Laura HOLGATE

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.