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Kelsey Davenport

Kelsey Davenport is the Director for Nonproliferation Policy at the Arms Control Association, where she provides research and analysis on the nuclear and missile programs in Iran, North Korea, India, and Pakistan and on nuclear security issues.

Kelsey also reports on developments in these areas for Arms Control Today and runs the Arms Control Association’s project assessing the effectiveness of multilateral voluntary initiatives that contribute to nonproliferation efforts.

She is the author of the P4+1 and Iran Nuclear Deal Alerts newsletter, which assesses developments related to the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran, and the co-author of a series of six reports assessing the impact of the Nuclear Security Summits on efforts to prevent nuclear terrorism.

Kelsey has been quoted in numerous outlets, including the Washington Post, The New York Times, Foreign Policy, AFP, Reuters, the Christian Science Monitor, and The Guardian.

Kelsey joined the Arms Control Association in August 2011 as the Herbert Scoville, Jr. Peace Fellow after completing a Master’s degree in peace studies from the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations, serves on the Board of Directors for the Herbert Scoville, Jr. Peace Fellowship, and is a member of the Atlantic Council’s Iran Task Force.