As senior program officer, international programs at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, Andrew Newman is focused on nuclear energy and nonproliferation.

Prior to joining NTI, Newman was a research associate with Harvard University's Project on Managing the Atom, where he conducted research into reducing the risks of nuclear theft and terrorism worldwide and addressing key constraints on the future development of nuclear energy globally. Previous to his post at Harvard, Newman spent three years with the Nuclear Science and Technology Office at the Australian Embassy in Washington DC.

Newman is also an adjunct research associate at Monash University, Victoria Australia. Newman holds a PhD and a master's degree from Monash University and a bachelor's degree from LaTrobe University in Victoria, Australia. Newman co-edited with Brad Williams the book, Japan, Australia and Asia-Pacific Security (Routledge, 2006). Recent published work includes journal articles, "Securing Global Nuclear Stockpiles: The First Line in Preventing Nuclear Terrorism" in The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs (Fall 2009), "The Nuclear Policy of the Obama Administration" in the Australian Institute of International Affairs policy commentary, Nuclear Futures?, The 2010 NPT Review Conference and Australia's Nuclear Policy Options, and "Megatons to Megawatts" in a U.S. State Department publication, A World Free of Nuclear Weapons (2010), and "'An area previously determined to be the best adapted for such purposes’: Nevada, Nuclear Waste and Assembly Joint Resolution 15 of 1975," Journal of Policy History (forthcoming, Summer 2012). He also was part of the team which produced the report, Promoting Safe, Secure, and Peaceful Growth of Nuclear Energy: Next Steps for Russia and the United States (2010), co-published by Harvard's Belfer Center and the Kurchatov Institute in Russia.