- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

Summer 2019 Newsletter Photos

June 05, 2019
The Elbe Group of U.S. and Russian former military and intelligence officers gather in Iceland in March for their annual meeting. Here, they are meeting with their Icelandic hosts at Höfði, the Reykjavik house where President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev held talks in 1986, resulting in the INF Treaty. Photo by Kristinn Ingvarsson.
Eric Rosenbach (left), Belfer Center Co-Director, moderates a JFK Jr. Forum event with former ROK Foreign Minister Yoon Young-kwan, former U.S. Ambassador to ROK Kathleen Stephens, and former U.S. Forces Korea Commander General Vincent Brooks. Photo by Martha Stewart.
Nobel Laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former President of Liberia and HKS alumna, discusses “Women’s Solidarity and Africa’s Future” at an event moderated by Professor Zoe Marks. The first democratically-elected female head of state in Africa, she led the country through reconciliation, the Ebola crisis, and more.
Bo Julie Crowley (MPP1), Casey Corcoran (MPP1/JD), and Raina Davis (MPP1) present their new report “Disinformation Threat Watch: The Disinformation Landscape in East Asia and Impli- cations for US Policy” during a Defending Digital Democracy Project (D3P) seminar.
Belfer Center Executive Director Aditi Kumar shares a light moment with former Ambassadors Nicholas Burns and Samantha Power during a panel discussion on “Reinvigorating Diplomacy,” moderated by Kumar at May’s annual meeting of the Center’s International Council.
Kennedy School student Laura Merryfield, playing the role of CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, speaks “to camera” during a simulated Anderson Cooper 360 broadcast on the future of the Arctic. Photo by Cristine Russell.
Center Co-Director Eric Rosenbach with Chinese People’s Liberation Army General (ret.) Hao Yeli, Senior Advisor to the China Institute for International Strategic Studies. Photo by Martha Stewart.
Julia Voo (right), Research Director with the China Cyber Policy Initiative, talks with Gao Yang from the China Institute for International Strategic Studies. Photo by Martha Stewart.
More than 120 Idaho election officials gathered in March for their first statewide training in how to prevent and deal with cyber and information attacks. The Secretary of State’s Tabletop Exercise (TTX) was assisted by the Defending Digital Democracy team (standing by wall).
General Hao Yeli (second from left) and colleagues from the China working group discuss responses during the fictitious cyber scenario of a third party attack on critical infrastructure.
Kara Swisher (right), Editor-at-Large of Recode and host of the “Recode Decode” podcast, discusses surveillance, AI ethics, and how to regulate technology with Belfer Center Director and former Secretary of Defense Ash Carter during a JFK Jr. Forum event recorded for a special podcast.
Belfer Center Co-Director Eric Rosenbach (right) with Farah Pandith, Future of Diplomacy Project Senior Fellow, during a JFK Jr. Forum event titled “How We Win: Beating Extremism Abroad and in the U.S.” Juliette Kayyem moderated the event that included the Anti-Defamation League’s George Selim. Photo by Martha Stewart.
John P. Holdren (left), Co-Director, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, speaks with Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland, about "Tackling Climate Change as an Issue of Justice" during a JFK Jr. Forum event. Photo by Martha Stewart.
Eric Lander, founding Director of the MIT/Harvard Broad Institute, makes a point during a Faculty Working Group session hosted by Center Director Ash Carter and Engineering / Applied Sciences Dean Frank Doyle. Participants discussed effective international norms for emerging technology.
USIP Senior Policy Expert Patricia Kim discusses China’s role with CFR Senior Fellow for Korean Studies Scott Snyder.
Kori Schake, Deputy Director-General of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, comments during a discussion on how learning from World War I can help prevent World War III.
Lindiwe Mazibuko, the first black woman in South African history to be elected Leader of the Opposition in Parliament, discusses “‘We Don’t Need Another Hero’: The Future of Public Leadership in Africa.” Mazibuko is a Fisher Family Fellow for 2019 with the Future of Diplomacy Project.
