Christina McAllister is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Partnerships in Proliferation Prevention program at the Stimson Center. Prior to joining Stimson, Christina served as a senior advisor to U.S. Department of Defense offices responsible for non-proliferation and countering weapons of mass destruction (CWMD). As a Booz Allen Hamilton consultant, she led strategic communications initiatives for the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), U.S. Special Operations Command, and the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Chemical and Biological Defense Programs. From 2006 to 2014 she led teams supporting the work of CTR’s Biological Threat Reduction Program to strengthen detection and reporting of dangerous infectious disease outbreaks and enhance biosafety and biosecurity practices around the world. She subsequently led an advisory team in the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for CWMD Policy.
Christina previously covered political, social, and economic issues in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova as a correspondent for Reuters news agency in Moscow and Kyiv. In Reuters’ Washington, DC, bureau, assignments included reporting from the White House, State Department, Capitol Hill, and the 2004 presidential campaign.
Christina holds an M.A. in International Relations and International Economics from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and received her B.A. in Modern Languages (Russian and French) from the University of Cambridge. She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).
