Dr. Jonathan B. Tucker is a Senior Fellow specializing in chemical and biological weapons issues in the Washington, D.C. office of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) of the Monterey Institute of International Studies. He joined the Monterey office of CNS in March 1996 as the founding director of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Program (CBWNP). Before coming to CNS, he worked at the Department of State, the congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
From 1993 to 1995, he served on the U.S. delegation to the Chemical Weapons Convention Preparatory Commission in The Hague, and in February 1995 he was a United Nations biological weapons inspector in Iraq. Dr. Tucker holds a B.S. in biology from Yale University and a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been a visiting fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, the U.S. Institute of Peace, and the American Academy in Berlin, and a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the board of the Arms Control Association.
Dr. Tucker is currently on leave from CNS as a professional staff member for the Commission on the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism, chaired by former Senator Bob Graham.
