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Bonnie D. Jenkins

Ms. Jenkins is a Ph.D. candidate in international relations at the University of

Virginia in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics. She is currently a Pre-doctoral
Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) at the John F.
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. She has a joint appointment with
the International Security Program and the Managing the Atom Project. She is a member
of the Managing the Atom's Radiological Weapons Working Group and the BCSIA
United States and Russian Nonproliferation Working Group.

Ms. Jenkins served as a Research Associate at the RAND Institute, Summer 2001,
in Washington,. D.C. She was assigned to the National Security Division,.specifically
working on Middle East security issues. From November 1999 - March-2001, Ms.
Jenkins was at the U.S. Department of State in the Office of Policy Planning where she
served as Assistant Director of the Kosovo History Project. During this time Ms. Jenkins
was also a Research Fellow for the Kosovo Oral History Project at the Miller Center at
the University of Virginia.

From November 1999 - February 2000, Ms. Jenkins served as a Consultant with
the U.S. National Commission on Terrorism. From December 1998 - September 1999,
Ms. Jenkins served as General Counsel with the U.S. Commission to Assess the
Organization of the Federal Government to Combat Proliferation of Weapons of Mass
Destruction. Ms. Jenkins received an award for Exceptional Performance.

Ms. Jenkins was an Attorney-Advisor at the Arms Control and Disarmament

Agency in the Office of the General Counsel (now the U.S. Department of State Office of
the Legal Advisor for Arms Control) from 1991-1998. Some of the treaties she served as
U.S. legal advisor include the Biological Weapons Convention, the Chemical Weapons
Convention, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the Open Skies Treaty and the
Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty. She provided advice on the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe and the UN Convention on Nuclear Terrorism. Ms.
Jenkins received the following awards: the Outstanding Service Award in 1999; the
Superior Performance Award in 1996; and Meritorious Awards in 1992 and 1998.

In 1988, Ms Jenkins was selected as an intern with the Presidential Management

Internship (PMI) program. As an intern, Ms. Jenkins worked at the following offices:
Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), Office of the General Counsel; Strategic
Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) ; Office of the General Counsel; OSD Office of
Strategic Defense Policy; and the Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General.
She also served as a budget analyst at the Office of Management and Budget.
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Ms. Jenkins currently co-instructs an arms control negotiations simulation to

college students at Stanford University every January. From 1996 - 1999, Ms. Jenkins
was an Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center in the graduate
international and comparative law department. She taught a course titled, "Arms Control
and Disarmament Seminar." Ms. Jenkins has published several articles on arms control,
nonproliferation and international law and has made several presentations on these topics.

Ms. Jenkins is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and The

International Institute for Strategic Studies. In 2000, Ms. Jenkins was selected as a U.S.
Representative to the Aspen Institute's Mediterranean Young Leaders Seminar in Berlin,
Germany. She also holds leadership positions in the American Bar Association's Section
of International Law and Practice.

Ms. Jenkins is a U.S. Naval Reservist. She received a Direct Commission in 1990
as an intelligence officer. Her current rank is Lieutenant Commander. She is assigned to a
unit that supports the Director of Naval Intelligence at the Pentagon. Ms. Jenkins has
received several awards: the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation -Medal; the
intelligence Junior Officer of the Year award at the unit and regional levels and from the
Commander, Naval Reserve Intelligence Command; the Junior Officer of the Year at the
national level; and the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal. In 2000, Ms.
Jenkins was selected as a U.S. Representative to the Interallied Confederation of Reserve
Officers (CIOR), an international umbrella of NATO and Partnership for Peace national
reservists' associations.

Ms. Jenkins received several fellowships in pursuit of her Ph.D.: The Eisenhower
Roberts Graduate Fellowship, The Eisenhower World Affairs Institute; The University of
Virginia Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship; The Institute for the Study of World
Polities' Dorothy Danforth Compton Fellowship; and The Virginia Commonwealth
Graduate Fellowship. Ms. Jenkins received a LL.M. in international and comparative law
from the Georgetown University Law Center. She attended classes in public international
law at The Hague Academy of International Law. Ms. Jenkins earned a J.D. from Albany
Law School where she received an academic scholarship. She also received an MPA
from the State University of New York at Albany, Nelson A. Rockefeller College of
Public Affairs and Policy. Ms. Jenkins received an academic scholarship from the
College and was selected as a Rockefeller School Honor Graduate. She received a B.A. in
psychology and black studies from Amherst College and received the Charles Hamilton
Houston Fellowship.

Ms. Jenkins is a member of the New York State Bar.