PEOPLE

Ambassador Nicholas Burns is Sultan of Oman Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Member of the Board of Directors at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

Ishac Diwan is a lecturer on public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and is the director for Africa and the Middle East at the growth lab of the Center for International Development.

Asim Ijaz Khwaja is Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and Faculty Affiliate with The Dubai Initiative. His areas of interest include economic development, corporate finance, education, political economy, industrial organization, contract theory, mechanism design, and computational economics.

Henry Lee is the Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Program. Before joining the School in 1979, Mr. Lee spent nine years in Massachusetts state government as Director of the State's Energy Office.

Meghan L. O'Sullivan is the Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard University. Her expertise includes nation-building, counterinsurgency, the geopolitics of energy, decision making in foreign policy, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.

Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs and is faculty chair of the International Security Program.