Dr. Gary Samore is the Director of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies and Professor of the Practice of Politics in the Department of Politics at Brandeis University. He is also a senior fellow in the Korea project and associate with the Project on Managing the Atom at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Samore previously served as President Obama’s White House Coordinator for Arms Control and Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and President Clinton’s Senior Director for Non-proliferation and Export Controls. Prior to his service in the White House, he held several position in the Department of State, focusing primarily on US nonproliferation policy in Asia and the Middle East. He was a National Science Foundation Fellow at Harvard University, where he received his MA and PhD in government in 1984.