Kelly Sims Gallagher is Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy at The Fletcher School, Tufts University. She is Director of the Climate Policy Lab and Co-Director of the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy (CIERP).

From June 2014 – September 2015 she served in the 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 member of the board and an Associate in the Science, Technology, and Public Policy program of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. She is also a faculty affiliate with the Harvard University Center for Environment. She is a member of Council on Foreign Relations, is on the Executive Committee of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement and she also serves on the board of the Energy Foundation.

Broadly, she focuses on energy and climate policy in both the United States and China. She specializes in how policy spurs the development and deployment of cleaner and more efficient energy technologies, domestically and internationally. A Truman Scholar, she has a MALD and PhD in international affairs from The Fletcher School, and an AB from Occidental College.

She is married to Kevin P. Gallagher and together they have two children, Theo and Estelle.

Gallagher has taught and mentored hundreds of students since 2005 at the master's and doctoral level.

Current doctoral students and post-doctoral fellows include (in alphabetical order): Rishikesh Ram Bhandary, Ping Huang, Hengrui Liu, Zdenka Myslikova, Easwaran Narassimhan, Qi Qi, Fang Zhang, and Jinliang Zhang.

Previous doctoral and post-doctoral fellows include (in alphabetical order):

• Gustavo Collantes (Logios)
• Craig Hart (Johns Hopkins)
• Laura Kuhl (Northeastern University)
• W. Ross Murrow (Stanford)
• Hengwei Liu (Engie)
• Kartikeya Singh (CSIS)
• Ned Spang (University of California Davis)
• Andy Tirrell (University of San Diego)
• Lifeng Zhao (Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Thermoengineering Physics)

Frequent collaborators include (in alphabetical order):

• Laura Diaz Anadon (Cambridge, UK)
• John P. Holdren (Harvard)
• Joanna Lewis (Georgetown)
• Gregory Nemet (Wisconsin)
• Su Jun (Tsinghua)
• Xue Lan (Tsinghua)
• Xuan Xiaowei (Development Research Center, State Council, China)
• Zou Ji (Energy Foundation China)