Michael Krepon
Michael Krepon (1946-2022) co-founded the Stimson Center in 1989 and then served as Stimson’s President and CEO until 2000. He was appointed the University of Virginia’s Diplomat Scholar, where he taught from 2001-2010, while working at Stimson. He was the author and editor of twenty-two books, including The Lure and Pitfalls of MIRVs: From the First to the Second Nuclear Age (Stimson Center, 2016), Off Ramps from Confrontation in Southern Asia (Stimson Center, 2019), and Winning and Losing the Nuclear Peace: The Rise, Demise and Revival of Arms Control (Stanford University Press, 2021). Krepon had worked previously in the executive branch and on Capitol Hill and received the Carnegie Endowment’s award for lifetime achievement in non-governmental work to reduce nuclear dangers in 2015.
