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Pugwash Meeting no. 324

52nd Pugwash CBW Workshop
10 Years of the OPCW: Taking Stock and Looking Forwards
Noordwijk, The Netherlands, 17-18 March 2007

Workshop Report | Participants | Papers | Photos


Participant List

Mr. Alessandro Argentini (Italy), Chief Examiner, European Patent Office, Rijswijk, The Netherlands [formerly: R&D in weapons industry, missiles]
*Office: European Patent Office, Den Haag Branch, Patentlaan 2, POB 5818, NL-2280 HV,Rijswijk, The Netherlands, Tel.: (++31-70) 340-3298, Fax: (++31-70) 340-3997, E-mail: aargentini@epo.org
Home:  Dr. H.J.v. Mooklaan 29, 2286 BA Rijswik, The Netherlands, Tel.: (++31-70) 396-0592, Fax: (++31-70) 396-0574, E-mail: arg@wanadoo.nl

Amb. Sergey Batsanov, Director, Geneva Office of International Pugwash; Member, Pugwash CBW Steering Committee; Senior Consultant, Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) [formerly: Director, Special Projects, Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), The Hague, The Netherlands; Director for External Relations, OPCW Preparatory Commission (1993-97); Representative of the Russian Federation to the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva (1989-93)]
*Office: 16 rue de la Voie-Creuse, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland, Tel.: (++41-22) 919-7953, Mobile : (++41-79) 659-8186, E-mail : pugwash.GE@gcsp.ch
Home: 3, rue de l’Evêche, 1204 Geneva, Switzerland

Mr. Richard H. Burgess, Consultant in Trade and Treaty Compliance, Newark, Delaware, USA [formerly: Senior Counsel, DuPont Legal]
*Home Office: 705 Fawn Rd., Newark, DE 19711, USA, Tel.: (++1-302) 234-6806, Fax: (++1-302) 234-6807, E-mail: richard.burgess10@comcast.net

Mr. Malik Azhar Ellahi, Head of Government Relations and Political Affairs Branch, Organisation for The Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), The Hague, The Netherlands [formerly: Minister/Deputy Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the OPCW; First Secretary (Disarmament), Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the UN, Geneva; Director (Disarmament), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Islamabad]
*Office: OPCW, Johan de Wittlaan 32, 2517 JR The Hague, The Netherlands, Tel.: (+31) 070 416 3836, Fax: (+31) 070 416 32 80, E-mail: malik.ellahi@opcw.org

Mr. Daniel Feakes (UK), Research Fellow, Harvard Sussex Program  SPRU-Science & Technology Policy Research, The Freeman Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK [formerly: HSP Researcher (1997-2000), OPCW, The Hague]
*Office: SPRU, The Freeman Centre, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 9QE, UK, Tel.: (++44-1273) 877 411, Fax: (++44-1273) 685 865, Mobile: (++44-7759) 703 811, E-mail: d.feakes@sussex.ac.uk
Home: 28 Birling Street, Eastbourne, East Sussex BN21 1RI, UK, E-mail: danielyvonne@worldonline.co.uk

Prof. Georg Frerks, Professor of Conflict Prevention and Conflict Management, Centre for Conflict Studies, Utrecht University, The Netherlands; Professor of Disaster Studies, Wageningen University; Chairman, Pugwash Nederland [formerly: Senior Policy Advisor, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Head, Conflict Research Unit, Netherlands Institute of International Relations]
Office: Centre for Conflict Studies, Utrecht University, Kromme Nieuwegracht 66, 3512 HL Utrecht, The Netherlands, Tel.: (++31-30) 253-6549, Fax: (++31-30) 253-6024, E-mail: georg.frerks@let.uu.nl

Ms.  Diana Gosens, Deputy Permanent Representative of The Netherlands to the OPCW (2006-present) [formerly: Policy Officer at the CWC National Authority of the Netherlands (2001-2004)
*Office: Netherlands Delegation to OPCW, P.O. Box 20061, 2500 EB Den Haag, Tel: +31 (0)70 348 5227, Fax: +31 (0)70 348 5835, E-mail: diana.gosens@minbuza.nl

