Andrea Walther, Graduate Research Assistant

Andrea is a first year MALD student at The Fletcher School, where her current fields of study are international security and Southwest Asia. After graduating from Tufts University in 2002 with a degree in international relations, Andrea worked for a year and a half at the United Nations in New York. Her exposure there ranged from the Legal Research Department at the United States Mission to the UN, the Liechtenstein Mission to the UN, and the Secretariat Department of Political Affairs, Security Council Affairs Division. Her post-graduate international experience was with the U.S. Mission to the European Union in Brussels covering population, refugees, and migration issues. Andrea’s main work experience has been with the Council on Foreign Relations’ National Security Studies department. Her work focused on the issues of maritime transportation and supply-chain security, critical infrastructure protection, natural disasters, public-private partnerships, and catastrophic terrorism. In 2006, she was one of fifteen Americans selected by the German Marshall Fund to represent the U.S. in Germany, Poland, and Belgium for two weeks analyzing international security issues as a Manfred Wörner Fellow. This past year, Andrea worked for Mayor Cory Booker in the City of Newark, New Jersey, setting up an Office of Homeland Security for the city and merging the existing Office of Emergency Management there within.