Former Senior Adviser SFRC Thomas Moore Joins CSIS as Proliferation Prevention Program Deputy Director

WASHINGTON, March 28, 2013 -- The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) is pleased to announce that Thomas C. Moore has joined as Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of the CSIS Proliferation Prevention Program.

“I am pleased to welcome Tom to CSIS,” Dr. John Hamre, President, CEO and Pritzker Chair of CSIS said. “Nuclear nonproliferation is one of the great challenges of our time and I’m glad to have Tom’s experience here to ensure CSIS remains at the forefront of this important policy conversation.”
 
Moore joins CSIS from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), where he served on the Committee’s professional staff for Senator Richard G. Lugar (R-IN) from 2003 to 2013. During this time, he was the senior Republican adviser for all nonproliferation matters. He worked in the United States Senate for 15 years, working on the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) prior to coming to the Foreign Relations Committee. He frequently joined Senator Lugar on his annual trips throughout Russia and the former Soviet Union to oversee the operation of the Nunn-Lugar program.

On the Committee, Moore was the lead professional staff member for the Moscow Treaty,  the U.S.-IAEA Additional Protocol, and its implementing statute; the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage. He was the lead staff member on agreements for peaceful nuclear cooperation under section 123 of the Atomic Energy Act with India, the United Arab Emirates, Russia, Turkey and several other nations. He also oversaw major U.S. arms sales and transfers; U.S. defense trade treaties with the United Kingdom and Australia, and their implementing statutes, as well as the New START Treaty.
 
Moore is proficient in Russian.  He received his BA in History and Russian and East European Studies from the University of Kansas.

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