Elizabeth Threlkeld is a Senior Fellow and Director of the South Asia Program at the Stimson Center based in Washington, D.C. Ms Threlkeld has been with Stimson since 2018 and previously served as the Program’s Deputy Director.  Her research interests include nuclear competition in Southern Asia, regional security dynamics, and geopolitics in the Asia-Pacific.

Before joining Stimson, she served as a Foreign Service Officer with the US Department of State in Islamabad and Peshawar, Pakistan, and Monterrey, Mexico. Ms Threlkeld previously worked in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, where she managed development interventions on gender-based violence and ethno-sectarian reconciliation. She has additional work and educational experience in China, Taiwan, and Türkiye, and began her career with the Asia-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security.