Hon. Andy Weber is an independent consultant and a Senior Fellow at the Council on Strategic Risks and has dedicated his career to countering nuclear, chemical, and biological threats and strengthening global health security. He served as President Obama’s Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs and was a driving force behind the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction efforts to remove weapons-grade uranium from Kazakhstan and Georgia and nuclear-capable MiG-29 aircraft from Moldova, to reduce biological weapons threats, and destroy Libyan and Syrian chemical weapons stockpiles. He coordinated US leadership of the international Ebola response for the Department of State. Before joining the Pentagon as Advisor for Threat Reduction Policy, he served in the US Foreign Service Office in Saudi Arabia, Germany, Kazakhstan, and Hong Kong. Currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Strategic Advisor for Ginkgo BioWorks and consultant for DARPA, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, he serves on the Boards of the Arms Control Association, Healthcare Ready, and the James Martin Center for Non-proliferation Studies International Advisory Council. Mr. Weber was a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. A graduate of Cornell University, he holds an M.Sc. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.