Ms. Katherine Bourne

E-mail: katherine_bourne@harvard.edu

Biography
Assistant Director at the National Security Program at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.  Her primary contributions are to the US-Russia Security Program, the Russian Federal Assembly Program, and the Black Sea Security Program.  Katherine graduated from Wellesley College in 1998 with degrees in Religion and Russian Area Studies.  She proceeded to work at the New York City Bar Association, where she coordinated the Refugee Assistance Project.  From 1999 to 2000, Katherine was in Novgorod, Russia as a Fellow for the US-Russian Young Leaders for Public Service Project, organized by the International Research and Exchanges Board and funded by the US State Department.  Her fellowship focused on the problem of orphans and abandoned children in Russia.  Before coming to Harvard in 2001, Katherine spent four months working for American Councils for International Education in Lviv, Ukraine.