Director
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Kelly Sims Gallagher is academic dean and professor of energy and environmental policy at The Fletcher School, Tufts University. She directs the Climate Policy Lab and the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at Fletcher. Gallagher served in the second term of the 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 in the U.S. State Department.Ìý
Gallagher is a board member of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University; serves on the board of the Energy and Environmental Systems of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine; and also serves on the board of Energy Foundation China. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her focus includes energy innovation and climate policy, with a specialization in how policy spurs the development and deployment of cleaner and more efficient energy technologies, domestically and internationally. She is the author of (2018), The Global Diffusion of Clean Energy Technologies: Lessons from China (2014), China Shifts Gears: Automakers, Oil, Pollution, and Development (2006), among other articles and chapters.
