Deborah Rosenblum

Deborah Rosenblum was named executive vice president of the Nuclear Threat Initiative in 2010 and working alongside the president of NTI, oversees operations, development and programs of the organization with an annual operating budget of approximately $15 million. She is available for interviews relating to biosecurity issues and nuclear policy.

She serves on the board of Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance (CORDS). Envisioning a world united against infectious disease, CORDS links regional disease surveillance networks to improve global capacity to respond to infectious diseases. She also is a senior advisor to a regional disease surveillance network, the Middle East Consortium on Infectious Disease Surveillance (MECIDS) which advances the capabilities for early infectious disease detection, control, and response among Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian Territory.

Prior to NTI she spent seven years as vice president of The Cohen Group, an international consulting firm. She served for 12 years in several senior level positions with the U.S. Department of Defense in the areas of homeland defense, peacekeeping operations and support, nuclear forces and counter-proliferation policy. While at the Defense Department, she represented the United States as a negotiator with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on multi-year bilateral negotiations for their nuclear program. Rosenblum holds a master's degree from Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate with a bachelor's degree from Middlebury College.

Deborah is available for interviews with print and online media, radio, or television outlets.