Jason Ellis Visiting Senior Fellow
Jason Ellis Visiting Senior Fellow CNAS BIOGRAPHY
Jason Ellis is a Visiting Senior Fellow with the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). He is on leave from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), where he serves as Deputy Program Director for Defense. A Federally-Funded Research and Development Center, LLNL works with the National Nuclear Security Administration and other Federal and private sector partners to anticipate evolving national security needs, develop innovative scientific and technical solutions, and apply these solutions to identified end-user requirements. In this context, LLNL has leveraged its core multidisciplinary science, technology, and engineering competencies to develop advanced kinetic and non-kinetic precision effects and tailored situational awareness capabilities for Department of Defense and Intelligence Community mission challenges. Among prior government service, Dr. Ellis served from 2005-07 as Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, with broad responsibilities for developing and implementing tailored strategies and plans to combat the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and to advance other U.S. national security priorities. From 1999-2003, Dr. Ellis was Senior Research Professor at the National Defense University (NDU), where he served on the professional staff of the Center for Counterproliferation Research and as adjunct faculty at the National War College. Dr. Ellis earned a Ph.D. in International Relations from American University, an Executive MBA from St. Mary’s College, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego. He has published in journals such as Survival, Comparative Strategy, and the Washington Quarterly and is author or co-author of books including Combating Proliferation: Strategic Intelligence and Security Policy (2004), Defense by Other Means: The Politics of U.S.-NIS Threat Reduction and Nuclear Security Cooperation (2001), and Send Guns and Money: Security Assistance and U.S. Foreign Policy (1997).
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Jason Ellis is a Visiting Senior Fellow with the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). He is on leave from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), where he serves as Deputy Program Director for Defense. A Federally-Funded Research and Development Center, LLNL works with the National Nuclear Security Administration and other Federal and private sector partners to anticipate evolving national security needs, develop innovative scientific and technical solutions, and apply these solutions to identified end-user requirements. In this context, LLNL has leveraged its core multidisciplinary science, technology, and engineering competencies to develop advanced kinetic and non-kinetic precision effects and tailored situational awareness capabilities for Department of Defense and Intelligence Community mission challenges. Among prior government service, Dr. Ellis served from 2005-07 as Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, with broad responsibilities for developing and implementing tailored strategies and plans to combat the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and to advance other U.S. national security priorities. From 1999-2003, Dr. Ellis was Senior Research Professor at the National Defense University (NDU), where he served on the professional staff of the Center for Counterproliferation Research and as adjunct faculty at the National War College. Dr. Ellis earned a Ph.D. in International Relations from American University, an Executive MBA from St. Mary’s College, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego. He has published in journals such as Survival, Comparative Strategy, and the Washington Quarterly and is author or co-author of books including Combating Proliferation: Strategic Intelligence and Security Policy (2004), Defense by Other Means: The Politics of U.S.-NIS Threat Reduction and Nuclear Security Cooperation (2001), and Send Guns and Money: Security Assistance and U.S. Foreign Policy (1997).
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