Jeff Abramson
Senior Fellow for Conventional Arms Control and Transfers, Arms Control Association (website)
Director, Forum on the Arms Trade 
twitter: @jeffabramson        
email: jeff [at] ForumArmsTrade [dot] org
phone: (202) 780-6215

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Jeff Abramson is a senior fellow for arms control and conventional arms transfers at the Washington DC-based Arms Control Association and also directs the Forum on the Arms Trade. Prior to re-joining the Arms Control Association in September 2019, he managed the Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor, the de facto monitoring regime for the Mine Ban Treaty and Convention on Cluster Munitions. Immediately prior to joining the Monitor, he served as a policy advisor and director to the secretariat of Control Arms, the global civil society alliance that championed the adoption of the Arms Trade Treaty that for the first time established global regulations for the trade in a wide array of conventional weapons. He is former Deputy Director of the Arms Control Association and Managing Editor of their publication Arms Control Today. An arms trade expert, his work has been published in numerous journals and comments cited by major US and global media.

Recent Publications:

• "Nations Laud Landmine Removal," Arms Control Today, December 2020.
  
• ​"Biden should embrace the humanitarian disarmament agenda," Defense News, November 11, 2020.
• "Process Changes Offered as Arms Sales Rise," Arms Control Today, November 2020.
• "ATT Takes on Arms Diversion," and "Inspector General Reviews U.S. Arms Sales," Arms Control Today, September 2020.
• "One hundred days later, Esper still must explain landmine policy reversal," The Hill, August 14, 2020.
• "Civil Society Letter on Humanitarian Disarmament Advocates Path Ahead." Arms Control Now blog, August 11, 2020.
• "A proven model for human-centered international security exists. Let’s use it," Responsible Statecraft, July 2, 2020.
• "U.S. Arms Deals Continue During Pandemic," Arms Control Today, June 2020.
• "Lawmakers Press Esper on Landmine Policy," Arms Control Today, June 2020.
• "Why are we continuing to sell arms to repressive regimes amid a pandemic?" Responsible Statecraft, May 15, 2020.
• "U.S. Fuels Growing Arms Trade Market" Arms Control Today, April 2020.
• "Firearms Export Changes Partially Blocked," Arms Control Today, April 2020.
• "U.S. to Allow Expanded Landmine Use," Arms Control Today, March 2020.
• "Controversial Firearms Rules Published," Arms Control Today, March 2020.
• "Senator Refreshes Hold on Firearms Export Changes," Arms Control Today, January/February 2020.
• "Move Signaled for Firearm Exports Changes," Arms Control Today," December 4, 2019.
• "Trump administration's dangerous plan to make it easier to export assault weapons," CNN, November 18, 2019.
• "Democrats Should Debate Arms Policy, Not Just Impeachment," Defense One, November 18, 2019.
• "Explosive Weapons Declaration Gains Momentum," Arms Control Today, November 2019.
• “Saudi Arms Sales Hit Hurdles in U.S., UK,” Arms Control Today, July/August 2019.*​

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