Jennie Gromoll

- Non-Resident Senior Advisor

Washington, DC

http://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniegromoll

AREAS OF INTEREST

Ukraine/Russia/Black Sea WMD Policy; Future of International Treaties, Multilateralism, Diplomacy; Nuclear and Biological Security; Nonproliferation and Arms Control Education; Cross-domain, Cross-regional, and Multigenerational Professional Development.

BACKGROUND

Jennie served in the U.S. Department of State and the former U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) for thirty-eight years. She was involved in bilateral nuclear, chemical and biological weapons negotiations with the Soviets/Russians and related multilateral WMD negotiations, regional security in the Middle East, and investigation/dismantlement of Soviet, Iraqi and Libyan weapons of mass destruction. Until recently, she served as the Senior Advisor for Europe and Eurasia in the Office of Policy Coordination of the International Security and Nonproliferation Bureau at State, USG coordinator for G7, EU and NATO nonproliferation policy interactions across the CBRN field, and focused on the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) while in the Office of Multilateral Nuclear and Security Affairs. Previously, she supported the Office of the Secretary of Defense on NATO Long-Term Planning and served on the U.S. Senate Iran-Contra Committee. Throughout her career she has focused on bringing together the WMD communities to share resources and lessons learned, and how to broaden opportunities for education/professional development across regions and generations.

ACTIVITIES

She has been a strong supporter of OdCNP throughout its existence: supporting its summer and winter schools and operations; broader WMD education and professional development through funding staff and others in Ukraine and the Black Sea region to attend the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) Visiting Fellows Program; and helping CNS establish the U.S.-Black Sea Nonproliferation Professionals Exchange program and support for the Black Sea Women in Nuclear Network (BSWN). She is actively engaged in preserving and sharing the historic international security negotiating record over the last 60 years; bringing negotiators, practitioners, and researchers together to exchange lessons learned to address the challenges of the future. She is a Non-Resident Fellow at CNS and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Sandia National Laboratory, Center for Global Security and Cooperation (CGSC) Cooperative Monitoring Center (CMC).