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Katherine Budeski joined the Nuclear Threat Initiative in 2018 as an intern and worked with NTI | bio as a consultant before becoming the Program Assistant for the Global Biological Policy and Programs team in September 2019 and later a Program Officer in 2021.
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Mackenzie Cater joined NTI in 2019 as the executive assistant to the Vice President of Materials Risk Management and Chief Financial Officer.
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Laura Turner Seydel works with and supports organizations that address urgent challenges affecting the health, functionality and vitality of our life support system: our air, water, land, food, biodiversity and climate. She serves on the board of Project Drawdown which focuses on measuring the top scalable solutions to address global warming. Laura also works to address the extinction crisis as a Patron of Nature for the International Union of the Conservation of Nature.
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Malcolm Rifkind is a former Member of Parliament for Kensington in the United Kingdom and has served as the United Kingdom’s Defense Secretary and Foreign Minister.
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Kimberly (Kimmie) Ross joined NTI in 2020 and serves as development associate.
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Professor Liru Cui is Senior Advisor of China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR) and a distinguished veteran in international relations and security issues.
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Ambassador Laura S. H. Holgate joined NTI as vice president for materials risk management in April 2018. She served as U.S. Representative to the Vienna Office of the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency from July 11, 2016 to January 20, 2017.
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Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a distinguished fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Emeritus Board Member at the Nuclear Threat Initiative. She served as Carnegie’s president for 18 years. Before her appointment in 1997, her career included posts in both the executive and legislative branches of government, in management and research in the nonprofit arena, and in journalism and science policy.
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Laura Kiefer, director of administrative operations, joined NTI in 2013. Kiefer contributes to both administrative and development efforts at NTI, providing administrative direction and assistance to the chief development officer and chief financial officer.
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A founding NTI staff member, Joan Rohlfing became president and chief operating officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative in January 2010, after nine years as NTI's senior vice president for programs and operations.
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