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Daniel B. Poneman
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Senior Fellow of The Forum for International Policy,
Mr. Poneman has extensive expertise in the defense, energy and export control
arenas. For nine years, he practiced law in Washington, D.C., assisting
clients in a wide variety of regulatory and policy matters, including export
controls, trade policy, and sanctions issues. From 1993 through 1996, Mr.
Poneman served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for
Nonproliferation and Export Controls at the National Security Council, with
responsibilities for the development and implementation of U.S. policy in such
areas as peaceful nuclear cooperation, missile technology and space-launch
activities, sanctions determinations, chemical and biological arms control
efforts and conventional arms transfer policy. During that period,
he participated in negotiations and consultations with governments in Africa,
Asia, Europe, Latin America and the former Soviet Union. Mr. Poneman
joined the NSC staff in 1990 as Director of Defense Policy and Arms Control,
after service in the Department of Energy. He has served as a member of
the Commission to Assess the Organization of the Federal Government to Combat
the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction as well as other federal
advisory panels. He received A.B. and J.D. degrees from Harvard University, and
an M.Litt. in politics from Oxford University. Mr. Poneman is the author
of books on nuclear energy policy and on Argentina, and is a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations.
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