Lindsay Rand

Lindsay Rand is a nonresident scholar in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and was a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at Carnegie in 2022-2023. She is also a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation.

Her research applies interdisciplinary methods to explore social, technical, and political dimensions of emerging technology innovation, with particular focus on consequences for nuclear force structure and arms control policymaking. Her current research looks at how discussions about emerging technologies broadly have contributed to the cyclical reconception of “vulnerability” in nuclear strategy and policymaking. In addition to nuclear policy, her research also evaluates quantum technology R&D policy and explores implications for international security.

Previously, Lindsay worked as an adjunct research associate at the RAND Corporation, a research associate at the Center for Global Security Research at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, a NSF fellow on the DHS Science and Technology Directorate quantum technology task force, and a research intern at the Naval Research Laboratory. She completed her PhD at the University of Maryland, where she was the instructor of record for an undergraduate nuclear policy course and the Catherine Kelleher research fellow at the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland.