Graham Allison

GRAHAM ALLISON is Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. A Founding Dean of the Kennedy School and former Director of its Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, he is the author of Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?, among other books. As Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Clinton administration, Allison worked to unwind the former Soviet nuclear arsenal, for which he received the U.S. Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service.