Former U.S. Secretary of Defense to head Harvard’s Belfer Center
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter will join the Harvard Kennedy School as the director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Belfer Professor of Technology and Global Affairs, the School announced Tuesday. Carter will succeed Graham Allison, who has been director since 1995 and will continue as the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at the School. Carter, a physicist, became known while defense secretary for pushing the Pentagon to “think outside its five-sided box” to transform how the military fought adversaries and strengthened alliances. He also managed the department’s budget and talent and developed its technology. As head of the Belfer Center’s programs, he plans to focus his scholarship on the role of innovation and technology in addressing challenges at home and abroad. To bolster this effort and the Kennedy School’s other activities in global affairs and science and technology, Robert and Renée Belfer are making a...