Sahil V. Shah is a Senior Fellow for Nuclear Policy at the Institute for Security and Technology, where he heads the Andrew Carnegie AI-Nuclear Policy Accelerator and serves as a senior advisor to the CATALINK Project. He also is a Senior Policy Advisor on Nuclear Risk Reduction to the Swiss Delegation to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), which is a delegation he has served on since the 2022 NPT Review Conference.

Sahil previously was a Senior Fellow and Program Manager at the Council on Strategic Risks’ (CSR) Janne E. Nolan Center on Strategic Weapons and a Policy Fellow and Senior Iran Policy Advisor at the European Leadership Network (ELN). In his roles at IST, CSR, and the ELN, he has advised senior government officials and convened international security dialogues on arms control, deterrence, and wider strategic stability and security issues. He has also twice served as a Policy and Outreach Consultant to two Executive Secretaries of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO).

Recognizing the need to develop the next generation of arms control practitioners, Sahil launched and led the Stanford US-Russia Forum (SURF), the CTBTO Youth Group (CYG), and the CSR Nuclear Risk Reduction Fellowship. His contributions earned him the 2021 Gorbachev-Shultz Legacy Award as well as recognition as an Aspen Strategy Group Rising Leader and a UK Delegate to the P5 Young Professionals Network (YPN) on Strategic Affairs.

His work and commentaries have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, POLITICO, Foreign Policy, and more and he regularly provides commentary on nuclear security issues to international television and radio outlets. Sahil began his career working with former U.S. Secretary of Defense William J. Perry and former Secretary of State George Shultz, whose approach to building mutual security continues to shape his work.