Carnegie Experts on Nuclear Weapons

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  James M. Acton

  Senior Associate
  Nuclear Policy Program

  Acton is a senior associate in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment. A physicist by training, Acton specializes in nonproliferation, deterrence, and disarmament.

 
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  Muthiah Alagappa

  Nonresident Senior Associate
  Asia Program

  Alagappa is the Tun Hussein Onn Chair in international studies at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. His research focuses primarily on Asian security, the political legitimacy of governments, civil society and political change, and the political role of the military in Asia.

 
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  Alexei Arbatov

  Scholar in Residence
  Nonproliferation Program
  Moscow Center

  Arbatov, a former member of the State Duma, is the author of a number of books and numerous articles and papers on issues of global security, strategic stability, disarmament, and Russian military reform.

 
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  Shahram Chubin

  Nonresident Senior Associate
  Nuclear Policy Program

  Chubin, who is based in Geneva, focuses his research on nonproliferation, terrorism, and Middle East security issues. He was director of studies at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Switzerland, from 1996 to 2009.

 
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  Toby Dalton

  Deputy Director
  Nuclear Policy Program

  Dalton is the deputy director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment. An expert on nonproliferation and nuclear energy, his research focuses on cooperative nuclear security initiatives and the management of nuclear challenges in South Asia and East Asia.

 
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  Pierre Goldschmidt

  Nonresident Senior Associate
  Nuclear Policy Program

  Goldschmidt is a nonresident senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment.

 
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  Mark Hibbs

  Senior Associate
  Nuclear Policy Program

  Hibbs is a Berlin-based senior associate in Carnegie’s Nuclear Policy Program. Before joining Carnegie, for over twenty years he was an editor and correspondent for nuclear energy publications, including Nucleonics Week and NuclearFuel, published by the Platts division of the McGraw-Hill Companies.

 
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  Togzhan Kassenova

  Associate
  Nuclear Policy Program

  Kassenova is an associate in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment and a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow.

 
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  Tomoko Kurokawa

  Nonresident Scholar
  Nuclear Policy Program

  Kurokawa is a nonresident scholar in the Carnegie Nuclear Policy Program.

 
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  Stefan Lehne

  Visiting Scholar
  Carnegie Europe

  Lehne is a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe in Brussels, where his research focuses on the post–Lisbon Treaty development of the European Union’s foreign policy, with a specific focus on relations between the EU and member states.

 
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  Ariel (Eli) Levite

  Nonresident Senior Associate
  Nuclear Policy Program

  Levite was the principal deputy director general for policy at the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission from 2002 to 2007.

 
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  Li Bin

  Senior Associate
  Nuclear Policy Program and Asia Program

  Li is a senior associate working jointly in the Nuclear Policy Program and Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment.

 
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  Jessica Tuchman Mathews

  President

  Mathews is president of the Carnegie Endowment. Before her appointment in 1997, her career included posts in both the executive and legislative branches of government, in management and research in the nonprofit arena, and in journalism and science policy.

 
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  C. Raja Mohan

  Nonresident Senior Associate
  South Asia Program

  Mohan is a nonresident senior associate in Carnegie’s South Asia Program, where his research focuses on international security, defense, and Asian strategic issues.

 
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  George Perkovich

  Vice President for Studies

  Perkovich’s research focuses on nuclear strategy and nonproliferation, with a concentration on South Asia, Iran, and the problem of justice in the international political economy.

 
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  Iskander Rehman

  Associate
  Nuclear Policy Program

  Rehman is an associate in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment and a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow. His research focuses on security and crisis stability in Asia, specifically the geopolitical ramifications of naval nuclearization in the Indian Ocean.

 
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  Matthew Rojansky

  Deputy Director
  Russia and Eurasia Program

  Rojansky, formerly executive director of the Partnership for a Secure America, is an expert on U.S. and Russian national security and nuclear-weapon policies.

 
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  Lora Saalman

  Associate
  Nuclear Policy Program

  Saalman is a Beijing-based associate in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment whose research focuses on Chinese nuclear-weapon and nonproliferation policies and Sino-Indian strategic relations.

 
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  Karim Sadjadpour

  Senior Associate
  Middle East Program

  Sadjadpour, a leading researcher on Iran, has conducted dozens of interviews with senior Iranian officials and hundreds with Iranian intellectuals, clerics, dissidents, paramilitaries, businessmen, students, activists, and youth, among others.

 
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  James L. Schoff

  Senior Associate
  Asia Program

  Schoff is a senior associate in the Carnegie Asia Program. His research focuses on U.S.-Japanese relations and regional engagement, Japanese politics and security, and the private sector’s role in Japanese policymaking.

 
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  Paul Schulte

  Nonresident Senior Associate
  Nuclear Policy Program and Carnegie Europe

  Schulte is a nonresident senior associate in the Carnegie Nuclear Policy Program and at Carnegie Europe, where his research focuses on the future of deterrence, nuclear strategy, nuclear nonproliferation, cybersecurity, and their political implications.

 
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  Michael Swaine

  Senior Associate
  Asia Program

  Swaine is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and one of the most prominent American analysts in Chinese security studies.

 
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  Ashley J. Tellis

  Senior Associate
  South Asia Program

  Tellis is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace specializing in international security, defense, and Asian strategic issues.

 
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  Petr Topychkanov

  Associate
  Nonproliferation Program
  Moscow Center

  Topychkanov is an associate in the Carnegie Moscow Center’s Nonproliferation Program.

 
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  Dmitri Trenin

  Director
  Moscow Center

  Dmitri Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, has been with the center since its inception. He also chairs the research council and the Foreign and Security Policy Program.

 
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  Sinan Ülgen

  Visiting Scholar
  Carnegie Europe

  Ülgen is a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe in Brussels, where his research focuses on the implications of Turkish foreign policy for Europe and the United States, particularly with regard to Turkey’s regional stance and its role in nuclear, energy, and climate issues.

 
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  Frederic Wehrey

  Senior Associate
  Middle East Program

  Wehrey’s research focuses on political reform and security issues in the Arab Gulf states, Libya, and U.S. policy in the Middle East more broadly. He was previously a senior policy analyst at the RAND Corporation.

 
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  Nicholas Wright

  Associate
  Nuclear Policy Program

  Wright is an associate in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment and a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow. His research draws on his background in neuroscience to explore political decisionmaking in economics and nuclear security.