Charlie Pozniak

Charlie is a Research Fellow in the Program on Emerging Technology, Scientific Advancement, and Global Policy at the Belfer Center. Here, his work includes the Move37 project, focusing on applied decision theory and artificial intelligence in strategic diplomatic, negotiation, and conflict management settings. He also researches the regulation of emerging technology from a lens of risk, decision, and behavior.

Before Harvard, Charlie worked at the World Bank, based mainly in Central Asia. Here he ran a regular regional geopolitical brief, built internal research tools, and supported policy advice for governments on topics like poverty, technology, and crisis response. 

Charlie holds a BA in History from the University of Oxford and a Master in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School. At Oxford, he was a Vincent’s Scholar and at Harvard he was a John F. Kennedy Fellow, a Belfer Young Leader student fellow, and a visiting scholar at the Universidad Catolica Boliviana “San Pablo” in Bolivia. His graduate thesis examined the efficient allocation of computational resources and he is a teaching fellow for a class on analytic methods (API-302) under Prof. Richard Zeckhauser.