Interview: Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins on 8 years of Combating WMD Terrorism

This interview on 80,000 Hours focuses on Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins’ time as Ambassador at the U.S. Department of State under the Obama administration, where she worked for eight years as Coordinator for Threat Reduction Programs in the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation.

Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins has had an incredible career in diplomacy and global security. Today she’s a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and president of Global Connections Empowering Global Change, where she works on global health, infectious disease and defense innovation.

Ambassador Jenkins discusses a range of topics including the State Department’s role in Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction, the implementation of the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA), and the Biological Weapons Convention.

The 80,000 Hours Podcast is produced by Keiran Harris. A transcript of the podcast and links to resources mentioned in the interview are available here.