Newsmakers

Nicholas Burns, director of the Center’s Future of Diplomacy Project, has been named “New Englander of the Year” by the New England Council, the nation’s oldest regional business organization. Burns is being honored for his commitment and contributions to the nation as well as his leadership and impact on New England.

Paul de Sa, former research fellow at the Belfer Center, was recently appointed chief of the Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis of the Federal Communications Commission. He is returning to the FCC office, which he ran from 2009-2012, after having worked for several years at Wall Street’s Bernstein Research.

Former U.S. Senator and Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has been named a joint visiting fellow with the Belfer Center and Harvard’s Institute of Politics for the fall 2016 semester. Hagel, a Vietnam veteran, will take part in security-related seminars at the Center and will meet with students, fellows, and faculty.

Calestous Juma, director of the Science, Technology, and Globalization project, has been awarded the 2017 Breakthrough Paradigm Award. The annual prize honors those who help build a future where everyone can enjoy quality of life on an “ecologically vibrant planet.” Juma was chosen for his scholarship and leadership.

Juliette Kayyem, the Belfer Lecturer in International Security at Harvard Kennedy School, is the recipient of the United States Coast Guard Academy’s Elenchus fellowship. As part of her fellowship, she delivered the annual address to the Academy, focusing on leadership in times of homeland crisis.

Zhu Liu, an associate with the Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, has been selected by Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research as a winner of the Green Talents Competition 2016. He is one of 25 outstanding scientists selected to take part in the Green Talents International Forum in Sustainable Development.

Distinguished Service Professor Joseph S. Nye’s book Is the American Century Over? was selected “Best Book on Global Policy” in 2015 by the Loyola Marymount University’s World Policy Institute. Nye, they said, “provides a serious, research-based prescription to guide policymakers as they search for answers...”

Barry Posen, the Ford International Professor of Political Science at MIT and former fellow and editorial board member at the Belfer Center, has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Studies Association. He is recognized as a distinguished scholar in international Security Studies for his many contributions.

Robert Springborg has been named a Kuwait Foundation Visiting Scholar with the Middle East Initiative. Recently a professor of international security studies at the Naval Postgraduate School, Springborg is leading a study group at Harvard Kennedy School this fall on “Globalization in the Middle East.”

Robert Stavins, director of the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, is the 2016 recipient of the Edmund G. Pat Brown Award. This premier California award for environmental policy was presented to Stavins for his work to show those in California and elsewhere “a path” to global and local climate solutions.