Biography

Sarah Erickson is a Research Assistant for the Space Security and WMD Programmes at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR).

She holds a dual master's degree from the Middleburry Institute of International Studies at Monterey and Moscow State Institute of International Relations in WMD Nonproliferation, Nuclear Policy and Global Security. Her research focuses on the political and legal implications of arms proliferation in outer space, the nuclear-space security nexus, and the history and future development of global space policies and strategies.

She has worked with the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, the Russian Center for Policy Research (PIR Center), and the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Nonproliferation. Sarah was a fellow for both the IAEA Marie-Sklodowska Curie Fellowship and Fulbright Fellowship programmes and has received a master's degree in Russian Linguistics, Literature, and Language from the University of Arizona.