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| Richard A. Falkenrath, PhD
Assistant Professor and Co-Director, Executive Session on Domestic Preparedness, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University U.S. Domestic Preparedness and the Complex Threat of Bioterrorism Raw transcript Next speaker |
Professional Biography
Richard A. Falkenrath is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He completed a three-year term as Executive Director of the Kennedy School?s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) in 1998. He is principal investigator of the Executive Session on Domestic Preparedness (a DOJ-funded joint project of BCSIA and the Taubman Center for State and Local Government) and of the Jeddah Forum project funded out of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He is the author or co-author of Shaping Europe's Military Order: The Origins and Consequences of the CFE Treaty (1995), Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy: Containing the Threat of Loose Russian Nuclear Weapons and Fissile Material (1996), America's Achilles' Heel: Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Terrorism and Covert Attack (1998), and numerous journal articles and chapters of edited volumes. Dr. Falkenrath has been a visiting research fellow at the German Society of Foreign Affairs (DGAP) in Bonn, as well as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Defense, the intelligence community, several Congressional offices, the RAND Corporation, and a range of private companies in the defense sector. He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Council on Germany, and the American Economic Association. He holds a Ph.D. from the Department of War Studies, King's College, London, where he was a British Marshall Scholar, and is a summa cum laude graduate of Occidental College, Los Angeles, with degrees in economics and international relations. |
