Dr Gary Samore, IISS Director of Studies and Senior Fellow for Non-Proliferation, was formerly a Special Assistant to President Clinton and Senior Director for Non-Proliferation and Export Controls at the National Security Council.
As Director of Studies, he is responsible for overall direction of the Institute’s research programme, including fund raising for research projects, management of IISS research staff, and supervision of the IISS Adelphi Paper series. He also directs the Institute's Non-Proliferation Programme, which seeks to strengthen trans-Atlantic cooperation and support international efforts to deal with proliferation threats in East Asia, the Middle East, and South Asia. As Director of the IISS Non-Proliferation Programme, he has organised numerous international conferences and workshops and produced a variety of IISS publications on proliferation issues. He is the editor of the IISS ‘Strategic Dossiers’ on Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Net Assessment, published in September 2002, and North Korea’s Weapons Programmes: A Net Assessment, published in January 2004.
Prior to joining the IISS in September 2001, Gary Samore worked on proliferation issues for the US government, focusing primarily on non-proliferation policy. From 1996 to 2000, he served as Special Assistant to President Clinton and Senior Director for Non-Proliferation and Export Controls at the National Security Council. From 1987 to 1995, he held various positions at the Department of State. As Deputy to the Ambassador-At-Large for Korean Affairs, Robert Gallucci, he was one of the US negotiators of the 1994 US-DPRK Agreed Framework. He also worked in the Department of State as Director of the Office of Regional Non-proliferation Affairs in the Bureau of Political Military Affairs and as Special Assistant to the Ambassador-At-Large for Non-proliferation and Nuclear Energy Policy, Richard T. Kennedy. He has also held positions at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Rand Corporation, and Harvard University, where he received a PhD in Government in 1984.
