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Michèle Flournoy, a former fellow with Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, has rejoined the Center as a Senior Fellow after stepping down from her position as U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. As a non-resident Senior Fellow, Flournoy will visit the Kennedy School several times a semester, working with faculty, fellows and students on international security policy matters. 

Robert B. Zoellick, outgoing president of the World Bank, will join Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs in July as a senior fellow.  Zoellick, whose five-year term at the Bank ends June 30, is a former Belfer Center research fellow and an alumnus of the Kennedy School. He has also been named a distinguished visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C.

A new study by Belfer Center fellow Leonardo Maugeri shows that oil production capacity is surging in the United States and several other countries at such a fast pace that global oil output capacity is likely to grow by nearly 20 percent by 2020. This could prompt a plunge or even a collapse in oil prices. The findings by Maugeri, a former oil industry executive who is now a fellow in the Geopolitics of Energy Project in the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, are based on an original field-by-field analysis of the world’s major oil formations and exploration projects.

On the eve of the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, South Korea, a new study finds that an international initiative to secure all vulnerable nuclear stockpiles within four years has reduced the dangers posed by many of the world’s highest-risk nuclear stockpiles.  But the new analysis, by researchers with the Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center, also concludes that much will remain to be done to ensure that all nuclear weapons and material are secure when the current four-year effort comes to an end.

David Miliband, British MP and former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom, to visit from April 2-5, 2012.

The Program on Negotiation (PON) at Harvard Law School and the Future of Diplomacy Project at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) will     jointly honor former U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker, III, with the 2012 Great Negotiator Award on Thursday, March 29, 2012, at the Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School.

The Future of Diplomacy Project at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, is pleased to announce the 2012 Fisher Family Fellows. They include the former Foreign Secretary of India, Shyam Saran; the former High Representative for the Common and Security Policy (CFSP) and former Secretary General of NATO, Javier Solana; and Tim Shriver, the President and CEO of Special Olympics.

The U.S. government could save the economy hundreds of billions of dollars per year by 2050 by spending a few billion dollars more a year to spur innovations in energy technology, according to a new report by researchers at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. The three-year project by the Belfer Center's Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group calls for doubling investment and adopting policy changes in energy technology.

New report underlines why Americans still need to care about Russia.

The Future of Diplomacy Project at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, is pleased to announce the 2011 Fisher Family Fellows.