Dr. Husbands is Director of the Committee on International Security and Arms Control of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS). She also served as the Director of the Development, Security, and Cooperation Division in the NAS Office of International Affairs. Previously, she was Director of the Academy's Project on Democratization and a Senior Research Associate for its Committee on International Conflict and Cooperation. Before joining the NAS, Dr. Husbands was Deputy Director of the Committee for National Security, a Washington, DC-based nongovernmental organization. She is a member of the Advisory Board of Women In International Security and a Fellow of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. Dr. Husbands has published widely on the topics of arms control, arms transfers, weapons proliferation, and international negotiations.