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.
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Director of Government Capacity
Jim Thompson
Public-Private Partnerships;
Procurement;
Open-Innovation;
Design-Thinking;
National Security
Procurement;
Open-Innovation;
Design-Thinking;
National Security
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Staff Fellow
Jodie McVane
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AI Safety Policy Entrepreneurship Fellow
Joe O’Brien
Dual-use AI monitoring and reporting,
Incident preparedness and response,
Independent oversight and evaluation policy
Incident preparedness and response,
Independent oversight and evaluation policy
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Staff Fellow
John Cotton Dean
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Staff Fellow
John Reichard
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Policy Entrepreneurship Fellow
John Tracey
Electricity Grid Policy,
Transmission Policy
Transmission Policy
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Director, Global Risk
Jon Wolfsthal
Nuclear Weapons,
Global Security,
Geopolitics,
Proliferation,
Global Governance
Emerging Technology
Global Security,
Geopolitics,
Proliferation,
Global Governance
Emerging Technology
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Associate Director, Communications
Jonathan Wilson
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Adjunct Fellow
Josh Marcuse
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Fellow
Joshua Elliott
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Staff Fellow
Joshua Porterfield
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Research Assistant, Organs Initiative
Justin Chestang
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