Michael A. Levi
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Michael A. Levi is the David M. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and environment at the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan foreign-policy think tank and membership organization. His interests center on the intersection of science, technology, and foreign policy. He is director of the Council on Foreign Relations program on energy security and climate change and project director for the Council-sponsored Independent Task Force on global warming.
Education
Levi holds a bachelor's degree in mathematical physics from Queen's University, an M.A. degree in physics from Princeton University where he studied string theory and cosmology, and a Ph.D. degree in war studies from the University of London (King's College) where he was the SSHRC William E. Taylor fellow.
Career
Levi was previously a fellow for science and technology at the Council and, before that, a nonresident science fellow and a science-and-technology fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution. He was previously director of the flagship Strategic Security Project of the Federation of American Scientists.
Books
Levi is the author of the book On Nuclear Terrorism (Harvard University Press, 2007) and coauthor with Michael O'Hanlon of The Future of Arms Control (Brookings Institution Press, 2005). His 2005 monograph with Michael D’Arcy, Untapped Potential: U.S. Science and Technology Cooperation with the Islamic World. was the first comprehensive study of science and technology in the Muslim world.
Other
Levi has been invited to testify before Congress where he presented expert scientific evidence to the National Academy of Sciences. He participated in the 2010 Hertog Global Strategy Initiative, a high-level research program on nuclear proliferation. [1]. His essays have been published in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Nature, Scientific American, and the New Republic, among others. His op-eds have appeared in the The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times. Levi is a regular guest on major television and radio programs and was a technical consultant to the critically acclaimed television drama 24.
Publications
- How to Salvage the Climate Conference Copenhagen's Inconvenient Truth September/October 2009 Foreign Affairs referring to the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009
- Stopping Nuclear Terrorism: The Dangerous Allure of a Perfect Defense
- On Nuclear Terrorism, ISBN 978-0-674-02649-0