Kelly Gallagher
Academic Dean, Professor of Energy & Environmental Policy, Director at Climate Policy Lab, Co-Director at CIERP at Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
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- Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
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Biography
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
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. From June 2014 – September 2015 she served in 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 at the U.S. State Department. Gallagher is a member of the board of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. She is a non-resident Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment and she also serves on the board of the Energy Foundation China. Broadly, she focuses on energy and climate policy in both the United States and China. She specializes in how policy spurs the development and deployment of cleaner and more efficient energy technologies, domestically and internationally. A Truman Scholar, she has a MALD and PhD in international affairs from The Fletcher School, and an AB from Occidental College. She speaks Spanish and basic Mandarin Chinese, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is the author of "China Shifts Gears: Automakers, Oil, Pollution, and Development," (The MIT Press 2006), editor of "Acting in Time on Energy Policy," (Brookings Institution Press 2009), "The Global Diffusion of Clean Energy Technologies: Lessons from China," (MIT Press 2014), Titans of the Climate (with Xiaowei Xuan) (MIT Press 2018) and numerous academic articles and policy reports.
Research/Areas of Interest:
- Energy and climate change policy in the United States and major emerging economies
- Processes of technological innovation (especially the role of public policy) with a particular emphasis on the deployment of advanced energy technologies, including the transfer of technologies from one country to another - Green industrialization
Education
- PhD, Tufts University, Medford, United States, 2003
- MALD, Tufts University, Medford, United States, 2000
- AB, Environmental Studies and Diplomacy & World Affairs, Occidental College, Los Angeles, United States, 1995
Tufts University Appointments
- Professor
Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1 Jul 2015 - present - Academic Dean
Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1 Sep 2020 - present - Director, Center for International Environment & Resource Policy
Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1 Jul 2013 - present - Associate Professor
Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1 Sep 2009 - 30 Jun 2015 - Adjunct Assistant Professor
Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 16 Jan 2005 - 15 May 2005
Selected Publications
Gallagher, K. S., & Xuan, X. (2019). Titans of the Climate Explaining Policy Process in the United States and China. MIT Press.
Gallagher, K. S. (2022). The Coming Carbon Tsunami Developing Countries Need a New Growth Model-Before It's Too Late. FOREIGN AFFAIRS, 101(1), 151-164.
Videos
Washington to Glasgow: Global Climate Diplomacy Over the Next Six Months
CEF Green Tea Chat with Kelly Sims Gallagher from the Fletcher School at Tufts University
Kelly Sims Gallagher: “Will China Meet Its Climate Targets?”
U.S.-China Climate Finance Cooperation: Can We Avoid the Carbon Tsunami? | Kelly Sims Gallagher
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