Dr. Catherine McArdle Kelleher is College Park Professor of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, where she teaches and advises in the areas of international security and American defense policy. She is concurrently Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. Her earlier government service included working as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, and the Secretary of Defense’s representative to NATO in Brussels. She has 50 years’ experience in nuclear arms control as well as German, Russian, and European security issues.
Dr. Catherine McArdle Kelleher is College Park Professor of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, where she teaches and advises in the areas of international security and American defense policy. She is concurrently Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University.
Her earlier government service included working as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, and the Secretary of Defense’s representative to NATO in Brussels during the Clinton administration. She served on President Carter’s National Security Council staff and as Professor Emeritus at the Naval War College. She is a former Senior Fellow of foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution, and she directed the Aspen Institute in Berlin.
Dr. Kelleher founded the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM) at the University of Maryland and was the first President of Women in International Security (WIIS). In 2005 she completed 15 years of service as vice chair of the Committee on International Security and Arms Control of the National Academies of Sciences and directed annual policy dialogues with China, Russia, and India.
She has taught and written extensively on conventional and nuclear arms control as well as on German, Russian, and European security issues. Her books include The Politics of German Nuclear Weapons and Getting to Zero: The Path to Nuclear Disarmament, co-edited with Judith Reppy of Cornell University.
She has been decorated for her public service by both the American and German governments and received a D.Litt from Mt. Holyoke College and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.