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Post Fellowship Careers

Many former Scoville Fellows now hold prominent jobs in international peace and security, working with domestic and international NGOs, the Federal Government, academia, and media. Former fellows go on to attend graduate school in international relations and related disciplines. The following is a select list of current activities of former Scoville Fellows:

Federal Government
● Assistant United States Attorney, United States Attorneys’ Offices
● Attorney-Adviser, Office of the Legal Adviser, Office of Nonproliferation and Arms Control, U.S. Department of State
● Chief Speechwriter, U.S. Department of Energy
● Civil Servant, U.S. Department of the Treasury
● Combat Medic NCO, United States Army Reserve
● Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Threat Reduction and Arms Control
● Deputy Coordinator for AUKUS at the National Security Council
● Director in the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL/PROG) at the Kazakhstan embassy in Astana, U.S. Department of State
● Export Control Specialist, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
● Foreign Affairs Officer, U.S. Department of State
● Foreign Affairs Officer, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs/Office of Regional Multilateral Affairs, U.S. Department of State
● Foreign Affairs Officer, Office of Strategic Stability and Deterrence in the Bureau of Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance, U.S. Department of State (2)
● Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Department of State (2)
● Information Officer with the USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance
● Multilateral Arms Control and Nonproliferation Advisor, Office of Secretary of Defense for Policy, U.S. Department of Defense
● Policy Analyst and Coordinator in the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs
● Principal Assistant Director for Industrial Innovation at the White House
● Program Analyst with Vistant, USAID Digital APEX
● Program Examiner for Middle East and North Africa, The White House
● Science and Technology Advisor, United States Space Force
● Senior Conflict Advisor, USAID
● Senior Learning Advisor/Applied Learning Team Lead, Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, USAID

Foreign Government
● Member of the Parliament of Georgia

Fundation/Funder Group
● Donor Organizing and Leadership Advisor, Donors of Color Network Donor Organizing and Leadership Advisor, Donors of Color Network
● Executive Director, Cabot Family Charitable Trust
● Executive Director, Elevate Children Funders Group
● Managing Director, Peace and Security Funders Group
● Portfolio Manager, Growald Climate Fund
● Program Officer with the International Peace and Security program at the Carnegie Corporation of New York
● Roger L. Hale Fellow at the Ploughshares Fund
● Senior Program Manager for Program Advocacy and Communications at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 

Graduate School
● JD student, Columbia University Law School (2)
● JD student, Harvard University Law School
● JD student, New York University School of Law
● JD student, Stanford University Law School
● JD student, UCLA School of Law
● JD student, University of Colorado Law School
● Masters of Global Affairs student with a Concentration in International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame
● Master’s student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
● MD student at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra University
● MPhil student, International Relations at the University of Oxford
● MPhil student, Sociology, University of Cambridge
● Masters of Public Policy student, Max Bell School of Public Policy, McGill University
● MSc student in Global Governance and Diplomacy program at Oxford University
● PhD student in the Department of the History of Science and Technology and the Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
● PhD student in International Affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS
● PhD student in the Nuclear Engineering department at the University of California, Berkeley
● PhD student in Political Science, Duke University
● PhD student in Political Science, George Washington University
● PhD student in Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
● PhD student in Conflict Analysis and Resolution at the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University

International Organization
● INSSP Officer (Asia-Pacific region), International Atomic Energy Agency
● Mission Chief of Staff, United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO)
● Regional Conflict and Emergency Analyst for MENA and Eastern Europe, UN World Food Programme
● Senior Financial Officer in the investor relations team in the Capital Markets and Investments department of the World Bank Treasury

Local Government
● Chief of Staff in the Office of Massachusetts State Senator John F. Keenan
● Equity & Social Justice Manager for the city of Madison, Wisconsin in the Department of Civil Rights

Media
● Chief Political Analyst for The New York Times
● Digital Editor & Journalist, Euronews

Medicine
● Patient Care Services Clinical Coordinator, Johns Hopkins Outpatient Pharmacy
● Resident Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital

Non-Profit
● Associate Program Officer, Stanley Center for Peace and Security
● DC Program Coordinator, Clean Water Action
● Deputy Director, Nuclear Policy, Innovation & Catastrophic Risk, Institute for Security and Technology
● Director of Development for Foundations, Economic Studies, Brookings Institution
● Director of Foreign Policy in Focus, at the Institute for Policy Studies
● Director for Nonproliferation Policy, Arms Control Association
● Director, Security Assistance, Arms Trade, and Technology, Center for International Policy
● Director, Strategy, Doctrine, & Resources Program, RAND Arroyo Center at RAND Corporation
● Director of Water Security, Mercy Corps
● Executive Director, ACLU of New Hampshire
● Executive Director, Arms Control Association
● Executive Director, Economic Security Project
● Executive Director, Global Justice Center                                                                                                                  ● Head of Strategy, Technology and Arms Control, International Institute for Strategic Studies                  ● Learning and Development Technical Lead, RedR UK
● Legislative Manager for Sustainable Energy and Environment at the Friends Committee on National Legislation
● Multimedia Producer in the iDeas Lab at CSIS
● Policy Associate, Win Without War
● Policy Program Associate, Strategic Partnerships and Engagement, Work Rise, Urban Institute
● President and CEO, Roosevelt Institute
● Project Manager and Research Associate, Nonproliferation Educational Program, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in California
● Research Analyst, National Security Archive
● Research Associate, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control
● Senior Advocate for the Middle East, Refugees International
● Senior Fellow and Director of Defense Budget, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
● Senior Mediator, Consensus Building Institute
● Senior Policy Advisor for Conflict, Peacebuilding, & Good Governance, Mercy Corps
● Senior Program Officer, Nuclear Materials Security, Nuclear Threat Initiative
● Senior Research Associate for the Nuclear Information Project, Federation of American Scientists
● Technical Director, CSM-STAND, Pact
● Vice President and Director of the Conventional Defense Program, Stimson Center

Private Sector
● Chief Executive Officer, Aetion
● Chief Executive Officer, Flex Association
● Cyber Intel Analyst/IO Planner, Peraton
● Deployment Strategist, Palantir Technologies
● Founder and Director of ProFellow
● President and CEO, Nuveen Green Capital
● Senior Consultant, Booz Allen Hamilton, Global Security Team Senior Export Control
● Senior Manager, PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) Intelligence
● Senior Manager/Vice President for Managed Services and Product, Deloitte
● Strategic Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst, Booz Allen Hamilton
● Strategist at Gemic

University
● Assistant Professor in the Department of African-American and African Studies and the Program in the Environment, University of Michigan
● Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Oklahoma State University
● Associate Dean of Students and DOE/NNSA Chair at the National Defense University’s College of International Security Affairs
● Associate Professor, Graduate School of International Policy and Management at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and Fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
● Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Tulsa
● Associate Professor of Religion, Haverford College
● Chief Operating Officer, United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney
● Dean of the Graduate School and Vice Provost for Graduate Affairs, University of Colorado, Boulder
● Director of Strategic Partnerships & Philanthropy, MIT Solve.
● Executive Director, Immigration Policy Lab, Stanford University
● Postdoctoral Researcher at the Economics Faculty of the University of Cambridge
● Professor, Department of Political Science, California State University, Sacramento
● Professor Emeritus of Environment and Energy, Faculty of Policy Informatics, Chiba University of Commerce
● Professor of Forest Resource Management, University of British Columbia