Dr Patricia Lewis

Dr Patricia Lewis is an independent expert on international security, focusing primarily on arms control and disarmament. Lewis is a member of the EEAS Space Advisory Board and is Co-Chair of the Scientific Advisory Group for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Previously, she was the Research Director for International Security at Chatham House, the Deputy Director and Scientist-in-Residence at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute, and the Director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research and Director of Verification Research, Training and Information Centre (VERTIC). She was a Commissioner on the 2014–16 Global Commission on Internet Governance and served on the 2010–11 Advisory Panel on Future Priorities of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the 2004–2006 Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission. She was also an Advisor to the 2008–10 International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament. Lewis received Ireland’s Presidential Distinguished Service Award in 2023 and the the American Physical Society’s Joseph A. Burton Forum Award in 2009 for her ‘outstanding contributions to the public understanding or resolution of physics’.