Belfer Center Newsmakers

Barbara Bodine, former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen and Coordinator for Post-Conflict Reconstruction for Baghdad, has been named Executive Director of the Belfer Center's Governance Initiative in the Middle East. The purpose of the initiative is to work with the government of Dubai to promote training and research in governance issues in the Middle East region.

Joshua Busby, Belfer International Security Program Fellow, was recently invited to become a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). The London-based IISS is among the world's leading independent research institute in the field of international security, and membership requires nomination.

Michael Chertoff, a federal judge and member of the advisory board of the Long-Term Legal Strategy Project for Combating Terrorism (LTLS), was confirmed by the Senate to replace Tom Ridge as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Chertoff has served on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals since 2003 and was director of the Justice Department's criminal division from 2001 to 2003.

John Holdren, Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy and Director of the Belfer Center's Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, has been elected to the office of President-Elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society. Beginning in February 2005, he will serve for one year as AAAS President-Elect, followed by one year as President, then one year as Chairman of the Board. Also, Holdren co-chaired the National Commission on Energy Policy which in November released its report: "Ending the Energy Stalemate: A Bipartisan Strategy to Meet America's Energy Challenges."

Bonnie Jenkins, Belfer International Security and Managing the Atom Fellow and counsel on the "9/11 Commission," was recently named Program Manager of the Ford Foundation's U.S. Foreign and Security Policy in the New York-based Governance and Civil Society Unit. In announcing her appointment, the Ford Foundation said, "By bringing together two areas of work that increasingly overlap, we hope to generate a more effective and coherent body of grant-making at a crucial time for America in world affairs."

Richard H. Jones, Belfer Fellow and former U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon, Kazakhstan, and Kuwait and Chief Policy Officer and Deputy Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, was presented with the "Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service" by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in December. He was recently called back to Washington to serve as the State Department's point person for Iraq.

Juliette Kayyem, Belfer Center Acting Executive Director for Research, has been elected to the editorial board of the new Journal of National Security Law and Policy. Kayyem also co-directed Harvard's Long-Term Legal Strategy Project for Combating Terrorism (LTLS) which in November released its report to Congress recommending legal guidelines in the "war on terror."

Brenda Shaffer, International Security Program Fellow, delivered the opening address, "Security in the South Caucasus," at the 58^th Rose-Ross Seminar in Baku, Azerbaijan on November 25. The seminar was sponsored by the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in cooperation with the Parliament of Azerbaijan.

Robert Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government, has been named by Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney to chair the newly created Scientific Advisory Board at the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs (EOEA). This new group has as its primary purpose "to assist policy makers by helping to ensure the production and use of sound science to support decision-making and to ensure that EOEA is making use of up-to date assessment methods, innovative policy instruments, and appropriate technologies."

Dorothy Zinberg, Faculty Associate with the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, has been named to the Board of Associates of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT and in December served on the selection panel for the National Academy of Sciences and State Department's Jefferson Scholar Program that brings five senior scientists to Washington for a year.

Robert Zoellick, former BCSIA Fellow and Kennedy School alumni (MPP '81), has been confirmed as Deputy Secretary of State by the U.S. Senate. Zoellick was previously U.S. Trade Representative, and also served as Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs under President George H.W. Bush.

Paul Kane, International Security Program Fellow, was awarded the Navy Commendation Medal for Personal Performance with Marines on combat duty during the 2003 Operation Iraqi Freedom. A nuclear-biological-chemical defense specialist in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1984-1988, he returned to the Marines from civilian life in 2001 and was mobilized to active duty in Iraq.

Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development and Director of STPP's Science, Technology, and Globalization Project, has been appointed by Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki to serve on Kenya's newly formed Economic and Social Council. The Council was recently established as the country's supreme advisory body to the President on economic and social affairs. Also, Juma headed the UN Millennium Project's Task Force on Science, Technology, and Innovation, which in January released its final report titled "Innovation: Applying Knowledge in Development."