Mark Bell
Mr. Bell is a Ph.D. candidate in political science and a presidential fellow at MIT. He was part of an award winning independent student expedition to the Comoros Islands. Following this, he won an Oxford University fellowship to work for 6 months in the office of Senator John Kerry on foreign relations and homeland security, and then worked for the British think tank Centre Forum. In 2008 he was awarded a Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship to study at the Harvard Kennedy School where he received his MPP, provided research assistance for the Managing the Atom project, served as a graduate intern at the United Nations in Vienna (for which he received a Roy Family Fellowship), and wrote his thesis for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency on the future of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540.