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Newsmakers Five new members were elected to the KSG Alumni Executive Council this past fall. They include Patricia DeGennaro MPA 2001 (New York, NY), Komla Afeke Dumor MPA 2003 (Accra, Ghana), Lynne Lyman MPA2 2001 (Boston, MA), Kate Mullally MPA 1998 (Hull, MA), and Jeremy Tachau MPP 1994 (Calabasas, CA). Robert Orr left his position as executive director for research at the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs to become assistant secretary general of the United Nations. Orr is now the UN’s top official responsible for policy and planning and the senior-most American policymaker. John Ruggie, who left the UN in 2001 to teach and to run the school’s Center for Business and Government, earlier held this UN position. In the wake of Orr’s departure, Senior Fellow Juliette Kayyem took over his role as the Belfer Center’s acting executive director for research. For the past three years, Kayyem has been a lecturer and served as executive director of the school’s Executive Session on Domestic Preparedness, a terrorism and homeland security research program that ran from 1999 through 2003. She was also co-director of Harvard’s Long-Term Legal Strategy for Combating Terrorism. Peggy Levitt of the Hauser Center was awarded a National Science Foundation grant to study the localization of global discourses on women’s rights. She was also awarded a grant from the Ford Foundation to study historical and comparative perspectives on transnational religion. |
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