Mariana Budjeryn

Mariana Budjeryn is a senior research associate with the Project of Managing the Atom (MTA) and International Security Program (ISP) at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, and an ACONA Executive Board Member. She is also a research associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Formerly, Dr. Budjeryn held appointments as a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at MTA/ISP, a fellow at Harvard Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, and as a visiting professor at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt and Tufts University. Her forthcoming book Inheriting the Bomb: Soviet Collapse and Ukraine’s Nuclear Disarmament examines the history and politics of post-Soviet nuclear disarmament. Budjeryn’s analytical contributions have appeared in The Nonproliferation Review, Harvard International Review, World Affairs Journal, Arms Control Today, The Washington Post, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and in the publications of the Wilson Center for International Scholars where she is a Global Fellow. Budjeryn holds a PhD in Political Science and an MA in International Relations at Central European University (formerly) in Budapest, Hungary, and a BA in Political Science from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine.