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Melani Cammett
Center Director; Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Identity and Conflict; Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar.
Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Research interests: Conflict; religion and ethnicity; development; and Middle East politics.

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Melani Cammett.

Christina L. Davis
Director, Program on US-Japan Relations; Executive Committee; Faculty Associate.
Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Research interests: Politics of international trade; foreign policy of East Asia and Japan; and geopolitics and international organizations.

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Sarah Dryden-Peterson
Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar.
Director, REACH; Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Research interests: Comparative education; community development; education in armed conflict, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa; migration; and transnationalism.

Pronouns: she/her

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Peter A. Hall
Senior Adviser, Executive Committee; Faculty Associate.
Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Department of Government, Harvard University.
Research interests: US-Europe relations; the European community; comparative political economy; and comparative public-policy making.
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Elhanan Helpman
Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate.
Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade, Department of Economics, Harvard University.

Research interests: International economics; productivity and growth; and political economy.

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Alisha Holland
Executive Committee; Faculty Associate (on leave 2026–2027); Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Business and Government.
Gates Professor of Developing Societies, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Research interests: The political determinants and consequences of infrastructure projects in Latin America; migration; crime control; and subnational governance.

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David Howell
Executive Committee; Faculty Associate.
Chair; Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Interim Chair, Committee on Regional Studies: East Asia, Harvard University.

Research interests: The social history of Japan in the Tokugawa (1603–1868) and Meiji (1868–1912) periods. 

David Howell.

Michèle Lamont
Senior Adviser, Executive Committee; Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion.
Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies; Professor, Departments of Sociology and African and of African American Studies, Harvard University.

Research interests: Culture and inequality; racism and stigma; academia and knowledge; social change and successful societies; and qualitative methods.

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Michele Lamont

Ya-Wen Lei
Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate (on leave 2026–2027); Harvard Academy Senior Scholar.
Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Research interests: Political sociology; law and society; economic sociology; sociology of media and information technologies; sociology of work, labor, and labor movements; science and technology studies; development; and China studies.

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