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Office Hours

Host Aroop Mukharji sits down for conversations with experts from the Belfer Center and beyond to discuss their areas of expertise and to get to know the people on the front lines and at the forefront of thought just a little bit better.

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Update frequency
every 18 days
Average duration
27 minutes
Episodes
41
Years Active
2017 - 2019
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Norman Roule on the Culture at the CIA, Yemen, and Theater

Norman Roule on the Culture at the CIA, Yemen, and Theater

Norman Roule (@Norman_Roule), a 34-year CIA veteran and Middle East expert, sits down with with Aroop Mukharji (@aroopmukharji) to talk about the culture at the CIA, Yemen, and theater.


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00:29:01  |   Fri 10 May 2019
Jennifer Lerner on Decision Science, Leadership, and the Sunk Cost Bias

Jennifer Lerner on Decision Science, Leadership, and the Sunk Cost Bias

Social psychologist Jennifer Lerner, the Navy’s first Chief Decision Scientist and a Harvard Kennedy School professor, sits down with with Aroop Mukharji (@aroopmukharji) to talk about decision scien…

00:29:09  |   Tue 12 Mar 2019
Bruce Schneier on Cybersecurity,

Bruce Schneier on Cybersecurity, "Click Here to Kill Everybody," and the Hacker Mentality

Cybersecurity expert Bruce Schneier (@schneierblog), author of the “Schneier on Security” blog and a Research Fellow with the Belfer Center’s Cyber Security Project, sits down with with Aroop Mukharj…

00:28:45  |   Sun 10 Feb 2019
William Rapp on Civ-Mil Relations, Army Culture, and His Biggest Adjustment to Civilian Life

William Rapp on Civ-Mil Relations, Army Culture, and His Biggest Adjustment to Civilian Life

Retired Army Major General William Rapp, former Commandant of both the United States Military Academy and the U.S. Army War College, and currently the Faculty Chair of the Belfer Center’s National Se…

00:28:39  |   Fri 11 Jan 2019
James Clapper on His Book “Facts and Fears,” Defending the Intelligence Community, and Comic Books

James Clapper on His Book “Facts and Fears,” Defending the Intelligence Community, and Comic Books

James Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence and a Senior Fellow with the Belfer Center’s Intelligence Project, sits down with with Aroop Mukharji (@aroopmukharji) to talk about his book “…

00:30:20  |   Mon 10 Dec 2018
Robby Mook on the Lessons from the 2016 Campaign, The Defending Digital Democracy Project, and Dark Chocolate

Robby Mook on the Lessons from the 2016 Campaign, The Defending Digital Democracy Project, and Dark Chocolate

Robby Mook (@RobbyMook), Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Campaign Manager and a Belfer Center Senior Fellow, sits down with with Aroop Mukharji (@aroopmukharji) to talk about lessons from the 2016 campaign, t…

00:32:54  |   Mon 05 Nov 2018
Calder Walton on the History of Intelligence, Russian Espionage, and His Favorite Secret

Calder Walton on the History of Intelligence, Russian Espionage, and His Favorite Secret

Calder Walton (@calder_walton), the author of Empire of Secrets: British intelligence, the Cold War, and the Twilight of Empire, sits down with with Aroop Mukharji (@aroopmukharji) to talk about the …

00:26:01  |   Wed 03 Oct 2018
James K. Sebenius on Kissinger the Negotiator, Negotiating Tactics, and Trump the Negotiator

James K. Sebenius on Kissinger the Negotiator, Negotiating Tactics, and Trump the Negotiator

James K. Sebenius, the Gordon Donaldson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and author (with R. Nicholas Burns and Robert H. Mnookin) of Kissinger the Negotiator, talks wi…

00:44:56  |   Tue 04 Sep 2018
Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook on U.S.-Europe Relations, Language Influencing Policy, and Dual Citizenship

Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook on U.S.-Europe Relations, Language Influencing Policy, and Dual Citizenship

Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook (@Cluverc), Executive Director of the Belfer Center’s Future of Diplomacy Project and the newly created Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, speaks with Aroop…

00:37:12  |   Wed 01 Aug 2018
Halla Logadóttir on the Future of the Arctic Region, Sustainability in Iceland, and Icelandic Names

Halla Logadóttir on the Future of the Arctic Region, Sustainability in Iceland, and Icelandic Names

Halla Logadóttir, former director of the Iceland School of Energy at Reykjavík University and co-founder of the Belfer Center’s Arctic Initiative, speaks with Aroop Mukharji (@aroopmukharji) about th…

