Chanel Chauvet-Maldonado is an international lawyer working within the Nuclear Nonproliferation Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) as a Nuclear Nonproliferation Regulatory Specialist. She works to mitigate risks of supply chain security interruptions of high consequence materials worldwide by staying ahead of the next-generation adversary. Her specialty involves analyzing emergent legal and policy issues, in addition to developing and delivering trainings to foreign governments related to the nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear security and safeguards, sanctions law, and export controls. She also provides capacity-building programs, foreign technical recommendations, and regulatory best practices to improve national legislative frameworks of foreign governments for the security and nonproliferation of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) weapons and materials.
Prior to joining ORNL, she worked as a Nonproliferation Policy and Law Analyst on the Legal Frameworks Team at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. She also served as the Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office at Geneva on behalf of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists where she advocated before the Human Rights Council and liaised with foreign stakeholders in high-level discussions. Prior to that, she worked in the Law and Policy Forum at the International Committee of the Red Cross headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, developing the case study supplement accompanying the ICRC’s Guidance Tool on International Humanitarian Law for the Judicial Sector. She also clerked for Honorable Chief Judge Tusan of Fulton County's Superior Court in Atlanta, Georgia, up until her retirement.
Chauvet-Maldonado earned her Master of Laws in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights from the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights in Switzerland, along with a certificate in the same from The Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies of Leiden Law School in The Hague, Netherlands. She also holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Georgia School of Law in the United States.
Chauvet-Maldonado is licensed to practice law and is an active member of the Washington, D.C. Bar and the State Bar of Georgia.
In her free time, she enjoys cooking, playing sports, reading, and traveling.
