Ali Nouri *06 MOL
Lecturer, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Ali Nouri was a deputy assistant to President Joseph Biden and deputy director of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs. Previously, he was nominated by the president and confirmed by the U.S. Senate as an assistant secretary in the Department of Energy, where he led the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs. Prior to joining the Biden administration, Nouri was the president of the Federation of American Scientists, a public policy organization focused on countering WMDs, addressing emerging infectious diseases, and crafting policy solutions to science, technology and national security challenges. He served on U.S. Senate staff as a science and technology fellow, an energy and environment adviser, a national security adviser and a legislative director. He has also served as an adviser to the office of former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, where he developed initiatives to block applications of biotechnology toward biological weapons. He earned a B.A. in biology from Reed College and a Ph.D. in molecular biology from Princeton.