Kate Walsh

 

Kathleen (Kate) Walsh is a Senior Associate at the Henry L. Stimson Center, a private, independent, nonpartisan, foreign and national security policy research institution in Washington, DC.

She is currently director of a new initiative, the Stimson Center Fellowship in China for international security experts, and is working on a year-long study analyzing "Foreign High-Tech Research and Development in the PRC:  Implications for US-China Relations."  Ms. Walsh is also working to develop several new projects that address the nexis of issues linking technology, trade, and international security.

Most recently, Ms. Walsh served as Senior Technical Advisor and Analyst for the Study Group on Enhancing Multilateral Export Controls for US National Security, which completed its work in April 2001, resulting in a bipartisan, consensus report on how to reform multilateral export controls to better serve US national security interests in the 21st century.

Previously, she was Senior Associate at DFI International, a private defense consulting firm based in Washington, DC.  Walsh was the principal investigator for several US Government-funded studies analyzing new ideas for reforming US export controls, implications for US-China relations from deployment of national and theater ballistic missile defense programs, foreign commercial technology transfers to China, and Chinese science and technology development policies.

Prior to DFI, Ms. Walsh worked at the Stimson Center as Research Associate on China for the Program on Confidence-building Measures in Regions of Tension, helping to establish the China program and arranging the first Stimson Center visit to the PRC.   Her extensive background in US-China relations and Asian regional security includes research assistance to the US Department of State, the National Committee on US-China Relations, the East Asian Institute at Columbia University, and the American Enterprise Institute.

Ms. Walsh is the author of numerous articles, op-eds, reports, briefings, and congressional testimonies.  In addition to overseas studies in the PRC and France, she has a Master of Arts in International Security Policy from the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University and a B.A. in International Affairs from the Elliott School of International Affairs of George Washington University.