Chelsea Mai

Chelsea Mai is a Research Assistant in the Space Security and Weapons of Mass Destruction Programme at UNIDIR. Her research interests include weapons of mass destruction, space security governance, nuclear reversal, nuclear security and the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.

Prior to joining UNIDIR, Chelsea worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Belize, covering international security issues related to disarmament and arms control. She was also a Visiting Fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, California, where she conducted research on nuclear security in the Caribbean region.

Chelsea holds an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s in Security, Intelligence, and Strategic Studies from the University of Glasgow (UK), the University of Trento (Italy), and Charles University (Czech Republic), and a Bachelor’s in International Relations from the University of the West Indies in Jamaica.

She is fluent in English.