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19th Pugwash Workshop Study Group on the
Implementation of the CBW Conventions:
The First CWC Review Conference and Beyond

Oegstgeest, The Netherlands, 26-27 April 2003

Participant List


Dr. Eitan Barak, Lecturer, The Department of International Relations, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; Adjunct Lecturer, The Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University
Email: eitanbarak@mscc.huji.ac.il

Dr. Maurizio Barbeschi, CBW Inspector, UNMOVIC, and Director of the CBW Programme of the Landau Network-Centro Volta, Como, Italy [formerly: Senior Policy Officer, Verification Division, Policy and Review Branch, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)]
E-mail: mbarbeschi@yahoo.com

Amb. Serguei Batsanov, 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)]
E-mail: sergueibatsanov@opcw.org

Mr. Peter A. Beerwerth, Deputy Permanent Representative, Permanent Representation of Germany to the OPCW, The Hague, The Netherlands [formerly: positions in the German Foreign Service as Head, Economic Department, Cairo; Desk Officer, Public Information Division, Bonn; Deputy Consul General, Detroit]
E-mail: cw2@denh.auswaertiges-amt.de

Mr. Irakli Beridze, Office of Special Projects, Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), The Hague, The Netherlands,
E-mail: Beridze@hotmail.com

Mr. Richard H. Burgess, Consultant in Trade and Treaty Compliance, Newark, Delaware, USA [formerly: Senior Counsel, DuPont Legal]
E-mail: richard.burgess10@comcast.net

Col. (ret.) Pierre Canonne, Member, Pugwash Council ; Senior Lecturer, Disarmament and Arms Control, Univ. Marne-la-Vallés/Paris, France [formerly: Head, Training and Staff Development Branch, OPCW; Senior Staff, Strategic Affairs Department, Ministry of Defence; Counsellor, Permanent Mission of France to the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva]
E-mail : canonne.pierre@wanadoo.fr

Brig. General (ret.) Chol-Ho Chong, Consultant, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, The Hague, The Netherlands [formerly: Special Adviser for CWC, Ministry of National Defence, Republic of Korea, Seoul (2002-2003); Commander of Air University, ROKAF, Seoul (2001-2002)]
E-mail: Cholhojung@hotmail.com

Mr. Don Clagett, Verification Division, Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), The Hague, The Netherlands
E-mail: donclagett@yahoo.com

Dr. Robin Coupland (UK), Medical Advisor, Legal Division, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Geneva, Switzerland [formerly : Coordinator of Surgery, Health Division, ICRC]
E-mail: rcoupland@icrc.org

Dr. Brian  Davey, Head, Health and Safety, Organisation for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), The Hague, The Netherlands
E-mail:  bdavey@opcw.org

Mr. Harmen van Dijk, Policy Advisor, Nuclear Affairs and Non-Proliferation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague, The Netherlands
E-mail: Harmen-van.dijk@minbuza.nl

Dr. Trevor Findlay, Exec. Director, Verification Research, Training and Information Centre (VERTIC), London, UK
E-mail: t.findlay@vertic.org

Mr. Syłwin Jerzy Gizowski, Director, Secretariat for the Policy-Making Organs, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), The Hague, The Netherlands [formerly: Deputy Head of the Polish delegation to the Conference on Disarmament; Chairman of Working Group on Verification of the Ad Hoc Committee on CW; Head of the Politico-Disarmament Division of MFA; Head of the Polish delegation to the OPCW Preparatory Commission; Chairman of Working Group on Verification, Technical Cooperation and Assistance of the OPCW Preparatory Commission; Special Assistant to the Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission]
E-mail: sylwin.gizowski@opcw.org

Ms. Diana Gosens, Policy Advisor, National Authority of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Directorate-General for Foreign Economic Affairs, Trade Policy and International Investment Department
Trade Policy Instruments and Export Control Unit, The Hague, The Netherlands
E-mail: D.R.Gosens@minez.nl

Mr. Peter Heinrich, R&D, Blücher GmbH, Erkrath, Germany
E-mail: peter.heinrich@bluecher.com

Mr. Peter Kaiser, Branch Head, Media & Public Affairs, OPCW, The Hague, The Netherlands
[formerly: European Correspondent and Bureau Chief: Reuters Television, N-TV/CNN (German 24-hr news TV), CNBC Europe, European Business News/Dow Jones Broadcasting]
E-mail: media@opcw.org

Dr. Alexander Kelle, Marie Curie Research Fellow, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK [formerly : Science Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Stanford University, Stanford, California (2001- 2002); Research Associate, Institute of Comparative Politics and International Relations, J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt (2000-2001) ; Research Associate, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), Frankfurt/Main, Germany (1994-99)]
E-mail : a.kelle@bradford.ac.uk

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]
E-mail: iangriselda.kenyon@btinternet.com

Mr. Mohammad Khodadadi, Director, Office for International Academic Relations, School of International Relations (MFA), Tehran, Iran; Director in Ministry of Foreign Affairs [formerly: Counsellor, Deputy Representative of Iran to the OPCW, Iranian Embassy, The Hague; Deputy Director, Department of Disarmament and International Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1995-1997), Tehran; attended the Conference on Disarmament, and several sessions of the Biological Weapons Convention in Geneva and the UNDC in New York; member of the Iranian National Authority for the Chemical Weapons Convention]
E-mail: mow1948@yahoo.com

Dr. Walter Krutzsch, CWC Consultant, Berlin, Germany [formerly: Member of the delegation of the German Democratic Republic to the DC; Chairman of working groups of the Ad Hoc Committee on Chemical Weapons; various staff positions at the CWC Preparatory Commission and the OPCW]
E-mail: walter.krutzsch@t-online.de
(or) walter_krutzsch@hotmail.com

