Berkley Center

James Timbie is an Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. As a U.S. State Department senior advisor (1983-2016) he played a central role in the negotiation of the INF and START nuclear arms reductions agreements, the purchase from Russia of enriched uranium extracted from dismantled nuclear weapons for electricity production in the United States, and the establishment of an international enriched uranium fuel bank. Most recently he was the lead United States expert in the negotiation of the nuclear agreement with Iran.