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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:

  • Advisor for Industrial Strategy at the White House Office of Management and Budget
  • Assistant Deputy Administrator for Global Material Security, U.S. Energy Department, National Nuclear Security Administration
  • Assistant Professor in the Department of African-American and African Studies and the Program in the Environment at the University of Michigan
  • Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Oklahoma State University 
  • Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Tulsa
  • Assistant Professor of Religion, Haverford College
  • Associate Director, International Justice Program, Human Rights Watch
  • Associate Professor of Forest Resource Management, University of British Columbia
  • 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
  • Attorney-Adviser, Office of the Legal Adviser, Office of Nonproliferation and Arms Control, U.S. State Department
  • Bilingual Multimedia Journalist at Euronews+
  • Chief Executive Officer, Aetion
  • Chief Executive Officer, Education Quality Outcomes Standards
  • Chief Executive Officer, Greenworks Lending
  • Chief Political Analyst for The New York Times
  • Chief of Staff in the Office of Massachusetts State Senator John F. Keenan
  • Counsel, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence at the U.S. House of Representatives.
  • Cyber Threat Intelligence analyst, Booz Allen Hamilton
  • Dean of the Graduate School and Vice Provost for Graduate Affairs, University of Colorado, Boulder
  • Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Threat Reduction and Arms Control
  • Deputy Chief of Party in Myanmar, Pact
  • Deputy Coordinator for AUKUS at the National Security Council
  • Deputy Foreign Policy Advisor to U.S. European Command (EUCOM), Department of State   
  • Director for Nonproliferation Policy, Arms Control Association
  • Director of the Aspen Cybersecurity Group at the Aspen Institute
  • Director of Development for Foundations, Economic Studies, Brookings Institution
  • Director of Foreign Policy in Focus, at the Institute for Policy Studies
  • Director of Government Relations, University of Sydney
  • Director of Public Affairs, UN Departments of Peacekeeping Operations and Field Support
  • Director of Strategic & Partner Programs at MIT Solve
  • Director, Strategy, Doctrine, & Resources Program, RAND Arroyo Center at RAND Corporation
  • Engineering Systems Implementation & Integration Professional at Sandia National Laboratories
  • Equity & Social Justice Manager for the city of Madison, Wisconsin in the Department of Civil Rights
  • Executive Director, Arms Control Association
  • Executive Director, Cabot Family Charitable Trust
  • Executive Director, Economic Security Project
  • Executive Director, Elevate Children Funders Group
  • Executive Director, Immigration Policy Lab at Stanford University
  • Executive Director, New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union
  • Executive Editor, Foreign Policy Research Institute
  • 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 
  • Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Department of State
  • Founder and Director of ProFellow 
  • Information Officer with the USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance
  • INSSP Officer (Asia-Pacific region), International Atomic Energy Agency
  • Intelligence analyst for BAE Systems
  • JD student, Columbia University Law School (2)
  • JD student, Harvard University Law School 
  • JD student, New York University School of Law
  • JD student, University of Colorado Law School
  • John S. McCain Strategic Defense Fellow, U.S. Department of Defense
  • Legislative Manager for Sustainable Energy and Environment at the Friends Committee on National Legislation
  • Managing Director at the Peace and Security Funders Group
  • Masters of Global Affairs student with a Concentration in International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame
  • Masters student in the  Technology and Public Policy Program at MIT
  • Member of the Parliament of Georgia and Deputy Chair of the Foreign Relations Committee
  • MSc student, Refugee and Forced Migration Studies at the University of Oxford
  • Multilateral Arms Control and Nonproliferation Advisor, Office of Secretary of Defense for Policy, U.S. Department of Defense
  • Multimedia Producer in the iDeas Lab at CSIS
  • Nuclear Policy Program Associate at the Stanley Center for Peace and Security
  • Operations Coordinator at About Face: Veterans Against the War
  • PhD student in the Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan 
  • PhD student, Department of Government, Harvard 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
  • Policy Associate, Win Without War
  • Policy and Programs Associate at Peace Direct
  • Postdoctoral Researcher at the Economics Faculty of the University of Cambridge.
  • President and CEO, Roosevelt Institute
  • Professor, Department of Political Science, California State University, Sacramento
  • Professor Emeritus of Environment and Energy, Faculty of Policy Informatics, Chiba University of Commerce
  • Program Analyst at the State Department
  • Program Analyst with Vistant, USAID Digital APEX
  • Program Assistant with the USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance
  • Program Coordinator for the Business Council for International Understanding
  • Program Coordinator for Technology, Law & Policy at the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley School of Law
  • Program Officer, Global Nuclear Policy, Nuclear Threat Initiative
  • Program Officer, Materials Risk Management, Nuclear Threat Initiative
  • Program Manager at Women of Color Advancing Peace & Security
  • Project Manager and Research Associate, Nonproliferation Educational Program, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in California
  • Regional Peace and Conflict Advisor with the UN World Food Programme
  • Research Analyst at the National Security Archive
  • Research Analyst at Talus Analytics
  • Research Assistant at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
  • Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
  • Research Fellow at the Quincy Institute
  • Senior Adviser and South and Central Asia Team Chief, Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation in the Office of Policy Coordination vice Office of Regional Affairs, U.S. Department of State
  • Senior Advisor, Tides Advocacy and Tides Foundation
  • Senior Advocate for the Middle East, Refugees International
  • Senior Associate, Consensus Building Institute
  • Senior Conflict Advisor, USAID
  • Senior Consultant, Booz Allen Hamilton, Global Security Team
  • Senior Export Control Specialist, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • Senior Financial Officer in the investor relations team in the capital markets department of the World Bank Treasury 
  • Senior Learning Advisor/Applied Learning Team Lead, Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, USAID
  • Senior Learning and Development Coordinator at RedR UK
  • Senior Manager, Asia Region – Climate, N/WRM, and WASH, DAI
  • Senior Member of the Technical Staff for Cooperative Nuclear Counterproliferation, Center for Global Security and Cooperation, Sandia National Laboratories
  • Senior Nuclear Policy Associate, Institute for Security and Technology
  • Senior Policy Advisor for Conflict, Peacebuilding, & Good Governance at Mercy Corps
  • Senior Policy and Partnerships Officer at Peace Direct
  • Senior Program Manager for Program Advocacy and Communications at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  • Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich
  • Speechwriter, Office of the Secretary of Defense
  • Team Chief of the Biosecurity Engagement Program, Office of Cooperative Threat reduction, U.S. State Department
  • Venture Portfolio Manager, Growald Climate Fund
  • Vice President and Director of the Conventional Defense Program, Stimson Center