Newsmakers

"Belfer Center Newsmakers" highlights members of the Belfer Center community who have been featured recently in the news.

Erica Chenoweth, former International Security Program (ISP) associate, and Maria Stephan, former ISP/Intrastate Conflict Program research fellow, won the 2013 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order for their book WhyCivil Resistance Works: The StrategicLogic of Nonviolent Conflict. The book also won the 2012 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award.

Martin Feldstein, a member of the Center’s board of directors, received the SIEPR Prize for Contributions to Economic Policy from the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. Feldstein is the second recipient of the biennial prize, following 2010 recipient Paul Volcker.

Trevor Findlay, Managing the Atom/International Security Program research fellow, was selected by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to join his Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters. The first session of this Board took place in late February.

Susan Hockfield, Marie Curie Visiting Professor at Harvard Kennedy School, was awarded the 2013 Pinnacle Award for lifetime achievement from Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. “The Pinnacle Awards pay tribute to some of the region’s most accomplished female leaders.”

John P. Holdren, Belfer Center board member (on leave), received the 2012 Siemens Foundation Founder’s Award. The annual award recognizes outstanding individuals for encouraging students to engage in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics subjects.

Calestous Juma, professor of the practice of international development, was named one of the “100 Most Influential Africans in 2012” by New African magazine. He was credited for his extensive and tireless work in the field of development science.

Elaine Kamarck, former lecturer in public policy with the Belfer Center, has moved to Brookings where she is a senior fellow in the Governance Studies program and director of the Management and Leadership Initiative.

Dennis Ross, Belfer Center International Council member, received the Scholar-Statesman Award from The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. The Award highlights “outstanding  leaders who exemplify the idea that sound scholarship and a discerning knowledge of history are essential to wise and effective policy in the Middle East.”