Amy J. Nelson is a Senior Fellow New America's Future Security Program, where she works on generating future-forward policy analysis using tools and techniques of prediction and planning with a particular focus on nuclear and artificial intelligence futures. She has a large body of work on arms control and nonproliferation for weapons of mass destruction (WMD), conventional weapons, and emerging technologies.
Before joining New America, she was a David M. Rubenstein Fellow with the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, where she completed her forthcoming book, The Arms Control Paradox: Managing Uncertainty in an Insecure World. She was previously a Bosch Fellow in residence at the German Council on Foreign Relations, a Fellow at the Center for the Study of WMD at the National Defense University, a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and a policy analyst at the U.S. Department of States Directorate of Defense Trade Controls.
Nelson holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.A. in intellectual history from Columbia University, and an A.B. in philosophy with honors from Stanford University.