Mr. Richard Guthrie (UK), [formerly: Project Leader, CBW Project,. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Solna, Sweden]
*Office: SIPRI, Signalistgatan 9, SE-169 70 Solna, Sweden, Tel.:  (++46-8) 655-9775, Fax:  (++46-8) 655-9733, E-mail: guthrie@sipri.org

Mr. Peter Ito, Deputy Permanent Representative, US Delegation to the OPCW, The Hague, The Netherlands
Office: Tel.: (++31-70) 351-8118, Fax: (++31-70) 355-4271, E-mail: itopk@state.gov

Dr. Alexander Kelle, Lecturer in International Politics, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK
Contacts: Queen’s University Belfast, 21 University Square, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK, Tel.: (+44-2890) 973765, E-mail: a.kelle@qub.ac.uk

Mr. Ian Kenyon, Visiting Research Fellow, SPRU-Science & Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK; Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Mountbatten Centre for International Studies, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, UK [formerly: Executive Secretary, Preparatory Commission for the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW PrepCom), The Hague, The Netherlands; HM Diplomatic Service]
*Office/Home: Farm Cottage, The Carriageway, Brasted, Kent TN16 1JX, UK, Tel./Fax: (++44-1959) 562-447, E-mail: iangriselda.kenyon@btinternet.com

Dr. Walter Krutzsch, formerly: Deputy Head of delegation of DDR to the Conference on Disarmament; Chairman of working groups of the ad hoc Committee on Chemical Weapons; Senior legal officer under short-term contracts  in the Provisional Technical Secretariat / Technical Secretariat of the OPCW
*Home:  Loewestr.22, 10249 Berlin, Germany, Tel.: (+49-30) 426-7275, Mobile: (+49-170) 345-7941, E-mail: walter.krutzsch@t-online,de   (and) walter_krutzsch@hotmail.com

Amb. Maarten Lak, Dutch Permanent Representative to the OPCW, The Hague [formerly: Director, Strategic Policy Planning, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Deputy Director, Regional European Affairs; Counsellor, Political and Consular Affairs, Netherlands Embassy Bonn; Team Netherlands’ EU Presidency team for Yugoslavia Conference; CSCW Vienna Deputy Head of Delegation; Deputy Director, Asia/Pacific, MFA]
*Office: PV OPCW, P.O. Box 20061, 2500 EB The Hague, The Netherlands, Tel.: (++31-70) 348-5079, Fax: (++31-70) 348-5835, E-mail: maarten.lak@minbuza.nl (and) opcw@minbuza.nl

Mr. Mark Matthews, UK Alternate Representative to the OPCW, The Hague, The Netherlands [formerly: Member of the UK Delegation to NATO and spokesman of the FCO, UK]
Office: British Embassy , Lange Voorhout 10, 2514 ED The Hague, E-mail: Mark.Matthews@fco.gov.uk

Prof. Jiri Matousek, Professor of Toxicology, Masaryk University Brno, Faculty of Science, EU Research Centre of Excellence for Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, Brno, Czech Republic; Chairman, OPCW Scientific Advisory Board; Member, Research Advisory Board, American Biographical Institute; Member, Research Council, International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, UK; Accredited Representative of the WFSW to the UN Office, Vienna; Member, INES Executive Council; Head, Czech Pugwash Group [formerly: Director, Institute of Environmental Chemistry and Technology, Brno University of Technology; Director, Czechoslovak NBC-Defence R&D Establishment; Member, Czechoslovak Delegation to the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva; Visiting Professor, International Institute for Peace, Vienna]
Office: Masaryk University Brno, Faculty of Science, EU Research Centre of Excellence for Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, Kamenice 126/3, CZ-625 00 Brno, Czech Republic, Tel.: (++420-5) 4949-2860, Fax: (++420-5) 4949-2840, E-mail: matousek@recetox.muni.cz
*Home: Krásného 26, CZ-636 00 Brno, Czech Republic, Tel.: (++420-5) 4853-3087

