Peter
Vartanian

Peter Vartanian is an intern with NTI’s FutureSafe team. In this role, he supports the team’s work in addressing the impact of AI and other technological innovations on global security.

(Vartanian recently completed his B.A. (Hons.) in Diplomacy & World Affairs at Occidental College and California Institute of Technology. He has worked with the UN and its Military Staff Committee, U.S. Departments of Commerce and State, and consulted for various municipalities through the OECD on digital policy frameworks. His work focuses on quantum compute governance, 5G/6G security architectures, critical infrastructure resilience, and the global energy-system transformation, about the latter of which he wrote his honors thesis. At the UN, he gave speeches and wrote white papers on dual-use technology controls and cybersecurity norms in rapidly-evolving digital ecosystems.

Beyond his professional pursuits, Peter speaks over a dozen languages and runs a small consultancy examining the geopolitics of technology. If he is not exploring L.A.’s San Gabriel mountains and diverse culinary scenes in his free time, his background as a competitive debater and history cognescente contributes to case studies on complex international negotiations at Harvard’s Program on Negotiation.)