Brian Finlay

Brian Finlay is Senior Advisor of the Nuclear Threat Reduction Campaign.

Most recently, he was a Program Officer at The Century Foundation (formerly the Twentieth Century Fund). He specializes in global security policy, arms control, and the non-proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Before joining the Century Foundation, he was a Senior Researcher in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Prior to emigrating from Canada, he was a Project Manager for the Laboratory Center for Disease Control (Health Canada) in Ottawa. He also has served as a consultant to the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade working on the Ottawa Treaty on Landmines and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

Finlay is author of numerous articles on national security issues, is the co-editor of the forthcoming book, Ultimate Security: Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction, and contributor to Grave New World: Security Challenges in the Twenty-First Century. He holds a Masters degree in International Relations from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, and a Graduate Diploma from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

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