Participant Biographies

Kenneth?Luongo

Kenneth?Luongo

President, founder of the Partnership for Global Security (PGS)
The 2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit and Beyond

Mr. Luongo is the President and founder of the Partnership for Global Security (PGS). From 1997- 2004 he also was a Senior Visiting Fellow and Visiting Research Collaborator with PrincetonUniversity’s Program on Science and Global Security. Prior to these positions, from 1994-1997, Mr. Luongo served as the Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Energy for Nonproliferation Policy and the Director of the Office of Arms Control and Nonproliferation at the U.S. Department of Energy. In addition, Mr. Luongo served as the Director of the Department of Energy’s Russia and Newly Independent States Nuclear Material Security Task Force and as the Director of DoE’s North Korea Task Force. Prior to these positions, he served as a professional staff member in the U.S. Congress with the House Armed Services Committee, Senator Carl Levin (D-MI), and Senator William Proxmire (D-WI). Mr. Luongo was also the Senior Washington Representative for Arms Control and International Security with the Union of Concerned Scientists and was a Senior Program Associate at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.