This week’s conversation is with Ross Matzkin-Bridger, Senior Advisor for The Nuclear Scaling Initiative and Senior Director for NTI’s Nuclear Materials Security Program. In these roles, he works at the nexus of clean energy and security, leading efforts to strengthen nonproliferation norms, minimize inventories of weapons-usable nuclear materials, and promote solutions for nuclear waste.
Previously, he’s held high level positions with the U.S. Department of Energy, where he coordinated policies and programs with global partners across a diverse set of government equities, ranging from clean energy and decarbonization to supply chains and security; the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo; and at the National Nuclear Security Administration, where he was responsible for negotiating agreements and managing projects to remove weapons-usable nuclear material from vulnerable locations around the world. From 2010-2016, he helped eliminate over 1,000 kilograms of highly enriched uranium and plutonium from 10 countries.