Dr. Edward Levine

Dr. Edward Levine

Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Ret.)
NSWG

Dr. Edward Levine is a retired senior professional staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), with over 40 years’ experience. Before that, he was a professional staff member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) and also taught Political Science at both the University of Michigan and Rice University. He is a leading specialist on arms control, non-proliferation, and U.S arms sales to other countries.

Dr. Edward Levine is a retired senior professional staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC).

Before that, he was a professional staff member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI). He played a major staff role in the Senate’s consideration of the Chemical Weapons Convention, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty, the Moscow Treaty, the New START Treaty, protocols to the Convention on Conventional Weapons, conventions relating to nuclear safety, arms sale agreements with the United Kingdom and Australia, and the U.S.-India nuclear agreement. He also helped to oversee and to maintain funding for U.S. non-proliferation programs and U.S. contributions to the IAEA and the CTBTO Preparatory Commission. Dr. Levine served both Republican and Democratic members of the SSCI. One of his roles was to write or co-author the SSCI’s assessments of U.S capabilities to monitor compliance with SALT II, the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty, the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty, the Threshold Test-Ban Treaty and the Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty, the Open Skies Treaty, and the Chemical Weapons Convention. Prior to working for the U.S. Senate, Dr. Levine taught Political Science at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and at Rice University.

Dr. Levine is chair of the national advisory board of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, and he has written analyses of proposed legislation regarding Iran’s nuclear activities.

He is a leading specialist on arms control, non-proliferation, and U.S. arms sales to other countries.

He received his B.A. in Political Science from the University of California (Berkeley) and his M.A. and Ph.D. in International Relations from Yale University.