Titans of the Climate: Explaining Policy Process in the United States and China (American and Comparative Environmental Policy)

Friday, March 29 | 11 AM | Ginn Library Reading Room, Medford Campus

Prof. Gallagher, and co-author Xiaowei Xuan, examine how the planet’s two largest
greenhouse gas emitters develop and implement climate policy. Both Gallagher and Xuan
aim to help readers understand the challenges, constraints, and opportunities in each country.

KELLY SIMS GALLAGHER is 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 also a faculty affiliate with the Harvard University Center for Environment.  She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement and she also serves on the board of the Energy Foundation.