Meghan O’Sullivan

Meghan L. O’Sullivan is an educator, writer, former policymaker and diplomat, and adviser to companies. As a professor and the director of Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, she leads an institution of 300 faculty, fellows and staff working on issues ranging from great power conflict to artificial intelligence and energy. She is also the chair of the Trilateral Commission, a global foreign policy organization. O’Sullivan’s own expertise relates to U.S. foreign policy, the energy transition and geopolitics. She has served in senior policymaking roles – including as deputy national security adviser for Iraq and Afghanistan for President George W. Bush and as vice chair of the All Party peace talks in Northern Ireland – and has lived abroad in Asia, the Middle East and Europe.