James E. Goodby

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Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies
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Jim Goodby is a specialist on nuclear nonproliferation and security issues in Northeast Asia, focusing particularly on the Korean peninsula. A former diplomat, he was involved in nuclear security issues and military affairs for the State Department. | View Full Bio

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Expertise

  • Security communities
  • U.S.-Russian cooperation
  • strategic nuclear arms control
  • nuclear materials security and nuclear warhead dismantlement
  • proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
  • military confidence-building measures
  • Northeast Asia security issues

Experience

Current Positions

  • Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Past Positions

  • Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Carnegie Mellon University
  • former Frank E. and Arthur W. Payne Distinguished Lecturer, Institute for International Studies, Stanford University and Research Professor, Georgetown University
  • U.S. foreign service officer, rank of career minister (retired)
  • served as U.S. Ambassador to Finland
  • former ambassador, principal negotiator, and special representative of President Clinton for Nuclear Security and Dismantlement
  • former chief negotiator for cooperative threat reduction agreements (Nunn-Lugar program)
  • former vice chair, U.S. delegation to U.S.-Russian strategic arms reduction talks
  • former head, U.S. delegation to conference on disarmament in Europe
  • former member, Secretary of State's policy planning staff
  • former deputy assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs and for Political-Military Affairs

Education

  • A.B., Harvard University, 1951

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