Dr. Caitriona McLeish (Ireland), Fellow, The Harvard Sussex Program, SPRU, University of Sussex,, Brighton, UK
*Office: SPRU, The Freeman Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QE, UK; Tel.: (++44-1273) 873 556, Fax: (*44-1273) 873556, E-mail: c.a.mcleish@sussex.ac.uk

Dr. Jan Medema, retired (2002) from TNO and currently part time Consultant in Biological and Chemical Defence [formerly: Head, Chemical and Biological Defence Research, TNO; Study Director (until 1999), NATO Long-Term Scientific Study for Chemical and Biological Defence (1999-2002)]
Home: Prins Bernhard Str. 41, 2731 BE Benthuizen, The Netherlands, Tel.: (++31-79) 331 3207, Mobile: +31(0) 653896009, E-mail: jan.medema@casema.nl

Mr. Arend Meerburg, retired; Advisor to the Security Policy Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands; Member, Pugwash Netherlands; Member, Informal Expert Group on Global Security Matters [formerly: “Roving Ambassador” for the Security Policy Department of the NL Ministry of Foreign Affairs (200-2004); Ambassador to Yemen (1996-2000); Development Cooperation (1992-96); Multilateral Disarmament, The Hague, Geneva, New York, Vienna, Paris (1970-92); Meteorology, Oceanography (research, 1965-70)]
*Home: Ant. Duyckstraat 165, NL-2582 TJ The Hague, The Netherlands, Tel./Fax: (++31-70) 358-4966, E-mail: arendmeerburg@xs4all.nl

Mr. Ronald R. Nelson, Director, Administration Division, OPCW, The Hague, The Netherlands
*Office:  OPCW, Johan de Wittlaan 32, 2517 JR The Hague, The Netherlands, Tel.: +31 (0) 70-416.38.16, Fax: +31 (0) 70-416.32.10, Mobile: +31 (0) 6-52.41.39.60, E-mail: Ronald.Nelson@opcw.org

Mr. Patrice Palanque, Senior Planning Officer, OPCW, The Hague, The Netherlands
*Office: OPCW, Tel.: (+31-70) 416 3770, E-mail: palanque@opcw.org

Amb. Lyn Parker, UK Permanent Representative to OPCW and Ambassador to the Netherlands [formerly: British High Commissioner to the Republic of Cyprus; previous overseas postings in Greece, India and Brussels (EU) as well as working in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Cabinet Office, London
Office: British Embassy, Lange Voorhout 10, 2514 ED The Hague, E-mail: lyn.parker@britain.nl

Dr. Graham S. Pearson, Visiting Professor of International Security, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK; Member, HSP Advisory Board; Member, Pugwash CBW Steering Committee [formerly: Director General and Chief Executive, Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment (CBDE), Ministry of Defence, Porton Down, Salisbury, Wilts]
Office: Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD7 1DP, UK
*Home : 7 The Leasows, Chipping Campden, Glocester, GL55 6ES, UK, Tel.: (++44-1386) 840-681, Fax: (++44-1386) 840-167, Email: Graham_Pearson@compuserve.com

Amb. Rogelio Pfirter, Director-General of the Technical Secretariat of the OPCW, The Hague, The Netherlands
*Office: OPCW, Johan de Wittlaan 32, 2517 JR The Hague, The Netherlands, Tel.: (++31-70) 416 3300, Fax: (++31-70) 306 3535, E-mail: katia.borghesi@opcw.org (or) rogelio.pfirter@opcw.org

Prof. Julian Perry Robinson, Sussex Director, Harvard-Sussex Program, Science & Technology Policy Research (SPRU), University of Sussex, Brighton, UK; Member, Pugwash CBW Steering Committee
*Office: SPRU, Mantell Building, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RF, UK; Tel.: (++44-1273) 678 172 or 686758, Fax: (*44-1273) 685 865, E-mail: j.p.p.robinson@sussex.ac.uk
Home: Flat 14, 35 Sussex Square, Brighton, BN2 5AD, UK; Tel. (++44-1273) 683466

