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 Staff
AI Safety Policy Entrepreneurship Fellow
Joe O’Brien
Dual-use AI monitoring and reporting,
Incident preparedness and response,
Independent oversight and evaluation policy
Staff Fellow
John Cotton Dean
Staff Fellow
John Reichard
Director, Global Risk
Jon Wolfsthal
Nuclear Weapons,
Global Security,
Geopolitics,
Proliferation,
Global Governance
Emerging Technology
Associate Director, Communications
Jonathan Wilson
Staff Fellow
Joshua Porterfield
Manager, Emerging Technology & Competitiveness
Karinna Gerhardt
disinformation,
online ecosystems,
tech equity
Staff Fellow
Katarina Watney
Manager, Communications
Kate Kohn
Data Visualization,
Data Analysis,
Social video,
Poasting
Staff Fellow
Katherine McEldoon
Senior Fellow
Kathy Stack
Evidence-based policymaking,
Integrated data systems
Communications Manager, Media & PR
Katie McCaskey
media relations,
science communication,
systems thinking & design