@booklet {66136,
	title = {Former fellow establishes program at Weatherhead},
	year = {2008},
	month = {Apr 3, 2008},
	abstract = {
The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs has established a new
Program on Transatlantic Relations, thanks to a donation by Pierre
Keller of Geneva. Keller was a fellow in 1979{\textendash}80 at the then{\textendash}Center for
International Affairs, as part of a program that welcomes senior-level
diplomats, politicians, military officers, and private-sector
professionals to the University for a year of scholarly activity and
reflection. 
Keller{\textquoteright}s donation consists of an endowment for a visiting professorship
to be taken up by a scholar or public servant who has distinguished him
or herself through academic research, teaching, or public service in
the field of trans-Atlantic relations. Incumbents of the professorship
will use their appointments to carry out research with special emphasis
on issues relevant to the political future of U.S.-European affairs and
to teach a course in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences or the Harvard
Kennedy School (HKS). Keller has also committed operational funds for
five years to establish and help sustain the program. 
Another donation, by the Janssen family of Brussels, will complement
Keller{\textquoteright}s commitment by supporting both an annual Paul Henri Spaak
Lecture by a prominent European and the presence of occasional speakers
for the Weatherhead Center{\textquoteright}s Seminar on Transatlantic Relations, as
well as for speakers from the European Union in joint activities with
the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies and HKS.
{\textquotedblleft}At a time when attention shifts more and more to Asia, the Middle
East, and Africa, as well toward global issues,{\textquotedblright} said Beth A. Simmons,
Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs and director of the
Weatherhead Center, {\textquotedblleft}the generous gifts of Pierre Keller and the
Janssen family enable us to strengthen research and teaching on
trans-Atlantic and European affairs in cooperation with important
sister institutions at Harvard.{\textquotedblright}
The Weatherhead Center has appointed Karl Kaiser, a Ralph I. Straus
Fellow at the center and an adjunct professor of public policy at HKS,
as the program{\textquoteright}s founding director. An advisory committee chaired by
Buttenwieser University Professor Stanley Hoffmann is also comprised of
the Weatherhead Center{\textquoteright}s Steven Bloomfield, Richard Cooper, Karl
Kaiser, and Beth Simmons; the Kennedy School{\textquoteright}s Ashton Carter and Joseph
Nye Jr.; and the Center for European Studies{\textquoteright} Patricia Craig, Peter
Hall, and Charles Maier. It thus reflects the highly cooperative scope
of this effort.

The first Pierre Keller Visiting Professor is likely to be appointed for spring 2009.},
	author = {Weatherhead Center for International Affairs}
}