Miss Katie Smallwood, Research Student, Harvard Sussex Program  SPRU-Science & Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
*Office: SPRU, The Freeman Centre, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 9QE, UK, Fax: (++44-1273) 685 865, E-mail: c.a.h.smallwood@sussex.ac.uk
*Home: Tel.: (++44-794) 174 2248

Dr. Thomas Stock, Sales Manager, Dynasafe Germany GmbH, Mülheim, Germany [formerly: SIPRI CBW Programme, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI (1988-1996); Sales Manager, Technip Germany GmbH and Mannesmann Demag, Düsseldorf, (1998-2002); Lobbe Munex GmbH (1996-1997)]
*Office: Dynasafe Germany GmbH, Düsseldorfer Starsse 138, 45 481 Mülheim, Germany, Tel.: (+49-208) 46 89 195, Fax:  (+49-208) 46 89 190, E-mail: thomas.stock@dynasafe.de
Home: Friedrichstrasse 8, 40217 Düsseldorf, Germany, Tel.: (+49-211) 99 45 124

Dr. Jonathan B. Tucker, Ph.D., Visiting Fellow, Research Unit European and Atlantic Security, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik), Berlin, Germany [through July 2007]; Senior Fellow, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS), Washington, DC, USA  [formerly: AAAS Arms Control Fellow, U.S. Department of State; Analyst, International Security Program, U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment; Foreign Affairs Specialist, Office of Chemical/Biological Policy, U.S. Arms Control & Disarmament Agency; Visiting Lecturer, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University]
*Office (through July 2007): Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Ludwigkirchplatz 3-4, 10719 Berlin, Germany Tel.: (+49) (0)30 88007 423, Mobile: (+49) (0)176 6747 3690, E-mail: jtucker@alum.mit.edu
Permanent Office: MIIS, 1111 Nineteenth St., NW, 12th floor, Washington, DC 20036, USA, Tel.: (++1-202) 464-6000, Fax: (++1-202) 238-9603, E-mail: jtucker@miis.edu
*Home: 1140 Twenty-Third St., NW, Apt. 903, Washington, DC 20037-1440, USA

Dr. Paul Walker, Legacy Program Director, Global Green USA (the US affiliate of Green Cross International, Mikhail Gorbachev, Chairman), Washington, DC, USA [formerly: Professional Staff Member, Armed Services Committee, US House of Representatives; Acting Director, Peace & Conflict Studies, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA; Co-director, Institute for Peace & International Security, Cambridge, MA; National Education Director, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Cambridge; Research Director, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge]
*Office: Global Green USA, 1717 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20036-2001, Tel.: (++1-202) 222-0700, Fax: (++1-202) 222-0703, E-mail: pwalker@globalgreen.org

Dr. Mark Wheelis, Senior Lecturer, Section of Microbiology, University of California, Davis, California, USA
*Office: Section of Microbiology, University of California Davis, 1 Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616 USA, Tel. (++1-530) 752-0562, Fax: (++1-530) 752-9014, E-mail: mlwheelis@ucdavis.edu
Home: 70 College Park, Davis, CA 95616, Permanent Tel./Fax: (++1-530) 758-7568,

 

Observers:

Mr. Florian (Floor) van der Wateren, Green Cross Nederland
*Home. Saturnusstraat 41, 1443 AA Purmerend, The Netherlands, Mobile: +31 (0) 6 48426506, E-mail: floorvdwateren@gmail.com

Mr. Sebastian (Bastiaan) Prak, Green Cross Nederland
*Home: Mercatorstraat 145-3, 1056 RD Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Mobile: +31 (0) 6 14993848, Tel.: +31 (0) 20 6892245, E-mail: s.b.prak@worldwidewealthy.com

Pugwash Staff: Claudia Vaughn, Pugwash Conferences, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, via della Lungara 10, I-00165 Rome, Italy, Tel. (++39-06) 6872 606, Fax: (++39-06) 6878 376, Mobile: (++39) 333 456 6661, E-mail: pugwash@iol.it