Non-Resident Fellow
Mark Goodman served for 30 years as a U.S. government policy expert and a leading practitioner of multilateral nuclear nonproliferation diplomacy. Most recently, he was Senior Scientist in the State Department’s Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, where he supported and took part in every NPT Review Conferences since 2000. He led U.S. planning for and participation in the 2023 Working Group on further strengthening the NPT review process. Goodman has long experience in working with the IAEA, leading the U.S. Support Program for IAEA safeguards, spearheading efforts to increase the IAEA budget, and promoting the Additional Protocol and the State Level Concept. He also has long experience in addressing critical nuclear policy issues around the world, ranging from nuclear testing in South Asia in 1998 to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Goodman also played a hand in various multilateral nuclear disarmament and verification initiatives, including proposals for a Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty, the Trilateral Initiative for IAEA verification of excess fissile material, and the P5 process. He helped launch the International Partnership for Nuclear Disarmament Verification and the initiative on Creating an Environment for Nuclear Disarmament. Goodman worked at the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration from 2006-2009, where he led the nonproliferation elements of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership and helped revitalize the DOE’s international safeguards program.
Goodman began his U.S. government career at the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, where he was responsible for nuclear export control and peaceful nuclear cooperation. He earned a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
