Willow Fortunoff

Willow Fortunoff is an MPP candidate at Harvard Kennedy School with a concentration in International and Global Affairs. She is a Student Research Assistant to Eric Rosenbach at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Her research focuses on the evolving international security challenges faced by US mayors.

Recently, Willow worked for the UN Climate Change (UNFCCC) Global Climate Action team in Bonn, Germany, where she supported strategies to connect local governments to the international climate negotiation process. She was awarded a Fulbright research scholarship in Ecuador to study city diplomacy and migration and served as Assistant Director at the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center in Washington, DC.

Willow has been published in The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, The New Atlanticist, and The National Interest. She holds a B.A. in Political Science and International Studies from Macalester College.