Center for Strategic and International Studies, Inc. (CSIS) announced that Thomas C. Moore has joined as Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of the CSIS Proliferation Prevention Program. Moore joins CSIS from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), where he served on the Committee's professional staff for Senator Richard G. Lugar (R-IN) from 2003 to 2013. During this time, he was the senior Republican adviser for all nonproliferation matters.

Center for Strategic and International Studies, Inc. announced the launch of the CSIS-Pennington Family Foundation Series on Disasters and Community Resilience. Made possible in part with support from Walmart, the CSIS-Pennington Series is a forum for government officials, experts, academics, philanthropists, nongovernmental organizations, and business and community leaders to discuss strengthening the resilience of communities in disaster-prone areas from the perspectives of different sectors, including philanthropy, business, and policy. Disasters cost the world more than $380 billion in 2011, making it the most costly year on record in terms of damage. As disasters continue to affect nations across the globe, decimating homes and livelihoods, it is important to explore not only community disaster readiness but also short-term disaster assistance as well as the long-term efforts vital for the resilience of affected communities. Series events will take place quarterly and will touch upon such topics as: How to move toward more effective philanthropic efforts to support community resilience through cross-sector coordination; the role of business and private industry in disaster preparedness; supply chain and private sector resilience and crisis leadership for disaster resilience. The series will launch on December 13, 2012.

Center for Strategic and International Studies, Inc. announced that Scott Miller, former director of global trade policy at Procter and Gamble, has joined CSIS as the new William M. Scholl Chair in International Business. Mr. Miller succeeds Meredith Broadbent, who has been appointed to the International Trade Commission. Ms. Broadbent had served CSIS as Scholl Chair since 2010. In his role as director of global trade policy at Procter and Gamble, Mr. Miller led numerous business coalition campaigns for free trade agreements and founded US Trade, the U.S. private sectors communications platform at World Trade Organization ministerial meetings.