Associate Editor: Laura Rose O'Connor

Laura O’Connor is a Junior Fellow & Associate - Research & Collaborations at the Council for Strategic and Defense Research. She has worked as a Senior Programme Officer and Research Coordinator at the Ottawa Dialogue, managing and researching Track Two dialogues across South Asia and the Middle East. She has also worked as a Policy Analyst for the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat. She sits on the Executive Board of the International Young Pugwash, an affiliate of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. Aside from policy work and Track Two, she has written and spoken on issues of reproductive justice, gender, and sexual health across North America, including in the Parliament of Canada. She is a graduate of the University of Ottawa.