Zara Rizvi joined BASIC in September 2016 to support the daily office operations and to help develop our communications strategy.

Policy Fellow
Strategic Stability | Cybersecurity | Emerging Technologies
Eva-Nour Repussard is a Policy Fellow at BASIC, where they work on the Nuclear Responsibilities and the Risk Reduction programmes. Prior to that, Eva-Nour was a Project and Research Assistant at SCRAP Weapons, co-coordinating the strategic stability project.
They hold a MA from King’s College London in Intelligence and International Security and a BA (Hons) in International Relations from the University of Birmingham and Fudan University in Shanghai.
Eva-Nour’s expertise is on the cyber-nuclear nexus. They notably have spoken at the EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Conference on strategic risks associated to the cyber-nuclear nexus, at the ISYP Third Nuclear Age Conference, at the EUNPDC Next Generation Workshop on the actors in the cyberspace during Russia’s War against Ukraine, and at CSIS PONI Winter Conference on how cyberattacks threaten deterrence.
Their latest article, ‘Cyber-Nuclear Nexus: How Uncertainty Threatens Deterrence‘ published by CSIS PONI, explore how cyberattacks on nuclear weapons and their delivery systems pose a threat to second-strike certainty and therefore nuclear deterrence.
Discover below Eva-Nour’s posts ordered from newest to oldest
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Zara Rizvi joined BASIC in September 2016 to support the daily office operations and to help develop our communications strategy.
Nick researches and teaches in the areas of international relations and international security at the University of York. His particular…
A. Vinod Kumar is Associate Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), and a Visiting Faculty at the Institute of…
Norman Moss is an author, journalist and broadcaster. He was born in London in 1928 but was raised and educated partly in New York.
Anthony V. Rinna is a Senior Editor with Sino-NK, a research organization dedicated to analyzing Northeast Asia. Formerly trained as an…
Rebecca Cousins was BASIC’s Programme Director for the Next Gen project. Prior to that, she was a diplomat in the British Foreign and…
Rachel Staley Grant joined NTI in August 2016 and serves as the Director of Public Education. Between 2011 and 2016, Staley Grant…
Ted Seay is an independent arms control and disarmament consultant currently based in London. He was assigned to the U.S. Mission to…
Dr Ian Kearns is the co-Founder of the European Leadership Network and serves on the ELN’s Board of Directors. Dr Kearns served as…
Anne Penketh was BASIC Program Director in Washington from 2009 to 2012. Previously she was a staff journalist with major media…
Tim recently completed his PhD exploring the politics of nuclear disarmament at Warwick University as part of a collaborative…
Lianet Vazquez was the Herbert Scoville Jr Peace Fellow at BASIC in 2014.
Tabitha Sanders is one of the organisers of #NatSecGirlSquad, a US initiative to support women working in National Security. She was a…
Nina Sofie Pedersen is a Researcher at BASIC. Her current responsibilities include researching and developing the Programme on…
Sir John Thomson was a British Diplomat who was High Commissioner to India and Ambassador to the UN. He served as adviser to BASIC.
Christina Pena was BASIC’s Analyst and Programme Manager.
Dr Ian Davis is an independent human security and arms control consultant, writer and founding director of NATO Watch…