Biography

Erika Simpson (PhD and MA, University of Toronto) is an Associate Professor of International Relations at Western University, London, Canada and the President of the Canadian Peace Research Association (CPRA). Her research interests are in international security and North American foreign and defence policy, particularly arms control, disarmament, nuclear proliferation, nuclear waste, and peacekeeping. She is the author of NATO and the Bomb (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001) and her articles have appeared in leading journals including Brown Journal of Global Affairs; International Journal; In Victus Pax: Journal of Peace Education and Social Justice; Peace Magazine; Peace Research; Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice; and Policy Options. She is a national syndicated columnist for the Postmedia Network, Canada’s largest digital and newspaper chain, and a frequent commentator on Canada’s CTV Television News. She serves as a Director on the Board of the Canadian Pugwash Group; a Senior Advisor for the Rideau Institute; an invited Consultant for the Nuclear Abolition Forum; and a Peer Reviewer for the Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health. Formerly she was an Alton Jones Fellow; a Barton Fellow; a Liu Institute Visiting Fellow; a NATO Research Fellow; and the Treasurer and Vice- Chair of the Canadian Pugwash Group. In 2015 the Voice of Women–Canada awarded her the ‘Shirley Farlinger Lifetime Achievement Award for Peace Writings.’ She is a Canadian citizen and a resident of London, Ontario, Canada (email: simpson@uwo.ca).