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Jenifer Mackby

Fellow, International Security Program

Associated Research Focus:

International Security
Proliferation Prevention

Associated Programs:

International Security Program

Expertise:

WMD, nonproliferation, arms control, the United Nations

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202-741-3926
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Jenifer Mackby is a fellow in the CSIS International Security Program. She has worked in France on the Strengthening the Global Partnership project, on a Russian-European project on bioterrorism, on U.S. force reductions in Europe, and served as rapporteur for numerous international conferences. She was a contributor to The Nuclear Tipping Point: Why States Reconsider Their Nuclear Choices (Brookings, 2004) and coauthor of The Final Test: A History of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Negotiations (CTBTO, 2003) She has also written articles for the New York Times, Newsweek, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the National Defense University, and the European Union Joint Research Center.

 

Previously, Mackby served as a senior political affairs officer in the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, Switzerland, where she worked on the negotiations of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, as well as with the group of scientific experts and the committee on transparency in armaments. She then worked for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization Preparatory Commission in Vienna, Austria, where she served as executive secretary of the work on verification. She also worked at the United Nations as a political affairs officer for outer space and disarmament issues, notably the Special Commission on Iraq, a government experts study on nuclear weapons, a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference, the disarmament commission subcommittees on nuclear weapons and South Africa’s nuclear capability, and an international conference on outer space. Mackby is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and Women in International Security, and is fluent in French and Spanish.


Full list of Jenifer Mackby's publications

CSIS Publications by Jenifer Mackby


Critical Questions: The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons 01/29/2008
Strategic Study on Bioterrorism 10/16/2006
The Preeminent Threat 10/16/2006

Jenifer Mackby In the News


Jenifer Mackby, a fellow with the International Security Program at CSIS, had an op-ed published in the Baltimore Sun, "Nuclear Fears, Alarming Arrears." 07/25/2007
CSIS Fellow Jenifer Mackby coauthored an article for the washingtonpost.com's Think Tank Town, "The End of START?" 04/20/2007
 

 

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