Rachel Stohl
Rachel Stohl (@rachelstohl) is the managing at the Stimson Center and directs the Center’s Conventional Defense Program. Her areas of expertise focus on issues relating to the international arms trade, including drones, small arms and light weapons, and children in armed conflict.
Prior to joining Stimson, Stohl was an Associate Fellow at Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, from 2009-2011. She was a Senior Analyst at the Center for Defense Information in Washington, D.C. from 1998-2009. Stohl has been a consultant for a variety of international organizations, including Oxfam, Project Ploughshares, SIPRI, the Small Arms Survey, and World Vision. She served as a Scoville Fellow at the British American Security Information Council in D.C. and worked at the United Nations Center for Disarmament Affairs in New York and at the Program for Arms Control, Disarmament, and Conversion in Monterey, CA. Stohl is an adjunct professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University.
Stohl was the consultant to the U.N. ATT process from 2010-2013 and was previously the consultant to the U.N. Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on the Arms Trade Treaty in 2008 and the U.N. Register for Conventional Arms in 2009.
She is co-author of two books, The International Arms Trade(Polity Press, 2009) and The Beginners Guide to the Small Arms Trade (Oneworld Publishing, 2009).
Stohl holds an M.A. in international policy studies from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and an honors B.A. in political science and German from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Articles by this author:
At 100 Days, Grading Biden’s Progress Toward a More Responsible US Arms Trade Policy
by Jeff Abramson, Annie Shiel, Seth Binder, William Hartung, Rachel Stohl, Adam Isacson and Daniel R. Mahanty
Apr 28th, 2021
Toward A More Responsible US Arms Trade Policy: Recommendations for the Biden-Harris Administration
by Annie Shiel, Seth Binder, Jeff Abramson, William Hartung, Rachel Stohl, Diana Ohlbaum, Adam Isacson, Brittany Benowitz and Daniel R. Mahanty
Jan 19th, 2021
Yes, Congress, There Is Something You Can Do About Reckless Arms Sales
by Diana Ohlbaum and Rachel Stohl
Jun 9th, 2020
An “Emergency” Arms Deal: Will Congress Acquiesce in Another Blow to Its Authority?
by Diana Ohlbaum and Rachel Stohl
Jun 6th, 2019