PERSON: Jeffrey Lewis

Arms Control Wonk

Publisher

Dr. Jeffrey Lewis is the founding publisher of Arms Control Wonk.com. He is the Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and an affiliate with the Center for Security and International Cooperation at Stanford University. You can follow me on Twitter (@armscontrolwonk) or download my weekly Arms Control Wonk podcast with Aaron Stein.

He spent fifteen years living on the East Coast, where I worked a bunch of jobs including: Director of the Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC; Executive Director of the Managing the Atom Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University; Executive Director of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs. He managed to be an intern, research assistant, research associated and a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He even spent a summer as a Japan desk officer in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy. He taught as an adjunct professor at American and Georgetown Universities.

He received a Ph.D. in Policy Studies (International Security and Economic Policy) from the University of Maryland. I have a B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science from Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill.