Center Announces Arrival of New Senior Fellow Dan Nelson
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 19, 2007
CONTACT: Travis Sharp, Communications Director, 202-546-0795 ext.123, tsharp AT armscontrolcenter DOT org
Washington, D.C. - The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation announced today the arrival of Dr. Daniel Nelson as a new Senior Fellow at the organization.
Nelson joins Center Policy Fellows Lt. General Robert Gard (USA, ret.), Ambassador Peter Galbraith, and military expert Chris Hellman in bringing decades of experience to the Center's work on various peace and security issues.
Nelson is an expert on a wide range of defense policy topics, including European politics and NATO security, U.S. foreign policy, homeland security, transnational threats, civil-military relations, arms control treaties, and the international nuclear nonproliferation regime.
Extended biographical information is available online.
Nelson is available by phone (202-546-0795 ext. 197) or by email (dnelson@armscontrolcenter.org). For media inquiries, contact Nelson either directly or through Travis Sharp (202-546-0795 ext. 123, tsharp@armscontrolcenter.org).
Prior to joining the Center, Nelson was Senior Vice President at Strategic Partnerships, LLC. He served as a foreign policy consultant to Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) during his 1992 presidential campaign and as a foreign policy advisor to Representative Richard Gephardt (D-MO) when he was House Majority Leader. Nelson also worked at the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, at National Defense University's National Security Education Program, and at the George C. Marshall Center for European Security Studies in Garmisch, Germany.
Nelson has taught at Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, George Washington University, and the University of Kentucky. He has written six books and edited or co-edited twenty other volumes. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute of Strategic Studies, and the Atlantic Council.
Nelson holds a B.A. in History and Political Science from the University of Minnesota and both an M.A. and Ph.D. in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University. He speaks Romanian and German and is conversant in Polish and Croatian.
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