Meet the staff

Meet our staff

For over 75 years, FAS has fostered the voices of world-class experts and early-career researchers alike from a variety of scientific, academic, and professional backgrounds.

meet our experts
Policy Entrepreneurship Fellow
Lauren Manning
Finance,
Food & Agriculture,
Law & Policy,
Farming & Ranching
Staff Fellow
Lena Shi
Policy Associate
Liam Alexander
Staff Fellow
Lisa Einstein
Technical Editor
Lyndsey Gray
Space Diplomacy,
U.S. Foreign Policy,
Technology Innovation,
International Commercial Regulation,
Space Debris Mitigation
mackenzie knight
Program Associate, Global Risk/Nuclear Information Project
Mackenzie Knight
Status of Global Nuclear Arsenals
Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament
Nuclear Policy and Strategy
Nuclear History
Senior Policy Associate
Maeve Skelly
Staff Fellow
Maggie Beiting
Staff Fellow
Mahmoud Abouelnaga
Staff Fellow
Maithreyi Gopalan
Chief Financial Officer
Manizha Nabieva
Financial Management
Operations Management
Risk Management
Budgets and Contracts Management
Regulatory Compliance
Strategic Planning
Margaret Smith is an Agricultural Marketing Specialist Impact Fellow with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Staff Fellow
Margaret Smith