Andrew Newman is a Senior Spent Fuel Management Policy Analyst at Idaho National Laboratory, where he is a Control Account Manager supporting the Department of Energy's Office of Collaborative Based Siting (NE-83). The mission of NE-83 is to facilitate the identification and implementation of sites for nuclear waste management facilities through collaborative, transparent and community-based approaches, fostering public trust and ensuring long-term sustainability of nuclear waste solutions.

With 24 years experience in the nuclear energy/waste policy and national security/international relations fields, Andrew Newman possesses extensive expertise in strategic planning, project development/execution (particularly the politics of facility siting) and partnership-building experience with governments, industry, non-profits, philanthropies and academia. His academic background includes stints at major universities and think tanks in the United States and Australia. He has held positions such as Co-Convenor of, and Adjunct Research Associate at, Monash University's Global Terrorism Research Unit/Center, Course Coordinator/Lecturer in Monash University's School of Political and Social Inquiry, and Victorian Parliamentary Internship Coordinator in the University of Melbourne's Department of Political Science. He was a Senior Non-Resident Scholar at the Institute for International Science and Technology in George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs and a Short-Term Visiting Scholar with the Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Before joining INL's Used Fuel Management Department, Andrew Newman was Senior Director for Nuclear Fuel Cycle Activities at the Nuclear Threat Initiative in Washington, DC where he led a collaborative partnership amongst nuclear waste managers from Australia, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the United States that operationalized an Underground Research Lab R&D Working Group and a Siting Working Group. Prior to NTI, he was a Research Associate at the Project on Managing the Atom, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Earlier in his career, Andrew was the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization's Assistant Counsellor at the Australian Embassy in Washington, DC, Senior Project and Research Officer at the Victorian (Australia) Department of Justice's Office of the Emergency Services Commissioner and an Associate at the Russian American Nuclear Security Advisory Council in Washington, DC. 

Andrew Newman holds a PhD in political science from Monash University in Australia. He has authored or co-authored articles in peer-reviewed publications including the Journal of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology, Journal of Nuclear Materials Management, Journal of Policy History, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, The Nonproliferation Review, The Journal of Strategic Studies and Contemporary Security Policy. Andrew lead-authored the book Decision-making and Radioactive Waste Disposal (Routledge, 2016) and has presented at numerous conferences and workshops in the US and internationally.

• Nuclear waste management and nuclear energy policy
• Politics of facility siting
• Nuclear security/proliferation