Andrew J. Grotto

Senior National Security Analyst

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Andrew J. Grotto is a Senior National Security Analyst at American Progress, where he specializes in U.S. nuclear weapons policy, nuclear nonproliferation policy (including Iran, North Korea, and other regional proliferation cases), and nuclear energy.

Grotto's work has appeared in a variety of scholarly and popular publications, and he is a regular contributor to the leading national security policy blog ArmsControlWonk.com. In addition, he has published opinion pieces in The Washington Post, The Financial Times, The UK Guardian, and The Baltimore Sun. Recent studies published by CAP include “Orienting the 2009 Nuclear Posture Review: A Roadmap” (2008), “Sea-Based Missile Defense: Expanding the Options” (2008), and “Contain and Engage: A New Strategy for Resolving the Nuclear Crisis with Iran” (2007). In addition to his writings on nonproliferation and defense policies, Grotto has also published scholarly works on international trade and intellectual property.

Grotto is a regular guest commentator on nonproliferation and U.S. national security strategy for major international and national media outlets, including BBC, CNN, Fox, MSNBC, Sky Channel, National Public Radio, Al Jazeera, and Air America. He is also a frequent guest lecturer on nuclear nonproliferation at the Foreign Service Institute, the U.S. State Department's post-graduate school.

Previously, Grotto served as a research assistant at the Harvard Center for Business and Government and as acting mission director for a small international NGO’s aid efforts in Kosovo following the 1999 conflict. In graduate school, he worked for the U.S. State Department’s Office of the Legal Advisor on nonproliferation and European affairs.

Grotto received his J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall), where he served as an editor of the Berkeley Journal of International Law. He received his master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and his bachelor's degree from the University of Kentucky, where he was a Gaines Fellow.

Email: agrotto /@\ americanprogress.org