Kelly Sims Gallagher

Kelly Sims Gallagher is Dean and Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy at The Fletcher School, Tufts University, where she co-directs the Climate Policy Lab and the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy. Her work examines how policy drives the development and deployment of cleaner energy technologies, with a focus on the United States and China. 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 State Department's Special Envoy for Climate Change office. She is the author of China Shifts Gears (MIT Press, 2006) and Titans of the Climate (MIT Press, 2018), and holds a Ph.D. from The Fletcher School.