Christine Parthemore is Chief Executive Officer of the Council on Strategic Risks (CSR). She is also the Director of CSR's Janne E. Nolan Center on Strategic Weapons and she helped launch the Alliance to End Biological Threats. Parthemore has also been an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University since 2010. In 2016 she was a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow in Tokyo. Prior, she served as the Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense Programs in the U.S. Department of Defense, an office that managed more than $3 billion per year in research and development, acquisition, treaty compliance, and international partnership programs. Her work spanned from projects to eliminate chemical weapons, to biosecurity capacity-building programs, to collaboration with international partners on all-hazards emergency preparedness and global health security. She has contributed to two best-selling nonfiction books, testified before Congress, spoken at the United Nations, authored and coauthored dozens of written works, and lectured at universities in the United States, Vietnam, and China. She holds degrees from The Ohio State University and Georgetown.