Phillip Schell

Phillip Schell is a Researcher with the SIPRI Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Programme. Before joining SIPRI in September 2011, his assignments included NATO’s Emerging Security Challenges Division, Weapons of Mass Destruction Centre and the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. He has also worked with the International Atomic Energy Agency and International Crisis Group. He holds a Master of Arts in International Policy Studies and Nonproliferation from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and a Bachelor’s degree in Area Studies China and Political Science from Cologne University. Mr. Schell has lived in China for two years, including a one year enrollment at Tsinghua University and gained advanced fluency in Chinese during his stays in China.