Matthew Bunn

[2] Before coming to Harvard, Bunn served as an adviser to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 1994-1996.

[3] Bunn directed the secret 1995 study on nuclear security from the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).

This study served as the basis for Presidential Decision Directive 41 (1995) which established U.S. government policies for securing nuclear materials.

(The creation of what is now the Office of Materials Disposition was announced the day after the report was released.

[10] Bunn, Wier, and John Holdren, formerly President Obama’s science advisor, first proposed combining U.S. efforts to convert research reactors and remove HEU into a single program, which became the Global Threat Reduction Initiative.