Brooke Baldwin (right), host of CNN’s Newsroom, talks about her career during a Future of Foreign Affairs is Female seminar. Baldwin has been recognized for the depth of her reporting and coverage. Also pictured is Tara Tyrell, Project Coordinator for the Homeland Security Project.
Belfer Center faculty affiliate Kathy Pham (right) and digital HKS Associate Director Vanessa Rhinesmith (second from right) pose with fellow panelists, (left to right) Heather Krause, Ali Martell, and Anisha Asundi, following their discussion on “Women in Technology and Gender Data Gaps.” Photo by Bobby Guiliani.
Former EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, currently Director of C-Change at the Harvard School of Public Health, speaks about impacts of climate change on public health at a Directors’ Lunch. Juliette Kayyem, Director of the Center’s Homeland Security Project, also took part in the discussion.
1994—Moscow’s Spaso House: Rolf Mowatt-Larssen (back center), then a declared CIA Representative to Russian Intelligence Services in Moscow, stands behind Yevgeniy Primakov, Director of the Russian External Intelligence Services (SVRR), with President Bill Clinton and a senior Russian Orthodox Church official at the U.S. Ambassador’s residence. Photo from U.S. Embassy/Moscow.
Belfer Center Senior Fellow and former National Security Adviser Susan Rice (front, center) stands with Thomas R. Pickering and Charles B. Rangel Foreign Affairs Fellows from Harvard Kennedy School and other area universities following a seminar Rice led on government careers.
Harvard Kennedy School organizers of the 2019 Women in Power conference celebrate the gathering along with some of the event presenters and participants. Photo by Bobby Guiliani.
During an Arctic role-play exercise, Harvard Kennedy School student Katie Segal (right), playing teenage Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, calls for a School Strike for Climate. HKS students waiting to speak (left): Kalia Firester (playing Dr. Peter Winsor, World Wildlife Fund) and Ankur Dhanuka (playing Anders Oskal, Association of World Reindeer Herders). Photo by Cristine Russell.
Valerie Plame, a former covert operations officer and current candidate for U.S. Congress, recalls the impact of her cover being blown in political retaliation. Former Republican Congressman Mike Rogers took part in the discussion.
Karen Harris chats with International Council member Kay Kapoor during a break between sessions at the International Council meeting.
Kai-Fu Lee, founding President of Google China and Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures, talks with students and faculty about his new book, AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order, at a Center seminar organized by the Economic Diplomacy Initiative.
Former U.S. Senator Robert (Bob) Corker, who represented Tennessee 2007-2019, speaks during a Belfer Center Board Lunch titled “Reflections on a Life of Leadership,” hosted by Center Director Ash Carter (right). Corker chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2015 to 2019.
Yan Xuelong, Distinguished Professor and Dean of the Institute of International Relations at China’s Tsinghua University, talks with students following a seminar in which he discussed “U.S.-China Competition in the Age of the Knowledge Economy” with HKS Professor Graham Allison.
Belfer Center International Council members Laurence Belfer (left) and Robert Belfer, listen to a panel discussion with Douglas Dillon Professor of Government Graham Allison, and Fran Townsend.
National Intelligence Director Dan Coats (right) speaks at the opening session of the Belfer Center’s annual International Council meeting. Center Director and former Secretary of Defense Ash Carter introduced Coats.
General (ret.) and Center Senior Fellow Lori Robinson, the first woman to command the U.S. Northern Command and NORAD, listens during the Center’s International Council meeting to former Senator Sam Nunn, co-founder of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program.
Korea Project Director John Park shares insights along with Prof. Kyung-Ae Park (right) of the University of British Columbia and Prof. Kim Sung-han (left) of Korea University.
In a round-table discussion of potential legislative solutions for governing the technology issues of privacy, bias, discrimination, and access, Democracy Fund’s Paul Waters makes a point. Other participants at the table included: former FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn (center), Ambassador Philip Verveer (right), and congressional staffers.
TAPP’s Ash Carter and Laura Manley walk to the Big Tech workshop at the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
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