BIO

Robert Zarate is a research fellow at the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization founded in 1994 to promote a better understanding of strategic weapons proliferation issues among policymakers, scholars and the media. He is concurrently working to research and write a book on the late American strategists Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter.

After graduating from the University of Chicago in 1999, Zarate worked from 2000 to late 2001 as a policy analyst at Steptoe and Johnson LLP in Washington, D.C., focusing on international controls related to the import, export and use of encryption and other dual-use items.

In early 2002, Zarate wrote for Wired News, covering the intersections of national security, technology, politics, law and business. In late 2002, he returned to the University of Chicago to begin graduate studies.

Zarate has published essays and articles in The Weekly Standard, National Review Online, Wired News, E-Commerce Law Week and other periodicals. Most recently, he contributed an essay, "The NPT, IAEA Safeguards and Peaceful Nuclear Energy: An 'Inalienable Right,' But Precisely to What," to Falling Behind: International Security of the Peaceful Atom (Strategic Studies Institute, 2008), edited by Henry Sokolski.