David Santoro Email & Phone Number

David Santoro is President and CEO of the Pacific Forum, where he specializes in strategic and deterrence issues as well as nonproliferation and nuclear security, with a regional focus on Asia and Europe. Santoro's current research interests focus on cross-regional deterrence and assurance issues, especially between Asia and Europe, and on nonproliferation and nuclear security in Southeast Asia. Santoro also directs the Forum's track-1.5 strategic dialogues. They include US-China strategic nuclear dialogues; US-Japan-South Korea extended deterrence dialogues; US-Myanmar nonproliferation and nuclear security dialogues; and Asia-Pacific multilateral meetings on nonproliferation and nuclear security. Before joining the Pacific Forum CSIS, Santoro worked on nuclear policy issues in France, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. In spring 2010, he was also a visiting research fellow at New York University's Center on International Cooperation and, in 2010-2011, he was a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Institute for International Strategic Studies in London. Santoro is coeditor, with Tanya Ogilvie-White, of Slaying the Nuclear Dragon (University of Georgia Press, 2012) and author of Treating Weapons Proliferation (Palgrave, 2010). His essays have been published in several monograph series and academic journals, such as The Nonproliferation Review, Proliferation Papers, Survival, or The Washington Quarterly, and his op-eds have appeared in The Bangkok Post, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, The Japan Times, PacNet, and The Wall Street Journal, among others. Santoro holds degrees in languages, literature, history, and international relations from various universities, including a PhD from Macquarie University. Follow him on Twitter @DavidSantoro1

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