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CONCURRENT SESSION 2: Strengthening the Nuclear Security Regime After 2016
Laura HOLGATE, Sherpa to the Nuclear Security Summit; Special Assistant to the President; Senior Director for Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism and Threat Reduction, National Security Council, United States From 2001 to 2009, Ms. Holgate was the Vice President for Russia/New Independent States Programs at the Nuclear Threat Initiative. Prior to joining NTI, Ms. Holgate directed the Department of Energy's Office of Fissile Materials Disposition from 1998 to 2001. She was Special Coordinator for Cooperative Threat Reduction at the Department for Defense from 1995 through 1998, where she provided policy oversight of the “Nunn-Lugar” Cooperative Threat Reduction program. Her academic credentials include an SM from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Political Science, and two years on the research staff at Harvard University's Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government.

CONCURRENT SESSION 2: Strengthening the Nuclear Security Regime After 2016

Laura HOLGATE, Sherpa to the Nuclear Security Summit; Special Assistant to the President; Senior Director for Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism and Threat Reduction, National Security Council, United States

From 2001 to 2009, Ms. Holgate was the Vice President for Russia/New Independent States Programs at the Nuclear Threat Initiative. Prior to joining NTI, Ms. Holgate directed the Department of Energy's Office of Fissile Materials Disposition from 1998 to 2001. She was Special Coordinator for Cooperative Threat Reduction at the Department for Defense from 1995 through 1998, where she provided policy oversight of the “Nunn-Lugar” Cooperative Threat Reduction program. Her academic credentials include an SM from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Political Science, and two years on the research staff at Harvard University's Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government.