Mark Goodman

Biography

Mark Goodman is senior scientist in the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation at the Department of State.  He has worked on nuclear nonproliferation issues at the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency from 1995-1999, at the U.S. Department of State from 1999-2006 and since 2009, and at the U.S. Department of Energy from 2006-2009.  Until recently he was in the office of the Special Advisor on Nonproliferation and Arms Control to the U.S. Secretary of State.  Over this period he has worked on nuclear export control and international nuclear cooperation, international verification of peaceful nuclear activities, and responses to nuclear proliferation challenges from various countries.

Dr. Goodman was an AIP Congressional Science Fellow in 1992-93, working for Senator Kent Conrad.  He received a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.