Heather Williams

Director, Project on Nuclear Issues and Senior Fellow, Defense and Security Department
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Heather Williams is the director of the Project on Nuclear Issues and a senior fellow in the Defense and Security Department at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). She is a member of the Defense Science Board and State Department International Security Advisory Board and is a consultant to the U.S. Strategic Command Strategic Advisory Group. She is also an associate fellow with the Project on Managing the Atom in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School and with the Royal United Services Institute in London. Before joining CSIS, Dr. Williams was a visiting fellow with the Project on Managing the Atom and a Stanton Nuclear Security fellow in the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Until 2022, she was a senior lecturer (associate professor) at King’s College London and served as a specialist adviser to the House of Lords International Relations Committee. Dr. Williams has a PhD in war studies from King’s College London, an MA in security policy studies from George Washington University, and a BA in international relations and Russian studies from Boston University.

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