CFR Welcomes David Hart, Jonathan Hillman, and Stuart Reid as Senior Fellows

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is pleased to welcome David Hart, Jonathan Hillman, and Stuart Reid to the David Rockefeller Studies Program. 

Hart joined CFR on Tuesday, October 1, as senior fellow for climate and energy. His research focuses on policies that will accelerate clean energy and climate-tech innovation and diffusion worldwide. He will research and write on policy issues relevant to climate innovation and industrial and trade policy.  

Hillman joined CFR on Wednesday, October 2, as senior fellow for geoeconomics in the Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies. He will research and write on policy relevant issues such as economic security, industrial policy, and trade and will contribute to the RealEcon: Reimagining American Economic Leadership Initiative. 

Reid will join the Studies program on Tuesday, October 15, as senior fellow for history and foreign policy. In his new role, he will research and write on history and foreign policy and will provide editorial support to the Executive Office. 

“I am pleased to welcome these three talented experts to our Studies program,” said CFR President Michael Froman. “David is a leading scholar on energy and innovation, Jon brings key experience from the policy sector and has done important work on China’s global ambitions, and Stuart will be working on his next book project after providing valuable leadership at Foreign Affairs for many years.”  

David Hart

Hart is a professor of public policy at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government.  

He co-authored Energizing America and Unlocking Energy Innovation. He has written articles and reports on a broad array of topics, including management of large-scale demonstration projects, industrial decarbonization, electric vehicles, solar photovoltaics, carbon border adjustments, and international research and development (R&D) cooperation. Hart’s work contributed to the expansion of the federal energy R&D budget, the establishment of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations, and the creation of the Foundation for Energy Security and Innovation. 

Hart served as assistant director for innovation policy at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, focusing on advanced manufacturing issues, from 2011 to 2012 and as senior associate dean of the Schar School from 2013 to 2015. He has collaborated with many nonpartisan and bipartisan organizations to develop and advance policies, including serving as director of the Center for Clean Energy Innovation at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation from 2016 to 2022. In 2023, Hart was named a lifetime fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society. 

In addition to energy and climate innovation, Hart has written on high-skill migration, business-government relations, interest groups, entrepreneurship, and economic competitiveness. 

He received a BA in the science in society program from Wesleyan University and a PhD in political science from MIT.  

Jonathan Hillman

Hillman’s expertise spans economic and security issues, including investment, trade, infrastructure, and technology. He is the author of The Digital Silk Road: China’s Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future and The Emperor’s New Road: China and the Project of the Century. 

Hillman served as a senior advisor to three U.S. cabinet officials. Most recently, he advised the secretary of commerce on investment and infrastructure issues and was a lead member of the U.S. negotiating team for the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework. From 2022 to 2023, he served on the secretary of state’s Policy Planning Staff as the lead member covering economics and co-lead for technology. From 2014 to 2016, he directed the research and writing process at USTR for reports, speeches, and other materials explaining U.S. trade and investment policy. 

From 2016 to 2022, Hillman was a senior fellow and director of the Reconnecting Asia Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He has also worked as a researcher at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, at CFR for then-president emeritus Leslie H. Gelb, and in Kyrgyzstan as a Fulbright Scholar. 

Hillman earned a BA in International relations from Brown University, where he received the Garrison Prize for his thesis, and an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was a Presidential scholar.

Stuart Reid

Before becoming a CFR fellow, Reid was an executive editor at Foreign Affairs, where he worked from 2008 to 2024. He has written for publications including The Atlantic, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Bloomberg Businessweek, Politico Magazine, and Slate. 

Reid is the author of The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination, which was named an editors’ choice by the New York Times Book Review, made the year-end best books lists of the New Yorker, The Economist, and the Financial Times, and was shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize. 

He received a BA in government from Dartmouth College.  

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