Andy Weber is a Senior Fellow at the Council on Strategic Risks.
He has dedicated his professional life to countering nuclear, chemical, and biological threats and to strengthening global health security. His three decades of U.S. government service included five-and-a-half years as President Obama’s Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs. He was a driving force behind Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction efforts to remove weapons-grade uranium from Kazakhstan and Georgia and nuclear-capable MiG-29 aircraft from Moldova, to reduce biological weapons threats, and to destroy Libyan and Syrian chemical weapons stockpiles. In addition, he coordinated U.S. leadership of the international Ebola response for the Department of State.
Prior to joining the Pentagon as Adviser for Threat Reduction Policy, Weber was posted abroad as a U.S. Foreign Service Officer in Saudi Arabia, Germany, Kazakhstan, and Hong Kong. He is an adviser to DARPA, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Ginkgo BioWorks, and several non-profits and companies.
Weber taught a course on Force and Diplomacy at the Georgetown University Graduate School of Foreign Service for seven years, and was a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He graduated from Cornell University and holds a Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS) degree from Georgetown University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. His X handle is @AndyWeberNCB
