Anna Weichselbraun is a former Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow (2016-2018). She is a research and teaching postdoc at the Department of European Ethnology at the University of Vienna. Her research examines the governance of technologies as well as technologies of governance.

In her book The Nuclear Order of Things: Making Safeguards Technical at the IAEA, Anna provides an intimate view of the practices and activities of nuclear safeguards inspectors at the International Atomic Energy Agency, and connects these quotidian practices to the geopolitics of nuclear governance.

Her current project explores problems of Anthropocene governance, that is, the social mechanisms and technological infrastructures by which humans attempt to mitigate the uncertainty emanating from each other and their environments. In 2022-23 she is a USC-Berggruen fellow looking at how experiments in blockchain-based organizational forms can inform new visions of global governance.

John Maguire leads Corporate Development for Global Commercial at Booz Allen Hamilton.   He has led business development and strategy teams for venture-backed enterprise technology companies building partner ecosystems and sourcing, negotiating, and executing reseller agreements, strategic alliances, technology partnerships, and OEM frameworks with some of the leading global commercial technology companies including most recently at Alienvault, which was acquired by AT&T.   He has also developed and executed enterprise product global GTM strategies, launched, ran, and owned P&L for enterprise business units, overseen the product design, development, launch, and shipment of enterprise products as a product and general manager, and run operations for a startup that was acquired by Palo Alto Networks.   He has worked on the buy side as a corporate development executive for a public company, led global M&A transactions for such prominent firms as Point 72, built relationships in the private and public sector and across the political spectrum as a senior staff member on the Senate Intelligence Committee, and served as an Intelligence Officer in the United States Navy in such places as the Pentagon and Saudi Arabia.  

He has held numerous other positions within the United States Navy, the federal government, and the intelligence community and is a graduate of the US Naval Academy, the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and the McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University.

Matthew Fuhrmann is the Cullen-McFadden Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University. ​He has been a Visiting Professor at Yale University (2023-24), Visiting Associate Professor at Stanford University (2016-17), Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (2010-11), and Research Fellow at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (2007-08). He was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow in 2016 by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. ​His research and teaching focus on international security issues with an emphasis on nuclear weapons, diplomacy and bargaining, and alliance politics. He is the author of three books, including Influence Without Arms: The New Logic of Nuclear Deterrence (Cambridge University Press, 2024) and Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy (Cambridge University Press, 2017, with Todd S. Sechser). His articles are published in journals such as ​American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, International Organization, International Security, and International Studies Quarterly. His research has been mentioned in media outlets such as CNN, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and NPR. 

Dr. Irving Lachow has spent over 30 years working at the intersection of technology and policy issues, with the last 20 years being primarily focused on cybersecurity. Irv is currently a Senior Principal for Cyber Strategy and Policy at the MITRE Corporation. His portfolio focuses on the intersection of cybersecurity and critical infrastructure protection. In his previous role at MITRE, Irv was the Chief Engineer for MITRE’s Homeland Security Enterprise Division, where he served as the senior technical advisor to a $100M work program the supported the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and various infrastructure owner/operators. During his fourteen years at MITRE, Irv has helped create the company’s cyber strategy, overseen the creation of the company’s cyber platform, established international research projects and partnerships, and led projects for the Department of Defense and the State Department. In addition to working at MITRE, Dr. Lachow is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies an Advisor to the Mach37 Cyber Accelerator. 

Dr. Lachow has authored or coauthored more than 35 publications, including books, articles, and reports. He has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Kennedy School of Government, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Notable media appearances include the PBS NewsHour, CNN, CSPAN, the Los Angeles Times, the Christian Science Monitor, ForeignPolicy.com and Time.com. Dr. Lachow received his Ph.D. in engineering and public policy from Carnegie Mellon University. He earned an A.B. in political science and a B.S. in physics from Stanford University.

Dr. Anna Péczeli is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She is also an affiliate at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University, and an affiliate at the Institute for Strategic and Defense Studies (ISDS) at the National University of Public Service in Budapest, Hungary.

From 2019 to 2022, Anna was a postdoctoral research fellow at CGSR. Prior to that, she worked at Stanford University: in 2018-2019 she was a visiting postdoctoral research scholar at The Europe Center, and in 2016-2017 she was a Stanton nuclear security fellow at CISAC. In Hungary, she was a senior research fellow at ISDS, an assistant lecturer at Corvinus University of Budapest, and an adjunct fellow at the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs. During her PhD studies, she held a visiting research fellowship at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, and a visiting Fulbright fellowship at the Nuclear Information Project of the Federation of American Scientists in Washington, DC.

She earned a PhD degree in International Relations from Corvinus University of Budapest. Her research focuses on U.S. nuclear posture, in particular the changes and continuities in U.S. nuclear strategy since the end of the Cold War. Her research areas also include the future of arms control and strategic risk reduction in a multi-domain environment, extended nuclear deterrence in Europe, and NATO’s defense policy. Anna is a member of the CSIS Project on Nuclear Issues mid-career cadre, the European Defence and Security Network, the EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium, and former chair of the Executive Board of the International Student/Young Pugwash group.

Eric Min is Associate Professor of Political Science at UCLA. He is received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University, where he was the Zukerman Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation for the 2017-2018 academic year. He was a Henry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Distinguished Scholar in 2021-22.

Min's primary research interests include the intersection of interstate war and diplomacy; international security and conflict management; and the application of machine learning, text, and statistical methods to study these topics. His work is published in the American Political Science Review, International Organization, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, and the Journal of Strategic Studies.

His dissertation, entitled “Negotiation in War,” was the recipient of the 2018 Kenneth Waltz Dissertation Prize from APSA’s International Security Section. Min’s book, titled Words of War: Negotiation as a Tool of Conflict, is part of the Studies in Security Affairs series at Cornell University Press.

Eva C. Uribe is the discipline manager of the Safeguards and Non-Proliferation Group for the Molten Chloride Fast Reactor (MCFR) program at TerraPower, LLC. Her team is responsible for development of material control and accounting plans and program descriptions, and physical and cybersecurity to mitigate threats of special nuclear material sabotage, theft, and diversion. Her team is also responsible for international safeguards by design for MCFR technologies to meet TerraPower’s non-proliferation mission.

Eva was previously a principal member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, CA, where she worked as a systems research analyst across interdisciplinary teams to conduct systematic, data driven analyses to inform researchers and policymakers in the national security arena. Eva was a 2016-2017 Stanton Nuclear Security postdoctoral fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, where she investigated fissile material production pathways in the thorium fuel cycle. Eva received a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 2016. For her dissertation research, she conducted structural analyses of organically-modified porous silica surfaces for the extraction of aqueous actinides using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. In 2011 Eva received a B.S. from Yale University with a double major in chemistry and political science. Her interests in nuclear science, technology, and policy began during her time as a Next Generation Safeguards Initiative intern with the Nonproliferation Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2008 and 2009.