Pugwash Online Search Pugwash
About Us Donate National Groups Reports Publications Contact Us Links Site Index Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs

Pugwash Meeting no. 267

16th Workshop of the Pugwash Study Group on the
Implementation of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Conventions:
The Fifth BWC Review Conference

24-25 November 2001, Geneva, Switzerland


Participant List

Dr. Jan van Aken
Director, Sunshine Project, Hamburg, Germany [formerly: Genetic Engineering Campaigner for Greenpeace, Germany]

Dr. David Atwood,
Associate Representative, Quaker United Nations Office, Geneva, Switzerland [formerly: General Secretary, International Fellowship of Reconciliation]

Dr. Maurizio Barbeschi (Italy)
Senior Scientific Adviser, Ministry of Industry, DGSPC, off. E-1, and Director of the CBW Programme of the Landau Network-Centro Volta [formerly: Senior Policy Officer, Verification Division, Policy and Review Branch, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)]

Mr. Abdul Basit
Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland

Amb. Serguei Batsanov (Russia)
Director, Special Projects, Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), The Hague, The Netherlands [formerly: Director for External Relations, OPCW Preparatory Commission (1993-97); Representative of the Russian Federation to the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva (1989-93)]

Col. Dr. Volker Beck
Adviser to Foreign Office, Berlin, Germany [formerly: Branch Chief Medical NBC-Defence/Federal Ministry of Defence; Coordinator B-Defence of the Federal Armed Forces; UNSCOM Expert on Mission]

Ms. Heleen van der Beek
Policy Officer for BW and CW, Division of Nuclear Affairs and Non Proliferation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague, The Netherlands [formerly: Second Secretary, Royal Netherlands Embassy, Ankara, Turkey]

Dr. Vladimir S. Bundin
Senior Specialist, Agency on the Munitions of the Russian Federation, National Authority for CWC, Biology Department, Moscow ; Member, National Academy for Biotechnology of Russia [formerly : CEO of the Academy for Biotechnology of Russia, and of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR]

Ms. Heloisa Burjato (Brazil)
PhD candidate, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK

Dr. Jack C. Chang
Director, Chemical & Material Industry Intelligence Division, Industrial Economics & Knowledge Center, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Chutung Hsinchu, Taiwan

Dr. Ottorino Cosivi (Italian)
Department of Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response (CSR), World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland

Mr. Michael Crowley (Ireland)
Senior Weapons Trade Analyst, British American Security Information Council (BASIC), London, UK

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

Dr. Esmat Ezz
Member, Pugwash Council; Professor, Military Medical Academy, Cairo, Egypt [formerly: Director, Scientific Research Branch, Egyptian Armed Forces; Director, Technological Promotion System, Giza]

Prof. Erhard Geissler
Head, Bioethical Research Group, Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany [formerly: Head, Department of Virology, Central Institute of Molecular Biology, Berlin Buch]

Dr. Jozef Goldblat (Sweden/Switzerland)
Vice President, Geneva International Peace Research Institute (GIPRI), Geneva, Switzerland; Consultant, United Nations, Geneva [formerly: Leader, Arms Control Studies, SIPRI (1969-89)]

Dr. Gert Günter Harigel
Senior Physicist (Emeritus), European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland (1995- ); Secretary and Treasurer, Geneva International Peace Research Institute (GIPRI) [formerly: Senior Physicist, CERN (1965-95); Physicist at DESY (Hamburg), and at the Max-Planck-Institute (Munich); Visiting Professor, Columbia University (1983) and University of Hawaii (1987,88)]

Dr. René Haug
Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the international organizations in Geneva

Amb. Volker Heinsberg
Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva, Switzerland

Ms. Iris Hunger (Germany)
Professional Assistant, BTWC Ad Hoc Group Secretariat, Department for Disarmament Affairs, UN Office Geneva, Switzerland

Dr. Goran A. Jamal
Consultant and Senior Lecturer, Department of Neurology, Imperial College School of Medicine-London University, UK [formerly: Senior Research Fellow, University of Glasgow]

Dr. Martin Kaplan (USA/Switzerland)
Member, Pugwash Council; Director, Pugwash Conferences Geneva Office [formerly: Director, Research Promotion and Development, Office of the Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO); Secretary-General, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, (1976-1988)]

Dr. Alexander Kelle
Science Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA [formerly : Research Associate, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), Frankfurt/Main, Germany (1994-99); Research Associate, Institute of Comparative Politics and International Relations, J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt (2000-2001)]

Prof. Eduard Kellenberger
Professor Emeritus, Institut de Génétique et Biologie Microbienne (IGBM), Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; Member of 3 Academies, GIPRI and other governing bodies [formerly: Professor of Biophysics, University of Geneva (until 1970), and of Microgiology, University of Basel (until 1990)]

Mr. Ian Kenyon
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]

Col. (ret) Shmuel Limone
Senior Analyst, Bureau of Defense Policy Planning, Ministry of Defense, Tel Aviv, Israel [formerly: Colonel, Israel's Defense Forces]

Dr. Jez Littlewood
Research Fellow, Mountbatten Centre for International Studies, Department of Politics, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK [formerly: UK HM Armed Forces; Secretariat of the BWC Ad Hoc Group, United Nations Office, Geneva]

Mr. Friedrich Löhr
Minister Counsellor, Foreign Office, Berlin, Germany

Prof. Maurizio Martellini
Secretary General, Landau Network-Centro Volta (LNCV), Como, Italy ; Professor of General Physics, Dept. of Chemical, Physical and Mathematical Sciences, University of Insubria at Como

Mr. Martin Matter
Desk Officer for BWC and CWC Affairs, Center for International Security Policy, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Bern, Switzerland

Dr. Oliver Meier
Arms Control and Disarmament Researcher, Verification Research, Training and Information Centre (VERTIC), London, UK [formerly: Senior Analyst, Berlin Information-Center for Transatlantic Security (BITS), Berlin, Germany; Assistant, Pugwash Geneva Office; Research Associate, Department of International Relations, Trier University; Visiting Fellow, Center for Int'l Security and Arms Control, Stanford University]

Mr. Piers Millett

Ms. Pamela Mills (USA)
Harvard Sussex Program Researcher at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), The Hague, The Netherlands

Dr. Roque Monteleone-Net
[formerly: Expert, United Nations Special Commission to Iraq (UNSCOM), New York, NY; Member, Brazilian Delegation to the BWC/AHG; Professor of Genetics, Federal University of Sao Paulo; General Coordinator, Coordenacao Geral de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Technologico, Ministry of Health, Brasilia D.F.]

Prof. Kathryn Nixdorff
Dept. of Microbiology and Genetics, Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany

Prof. Graham S. Pearson
Visiting Professor of International Security, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK; Member, HSP Advisory Board [formerly: Director General and Chief Executive, Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment (CBDE), Ministry of Defence, Porton Down, Salisbury, Wilts]

Mr. Reza Pourmand Tehrani
First Secretary, Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations, 28 Ch. du Petit-Saconnex, 1209 Geneva, Switzerland

Ms. Jenni Rissanen (Finland)
Geneva Analyst, The Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy, Geneva, Switzerland

Prof. Julian Perry Robinson
Professorial Fellow, Science & Technology Policy Research (SPRU), University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

Dr. Barbara Hatch Rosenberg
Division of Natural Sciences, State University of New York (SUNY), Purchase, New York, USA; Chair, Federation of American Scientists Working Group on BW Verification [formerly: Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Cornell University Medical College; Associate Member, Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center]

Mr. Andreas C. Schröder
Deputy Head of BW/CW Section, Department for Disarmament and Arms Control, Foreign Office, Berlin, Germany [formerly: various positions in the Federal Foreign Office in Germany and in German embassies abroad]

Mr. T.P. Seetharam
Minister-Counsellor (Disarmament), Permanent Mission of India, Geneva, Switzerland

Mr. Nicholas Sims
Senior Lecturer in International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London, London, UK [formerly: Member of UK Delegation to First Review Conference of the BWC (March 1980), Geneva]

H.E. Mr.. Ali-Ashgar Soltanieh
Deputy Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland

Amb. Rakesh Sood
Permanent Representative of India to the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva, Switzerland

Dr. Ben Steyn
Chemical and Biological Defence Advisor to the Surgeon General, SANDF, Centurion, South Africa ; Member of the South African Delegation to the Ad Hoc Group [formerly : Specialist Anaesthetist, Military Hospital]

Prof. Jean-Pierre Stroot (Belgium/Switzerland)
President, Geneva International Peace Research Institute (GIPRI), Geneva, Switzerland [formerly: Director of Research, IISN, Belgium; Research Associate, CERN]

Amb. Tibor Toth
Ambassador-at-Large for Nonproliferation and Critical Technologies, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), Budapest, Hungary; Chairman of the Fifth Review Conference of States Parties to the BWC

Ms. Emmanuelle Tuerlings (Belgium)
Dphil Student, Science and Technology Policy Research Unit (SPRU), and Research Officer for the Harvard Sussex Program, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

Dr. John R. Walker
Principal Research Officer, Arms Control and Disarmament Research Unit (ACDRU), Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London, UK

Mr. Dominique Beat Werner
Deputy Head of the Arms Control Unit, AC Laboratorium Spiez, Spiez, Switzerland

Ms. Henrietta Wilson
MA Student, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

Dr. Jack P. Woodall
Director, Nucleus for the Investigation of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Associate Editor, ProMED-mail [formerly with Her Majesty's Overseas Research Service, Uganda; The Rockefeller Foundation, Brazil; New York State Health Department; USPHS, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Puerto Rico; and World Health Organization, Geneva; Leader of the WHO delegation to the 3rd Revcon of the BWC]

Dr. Jean Pascal Zanders
Project Leader, CBW Project, SIPRI, Solna, Sweden [formerly with Centrum voor Polemologie, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium)

Dr. Roman B. Zholus
Third Secretary, Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the Office of the United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland

Pugwash Staff:

Pugwash Rome Office - Claudia Vaughn and Mimma De Santis