Senior Director, Strategic Initiatives
Expertise Nuclear Weapons Policy, US-Russia
Isabelle Williams serves as a senior director at NTI. She leads and supports projects across NTI, including building and sustaining a world without nuclear weapons, reassessing nuclear deterrence, and promoting understanding of cascading nuclear effects. Williams also serves as NTI Liaison for Horizon 2045 (a collaborative effort to address the interconnectedness of global threats, including nuclear weapons), and supports NTI-wide implementation of institutional objectives and strategic priorities.
Williams holds a BA and MA in International Studies from the University of Leeds, United Kingdom. She previously held positions with the Partnership for Global Security, the Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
This paper offers a focused set of recommendations for specific commitments related to practical and achievable actions that States parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) could take to advance the NPT’s goals and achieve success at the 10th NPT Review Conference.
A chapter from the new Ploughshares Fund report "Ten Big Nuclear Ideas for the Next President” by NTI's Isabelle Williams and Steve Andreasen.
Creating a new framework for a secure nuclear future without nuclear weapons
Devising new strategies and approaches to move towards a world without nuclear weapons
Examining the implications of AI and other emerging technologies for nuclear security – both opportunities and challenges.
Past Project Working toward a shared vision of a nuclear weapons-free world
Past Project Developing a new generation of leaders
Past Project Developing institutional capacity and analysis to shape nuclear dialogue and policy in key regions throughout the world
Past Project Moving past Cold War-era thinking
Past Project Working toward a world without nuclear weapons
