Heather Williams is the director of the Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) and a senior fellow in the Defense and Security Department at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). She is a member of the Defense Science Board and State Department International Security Advisory Board. She is also a Senior Associate Fellow with the Royal United Services Institute in London. Before joining CSIS Dr. Williams was a visiting fellow with the Project on Managing the Atom in the Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Stanton Nuclear Security fellow in the Security Studies Program at MIT. Until 2022, she was a senior lecturer (associate professor) at King’s College London, served as a specialist adviser to the House of Lords International Relations Committee, and was President of Women in International Security (WIIS) UK.
Dr. Williams has a PhD in war studies from King’s College London, an MA in security policy studies from the George Washington University, and a BA in international relations and Russian studies from Boston University.
