Dr. Jim Walsh is an internationally renowned expert on nuclear weapons, terrorism, negotiation, and media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is one of a handful of Americans who has traveled both to North Korea and to Iran for discussions on the nuclear issue. Dr. Walsh has taught at Harvard University as well as MIT, has testified before the US Senate on Iran and on the issue of nuclear terrorism, regularly lectures for senior officers in the Department of Defense, and has advised the highest levels of the US government.

As a speaker, Dr. Walsh is best known for his interactive style, his storytelling, humor and his ability to take complex issues and explain them in everyday terms. He has spoken to a wide range of audiences, from colleges to business groups, from Congressional staffers to high school students, from Rotary Clubs and religious organizations to the military and veterans. He has also lectured in more than a dozen countries. He combines an insider’s knowledge of some of the most sensitive issues in the world today with the often funny and bizarre encounters he has had with presidents and prime ministers, movie stars and the media.

Since 2001, Dr. Walsh has made over 850 television appearances on Fox, CNN, and National Public Radio. His comments and analysis have appeared in the New York Times, New York Review of Books, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Financial Times, Time, Newsweek, US News and World Report, the Atlantic, the Economist, “MTV,”and international media in more than 30 countries. His film credits include Testament (Paramount Pictures, 2004), Meltdown (FX channel, 2004), and Fortress Australia (Australia Broadcast Corporation, 2002).

Dr. Walsh’s recent publications include “Sanctions Can’t Be the Centerpiece,” in the New York Times and “How to Deal with Iran” with Thomas Pickering and William Luers in the New York Review of Books. His new book, Dangerous Myths: North Korea, the United States, and the Future of Asia, will be published by Yale University Press early next year.

Before coming to MIT, Dr. Walsh was Executive Director of the “Managing the Atom” at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and a visiting scholar at the Center for Global Security Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of the three US nuclear weapons labs. Dr. Walsh received his Ph.D in International Security from MIT and his B.A. from Brown University.