Kelly Sims Gallagher

Kelly Sims Gallagher is an Associate Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy at The Fletcher School.

She directs the Energy, Climate, and Innovation (ECI) research program in Fletcher’s Center for International Environment and Resource Policy. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, where she previously directed the Energy Technology Innovation Policy (ETIP) research group. Broadly, she focuses on energy and climate policy in both the United States and China. She is particularly interested in the role of policy in spurring 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 at Tufts University, and an AB from Occidental College. She speaks Spanish and basic Mandarin Chinese. 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), and numerous academic articles and policy reports.

In the News:

• Kelly Sims Gallagher and Banning Garrett on U.S.-China relations leading up to President Hu’s visit in “Hu Jintao Visit to U.S. Pushes Wind-Power Subsidy Issue Into Spotlight”, New York Times, January 5, 2011
• Kelly Sims Gallagher and Jennifer Turner on China’s efforts to create more clean energy professionals in “Building a Skilled Clean Energy Work Force – a Tale of Two Countries”, New York Times, December 3, 2010
• Kelly Sims Gallagher in “US, China called upon to step up greenhouse pledges”, Boston Globe, December 16, 2009

Additional Information:

• Kelly Sims Gallagher’s homepage

Publications:

• Trends in investments in global energy research, development, and demonstration. WIREs Clim Change 2011, 2: 373-396 (April 18, 2011)
• Testimony before the U.S. Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee examining current global investment trends in clean energy technologies and the impact of domestic policies on that investment (March 17, 2011)
• Breaking the Climate Impasse with China
• China’s Fuel Economy Standards for Passenger Vehicles: Rationale, Policy Process, and Impacts
• Catalyzing a strategic transformation to a low-carbon economy: A CCS roadmap for China
• Driving Carbon Capture and Storage forward in China
• Technical, environmental, and economic assessment of deploying advanced coal power technologies in the Chinese context