00:29:41  |   Mon 02 Jul 2018
Radosław Sikorski on the Rise of Right-wing Nationalism, Russia, and Gastrodiplomacy

Radosław Sikorski on the Rise of Right-wing Nationalism, Russia, and Gastrodiplomacy

Radosław Sikorski (@sikorskiradek), former Foreign Minister and Defense Minister of Poland and a Fisher Family Fellow with the Future of Diplomacy Project, talks with Aroop Mukharji (@aroopmukharji) …

00:21:51  |   Fri 01 Jun 2018
Margaret Macmillan on Good History, Dead White Man Theory and Canadian vs. U.S. Donuts

Margaret Macmillan on Good History, Dead White Man Theory and Canadian vs. U.S. Donuts

Margaret Macmillan, Professor of History at the University of Toronto and affiliate with the Belfer Center’s Applied History Project, talks with Aroop Mukharji (@aroopmukharji) about how to identify …

00:24:48  |   Thu 03 May 2018
Kendall Hoyt on Bio Defense, Outbreaks, and Anti-Vaxxers

Kendall Hoyt on Bio Defense, Outbreaks, and Anti-Vaxxers

Kendall Hoyt, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Dartmouth Medical School and former fellow with the Belfer Center’s International Security Program, talks with Aroop Mukharji (@aroopmukharji) abo…

00:23:21  |   Mon 02 Apr 2018
Chuck Freilich on the Israeli National Security, U.S. Retrenchment from the Middle East and Making Aliyah

Chuck Freilich on the Israeli National Security, U.S. Retrenchment from the Middle East and Making Aliyah

Chuck Freilich, former Israeli Deputy National Security Adviser, Belfer Center Senior Fellow, and Author of “Israeli National Security: A New Strategy for an Era of Change,” talks with Aroop Mukharji…

00:26:16  |   Thu 01 Mar 2018
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall on the DOE’s National Laboratories, Clean Energy, the U.S. Nuclear Arsenal, and Her Favorite Energy Bar

Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall on the DOE’s National Laboratories, Clean Energy, the U.S. Nuclear Arsenal, and Her Favorite Energy Bar

Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall (@LSRTweets), former Deputy Secretary of Energy and Belfer Center Senior Fellow, talks with Aroop Mukharji (@aroopmukharji) about the mystery surrounding the Energy Departm…

00:29:49  |   Thu 01 Feb 2018
Ash Carter on Connecting Defense and Technology, Being in the Cabinet, and the Usefulness of Medieval History

Ash Carter on Connecting Defense and Technology, Being in the Cabinet, and the Usefulness of Medieval History

Ash Carter, the 25th Secretary of Defense and the Director of the Belfer Center, talks with Aroop Mukharji (@aroopmukharji) about how he connected the technology industry with the Defense Department …

00:20:17  |   Wed 03 Jan 2018
Vera Mironova on ISIS’s Drinking Problem, Embedding in Conflict Zones, and the Job Market for Insurgents

Vera Mironova on ISIS’s Drinking Problem, Embedding in Conflict Zones, and the Job Market for Insurgents

Vera Mironova (@vera_mironov), an Associate with the Belfer Center’s International Security Program, talks with Aroop Mukharji (@aroopmukharji) about ISIS’s drug and alcohol problem, her experience e…

00:25:50  |   Fri 01 Dec 2017
Jake Sullivan on the Secret 2015 Iran Nuclear Negotiations, Staying Sharp on a Demanding Travel Schedule

Jake Sullivan on the Secret 2015 Iran Nuclear Negotiations, Staying Sharp on a Demanding Travel Schedule

Jake Sulllivan, former Director of the Policy Planning Office at the U.S. State Department and former National Security Adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, talks with Aroop Mukharji (@aroopmukharji)…

00:22:22  |   Wed 01 Nov 2017
Avril Haines on Being the First Woman No. 2 at the CIA, North Korea, and Living the Hipster Dream

Avril Haines on Being the First Woman No. 2 at the CIA, North Korea, and Living the Hipster Dream

Avril Haines, former CIA Deputy Director and former Deputy National Security Adviser to President Obama, chats with Aroop Mukharji (@aroopmukharji) about being a woman at the CIA, why we don’t know m…

00:19:13  |   Mon 02 Oct 2017
Meghan O’Sullivan on Fracking, Climate Change, Tight Oil, and Her Early Career Start

Meghan O’Sullivan on Fracking, Climate Change, Tight Oil, and Her Early Career Start

Meghan O’Sullivan, Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School and author of 'Windfall: How the New Energy Abundance Upends Global Politics and …

00:31:53  |   Fri 01 Sep 2017
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