Ananya Agustin Malhotra is a Program Officer at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)’s Global Nuclear Policy Program, based in Washington, D.C., where she previously worked as a consultant. Her work focuses on nuclear risk reduction and disarmament and their intersections with international law, as well as on the global catastrophic effects associated with the use of nuclear weapons on the environment, food security, and global economy. Malhotra is also a member of BASIC’s Emerging Voices Network and has worked on several projects with Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security.
Originally from Atlanta, GA, Malhotra holds an MPhil in Modern European History (with Distinction) from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a U.S. Rhodes Scholar, and a B.A. summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, where her undergraduate thesis focused on the legacies of the Manhattan Project and the Trinity Test.