Nataly Spears has been a Project Leader with Global Affairs Canada’s Weapons Threat Reduction Program (WTRP) since 2005. She initially worked on chemical weapons destruction programming and was temporarily posted at the Canadian Embassy in The Hague, Netherlands (2014), where she engaged with the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). Since 2016, she has been primarily focused on the delivery of biological security programming, with an emphasis on Africa and Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) issues.