Hannah Kelley

Policy Advisor, National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology (NSCEB)

Former Research Associate, Technology and National Security Program

Hannah Kelley is a former Research Associate with the Technology and National Security Program at CNAS. Her work at the Center focused on U.S. national technology strategy and international cooperation on responsible technology use. Kelley launched and ran the CNAS Task Force on Biotechnology and American Competitiveness. She now works as a policy advisor on the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology (NSCEB).

Before joining CNAS, Kelley interned with the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations. While there, Kelley covered the Mission’s Security Council portfolios on nuclear nonproliferation, information and communications technologies in U.N. peacekeeping missions, and country-specific developments in Afghanistan, Haiti, and Yemen. Prior, Kelley interned with the International Rescue Committee (IRC Atlanta), providing direct client services to refugee and asylee families, as well as with the U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration, U.S. Commercial Service (Atlanta), supporting southeastern export compliance and conducting market research.

Kelley has published articles in Foreign Affairs, POLITICO Magazine, The Diplomat, and the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, and her commentary has been cited in The Wall Street Journal, CBS News, POLITICO, The Hill, The Straits Times, Voice of America, National Journal, National Defense, and The Ruck.

Kelley holds both a master of international policy and a bachelor of arts in international affairs from the University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs.