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Emma Belcher

Emma Belcher is president of the Ploughshares Fund. Previously, she spent nearly a decade at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, where she led the foundation’s Nuclear Challenges grantmaking program. She has served as a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and as an advisor in Australia’s Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet on national security and international affairs.