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Deepti Choubey is a nuclear policy expert with a track record of delivering real world outcomes reducing nuclear dangers. She has a breadth of experience in high-level government advocacy, independent research and policy analysis, as well as commentary on global nuclear security, nonproliferation, disarmament and other WMD issues.

 

Choubey was senior director for Nuclear and Bio-Security at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) from 2010 until mid-2014. At NTI, she co-led the Global Dialogue on Nuclear Security Priorities, involving leading officials, experts, and nuclear industry representatives, in support of the 2014 Nuclear Security Summit. She also co-led the inaugural 2012 NTI Nuclear Materials Security Index, a first-of-its-kind public benchmarking of the nuclear security conditions in 176 countries. From 2006 to 2010, Choubey was deputy director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Choubey was director of the Peace and Security Initiative (PSI) for the Ploughshares Fund from 2004 to 2006. Choubey worked for Ambassador Nancy Soderberg at the International Crisis Group and previous to that had a career in the private sector advising companies on market-leading strategies.

 

Her research interests include the global nuclear security system, the nuclear test ban, calculations of non–nuclear-weapon states, the NPT regime and treaty review process, U.S. nuclear security spending, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and South Asian security. In her career, she has provided analysis for U.S. and foreign media outlets ranging from National Public Radio and the BBC to CNN and NHK. She is a published and widely quoted expert and her op-eds can be found in the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, among others.

 

Choubey earned her Masters of International Affairs, with a focus on International Security Policy and South Asia, from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She also became a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow in Hindi and Urdu at Columbia. Her undergraduate degree in Government is from Harvard University.

 

Choubey was a term member at of the Council on Foreign Relations from 2009 to 2014 and served on the Term Member Advisory Committee. She is also a former executive board member of Women in International Security and of the Harvard Women's Leadership Project Alumni Network.

 

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