Leonor TomeroSenior Vice President, Government Relations |
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Leonor Tomero is a leading expert on nuclear deterrence, national security space and missile defense, including applying innovative technologies and concepts for strategic deterrence. She is Senior Vice-President for Government Relations at JA Green & Company where she works with companies bringing innovation to defense.
She was a Commissioner on the congressional 2023 Commission on America’s Strategic Posture to assess the requirements and make recommendations to enhance U.S. deterrence. In 2021, Ms. Tomero served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear and Missile Defense Policy where she was responsible for the United States’ nuclear deterrence policy, arms control and missile defense policy, and chaired the Missile Defense Review and Nuclear Posture Review. Prior to this role, she served for over a decade as Counsel and Strategic Forces Subcommittee Staff Lead on the House Armed Services Committee covering strategic forces issues, including military space and related intelligence assets and establishment of the U.S. Space Force, nuclear weapons and deterrence, nuclear non-proliferation, arms control, nuclear clean-up, missile defense, hypersonics and strategic stability issues. Subsequently, she founded and owns LeoSpace LLC consulting company, to support transformational capabilities that enable rapid acquisition and resilient deterrence. She was a Visiting Lecturer teaching a course on nuclear deterrence at Princeton University in fall 2023, and is Chair of the National Security Space Association’s Program on Education and Early Workforce Development. |