{{Short description|American international affairs scholar (born 1973)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox academic | name = Kelly Sims Gallagher | titles = {{ubl|Professor and Dean, The Fletcher School|Director, Center for International Environment & Resource Policy}} | birth_name = Kelly Megan Sims | education = {{ubl|Occidental College (AB)|Tufts University (MALD, PhD)}} | workplaces = {{ubl|Harvard University|Tufts University}} | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1973|8|21}} | birth_place = Denver, Colorado, U.S. | spouse = {{marriage|Kevin P. Gallagher|2001}} | doctoral_advisor = William R. Moomaw | thesis_title = Foreign Direct Investment as a Vehicle for Deploying Cleaner Technologies | children = 2 | discipline = {{hlist|Energy policy|environmental policy}} }} '''Kelly Sims Gallagher''' is a professor of energy and environmental policy and Dean of the Fletcher School at Tufts University. Gallagher was appointed the dean in 2024, and retains her appointments as director of the Center for International Environment & Resource Policy and the Climate Policy Lab at Tufts. Her research focuses on energy technology and climate policy across the United States and China.
== Personal life and education == Born in Denver, Colorado, on August 21, 1973,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=March 2018 |title=Kelly Sims Gallagher |url=https://sites.tufts.edu/cierp/files/2018/05/Kelly-Sims-Gallagher-CV-March-2018.pdf |access-date=2025-01-11 |type=Curriculum vitae |via=the Center for International Environment & Resource Policy}}</ref> Kelly Megan Sims was raised in Evergreen.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |date=July 8, 2001 |title=Gallagher / Sims |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/442188838/ |access-date=2025-01-11 |work=Boston Sunday Globe |page=H24 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> During her upbringing she "took a clean and natural environment for granted" until moving to Los Angeles, California to attend Occidental College. There, she suffered from pneumonia due to air pollution, which led her to complete a second major in environmental studies.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=July 21, 2023 |title=The Many Hats of Kelly Sims Gallagher |url=https://fletcher.tufts.edu/news-events/news/many-hats-kelly-sims-gallagher |access-date=2025-01-11 |website=The Fletcher School}}</ref>
Sims married Kevin Paul Gallagher in the Goddard Chapel on June 16, 2001.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=July 22, 2001 |title=Gallagher – Sims |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/255859460/ |access-date=2025-01-11 |work=The Hartford Courant |pages=H5 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> The couple have two children, born 2005 and 2009.<ref name=":0" />
Sims Gallagher was the niece of economist Christopher A. Sims.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gallagher |first=Kelly Sims |date=2026-03-15 |title=Economics lost a major figure this weekend in Christopher A. Sims, and much will be written about his contributions to the field. |url=https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kelly-sims-gallagher_economics-lost-a-major-figure-this-weekend-activity-7439062382418702336-AjUc |access-date=2026-03-16 |type=Post |via=LinkedIn}}</ref>
== Career == After graduating from Occidental in 1995 with an A.B. degree in diplomacy & world affairs and environmental studies, she was awarded a Truman Scholarship and worked in Washington, D.C. as an intern in the Office of the Vice President and, later, as the science policy director at Ozone Action. She enrolled in the M.A.L.D. program at the Fletcher School, the professional international affairs school of Tufts University. There, she studied East Asia with a focus on economic development and climate negotiation in China and received her degree in 2000.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" /> She completed a Ph.D. in 2003; her dissertation, chaired by William R. Moomaw, was entitled ''Foreign Direct Investment as a Vehicle for Deploying Cleaner Technologies: Technology Transfer and the Big Three Automakers in China''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gallagher |first=Kelly Sims |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/305236311 |title=Foreign Direct Investment as a Vehicle for Deploying Cleaner Technologies |date=2003 |publisher=Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University |isbn=978-0-496-41998-2 |type=Ph.D. dissertation |oclc=190835028 |access-date=2025-01-11|id={{ProQuest|305236311}} }}</ref> She joined the Harvard Kennedy School as a postdoctoral fellow and worked as a lecturer and program director until joining the Fletcher School as an associate professor in 2009.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" />
In 2010, she spent sabbatical as a visiting professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing. After receiving tenure at Tufts in 2013 and becoming Director of the Center for International Environment & Resource Policy that same year, she worked in 2014 and 2015 as an advisor to the Obama administration's Office of Science and Technology Policy and Department of State. In her role, she helped negotiate multiple U.S.–China climate agreements. Upon her return to Tufts, she was promoted to a professor in 2015 and founded the Climate Policy Lab within the Center for International Environment & Resource Policy in 2016, where she continues to serve as Founding Director.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" />
