Belfer Center Board Lunch
Review photos from past Belfer Center Board lunches below.
Maya Jasanoff, Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard University and Resident Faculty at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, speaks on “The Politics of Ancestry in the Age of DNA Tests” during a Belfer Center Board Lunch.
Rohini Kosoglu, Senior Advisor, U.S. Senator Kamala D. Harris, and Matt Hogan, Partner, ALG Research, speak on “Election 2020 Insights” at the Belfer Center Board Lunch.
Jennifer Griffin, National Security Correspondent, Fox News Channel, speaks on “Covering the Pentagon Under Trump” during a Belfer Center Board Lunch.
Sue Gordon, Former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence and a Senior Fellow with the Intelligence Project, speaks at a Belfer Center Board Lunch.
Emma Ashford, Research Fellow, CATO Institute, discusses “Restraint in Theory and Practice” during the Belfer Center Board Lunch.
Jane Perlez, fall 2019 Joan Shorenstein Fellow and former bureau chief for the New York Times in Beijing, gives a talk called “On the trail with Xi Jinping” during a Belfer Center Board lunch.
Zoe Marks, Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, speaks on "The Changing Nature of Conflict in Africa" during a Belfer Center Board Lunch.
Anand Giridharadas speaks on his new book “Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World” during a Belfer Center Board Lunch.
Heidi Heitkamp, former United States Senator from North Dakota from 2013 to 2019, gives a talk titled “In a Trade War, Know thy Enemy” during a Belfer Center Board Lunch.
Gita Gopinath, Chief Economist, International Monetary Fund (IMF), speaks on the “World Economic Outlook" during a Belfer Center Board Lunch.
Joel Clement, Senior Fellow, Arctic Initiative, speaks on “What Not To Do: The Science and Policy of a Transforming Arctic” during a Belfer Center Board Lunch.
Feng Zhang, Core Institute Member, Broad Institute, speaks on “CRISPR” during a Belfer Center Board Lunch.
Joan Donovan, Director, Technology and Social Change Research Project, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at HKS, presents “Drafted into the Meme Wars” during a Belfer Center Board Lunch.
Joseph Votel, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center and former Commander, U.S. Central Command, speaks on “U.S. Security Interests in the Middle East” during a Belfer Center Board Lunch.
Gary Gensler, Professor of the Practice of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan and former Chairman, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, speaks on “Global Challenges in Emerging Financial Technology” during a Belfer Center Board Lunch.
Erica Chenoweth, Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, speaks on “From the Women’s March to #SudanUprising: Some Observations about Popular Uprisings around the World" at the Belfer Center Board lunch.
Ajay Mathur, Director General, The Energy & Resource Institute, speaks on “Clean, Green and Viable: The Ongoing Electricity Sector Transition in India” at a Belfer Center board lunch. Also in attendance was Ajay Kumar Bhalla, Secretary, Ministry of Power, India.
Bob Corker, Former Senator, Tennessee, speaks on his “Reflections on a Life of Leadership” during a Belfer Center Board lunch.
Jennifer Lerner speaks on “The Social Costs of Economic Rationality: Experiments on Equality Versus Efficiency Tradeoffs” at a Belfer Center Board Lunch.
Former EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, currently Director of C-Change at the Harvard School of Public Health, speaks about climate change at a Belfer Center Board of Directors’ Lunch along with Juliette Kayyem, Director of the Center’s Homeland Security Project.
Claire McCaskill, former U.S. Senator, Missouri, speaks on “Technology in the Context of the 2020 Election” at a Belfer Center Board Lunch.
Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law, HLS, speaks on his new book “America, Compromised” during a Belfer Center Board Lunch.
Elliot Schrage, Vice President of Special Projects at Facebook, speaks on “The Challenge and Opportunity of Social Media in an Increasingly Networked —and Polarized — World” at the Belfer Center.
Former U.S. Ambassadors to NATO Nicholas Burns and Douglas Lute speak about their recent report “NATO at Seventy: An Alliance in Crisis” at the Belfer Center Board lunch.
Jill Lepore, the David Woods Kemper ‘41 Professor of American History at Harvard University, speaks on “How Data Killed Facts” at a Belfer Center Board lunch.