Dr. Matthijs Leeuw, Manager, Division Chemical & Biological Protection Institution, TNO Prins Maurits Laboratory, Rijswijk, The Netherlands
E-mail: Leeuw@pml.tno.nl

Dr. Detlef Maennig, Director, Applied Technology, Degussa AG, Hanau, Germany
E-mail: detlef.maennig@degussa.com

Prof. Robert Mathews, Principal Research Scientist, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia ; Associate Professor, Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, University of Melbourne
E-mail : bobmathews17@hotmail.com

Prof. Jiri Matousek, Professor of Toxicology, Masaryk University Brno, Faculty of Science, Research Centre for Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, Brno, Czech Republic; Member, OPCW Scientific Advisory Board [formerly: Director, Institute of Environmental Chemistry and Technology, Faculty of Chemistry, Brno Universtiy of Technology; Director, Czechoslovak NBC-Defence R&D Establishment; Member, Czechoslovak Delegation to the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva]
E-mail: matousek@recetox.muni.cz

Dr. Jan Medema, Consultant, TNO-Prins Maurits Laboratory, Rijswijk, The Netherlands
E-mail: medema@pml.tno.nl

Prof. Matthew S. Meselson, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
E-mail: msm@wjh.harvard.edu

Dr. Robert Mikulak, Director, Office of Chemical and Biological Weapons Conventions, Bureau of Arms Control, US Department of State, Washington, DC, USA
E-mail: MikulakRP@t.state.gov

Prof. Wim Mőller, Division Molecular Cell Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands; Guest Worker, Chemistry Department, Leiden University [formerly: EMBO Adviser and Science Adviser in The Netherlands]
E-mail: moller23@zonnet.nl

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]
Email: Graham_Pearson@compuserve.com

Dr. Peter Plant, Independent Consultant, PJP Consultants, Midhurst, West Sussex, UK; Member, UK National Authority Advisory Committee [formerly: Insecticide Manufacturing Manager, AstraZeneca; Chair, CEFIC ad hoc Committee against Chemical Weapons]
E-mail: peterjplant@msn.com

Prof. Julian Perry Robinson, Sussex Director, Harvard-Sussex Program, Science & Technology Policy Research (SPRU), University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
E-mail: j.p.p.robinson@sussex.ac.uk

Mr. Martin Rudduck, Head of UK Chemical Weapons Convention National Authority, Department of Trade & Industry, London, UK
E-mail: martin.rudduck@dti.gsi.gov.uk

Mr. Arya Sandeep, First Secretary, Embassy of India, The Hague, The Netherlands
E-mail: cpembind@bart.nl

Mr. Karl Ludwig Schulze, Technical Consultant, Blücher GmbH, Erkrath, Germany; Member of the Board of Directors, Tex-Shield Inc., USA
E-mail: karl.ludwig.schulze@bluecher.com

Mr. James Seevaratnam, Director, Chemical and Biological Controls Division, Office of Nonproliferation Controls & Treaty Compliance, US Department of Commerce, Washington, DC, USA [formerly: Technical/Policy Analyst, Office of Technology and Policy Analysis, US Department of Commerce]
E-mail: jseevara@bis.doc.gov

Mr. Nicholas Sims, Reader 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]
E-mail: n.sims@lse.ac.uk

Ms. Lisa Tabassi, Legal Officer, OPCW, The Hague, The Netherlands [formerly: Senior Research Assistant, Preparatory Commission for the OPCW (1993-97); Legal Assistant, Klein Wegis, California (1989-93); Iran-US Claims Tribunal, The Hague (1983-85); Bureau of International Legal Services, The Hague (1982-83); Ghani & Tavakoli, Tehran, Iran (1979-82)]
E-mail: ltabassi@opcw.org

Dr. Ralf Trapp (Germany), Secretary, Review Conference Steering Group, Office of the Deputy Director-General, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), The Hague, The Netherlands [formerly: Head, Government Relations and Political Affairs Branch, External Relations Division; Branch Head, International Cooperation and Assistance Division ; Branch Head, Policy & Review, Verification Division, OPCW]
E-mail: ralf.trapp@opcw.org

Ms. Fiona Tregonning (New Zealand), Harvard Sussex Program Hague Researcher at the OPCW, The Hague, The Netherlands
E-mail: fiona.tregonning@opcw.org 

Mr. Gordon Vachon, Head of Inspection Review Branch, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, The Hague, The Netherlands [formerly: Canadian Alternate Permanent Representative to the OPCW, The Hague; Deputy Director of the Non-Proliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament Division and Head of Verification Research in the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade; Assistant Professor of Strategic Studies, College Militaire Royal de Saint-Jean]
E-mail: gvachon@opcw.org

Amb. Marc Vogelaar, Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of The Netherlands to the OPCW, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague, The Netherlands
E-mail: m.th.vogelaar@minbuza.nl

Mr. Dominique Beat Werner, Head, Arms Control Unit, AC Laboratorium Spiez, Spiez, Switzerland
E-mail: dominique.werner@babs.admin.ch

Dr. Mark Wheelis, Senior Lecturer, Section of Microbiology, University of California, Davis, California, USA
E-mail: mlwheelis@ucdavis.edu

Dr. Jean Pascal Zanders, Director, BioWeapons Prevention Project (BWPP), Geneva, Switzerland; CBW Project Leader, SIPRI, Solna, Sweden [formerly with Centrum voor Polemologie, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Email: jpzanders@sipri.org

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