Gallagher was appointed Dean of the Fletcher School in 2024 after having served as interim dean since 2023. She is the 15th dean of the school, and succeeds Rachel Kyte in the position.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Anderson |first=Estelle |date=August 29, 2024 |title=BREAKING: Kelly Sims Gallagher appointed as next dean of The Fletcher School |url=https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024/08/breaking-kelly-sims-gallagher-appointed-as-next-dean-of-the-fletcher-school |access-date=2025-01-11 |work=The Tufts Daily}}</ref> Gallagher is also a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a board member of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kelly S. Gallagher |url=https://carnegieendowment.org/people/kelly-s-gallagher?lang=en |access-date=2025-01-12 |publisher=Carnegie Endowment for International Peace}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Kelly Sims Gallagher |date=July 8, 2024 |url=https://www.belfercenter.org/person/kelly-sims-gallagher |access-date=2025-01-12 |publisher=Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs}}</ref>
== Books == * {{Cite book |last1=Gallagher |first1=Kelly Sims |url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262535847/titans-of-the-climate/ |title=Titans of the Climate: Explaining Policy Process in the United States and China |last2=Xuan |first2=Xiaowei |date=2018 |publisher=MIT Press |isbn=978-0-262-53584-7 |doi=10.7551/mitpress/10272.001.0001}}<ref>Reviewed in: * ''The China Journal'' – {{doi|10.1086/706715}}. * ''Foreign Affairs'' – [https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2019-08-12/titans-climate-explaining-policy-process-united-states-and-china Link]. * ''Energy Reporters'' – [https://www.energy-reporters.com/opinion/book-review-titans-of-the-climate-compares-u-s-china-climate-policies/ Link].</ref> * {{Cite book |last=Gallagher |first=Kelly Sims |url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262533737/the-globalization-of-clean-energy-technology/ |title=The Globalization of Clean Energy Technology: Lessons from China |date=2014 |publisher=MIT Press |isbn=978-0-262-53373-7 |doi=10.7551/mitpress/9805.001.0001}}<ref>Reviewed in: *''The Cairo Review of Global Affairs'' – [https://www.thecairoreview.com/book-reviews/the-globalization-of-clean-technology/ Link]. *''The China Journal'' – {{doi|10.1086/681747}}. *''The China Quarterly'' – {{doi|10.1017/S0305741016000084}}. *''China Review International'' – {{doi|10.1353/cri.2016.0056}}. *''Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy'' – {{JSTOR|26189481}}. *''Foreign Affairs'' – [https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2014-08-18/globalization-clean-energy-technology-lessons-china Link]. *''Global Environmental Politics'' – {{doi|10.1162/GLEP_r_00304}}. *''Issues'' – [https://issues.org/book-review-is-china-a-clean-energy-model/ Link].</ref> * {{Cite book |isbn=978-0-8157-0367-9 |editor-last=Gallagher |editor-first=Kelly Sims |jstor=10.7864/j.ctt6wph0v |id={{Project MUSE|29303}} |url=https://www.brookings.edu/books/acting-in-time-on-energy-policy/ |title=Acting in Time on Energy Policy |date=2009 |publisher=Brookings Institution Press |others=Foreword by David T. Ellwood}}<ref>Reviewed in: *''Choice'' – {{Gale|A266564659}}</ref> * {{Cite book |last=Gallagher |first=Kelly Sims |url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262572323/china-shifts-gears/ |title=China Shifts Gears: Automakers, Oil, Pollution, and Development |date=2006 |publisher=MIT Press |isbn=978-0-262-57232-3 |doi=10.7551/mitpress/1813.001.0001}}<ref>Reviewed in: *''Asia Pacific Business Review'' – {{doi|10.1080/13602380903145952}}. *''The China Journal'' – {{doi|10.1086/tcj.57.20066251}}, {{JSTOR|20066251}}. *''The China Quarterly'' – {{doi|10.1017/S0305741006001044}}. *''China Review International'' – {{doi|10.1353/cri.0.0076}}. *''East Asian Science, Technology and Society'' – [https://www.easts-journal.com/articles/on-china-shifts-gears-automakers-oil-pollution-and-development Link], {{doi|10.1215/s12280-008-9047-4}}; [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12280-008-9047-4 Link], {{Project MUSE|457039}}. *''The Journal of Environment & Development'' – {{doi|10.1177/107049650730287}}. *''Material Culture'' – {{JSTOR|29764487}}. *''Pacific Affairs'' – {{ProQuest|217689093}}.</ref>
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== External links == * Kelly Sims Gallagher – {{hlist|[https://facultyprofiles.tufts.edu/kelly-simsgallagher Tufts University]|[https://fletcher.tufts.edu/people/faculty/kelly-sims-gallagher The Fletcher School]|[https://sites.tufts.edu/cierp/kelly-sims-gallagher/ Center for International Environment & Resource Policy]|[https://www.climatepolicylab.org/kelly-sims-gallagher Climate Policy Lab]|class=inline}} {{Authority control}} Category:Living people Category:1973 births Category:People from Evergreen, Colorado Category:American women social scientists Category:American women academic administrators Category:American international relations scholars Category:Environmental studies scholars Category:Occidental College alumni Category:The Fletcher School at Tufts University alumni Category:Harvard Kennedy School staff Category:The Fletcher School at Tufts University faculty Category:Academics from Denver {{DEFAULTSORT:Gallagher, Kelly Sims}}