Wilfred Wan is a researcher at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR). He has published on topics such as nuclear risk, sanctions, and the global non-proliferation regime and is the author of Regional Pathways to Nuclear Nonproliferation (University of Georgia Press, 2018).
Wan was previously a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science–United Nations University (UNU) Postdoctoral Fellow with the UNU Centre for Policy Research in Tokyo, and a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow with the International Security Programme and the Project on Managing the Atom at the Harvard Belfer Center. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of California, Irvine.