Kelly Sims Gallagher is the tenth Dean of The Fletcher School, Tufts University. A Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy, she also co-directs the Climate Policy Lab and the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at Fletcher. The Climate Policy Lab is dedicated to identifying which climate policies work, which don’t, and why in countries around the world, with particular emphasis on major emerging economies including China, India, Ethiopia, South Africa, Indonesia, Mexico, and Brazil.
Gallagher served in the second term of 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 non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is a member of the board of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.
Broadly, she focuses on U.S.-China relations, green industrialization, climate policy, energy innovation, and low-carbon, resilient models for achieving sustainable prosperity. She is the author of Titans of the Climate (The MIT Press 2018), The Global Diffusion of Clean Energy Technologies: Lessons from China (MIT Press 2014), China Shifts Gears: Automakers, Oil, Pollution, and Development (The MIT Press 2006), and dozens of other articles and book chapters.
Gallagher, K.S., Zhang, Fang, et.al. (2019). Assessing the Policy gaps for achieving China’s climate targets in the Paris Agreement. Nature Communications.
Gallagher, K.S. and Xuan, X. (2019). Titans of the Climate: Explaining Policy Process in the United States and China. MIT Press.
Haites, Erik, Gallagher, K.S., Narasshiman, E., et al. (2018). Experience with Carbon Taxes and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Systems. Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum, pp. 109-18 (2018).
Mazzucato, M., Semieniuk, G., Gallagher, K.S., Huang, P. et al. (2018). Bridging the gap: The role of innovation policy and market creation. UN Environment Programme Emissions Gap Report 2018, pp. 52-60.
Narassimhan, E., Gallagher, K. S., Koester, S., & Alejo, J. R. (2018). Carbon pricing in practice: A review of existing emissions trading systems. Climate Policy, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2018.1467827
Anadon, L., Gallagher, K., & Holdren, J. (2017). Rescue US energy innovation. Nature Energy.
Gallagher, Kelly Sims. (2017). Acting in Time on Energy Policy, (editor) Beijing, China: China Environmental Science Press (中国环境科学出版社)
Funk, P., Xue, L. Liang, Z., Gallagher, K.S., Cowhey, P. F., Fuchs, E.R.H. (2017). Why China needs data sharing to address its air-quality challenge. Natl Sci Rev 2017 doi: 10.1093/nsr/nwx059
Gallagher, K.S., Zhang, F. (2016) "Innovation and technology transfer through global value chains: Evidence from China's PV industry" Energy Policy Vol. 94 (2016) p. 191 - 203
Biagini, B., Kuhl, L., Gallgher, K., Ortiz, C. (2015). Technology transfer for adaptation. Nature Climate Change 4, 828-834.
Gallagher, Kelly S. (2014). The Globalization of Clean Energy Technology: Lessons from China. MIT Press.
Gallagher, K.S. (2020). Green cooperation, green competition. Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
Bhandary, R.R., Gallagher, K.S., Zhang, F. (2019). Climate Finance Policy in Practice: A Review of the Evidence. Medford, MA. Climate Policy Lab.
Gallagher, K.S. and L.D. Anadon. (2020). "DOE Budget Authority for Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Database," Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge; and Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School. July 3, 2020.
Qi, Q. and Gallagher, K.S. (2020). Inventory of Chinese Policies for Domestic and Overseas Investments. The Center for International Environment and Resource Policy, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. See interactive and updated version here.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2019). Deployment of Deep Decarbonization Technologies: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/25656.
(Planning Committee for the Workshop chaired by Kelly Sims Gallagher.)
Gallagher, K.S., and Anadon, L.D. (2019). ”DOE Budget Authority for Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Database,” The Fletcher School, Tufts University; Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge; and Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School; August 28, 2019
Gallagher, Kelly Sims; Perry, Keston; van der Wansem, Mieke; Kuhl, Laura; and Frapaise, Laurent. Analyse des Fonds Internationaux pour les Priorités Relatives aux Changements Climatiques Haïtiennes (Analysis of International Funding for Haiti’s Climate Change Priorities), January 29, 2019. Available in French and English.
Gallagher, K. S. and Qi, Q. (2018). Policies Governing China’s Overseas Development Finance: Implications for Climate Change. Medford, MA. Climate Policy Lab.
Narassimhan, E., Gallagher, K. S., Koester, S. and Rivera Alejo, J. (2017). Carbon Pricing in Practice: A Review of the Evidence. Medford, MA. Climate Policy Lab.
Gallagher, K.S. and Anadon, L.D. (2017). DOE Budget Authority for Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Database, The Fletcher School, Tufts University; and Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge, Harvard Kennedy School; June 27.
Myslikova, Z., Gallagher, K.S., Zhang, F. (2017) Mission Innovation 2.0: Recommendations for the second Mission Innovation Ministerial in Beijing, China. CIERP Climate Policy Lab Discussion Paper 14.
Bhandary, R. R., Gopalakrishnan, T., Kuhl, L., Tessier, L., Gallagher, K.S., Metcalf, G.E. (2016). Post Paris Research Needs in Climate Policy. CIERP Energy, Climate and Innovation Discussion Paper 12.
Gallagher, K.S. (2016) The Carbon Consequences of China’s Overseas Investments in Coal. CIERP Policy Brief.
Anbumozhi, A., Bhandary, R., Gallagher, K.S., Kalirajan, K., Peerbocuz, N, Yilmaz, F., Zhang, F. (2020). Financing energy efficiency of buildings: green instruments and policy guidance. T20 Saudi Arabia.
Gallagher, K.S., Myslikova, Z. (2020). Mission Innovation is mission critical. Nat Energy.
Gallagher, K.S., Lewis, Joanna (2019). How China's Domestic Energy and Environmental Challenges Shape Its Global Engagement. Chapter 8, pgs. 220-245. The Global Environment: Institutions, Law, and Policy. CQ Press.
Gallagher, K.S. and Anadon, L.D. (2018). DOE Budget Authority for Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Database, The Fletcher School, Tufts University; and Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge, Harvard Kennedy School; March 22.
Gallagher, K.S., and Narassimhan, E. (2017). Carbon Pricing in Practice: Lessons from Existing Policies. CIERP Policy Brief.
Hart, M., Ogden, P. and Gallagher, K.S. (2016). Green Finance The Next Frontier for U.S.-China Climate Cooperation. Center for American Progress
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