Andrea Stricker
Nonproliferation and Biodefense Program Deputy Director and Research Fellow
Biography
Andrea Stricker is deputy director of FDD’s Nonproliferation and Biodefense Program and an FDD research fellow. She is an expert on nuclear weapons proliferation and counterproliferation, open-source proliferation and policy analysis and strategic commodity trafficking.
Andrea has extensively researched Iran’s nuclear program, including its history, the regime’s proliferation efforts and technical advances, and diplomatic agreements. She has co-authored five books on nuclear proliferation and strategic commodity trafficking and advised federal prosecutions. Her other areas of interest include non-proliferation regimes and related international organizations, chemical weapons, illicit finance, Middle East security dynamics, sanctions, and U.S. foreign policy.
Prior to joining FDD in 2019, Andrea spent more than 12 years at the Institute for Science and International Security authoring publications that integrated open-source research and analysis to detect and characterize nuclear proliferation and make policy recommendations to prevent it. Preceding that, she worked with the International Rescue Committee.
Andrea is the co-author of Illicit Trade Networks Vol. 1: Connecting the Dots (2020), The Peddling Peril Indices (PPI) (2018 and 2019), Taiwan’s Former Nuclear Weapons Program (2018), and Revisiting South Africa’s Nuclear Weapons Program (2016) and has contributed chapters to The Plutonium Handbook, The Iran Primer, and Preventing Black Market Trade in Nuclear Technology. Her publications and analysis have appeared in such publications as The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Associated Press, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Jerusalem Post, Science Magazine.
Andrea has a master’s degree in security policy studies from The George Washington University and a bachelor’s degree in political science and French, with a focus on Middle Eastern studies, from the University of Arizona.