George Perkovich

Vice president for studies-global security and economic development and director of the nonproliferation program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Perkovich also oversees the South Asia Project and the Trade, Equity, and Development Program at the Endowment.

1990 - 2001 - Director of the Secure World Program at the W. Alton Jones
Foundation, a $400 million philanthropic institution located in Charlottesville, Virginia. In 2001 - Deputy Director for Programs, W. Alton Jones Foundation.
1989 - 1990 - Speechwriter and foreign policy advisor to Senator Joe Biden.

Ph.D. in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia, a M.A. in Soviet Studies from Harvard University, and a B.A. in Politics from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Personal research has been focused on nuclear strategy and non-proliferation, with a focus on South Asia and Iran, and on the problem of justice in the international political economy. Author of the award-winning book India's Nuclear Bomb and coauthor of a major Carnegie report, Universal Compliance: A Strategy for Nuclear Security, a blueprint for rethinking the international nuclear non-proliferation regime.