Henry D. Sokolski, Executive Director
Henry Sokolski is the executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center and teaches graduate-level classes on nuclear policy in Washington D.C.
He has worked in the Pentagon as Deputy for Nonproliferation Policy, as a consultant to the National Intelligence Council, as a member of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Senior Advisory Group, and as a Senate military and legislative aide.
He has also served on two congressional commissions on the prevention of WMD proliferation and has authored and edited numerous volumes on strategic weapons proliferation issues, including China, Russia, and the Coming Cool War, Underestimated: Our Not So Peaceful Nuclear Future, and Best of Intentions: America’s Campaign against Strategic Weapons Proliferation.
Henry can be reached at henry@npolicy.org.
Janine Lamber, Program Manager
Janine Lambert is the Program Manager at the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC). She holds a master’s degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of South Florida and a bachelor’s degree in Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences from the University of Michigan. Prior to joining NPEC, Janine worked at the Idaho National Laboratory as a Research Engineer in Safeguards and Nonproliferation and at the International Atomic Energy Agency as a Project Engineer for Safeguards Technical Services. She also served as an Education Volunteer for the U.S. Peace Corps in Namibia for three years. She can be reached at janine@npolicy.org.
Hannah Shearer, Editorial Associate
Hannah Shearer is the Editorial Associate at the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC). She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Public Policy and a Bachelor’s degree in Communications. Prior to joining NPEC, Hannah volunteered for a handful of progressive campaigns across Boston, Philadelphia, and New York City. She can be reached at hannah@npolicy.org.
SPACE POLICY ADVISOR
Peter L. Hays, Adjunct Professor, Space Policy and International Affairs at George Washington University’s Space Policy Institute; Senior Policy Advisor, Falcon Research
Dr. Peter L. Hays is an Adjunct Professor of Space Policy and International Affairs at George Washington University’s (GWU) Space Policy Institute and a Senior Policy Advisor with Falcon Research. He has been directly involved in helping to develop and implement major national security space policy and strategy initiatives since 2004 and also serves as a senior advisor on governance, cadre, and strategic messaging issues. Dr. Hays was presented the National Intelligence Professional Award by the Director of National Intelligence in 2014 and was chosen as the SAIC National Security Solutions Employee of the Year in 2008. He served as a Staff Augmentee at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in 1988 and at the National Space Council in 1990. Dr. Hays serves on the Space Security Index Governance Group, the Center for Strategic and International Studies Missile Defense Project Advisory Board, was a term member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Space Security from 2010-2014, and is a member of the editorial board for Space and Defense and Astropolitics. He holds a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School and was an Honor Graduate of the USAF Academy. Dr. Hays served as an Air Force officer from 1979-2004; flew C-141 cargo planes; and taught international relations, defense policy, and space policy courses at the USAF Academy, School of Advanced Airpower Studies, and National Defense University; he now teaches the Airpower Seminars for the Marine Corps School of Advanced Warfighting and the Space and National Security and Science, Technology, and National Security Policy graduate seminars at GWU. Major publications include: Handbook of Space Security, Space and Security, and Toward a Theory of Spacepower.
BOARD OF ADVISORS
Mark Albrecht
Former Executive Secretary of the National Space Council
Paul Bracken
Professor of Management & Political Science, Yale University, emeritus, former Visiting Scholar at CIA, and former member of the CNO Executive Panel
Peter Bradford
Adjunct professor, Vermont Law School; former Member Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and Chairman of the New York Public Service Commission and of Public Utilities Commission of Maine*
Mariana Budjeryn
Senior research associate, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center, Project on Managing the Atom; author of Inheriting the Bomb: The Collapse of the USSR and the Nuclear Disarmament of Ukraine.
Bryan Clark
Senior fellow and director of the Center for Defense Concepts and Technology, Hudson Institute; former special assistant for Chief of Naval Operations
Stephanie Cooke
Contributor, World Energy Opinion, Energy Intelligence. Author of In Mortal Hands: A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age (2009)
Torrey Froscher
Consultant, former Chief Analyst for Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) Nonproliferation Center and Deputy Director of the DCI Center for Weapons Intelligence, Arms Control and Nonproliferation.
F. Gregory Gause III
Visiting Scholar, Middle East Institute
Namrata Goswami
Author, Educator
Gregory Jones
Proliferations Matters; Defense Policy Analyst
R. Scott Kemp
Associate Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, and director of the MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Security and Policy
*Photo: Justin Knight
Richard R. Lawless
Founder and Principal of NMV Consulting, LLC; former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs
Douglas Loverro
President, Loverro Consulting; Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy; Former NASA Associate Administrator for Human Exploration
Kennedy Maize
Veteran national reporter on energy and environmental issues for over 40 years; Editor and publisher of The Quad Report
Laura Montgomery
Expert, Regulatory Space Law
Harvey Rishikof
Former Dean of the National War College and former Chair of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security Advisory Committee
Jacquelyn Schneider
Hargrove Fellow at the Hoover Institution; the Director of the Hoover Wargaming and Crisis Simulation Initiative; and an affiliate with Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation
Frank A. Settle Jr.
Chemist, Author
Sharon Squassoni
Research professor, George Washington University. Former official at State Department, Arms Control & Disarmament Agency and Congressional Research Service. Co-founder, Climate Security Initiative
Joshua Stanton
Attorney | Retired Senior Executive | North Korea Expert
Andrea Stricker
Deputy Director, Nonproliferation and Biodefense Program, Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Jim Thomas
Co-founder and Principal of the Telemus Group; former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Resources and Plans
William Tobey
Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; former Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
Simon “Pete” Worden
Executive Director, Breakthrough Initiatives
Melissa de Zwart
Deputy Director & Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence in Plants 4 Space; Professor, Space Law and Governance, Andy Thomas Centre for Space Resources, University of Adelaide
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Bianca Zhang, Chief Operating Officer, WomenStrong International
Eldon Greenberg, Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown Law;
Caitlyn Collett, Former Deputy Director of NPEC
Peter Bradford, see above, and Torrey Froscher, see above.
Nonvoting member: Henry Sokolski