Rita Guenther serves as a Senior Program Officer at the Committee on International Security and Arms Control at the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (CISAC). Recipient of a Fulbright Graduate Fellowship, Dr. Guenther manages CISAC’s on-going security dialogues with counterparts in Russia, China, and India. She has worked on or led several cooperative U.S.-Russian and Indo-U.S. projects, including joint U.S.-Russian consensus reports on ballistic missile defense and the internationalization of the nuclear fuel cycle, and Indo-U.S. workshops on science and technology for nuclear material security and on science and technology to counter terrorism. She regularly briefs U.S. government officials on issues related to Russia, China, and India and strategic stability, and The Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Office of the Science and Technology Advisor to the Secretary of State have consulted her concerning reforms in Russian science. Dr. Guenther received the National Academies distinguished individual service award in 2007 and 2018. She speaks Russian fluently and holds an MA in Russian Studies and a PhD in History from Georgetown University.