administrator)

   

Energy, Technology Innovation Program

The overarching objective of the Energy Technology Innovation Policy (ETIP) research group is to determine and then seek to promote adoption of effective strategies for developing and deploying cleaner and more efficient energy technologies, primarily in three of the biggest energy-consuming nations in the world: the United States, China, and India.

Visit website.  Contact: Karin Vander Schaaf (Administrative Coordinator)

   

International Security Program

The International Security Program addresses the most important challenges to U.S. national security and international security in the quarter century ahead. Program researchers analyze security issues rigorously, draw prescriptive conclusions, and communicate their recommendations directly to makers of public policy and shapers of public opinion.

Visit website.  Contact: Susan Lynch (ISP Program Assistant)

   

Project on Managing the Atom

The Project on Managing the Atom (MTA) brings together scholars and practitioners who conduct policy-relevant research on key issues affecting the future of nuclear weapons, the nuclear nonproliferation regime, and nuclear energy—particularly where these futures intersect, for example in the management and protection of fissile material.

Visit website.  Contact: Neal Doyle (MTA Program Coordinator)

   

Science, Technology, and Public Policy
Accordingly, the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program (STPP) engages in research, teaching, and outreach on how: science and technology influence public policy; public policy influences the evolution of science and technology; the outcomes of these interactions affect well-being in the United States and worldwide; and the processes involved can be made more effective and their outcomes more beneficial (at present and in the future).

Visit website.  Contact: Patricia McLaughlin (Administrative Assistant)

Carr Center for Human Rights Policy

The Carr Center’s research, teaching, and writing is guided by a commitment to make human rights principles central to the formulation of good public policy in the United States and throughout the world. The center has developed a unique focus of expertise on the most dangerous and intractable human rights challenges of the new century.
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Program on Human Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery

The Program on Human Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery is focused on expanding the understanding of human trafficking and bringing this international human rights crisis to an end. The initiative aims to create a global effort through building a network of scholars and practitioners, developing best practices, disseminating information, and conducting research. Information will be disseminated through a series of online conferences, scholarly lectures, a fellows program, and student internships. This initiative will not only educate, but provide connections and information-sharing for anti-trafficking policymakers and future public policy leaders around the world.

Visit website.  Contact: Christina Bain (Program Administrator)

  

The Gebran G. Tueni Human Rights Fellowship

The Hariri Foundation gift will support two 10-month fellowships per year during a three-year period for scholars, journalists, writers, and human rights activists from Lebanon or Iraq to conduct research in residence at the Carr Center.  Each of the Gebran G. Tueni Fellows will undertake a major research project focusing on the areas of freedom of speech, arbitrary detention, or discrimination against minorities, displaced populations, or other vulnerable groups in one or more countries in the Middle East.  In the event that eligible candidates from Lebanon or Iraq cannot be identified, fellowships may be awarded to candidates from other Middle Eastern countries.

Visit website.  Contact: carr_center@hks.harvard.edu

Center for International Development

The Center for International Development is a university-wide center that seeks to advance understanding of development challenges and offer viable solutions to problems of global poverty. By analyzing and addressing the challenges of developing, the center aims to train future leaders in development and improve the effectiveness of international development policies and institutions.
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Growth Lab

Research at the CID’s Growth Lab works to solve the mysteries of growth and articulate the policy implications that emerge.  The Growth Lab is gaining increasing attention as the global hub for Structural Transformation, a view of development that gives a central role to the complexity of a country’s economy and identifies the capabilities a country needs to produce more sophisticated products and services.

Visit website.  Contact: Jennifer Gala (Program Director)

   

Mexico Program

As an academic collaboration between the Harvard Kennedy School and the Graduate School of Public Administration and Public Policy (EGAP) of a leading private Mexican university (ITESM), the Mexico Program supports research projects of HKS students in Mexico. It also successfully fosters collaborative teaching, case development, and research efforts between HKS and EGAP faculty. T program has fostered joint faculty work on the themes of poverty and social policy, innovations in governance, civil society organizations, microfinance, and measurement of human rights.

Visit website.  Contact: Mary Hilderbrand (Director)

   

Center for Public Leadership

The Center for Public Leadership is committed to growing leaders in a changing world. Recognizing that effective public leadership is essential to the common good, CPL serves people in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors through cutting-edge research, teaching, and leadership development efforts.
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CPL Visiting Scholars and Practitioners

CPL hosts, by invitation only, distinguished scholars and practitioners whose research makes a significant contribution to leadership-relevant scholarship. These fellowships are currently offered without stipend.

Visit website.  Contact: Owen Andrews (Research Manager)

   

Executive Education

Executive Education at Harvard Kennedy School offers programs for leaders from around the world. We bring together experienced professionals, a world-class faculty, and a dynamic curriculum in a setting where the common denominator is a shared commitment to public value.
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National Security Fellows

The National Security Fellows are twenty one (21) US military officers (Lieutenant Colonels, Colonels, or equivalent rank) and civilian officials from the Department Of Defense and the intelligence community who come to Harvard for their "senior service college" year. Fellows audit courses and pursue research during this eleven-month postgraduate research fellowship hosted by Executive Education’s National Security Program.

Visit website.  Contact: Jean Woodward (Director)

Hauser Center for Non-profit Organizations

The Hauser Center is a university-wide center based at the Kennedy School pursues research and education, promoting critical thinking about the importance, roles, and performance of nonprofits and other civic organizations in civil society. Our community represents a range of disciplines, approaches, and interests to best reflect the breadth of the field.
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Hauser Center Visiting Fellows-in-Residence

The Hauser Center is a university-wide center based at the Kennedy School pursues research and education, promoting critical thinking about the importance, roles, and performance of nonprofits and other civic organizations in civil society. Our community represents a range of disciplines, approaches, and interests to best reflect the breadth of the field.

Visit website.  Contact: Klara Kabadian (Assistant to the Faculty Director)

  

Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management

The Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management at the Kennedy School of Government aims to enable governments to fulfill their obligations to ensure public safety and justice.

Visit website.  Contact: Christine Cole (Executive Director)

Institute of Politics

Harvard’s Institute of Politics was created as a memorial to President Kennedy to inspire students to get involved in politics and public service. The institute oversees the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, one of the world’s premier arenas for speech and debate, and runs a unique resident fellows program for political practitioners to spend a semester at Harvard.
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Institute of Politics Fellows

The IOP Fellows Program represents a unique opportunity for political practitioners with diverse experiences and viewpoints to spend a semester at Harvard. Fellows interact with students, participate in the intellectual life of the community, and pursue individual studies or projects. The Fellows Program is central to the Institute's dual commitment to encourage student interest in public life and to develop ways for the academic and political communities to learn from each other.

Visit website.  Contact: Eric Andersen (Fellows Director)

Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics & Public Policy

The Shorenstein Center seeks to promote a greater understanding of the media by public officials, improve coverage by media professionals of government and politics, anticipate the consequences of public polices that affect the media and the First Amendment, and increase knowledge about how the media affect political processes and government institutions.
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Shorenstein Fellows

The mission of the Shorenstein fellowship program is to advance research in the field of press, politics and public policy; provide an opportunity for reflection; facilitate a dialogue among scholars, journalists and policymakers; and create a vibrant and long-lasting community.

Visit website.  Contact: Edith Holway (Fellows and Program Administrator)

Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy

The Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy conducts research and designs policy in the areas of criminal justice, health, labor, education, poverty and inequality, social insurance, and human services.
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Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development

Through applied research and service, the Harvard Project aims to understand and foster the conditions under which sustained, self-determined social and economic development is achieved among American Indian nations. Core activities include research, advisory services, executive education and the administration of a tribal governance awards program.

Visit website.  Contact: Megan Hill (Director of Honoring Nations)

  

Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy

The European Network on Inequality (ENI) links the Harvard Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy with 13 of Europe's leading university and research centers for the study of social policy, including those at the London School of Economics, University of Bristol, University of Aarhus, Sciences-Po Paris, WZB Berlin, University of Bremen, Cologne Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, UCD Geary Institute, European Unviersity Institute, University of Maastricht, Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research, Pompeu Fabra University, and the Juan March Institute in Madrid. Through this network, Ph.D. candidates from these affiliate European Institutions participate in the Harvard program's activities as visiting research scholars of the Harvard Kennedy School.

Visit website.  Contact:  Pamela Metz (Associate Director)

  

Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management

The Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management at the Kennedy School of Government aims to enable governments to fulfill their obligations to ensure public safety and justice.

Visit website.  Contact: Christine Cole (Executive Director)

Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government

The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government is dedicated to advancing the state of knowledge and policy concerning some of society’s most challenging problems at the interface of business and government. The scope of its work ranges from the local to the global levels, and brings together thought leaders from both the public and private sectors.
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M-RCBG Senior Fellows

Fellowships allow senior-level business or government executives to pursue independent research or projects in the center’s areas of focus: regulation; collaborative governance; energy, environment, and climate change; and the role of government in the changing global economy.

