Chelsea Mai

Chelsea Mai is a Research Assistant at UNIDIR’s Space Security Programme and UNIDIR’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Programme. 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 in the UK, the University of Trento in Italy, and Charles University in the Czech Republic, and a bachelor’s in International Relations from the University of the West Indies in Jamaica.

She is fluent in English.