Speakers

Workshop Leaders

Mr. Brewer is a deputy director and senior fellow with the Project on Nuclear Issues at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He specializes in nuclear proliferation, Iran, and North Korea. Prior to joining CSIS, Mr. Brewer was a 2018-2019 Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs fellow at the Center for a New American Security.	Mr. Williams is a fellow at CSIS and deputy director of the Missile Defense Project, where he specializes in missile defense and strategic forces, missile proliferation, and deterrence. In 2017, Mr. Williams co-authored the major CSIS study Missile Defense 2020, an extensive analysis of U.S. homeland missile defense. Prior to joining CSIS, he was director of advocacy at the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance.
Major Formica commissioned in 2009 from West Point as an infantry lieutenant; during his service he deployed in support of Operations Enduring freedom, Atlantic Resolve, and Atlantic Sentry. He is a graduate of the Yale Jackson Institute where his studies focused on understanding the influence of social media usage on individual cognition and emotions and using those insights to try to predict extremist violence.

This list will be updated regularly as more speakers are confirmed.