Shatabhisha Shetty is the Executive Director of the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN), one of the world's leading regional policy networks on nuclear risk reduction. She is responsible for APLN's strategic direction, research agenda, fundraising, and partnerships.

Under her leadership, APLN has grown in membership, geographic reach, and research impact. She co-directs major programmes on nuclear risk reduction, disruptive technologies and nuclear stability, maritime security, and sub-regional strategic risks across the Asia-Pacific. She has also built and sustained strategic partnerships with governments and organisations from across the Asia-Pacific and Euro-Atlantic.

Shata co-founded the European Leadership Network (ELN) in 2010 and served as its Deputy Director for a decade, building the organisation from the ground up into one of Europe's most respected security policy networks. Earlier in her career, she worked at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), where she established and ran the Top Level Group of UK Parliamentarians for Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, securing parliamentary debates in both the House of Commons and House of Lords on nuclear disarmament issues. She has also held positions at the British Council and the European Commission.

Her research interests focus on nuclear and conventional arms control, disarmament diplomacy, great power competition, and the intersection of emerging technologies with nuclear risk. She is a steering group member of the Belfer Center's "Rethinking Nuclear Deterrence" research network (Arms Control and Emerging Technologies working group), a project advisory board member of the University of Leicester's Third Nuclear Age project, and a co-founder and advisory board member of Women in International Security UK (WIIS-UK) and an advisory member of Women in International Security Australia (WIIS-A). She has published widely on nuclear policy and international security.

She holds an MSc in International Public Policy from University College London and a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.