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CSR Announces New Staff
Continued Capacity-building at CSR’s Core
The Council on Strategic Risks (CSR) is thrilled to announce a new round of hires across its programs.
The Center for Climate and Security (CCS) added expertise across its portfolios, bringing on Caroline Baxter and Noah Fritzhand to lead progress in addressing security threats posed by climate change.
Baxter joins CCS as a Senior Advisor after her tenure at the US Department of Defense where she served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Education and principal senior authority on the development of policies relating to military education, training, and exercises. She will contribute her expertise on climate-informed approaches to national security policy, operational strategy, and military readiness.
Noah Fritzhand previously worked for the Stimson Center’s Environmental Security program, where he contributed to the development of sustainable resiliency strategies to address climate and ocean risks in Small Island Developing States and the Global South. As a Research Fellow at CCS, he will conduct research on the intersection of climate change, food security, and conflict.
The Nolan Center on Strategic Weapons was also pleased to welcome Christopher East and Kyle Wilgus to examine issues related to biosecurity and biodefense policies.
East previously served in the United Kingdom’s Cabinet Office as Chief of Staff for Biological Security, where he was responsible for the development of the 2023 UK Biological Security Strategy. At the Nolan Center, he will take the lead on international biosecurity initiatives as a Senior Fellow and Program Manager.
Wilgus was previously a Legislative Research Fellow at the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology, where he served as a Legislative Research Fellow. At the Nolan Center, he will analyze biological threats and track policy trends and advancements as a Research Fellow.
CSR Welcomes New Research Fellows
The Center for Climate and Security (CCS) is pleased to announce a new round of hires across its programs. CCS added expertise across several of its portfolios, bringing on Siena Cicarelli and Ethan Wong to expand its coverage of the security threats posed by climate change, including their intersection with Arctic policy, food security, and the transatlantic relationship.
Siena joins CCS as a Research Fellow supporting the Nexus25 project, a CCS/Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) initiative focused on sustainable multilateralism. She previously covered transatlantic security and international humanitarian policy for the U.S. Department of Defense, Center for American Progress, and Eurasia Group.
Ethan previously worked on environmental, climate, and international security issues at The Arctic Institute – Center for Circumpolar Security Studies and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. At CCS, he will support a range of climate security projects as a Research Fellow, such as the Climate Security Fellowship and the Military Responses to Climate Hazards (MiRCH) tracker.
CSR Announces New Staff, Internal Moves
Continued Capacity-building at CSR’s Core
Continuing a trajectory of rapid growth, the Council on Strategic Risks is pleased to announce a new round of hires across its programs and role changes for existing staff.
The Center for Climate and Security (CCS) added expertise across its portfolios, bringing on Tom Ellison, Patricia Parera, and Michael Zarfos to advance progress in addressing security threats posed by climate change, and to analyze growing ecological security risks. The Converging Risks Lab also welcomed Lily Boland as a new team member.
Ellison joins CCS as Deputy Director after a decade of informing policymakers on the security and foreign policy implications of climate change as a Senior Analyst for the US government. Increasing leadership capacity, Ellison will drive strategy and program development to accelerate progress on the Center’s work at the nexus of foreign policy and climate security.
Parera previously served as Associate Director for Partnerships and Global Initiatives at Virginia Tech where she also was a lecturer on sustainable development. At CCS, she will lead research at the intersection of climate change and food security as a Senior Fellow.
Dr. Zarfos will be tackling complex, converging risks caused by ecological change as an Ecological Security Research Fellow. He is also a postdoctoral researcher with the Dovciak Lab at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF), examining how human-induced environmental change impacts forest ecosystems.
CSR was also thrilled to bring on Lily Boland as a Strategic Foresight Fellow to develop security foresight tools and lead analysis of long-term consequences of nuclear weapons use for the Converging Risks Lab. Boland joins from the Sciences Po Paris School of International Affairs and the War Studies Department at King’s College London where she studied intelligence and international security.
Internal Moves
Yong-Bee Lim, previously a Deputy Director and Fellow at the Nolan Center, has now transitioned to a new role as the Deputy Director of the Converging Risks Lab where he will address cross-cutting security issues.
Andrea Rezzonico, previously the Deputy Director at the Converging Risks Lab, is now the Program Lead, Ecological Security at the Center for Climate and Security.
Introducing Elsa Barron and Brigitte Hugh, Newest Members of the Climate and Security Team
The Center for Climate and Security (CCS) is growing, and we’re excited to announce the newest additions to our team—program assistants Elsa Barron and Brigitte Hugh. As we enter a new year with lots to cover on climate and security, we wanted to start with a few introductions.
CCS: Where are you from?
Elsa Barron (EB): Wheaton, IL, just west of Chicago. Home of the 11,000-year-old Perry Mastodon.
Brigitte Hugh (BH): Layton, UT, which lies just north of Salt Lake City. We do not have a Mastodon, but there are some great mountains.
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