Dr Tanya Ogilvie-White began her career at the Mountbatten Centre for International Studies, UK, working with one of the world’s leading experts on the nuclear non-proliferation regime, Professor John Simpson, OBE. Before joining ANU, she was a senior analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, Canberra; Stanton nuclear security fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London; and senior lecturer in international relations at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. She is an international advisor to the New Zealand Centre for Global Studies, a member of the Council on Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific, and Associate Editor of the US-based journal, Asian Security.

Her recent publications include: Australia and the Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Initiative: Difficult Times for Disarmament Diplomacy, Slaying the Nuclear Dragon: Disarmament Dynamics in the Twenty-First Century; and On Nuclear Deterrence: The Correspondence of Sir Michael Quinlan.