Deborah Rosenblum was named executive vice president in 2010 and working alongside the president of NTI, oversees operations, development and programs of this organization with an annual operating budget of approximately $20 million. She joined NTI the previous year and served as senior director for strategic planning and operations.

Prior to NTI she spent seven years as vice president of The Cohen Group, an international consulting firm. She served for 12 years in several senior level positions with the U.S. Department of Defense in the areas of homeland defense, peacekeeping operations and support, nuclear forces and counter-proliferation policy. While at the Defense Department, she represented the United States as negotiator with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on multi-year bilateral negotiations for their nuclear program. Rosenblum holds a master's degree from Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate with a bachelor's degree from Middlebury College.