Cindy Vestergaard is Senior Fellow and Director of the Nuclear Safeguards and Blockchain in Practice programs at the Stimson Center. Before joining Stimson in 2016, she was Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) in Copenhagen, Denmark. Prior to DIIS, she worked on non-proliferation, arms control, and disarmament policy and programming at Canada’s foreign ministry. She has a B.A. in international relations from the University of British Columbia, a M.A. in international relations and European Studies from Central European University (Budapest, Hungary), and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Copenhagen. She has taught M.A.-level courses on weapons of mass destruction (WMD) at the University of Copenhagen and regularly asked to speak internationally on nuclear, biological and chemical non-proliferation.