Shatabhisha Shetty is the Executive Director of the Asia Pacific Leadership Network. She is a co-founder of the European Leadership Network (ELN), serving as Deputy Director for over 10 years before joining APLN. She is a member of the ELN Executive Board. Her research interests include arms control, strategic risk reduction, and global disarmament diplomacy, and has written and spoken internationally on an array of defense and nuclear-related issues. Before establishing the European Leadership Network, Shata worked at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI) in London in 2009; in the press and parliamentary affairs team of the British Council's London headquarters from 2007-2008; and at the European Commission's Directorate-General for Information Society & Media in 2005. Between 2005 and 2009, worked for three separate Members of Parliament (MP and MSPs) in the UK Parliament and the Scottish Parliament. Educated at University College London, she has a Masters in International Public Policy and graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science in 2004.