Sylvia Mishra

Sylvia Mishra is a New Tech Nuclear Officer at the European Leadership Network and a doctoral researcher at the Department of Defence, King’s College London. Her research focuses on nuclear strategy and nonproliferation, South Asian security, grand strategy, and emerging and disruptive technologies. She serves as chair of Women of Color Advancing Peace, Security, and Conflict Transformation’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Policy Working Group and the Indian Women in International Relations Forum at Global Policy Insights. Mishra is an N-Square Innovators Network Fellow and a Mid-Career Cadre Scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. She serves on the Advisory Board for the Stimson Center’s UNSCR 1540 Assistance Support Initiative, is a Board Member of Atomic Reporters, and is a Steering Committee Member of OrgsInSolidarity. She was featured in the CSIS-Diversity in National Security 2021 US National Security & Foreign Affairs Leadership List.

Formerly, Mishra was an India-US Fellow at New America, Accelerator Initiative Fellow at the Stanley Center for Peace and Security, Scoville Fellow at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, Visiting Fellow at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Carnegie New Leader, and has worked in New Delhi at the Observer Research Foundation on India-US defense and security ties. Mishra holds a BA in political science from Hindu College, University of Delhi, an MSc in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an MA in nonproliferation and terrorism studies from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.