Faculty Bio

Barbara Bodine is a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard, and Director of the Governance Initiative in the Middle East. A former career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Barbara Bodine previously served as US Ambassador to Yemen 1997-2001, a period that saw enhanced support for democratization and increased security cooperation, as well as the terrorist attack on the USS Cole in 2000.