Peniel Joseph and Brandon Terry
John F. Kennedy Library
Kelly Sims Gallagher is the tenth Dean of The Fletcher School, Tufts University. A Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy, she also directs the Climate Policy Lab and co-directs the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at Fletcher. The Climate Policy Lab is dedicated to identifying which climate policies work, which don’t, and why in countries around the world, with particular emphasis on major emerging economies including China, India, Ethiopia, South Africa, Indonesia, Mexico, and Brazil. Gallagher served in the second term of Obama Administration as a Senior Policy Advisor in The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and as Senior China Advisor in the Special Envoy for Climate Change office at the U.S. State Department. Gallagher is a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is a member of the board of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. Broadly, she focuses on U.S.-China relations, green industrialization, climate policy, energy innovation, and low-carbon, resilient models for achieving sustainable prosperity. She is the author of Titans of the Climate (The MIT Press 2018), The Global Diffusion of Clean Energy Technologies: Lessons from China (MIT Press 2014), China Shifts Gears: Automakers, Oil, Pollution, and Development (The MIT Press 2006), and dozens of other articles and book chapters.
The NonProfit Center
New England Aquarium
Jim O’Connell’s latest book is Boston and the Making of a Global City. He teaches in the City Planning-Urban Affairs Program at Boston University. Jim’s other books include The Hub’s Metropolis: Boston’s Suburban Development, From Railroad Suburbs to Smart Growth; Dining Out in Boston: A Culinary History; and Becoming Cape Cod: Creating a Seaside Resort. Jim has a Ph.D. in Urban History from the University of Chicago. He formerly was a planner for National Park sites in New England and New York State. He leads urban planning/design tours of different areas of Boston and Cambridge.
Foley & Lardner LLP
Seán Hemingway, Michael Deagler, and Alex George
John F. Kennedy Library
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