Douglas B. Shaw is the Senior Fellow and Director of the Technology and Global Security Program at the Stimson Center. In this role, he leads a team of scholars applying emerging technologies to international cooperation to prevent the use and spread of weapons of mass destruction. His particular work focuses on how artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies create novel risks and opportunities for preventing nuclear war.
Prior to joining the Stimson Center, Shaw served as Senior Associate Provost for International Strategy at the George Washington University, Director of Policy Planning at Georgetown University, and in leadership roles in several non-governmental organizations including the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Physicians for Social Responsibility, the Lawyers Alliance for World Security, College Bound, and the Worker Rights Consortium. Shaw began his career in government working to successfully extend the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty at U.S Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and later to secure weapons-usable nuclear materials in Ukraine from theft or diversion at the U.S. Department of Energy.
Shaw holds B.S.F.S., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Georgetown University in international relations and security studies. He has taught as a research professor of international affairs at George Washington University and a teaching fellow in international law and politics at Georgetown University. He has lectured on four continents in venues including the United Nations, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and discussed nuclear weapons issues on C-SPAN and National Public Radio; and published in Arms Control Today, The Nonproliferation Review, and The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
