Douglas B. Shaw

Douglas B. Shaw is a Non-Resident Scholar at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.  He served as Senior Associate Provost for International Strategy at the George Washington University and as Director of Policy Planning at Georgetown University.  Following the end of the Cold War, Shaw worked on the successful global diplomatic campaign to indefinitely extend the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty for the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and the successful programmatic effort to secure weapons-usable nuclear material in Ukraine from theft or diversion for the U.S. Department of Energy. In 2025, he led a nuclear threat initiative study on the Nuclear Security Implications of AI and Emerging Technologies: A FutureSafe Analysis of Risks and Opportunities.  He holds a Ph.D. in international relations from Georgetown University.