Shane Ward is a candidate for the MA in Security Studies at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. His work and research focus on mitigating existential risk in national security, with a particular focus on the transatlantic region. He sits on the leadership team of International Student/Young Pugwash (ISYP), where he facilitates and engages in Track II dialogues and co-leads the group’s flagship project on the Third Nuclear Age, exploring threats at the cross-section of nuclear weapons, strategic non-nuclear weapons, climate change, and emerging technology. Shane has published multiple times in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and Nukes of Hazard and has spoken about the US-UK security relationship at CSIS's Project on Nuclear Issues. Alongside his roles with ISYP, he is part of BASIC’s Emerging Voices Network as well as the European Leadership Network’s Next-Gen NPT Advisory Committee and inaugural New European Voices on Existential Risk.

Most recently, Shane worked as a public relations associate at Kekst CNC in London, across a broad mandate of FTSE 100 and Global 500 companies in energy, science & innovation, cybersecurity, and public affairs. Prior to that, he worked as a transatlantic business development consultant at a boutique firm in New York, and as a policy and marketing consultant to the Department of Energy-funded National Offshore Wind Research & Development Consortium. Originally from the UK, Shane is a first-generation student. He holds a BA, cum laude, from Bates College and is a member of the Southern Maine chapter of Sigma Xi.

This summer, Shane interned with the National Security, Defense, and Aerospace Practice at Albright Stonebridge Group, where he focused on issues including AUKUS, NATO support for Ukraine, and defense procurement and acquisition in the private sector. He also concluded his time with CSIS PONI's Nuclear Scholars Initiative, publishing a research analysis on the new NATO strategy in the High North. The highlight of his summer was presenting that research to global military and government leaders at the U.S. Strategic Command's Deterrence Symposium in Omaha, NE in August.