BIO

Robert Zarate works in the U.S. Congress. From February 2006 to June 2009, he was a research associate at the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC), a not-for-profit organization that promotes a better understanding of nuclear proliferation issues among policy makers, scholars and journalists. From January 2009 to June 2009, he served concurrently as a fellow in the House Foreign Affairs Committee's Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade.

Zarate and NPEC executive director Henry Sokolski co-edited Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter (Strategic Studies Institute, 2009), a volume of enduring and timely writings on nuclear-age strategy by Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter, who were two of America's most controversial, innovative and consequential strategists. For more, visit the book's website at Albert Wohlstetter Dot Com.

From 2000 to late 2001, Zarate worked as a policy analyst at Steptoe and Johnson LLP in Washington, D.C., where he focused on issues pertaining to e-commerce and international controls related to the import, export and use of encryption and other dual-use items.

In 2002, Zarate wrote for Wired News, reporting on the intersections of national security, technology, politics, law and business.

Zarate has published essays and articles in The Weekly Standard, National Review Online, Wired News, E-Commerce Law Week and other periodicals. Of note, he contributed a long 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.

Zarate received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Chicago. He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London, U.K.