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Francesca Giovannini

Francesca Giovannini is the executive director of the Project on Managing the Atom at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs. In addition, she is a non-residential fellow at the Centre for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Giovannini served as Strategy and Policy Officer to the Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), based in Vienna. Prior to her international appointment, Ms. Giovannini served for five years at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Boston as director of the Research Program on Global Security and International Affairs.