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Join us for an event featuring Emma Belcher, President of Ploughshares Fund, in conversation with Jackson School faculty Christopher Jones and Scott Montgomery to discuss nuclear threats and President Biden's Nuclear Posture Review, issued by U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, on Oct. 27, 2022, as part of a package of Biden Administration documents of what the President calls the coming "decisive decade." Together they will explore the geopolitical and diplomacy impacts of this new policy at this critical time of global nuclear threats. 

This event is being held in person and is free and open to the public.

About the guest speaker
Dr. Emma Belcher is President of Ploughshares Fund, the largest public foundation in the U.S. focused on nuclear weapons threat reduction. Prior to arriving at Ploughshares, she spent nearly a decade at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, where she led the foundation’s Nuclear Challenges grant-making program. There, she developed and built the foundation’s Nuclear Challenge Big Bet team—from ideation to planning to management of a nearly $20 million budget.

She served as a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, as an advisor in Australia’s Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet on national security and international affairs, and as a public affairs officer at the Australian embassy in Washington, DC.

Dr. Belcher has a background in international security (Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, PhD and MALD; University of Melbourne, BA [Hons]). While completing her PhD, she was a fellow in the International Security Program and Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

EVENT SPONSORS The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, Center for Global Studies, the Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, and Center for West European Studies at the University of Washington in partnership with Ploughshares Fund and Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility.