Participant Biographies

Robert Einhorn

Robert Einhorn

Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Session 3 - "Living with Nuclear Insecurity"

Mr. Robert Einhorn is Senior Fellow with the Brookings Institution’s Arms Control and Nonproliferation Initiative. Before coming to Brookings, he served as the State Department’s Special Advisor for Nonproliferation and Arms Control, a position created by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2009. Between 2001 and 2009, he was Senior Advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where he directed the CSIS Proliferation Prevention Program. Before coming to CSIS, he was Assistant Secretary of State for Nonproliferation (1999-2001), Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs (1992-99), and a member of the State Department Policy Planning Staff (1986-1992). He holds a B.A. in government from Cornell University and an M.A. in public affairs and international relations from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.