Bio

• Age: 61
• Education:  St. Lawrence University, AB (1972); National Defense University National War College, MSS; University of Michigan, MA
• From: Washington, DC
• Ethnicity: Caucasian
• Gender: Female

From 1990-2005, Harrington served at the State Department as an expert on nonproliferation and cooperative threat reduction and was responsible for developing policy and implementing programs aimed at preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in Russia and Eurasia. She most recently served as director of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Committee on International Security and Arms Control.

Last Job

• National Academy of Sciences, director of Committee on International Security and Arms Control

Other Job

• State Department, acting director and deputy director of Office of Proliferation Threat Reduction, senior coordinator for efforts to redirect former Soviet WMD/missile experts, science analyst at U.S. embassy in Moscow