Karl Kaiser is Adjunct Professor of Public Policy Emeritus at the Kennedy School and a Fellow of the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He was educated at the Universities of Cologne, Grenoble and Oxford, was assistant to Henry Kissinger at Harvard, and taught at the Universities of Bonn, Johns Hopkins (Bologna), Saarbrücken, Cologne, the Hebrew University, and the Departments of Government and Social Studies of Harvard. He was a Director of the German Council on Foreign Relations, Bonn/ Berlin, and an advisor to Chancellors Brandt and Schmidt. He is a recipient of the Atlantic Award of NATO. Professor Kaiser is the author or editor of numerous articles and books in the fields of world affairs, German, French, British and US foreign policy, transatlantic and East-West relations, nuclear proliferation, and international environmental policy. He holds a Ph.D. from Cologne University and an Honorary Doctorate of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Featured programmes and seminars

  • Harvard Course in Law and Economics

    Start date: 02/10/2023

    The aim of this programme is to provide an up-to-date overview of some of the relevant issues in the field of economic analysis of law.

  • Online course Competition in markets

    Start date: Open

    Introduction to the essential elements shaping competition policy and discussion of the principles and instruments of competition policy.

  • Online course Liberalism, a philosophy in danger

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    Why are so many obstacles confronting liberalism, so implacable the enemies it has to contend with, and so soft the allies it can hardly count on?

  • Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. Carissa Veliz

    Start date: Coming soon

    This course will help us understand the "digital reality" we live in. A practical and constructive approach, offering possible solutions to the ethical challenges generated by AI.