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Allison Berke

Allison Berke, Ph.D., is the Director of Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, and a bioengineer. She previously directed California technology policy research at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and cybersecurity policy research at the Stanford Cyber Initiative.