A list of works I have written or contributed to.
Artificial intelligence and tech for good
The Singapore Consensus on Global AI Safety Research Priorities, Singapore Conference on AI, May 8, 2025.
Sarah Di Troia and the Project Evident team, Funding the Future: Grantmaker Strategies in AI Investment, March 5, 2025. (Co-funded the report and provided input.)
Michael Belinsky and Mark Greaves, Why AI Has No Seatbelts — and How Funders Can Change That, Inside Philanthropy, March 5, 2025.
Michael Belinsky and Jason Wang, Q&A with Jason Wang, Founder & CEO of FreeWorld, Schmidt Futures, Jun 2, 2023.
Social impact bonds / development impact bonds
Michael Belinsky, Michael Eddy, Johannes Lohmann, Michael George, The application of social impact bonds to universal health-care initiatives in South-East Asia, WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health, July–December 2014, 3 (3–4).
The Rise and Struggles of Social Enterprise in 2013,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, January 8, 2014.
“New York boasts boldest pay for success program yet,” Pioneers Post, January 7, 2014.
“Development impact bonds: success depends on a supportive network,” The Guardian Professional Development Network, January 2, 2014.
Social Impact Bonds: Lessons Learned So Far. The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Hanna Azemati, Michael Belinsky, Ryan Gillette, Jeffrey Liebman, Alina Sellman, and Angela Wyse, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
“Designing a Social Impact Bond in the Tropics,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, November 12, 2012.
“A New Wave of Social Innovation Comes to Colombia,” Portafolio, Sept. 27, 2012 (Spanish).
“Private Investment in Social Impact Bonds,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, August 8, 2012.
Michael Belinsky and Angela Wyse, “Launching the First U.S. Pay-for-Success Contract: Youth Recidivism in Massachusetts,” Harvard Kennedy School of Government, March 20, 2012.
“Social Impact Bonds: Lessons from the field,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, Jan. 12, 2012.
Other writing
“Negotiating for Colombian Peace in Havana,” Americas Quarterly, January 3, 2013.
“Google.org: A Hybrid Philanthropy,” Harvard Kennedy School, Case Study, March 2012.
Private sector options for climate finance, Harvard Environmental Economics Program, forthcoming.
Robert C. Stowe, “Prospects for the Kyoto Protocol and the CDM,” The Energy Blueprint (The Energy Chamber of Trinidad and Tobago), Issue 6.
Chibli Mallat et al., “Constitutional Options for Bahrain,” Virginia Journal of Intl. Law, Apr. 12, 2011.
Dan Tavana, Michael Belinsky, and Maureen Hussain, “Backgrounder on the Executive Branch for Constitutional Options for Bahrain,” Right to Nonviolence, April 7, 2011.
“China Will Not Fight,” World Outlook, 2008.
“The Revolution that Began the Evolution,” History Matters, Spring 2008.
Desmond Ang, Michael Belinsky, Michelle Chen, Patrick Dooley, “The Global State of Microfinance: A Tuck Analysis,” White Paper, Tuck School of Business, August 17, 2007. Link.
“The Eulogy Putin Gave,” IAJ International Update, May 3, 2007. Link.
“Misguided protests worse than inaction,” The Atlanta Journal Constitution, April 24, 2007.
“To Sum Up, Students’ Math Skills Fall Short,” The Atlanta Journal Constitution, July 18, 2006.
“Make Immigration Policy a Meritocracy, The Providence Journal, August 17, 2006.
“Ghosts of the Chinese Room: Semantic Understanding in Neural Networks.” The Interlocutor: Sewanee Undergraduate Philosophical Review (Volume 6, 2005). Link.
“Israeli Public Opinion and Likud Party Politics.” UC Davis Journal of International Affairs (Volume 2, No. 2, Winter 2006). UC Davis.
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