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Matt Bowen is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center and a research scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University focusing on nuclear energy, waste, and nonproliferation policy. Previously, he was a nuclear policy fellow at the Clean Air Task Force, focusing on nuclear energy and nonproliferation topics. He also served as a senior policy fellow at the Nuclear Innovation Alliance, where he wrote reports on small modular reactors and nuclear export control reform. From 2015 to 2017, he was an associate deputy assistant secretary in the Office of Nuclear Energy at the US Department of Energy (DOE). Bowen was a senior advisor in the Office of Nonproliferation and Arms Control at the National Nuclear Security Administration from 2011 to 2015. Previous to working at DOE, he was an AAAS/APS science fellow for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. After receiving a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Washington, Seattle in 2006, Bowen came to Washington to work at the National Academies, where he was a program officer on the Board on Physics and Astronomy and the Board on Energy and Environmental Studies.