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25th Workshop of the Pugwash Study Group on the Implementation of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Conventions:
Towards a Successful Outcome for the Sixth Review Conference
Geneva, Switzerland, 18-19 November 2006
Workshop Report | Participants | Papers

Participant List

Dr. David Atwood (USA)
Representative, Disarmament and Peace, Quaker United Nations Office, Geneva, Switzerland

Dr. Eitan Barak (Israel)
Lecturer, The Department of International Relations, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; Adjunct Lecturer, The Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University

Dr. Maurizio Barbeschi (Italy)
Dept of Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response (EPR), World Health Organization, Geneva

Amb. Serguei Batsanov (Russia)
Director, Geneva Office of International Pugwash; Member, Pugwash CBW Steering Committee

Mr. Raffaele de Benedictis (Italy)
Deputy Permanent Representative of Italy to the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva.

Amb. Bernhard Brasack (Germany)
Permanent Representative of Germany to the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva

Dr. Vladimir S. Bundin (Russia)
Senior Counsellor, Department of Security & Disarmament Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Moscow

Col. (ret.) Pierre Canonne (France)
Member, Pugwash Council

Dr. May Chu (USA)
Dept of Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response (EPR), World Health Organization, Geneva

Dr. Ottorino Cosivi (Italy)
Dept of Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response (EPR), World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva

Dr. Robin Coupland (UK)
Medical Advisor, Legal Division, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Geneva, Switzerland

Prof. Malcolm Dando (UK)
Professor of International Security, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford.

Mr. Jamie Fly (USA)
Action Officer, Nonproliferation Policy, Office of the US Secretary of Defense, Washington, DC

Mr. Masahiro Fujikawa (Japan)
Officer, Biological and Chemical Weapons Conventions Division, Disarmament, Nonproliferation and Science Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tokyo

Dr. Gabriel Galice (Switzerland)
Director, Geneva International Peace Research Institute (GIPRI).

Prof. Dr Erhard Geissler (Germany)
Retired [formerly, Head, Bioethical Research Group, Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin]

Mr Jozef Goldblat (Switzerland)
Vice-President, Geneva International Peace Research Institute (GIPRI)

Miss Jennie P. Gromoll (USA)
Senior Advisor, US Department of State

Prof. Jeanne Guillemin (USA)
Security Studies Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT 

Mr. Richard Guthrie (UK)
Formerly Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Mr. Edward Hammond (USA)
Director, The Sunshine Project, Austin, Texas

Dr. Gert Günter Harigel (Switzerland)
Secretary and Treasurer, Geneva International Peace Research Institute (GIPRI)

Ms. Melissa Hersh (USA)
Member, Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention Meetings Secretariat, UN Department of Disarmament Affairs, Geneva, Switzerland

Mr. Nicolas Isla (Italy)
Hamburg Centre for Biological Arms Control, University of Hamburg, Germany

Ms. Tehmina Janjua (Pakistan)
Minister, Deputy Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva

Ms. Catherine Jefferson (UK)
Doctoral Candidate, SPRU--Science & Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex

Mr. Ian Kenyon (UK)
Visiting Fellow, SPRU--Science & Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex

Amb. Masood Khan (Pakistan)
Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva

Mr. Aftab A. Khokher (Pakistan)
First Secretary, Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland

Dr. Filippa Lentzos (Norway)
Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellow, BIOS Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London

Col. Shmuel Limone (Israel)
Senior Analyst, Bureau of Defense Policy Planning, Ministry of Defense, Tel Aviv.

Prof. Robert Mathews (Australia)
Principal Research Scientist, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia ; Associate Professor, Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, University of Melbourne

Prof. Jiri Matousek (Czech Republic)
Chairman, OPCW Scientific Advisory Board, Professor of Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology, Masaryk University Brno

Mr. Patrick McCarthy (Ireland)
Geneva Forum

Ms. Kathryn McLaughlin (UK)
Research Fellow, Landau Network-Centro Volta (LNCV), Como, Italy

Dr. Caitríona McLeish (Ireland)
Harvard Sussex Program, SPRU, University of Sussex

Prof. Matthew Meselson (USA)
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University

Ms. Loulena Miles (USA)
Tri-Valley CAREs, Livermore, California.

Dr. Ali Akbar Mohammadi (Iran)
Dept of Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response (EPR), World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva.

Mr. Michiru Nishida (Japan)
Non-Proliferation, Science and Nuclear Energy Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tokyo.

Prof. Kathryn Nixdorff (USA/Germany)
Dept. of Microbiology and Genetics, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany

Ms. Fiona Paterson (UK)
Deputy Permanent Representative, UK Permanent Representation to the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva

Dr. Alan Pearson (USA)
Director, Biological & Chemical Weapons Control Program, Center for Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Washington, DC.

Prof. Graham S. Pearson (UK)
Visiting Professor of International Security, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford; Member, HSP Advisory Board

Mr. Francesco Quattrini (Switzerland)
Weapons and Disarmament Section, Centre for the Politics of International Security, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Berne

Dr. Imtinan E. Qureshi (Pakistan)
Minister (Technical), Permanent Mission of Pakistan, Geneva

Prof. Julian Perry Robinson (UK)
Harvard Sussex Program, SPRU, University of Sussex

Mr. Roger Roffey (Sweden)
Director of Research, Swedish Defence Research Agency, Stockholm.

Dr.Cathy Roth
Team Co-Ordinator,  Emerging and Dangerous Pathogens Alert and Response Operations, World Health Organization, Geneva

Mr. Nicholas Sims (UK)
Reader in International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London

Mr. Scott Spence (USA)
Biocriminalization Project, Interpol, Lyon, France

Prof. Jean-Pierre Stroot (Belgium/Switzerland)
President of the Board of the Geneva International Peace Research Institute (GIPRI), Geneva, Switzerland

Mr. Terence Taylor (UK)
Director, International Council for the Life Sciences (ICLS), Washington, DC.

Dr. Ralf Trapp (Germany)
Consultant on CBW arms control and disarmament, France

Amb. Carlo Trezza (Italy)
Permanent Representative of Italy to the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva.

Dr. Jonathan Tucker (USA)
Visiting Fellow, Research Unit European and Atlantic Security, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (German Institute for International and Security Affairs), Berlin, Germany

Dr Emmanuelle Tuerlings (Belgium)
Biorisk Reduction for Dangerous Pathogens (BDP), Department of Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response (EPR), World Health Organization, Geneva

Amb. Hendrik Wagenmakers (Netherlands)
Consultant, Bern, Switzerland

Mr. Reto Wollenmann (Switzerland)
Directorate for Security Policy, Arms Control and Disarmament Policy, Bern, Switzerland

Ms. Angela Woodward (New Zealand)
Deputy Director and Arms Control & Disarmament Researcher (Chemical & Biological), Verification Research, Training and Information Centre (VERTIC), London, UK

Dr. Jean Pascal Zanders (Belgium)
Director, BioWeapons Prevention Project (BWPP), Geneva, Switzerland

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Organizing staff

Ms Amanda Larose, Geneva

Mr Christian Page, Geneva