Symposium sponsored by:

Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies

Department of Health and Human Services

Infectious Diseases Society of America

Amy E. Smithson, PhD
Senior Associate, The Henry L. Stimson Center

International Cooperation to Prevent Biological Weapons Research and Development

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Professional Biography

Amy E. Smithson, Ph.D. Senior Associate, The Henry L. Stimson Center, 1990 to present. Dr. Smithson initiated the Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Project in January 1993. She continues to direct this project, which conducts analytical research across the spectrum of complex topics associated with the threat presented by chemical and biological weapons as well as the control and elimination of these two categories of weaponry. Her research bridges the technical and policy communities to create problem-solving recommendations that both communities can feasibly execute. She has published widely in journals, testified before Congress, and co-edited Open Skies, Arms Control, and Cooperative Security (St. Martin's Press, 1992).

Dr. Smithson is frequently consulted by the media, including CNN, NPR, and the New York Times, the Washington Post, NBC Nightly News, the BBC, ABC Nightly News, CBS Morning News, the Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report, to name a few. Previously at the Stimson Center, she worked on projects that address the reshaping of U.S. foreign policy and national security institutions in the post-Cold War era and the utility of confidence-building measures and collective security. Before her tenure at the Stimson Center, she worked at Pacific-Sierra Research Corporation and the Center for Naval Analyses.

Education:
Ph.D. Political Science, George Washington University (1996)
M.A.International Relations, Georgetown University (1984)
B.A.Political Science and Russian, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1982)