Kelly Sims Gallagher

Dr. Kelly Gallagher focuses on energy and climate policy in both the United States and China, with a particular interest in the role of policy in spurring the development and deployment of cleaner and more efficient energy technologies, domestically and internationally. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations; the author of China Shifts Gears: Automakers, Oil, Pollution, and Development; and the editor of Acting in Time on Energy Policy. Dr. Gallagher is Associate Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy at The Fletcher School, Tufts University, and directs the Energy, Climate, and Innovation research program in the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy. She is also Senior Associate and a member of the Board of Directors of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, where she previously directed the Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group. A Truman Scholar, she has a MALD and PhD in international affairs from The Fletcher School, and an AB from Occidental College.