Visit website.  Contact:  Jennifer Nash (Associate Director, M-RCBG)

  

M-RCBG Visiting Scholars

Visiting Scholars are academics from other institutions invited by M-RCBG faculty to join the center for a semester or an academic year.

Visit website.  Contact:  Jennifer Nash (Associate Director, M-RCBG)

   

Consortium for Energy Policy Research

The Consortium for Energy Policy Research at Harvard is dedicated to advancing Harvard’s energy policy research and fostering collaboration across the University in cooperation with Harvard’s Future of Energy initiative.

Visit website.  Contact: Louisa Lund (Program Director)

                   

Harvard Environmental Economics Program

The Harvard Environmental Economics Program develops innovative answers to today's complex environmental issues, by providing a venue to bring together faculty and graduate students from across the University engaged in teaching, research and outreach, in environmental and economics research and related public policy.

Visit website.  Contact: Robert Stowe (Executive Director)

              

Sustainability Science

The Sustainability Science Program harnesses the University's strengths to promote the design of institutions, policies, and practices that support sustainable development. The Program addresses the challenge of sustainable development by advancing scientific understanding of human-environment systems; improving linkages between research and policy communities; and building capacity for linking knowledge with action to promote sustainability. The fellows program focuses on regional initiatives pursing an integrated perspective on sustainable development in India, China and Brazil. It also includes a cross-cutting research initiative to integrate work focused on the theme of innovation and access for sustainable development.

Visit website.  Contact: Nancy Dickson (Co-Director)

The Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston

The Institute aims to improve the governance of Greater Boston by strengthening connections among the region’s scholars, students, and civic leaders. The institute attracts young people to serve Greater Boston, produces new ideas about important issues, and fosters thoughtful discussion that involve both scholars and civic leaders.
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Rappaport Institute Research Affiliates

Visit website.  Contact: Paulina O'Brien (Assistant Director)

Taubman Center for State and Local Government

The Taubman Center invites a very limited number of individuals to be affiliated with the Center as resident or non-resident fellows, with the primary purpose being to introduce individuals with stimulating intellectual interests into the community of Center faculty and researchers. These individuals are either academic researchers or doctoral/post-doctoral fellows.
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Taubman Fellows

The Taubman Center invites a limited number of individuals to be affiliated with the Center as resident or non-resident fellows, with the primary purpose being to introduce individuals with stimulating intellectual interests into the community of Center faculty and researchers. These individuals are either academic researchers or doctoral/post-doctoral fellows.

Visit website.  Contact: Sandra Garron (Executive Director)

   

Program on Education Policy and Governance

Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG) has distinguished itself as a significant contributor to the systematic analysis of education policy and governing arrangements.

Visit website.  Contact: Antonio Wendland (Associate Director)

Women and Public Policy Program

WAPPP addresses public policies that have an impact on women and both informs and learns from women who shape public policies. Primary activities concern facilitating scholarship and enhancing teaching on women and public policy.
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General Overview of Fellowship Programs

WAPPP has three research fellowship programs for academics and practitioners who have expertise in gender within their field of study or work. The mission of these fellowship programs is to support and advance academic and practitioner scholars in their gender-related research across WAPPP’s focal areas.

    

WAPPP Fellowship

WAPPP offers non-stipendiary fellowships to scholars who are conducting gender-related research in one of WAPPP’s four focal areas and practitioners who demonstrate exceptional commitment to promoting gender perspectives in public policy.

Visit website.  Contact: Theresa Lund (Associate Director for Research)

  

WAPPP/ISP Fellowship in Gender and International Security

WAPPP offers one stipendiary postdoctoral fellowship, held jointly with the International Security Program (ISP) for an outstanding scholar in security affairs working to promote basic research in the broad area of international security with a particular focus on issues relating to gender.

Visit website.  Contact: Theresa Lund (Associate Director for Research)

   

WAPPP/Dubai Initiative Fellowship in Gender and Policy in the Middle East

WAPPP offers one stipendiary fellowship jointly with the Dubai Initiative for a postdoctoral scholar or practitioner to focus on gender-related policy issues in the Middle East.

Visit website.  Contact: Theresa Lund (Associate Director for Research)