ROSE GOTTEMOELLER
Rose Gottemoeller is the Steven C. Házy Lecturer at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and its Center for
International Security and Cooperation.
Before joining Stanford, Gottemoeller was the Deputy Secretary General of NATO from 2016 to 2019, where she helped to drive forward NATO’s adaptation to new security challenges in Europe and in the fight against terrorism.
Prior to NATO, she served for nearly five years as the Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security at the U.S. Department of State, advising the Secretary of State on arms control, nonproliferation and political-military affairs. While Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, Verification and Compliance in 2009 and 2010, she was the chief U.S. negotiator of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with the Russian Federation. Her experience
is described in a memoir, Negotiating the New START Treaty, recently
published by Cambria Press.
Prior to her government service, she was a senior associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, with
joint appointments to the Nonproliferation and Russia programs. She served as the Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center
from 2006 to 2008, and is currently a nonresident fellow in Carnegie's Nuclear Policy Program. She is also a research
fellow at the Hoover Institution.