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Stephen M. Walt has been named Belfer Professor of International Politics at the Kennedy School and is the new Faculty Chair of BCSIA''s International Security Program. Walt was a BCSIA Research Fellow from 1981-84 and returned to Harvard last year after time spent as a professor at the University of Chicago and Princeton.
John Gerard Ruggie is the new Evron and Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of International Affairs. Ruggie was a professor of political science at Columbia and former dean of Columbia''s School of International and Public Affairs before joining the United Nations as Assistant Secretary-General.
ENRP Faculty Chair Robert N. Stavins was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for a two-year research project on "Climate Change Response Strategies for Water Resources: Price and Non-Price Demand Management." Stavins'' Co-Principal Investigator is Berkeley Professor Michael Hanemann. The grant will support the dissertation research of two Ph.D. students: a student at Berkeley and BCSIA fellow Sheila Cavanagh at Harvard.
STPP Director John P. Holdren received the Heinz Award for Public Policy in February. The Heinz Awards (among the largest individual achievement prizes in the world) honor outstanding leaders who have made personal and professional commitments to future generations in the fields of Arts and Humanities, Environment, the Human Condition, Public Policy, and Technology, the Economy and Employment.
Graham T. Allison represented BCSIA at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January. The meeting in Davos brings together world leaders in business, government, and civil society to address key challenges affecting the global public interest. Topics at this year''s meeting included the backlash against globalization, alleviating poverty by "leapfrogging" with technology, and "suggestions for the new American president." Allison was part of an 11-member delegation from the Kennedy School which included Dean Joseph S. Nye, Jeffrey Frankel, Ira A. Jackson, and Jeffrey Sachs.
Richard A. Falkenrath, Co-Director of the Executive Session on Domestic Preparedness, served as a member of a Congressional commission chaired by Virginia Governor James S. Gilmore to study domestic response capabilities and propose ways to combat terrorism. The Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction (known as the Gilmore Commission) released its second annual report, Toward a National Strategy for Combating Terrorism, on December 14.
STPP/ENRP Senior Research Associate Robert A. Frosch received the 2001 IEEE Founders Medal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. The citation reads, "For a career of significant advances in aerospace and automotive technology, and industrial ecology, and for skilled administration of R&D in industry, government and academia."
ENRP Fellow David Cash was chosen as a member of the Environmental Leadership Program''s Fellowship Class of 2001-03. The ELP Fellowship is a national program designed to build the leadership capacity of the environmental movement''s most promising emerging professionals.
ISP Director Steven E. Miller testified on "loose nukes" before the Disarmament Committee of the German Bundestag on September 27.
WPF Senior Fellow Clive Gray led a multinational team in a 16-month study of Madagascar''s financial sector. The project, funded by USAID under the former HIID''s CAER (Consulting Assistance for Economic Reform) Project, included a conference in Antananarivo in October at which representatives of the finance ministry, central bank, commercial banks, private sector and researchers debated how to strengthen Madagascar''s financial sector.
ISP/WPF Fellow David Carment and Albrecht Schnabel of the United Nations University conducted a series of workshops in November on building conflict prevention capacity in consultation with the secretariats of regional organizations, think tanks, and local experts.
HIIP Faculty Affiliate Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger was appointed to the advisory board of Evolaris, Austria''s leading E-commerce research center, and to the advisory board of the Marshall Plan Foundation, the newly-founded Austro-American research foundation.