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Tom Hickey is a Policy Officer in Energy Security at the Department of Environment, Climate, and Communications. Previously, he worked as Desk Officer in the Middle East section of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, and at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) as a Project Assistant for the Middle East WMD-free zone project. He holds a master’s degree in Non-proliferation and Terrorism Studies from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, and a master’s degree in International Relations from the Moscow State Institute for International Relations (MGIMO). He specialized in international security, specifically on arms control, non-proliferation and strategic technologies.