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20th Pugwash Workshop Study Group on the
Implementation of the CBW Conventions:
The BWC Intersessional Process towards the Si
xth Review Conference and Beyond
Geneva, Switzerland, 8-9 November 2003
Papers | Workshop Report | Participants | Photos

Participant List

Dr. Jan Van Aken, Director, Sunshine Project, Hamburg, Germany [formerly: Genetic Engineering Campaigner for Greenpeace, Germany]
*Office: Sunshine Project, Scheplerstrasse 78, 22767 Hamburg, Germany, Tel.: (++49-40) 431 88 001, Fax: (++49-40) 67 50 39 88, E-mail: van.aken@sunshine-project.org

Dr. Maurizio Barbeschi, Scientist, Preparedness for Deliberate Epidemics, Department of Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response (CSR), World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland [formerly: CBW Inspector, UNMOVIC; Director of the CBW Programme of the Landau Network-Centro Volta, Como, Italy; Senior Policy Officer, Verification Division, Policy and Review Branch, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)]
*Office: CSR, WHO, 20 Avenue Appia, Ch-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland, Tel.: (++41-22) 791 2705/3976, Fax: (++41-22) 791 4198, Mobile: (++41-76) 454-8155 (and) (++39-335) 549-4665, E-mail : barbeschim@who.int

Mr. John Borrie, ICRC Coordinator for Biotechnology, Weapons & Humanity, International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, Switzerland [formerly: Deputy Head of Mission for Disarmament, New Zealand Permanent Mission, Geneva; Research Fellow, UNIDIR; CBW/Export Controls Officer, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, New Zealand]
*Office: ICRC, 19 avenue de la Paix, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland, Tel.: (++41-22) 730-2057, Fax: (++41-22) 733-2057, E-mail: jborrie@icrc.org

Dr. Vladimir S. Bundin, Head of the BTWC Department of the Russian Munition Agency, 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]
*Office: Russian Munition Agency, National Authority for CWC, Biology Department, Miusskaja ploshad 3, Moscow, Russia, Tel. (++7-095) 206 43 64, Fax: (++7-095) 206 35 93, E-mail: ogoro@gov.ru

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

Dr. Ottorino Cosivi (Italy), Project Leader, Preparedness for Deliberate Epidemics, Global Alert and Response, Department of Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response (CSR), World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland
*Office: CSR, WHO, 20, Avenue Appia, Ch-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland, Tel.: (++41-22) 791 2531/3976, Fax: (++41-22) 791 4198, Mobile: (++41-79) 475-5570, E-mail : cosivio@who.int

Dr. Robin Coupland (UK), Medical Advisor, Legal Division, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Geneva, Switzerland [formerly : Coordinator of Surgery, Health Division, ICRC]
*Office: Legal Division, ICRC, 19 Av. De la Paix, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland, Tel.: (++41-22) 730-2080, Fax : (++41-22) 730-2956, E-mail: rcoupland@icrc.org

Prof. Malcolm Dando, Professor of International Security, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK
*Office: Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, Richmond Road, Bradford BD7 1DP, West Yorks, UK, Tel.: (++44-1274) 235235, Fax: (++44-1274) 235240, E-mail: mrdando@brando.ac.uk

Mr. Nelson Erickson, Defense Fellow, U.S. Department of Defense, OSD Nonproliferation Policy,? Washington, DC, USA [formerly: U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee]
*Office: ?OSD Nonproliferation Policy, 2900 Defense Pentagon Room 4A873, Washington, DC, USA 20301-2900, Tel.: (++1-703) 693-0103, Fax: (++1-703) 693-0729, E-mail: Nelson.Erickson@osd.mil.

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)]
*Home: 2, avenue de S?cheron, CH-1202 Geneva, Switzerland, Tel.: (++41-22) 731-7269, Fax: (++41-22) 731-2249, E-mail: goldblat@consultant.com

Ms. Chandre Gould, Senior Researcher, Centre for Conflict Resolution, Cape Town, South Africa
*Office: Centre for Conflict Resolution, c/o Rhodes Gift Post Office, Cape Town 7700, South Africa, Tel./Fax: (++27-44) 850 1083, E-mail: gould@mweb.co.za

Prof. Jeanne Guillemin, Senior Advisor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Security Studies Program, Cambridge, MA, USA; Professor of Sociology, Boston College Institution [formerly: Senior Fellow, Dibner Institute, MIT; Congressional Fellow, American Anthropological Association]
Office: Security Studies Program, MIT, 292 Main Street, Room E38-600, Cambridge MA 02139, Tel.: (++1-617) 552-4133, Fax: (++1-617) 492-3819

Mr. Richard Guthrie (UK), 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

Dr. Gert G?nter 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)]
Work: CERN, PE-Division, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland, Tel. (++41-22) 767 62 52, Fax: (++41-22) 767 9780, E-mail: Gert.Harigel@cern.ch

Dr. Ren? Haug, Counsellor/Military Advisor, Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the UN Office and other international organizations in Geneva
*Office : Permanent Mission of Switzerland, 9-11 rue de Varemb?, Case Postale 194, 1211 Gen?ve 20, Switzerland, Tel. : (++41-22) 749-2426, Fax : (++41-22) 749-2466 (Mission), 910-2052 (Military Adviser), Mobile: 079 458 78 34, E-mail : rene-haug@eda.admin.ch

Mr. Peter Herby (USA), Coordinator, Mines-Arms Unit, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Geneva, Switzerland [formerly : Head, Disarmament Program, Quaker UN Office, Geneva]
*Office: ICRC, 19 Av. De la Paix, 1209 Geneva, Switzerland, Tel.: (++41-22) 730-2729, Fax : (++41-22) 730-2830, E-mail: pherby.gva@icrc.org

Ms. Melissa Hersh, Member, Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention Secretariat to the 2003 Meeting of Experts and Meeting of States Parties, Geneva, Switzerland [formerly: SIPRI CBW Project; WHO Technical Consultant; CSR]
Contacts:? UK Mobile: (++44) 0 7983 9819119, Swiss mobile: (++41) 786832477, E-mail: melissahersh@hotmail.com

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]
*Office/Home: Farm Cottage, The Carriageway, Brasted, Kent TN16 1JX, UK, Tel./Fax: (++44-1959) 562-447, E-mail: iangriselda.kenyon@btinternet.com

Mr. Jong Yup Lee (So. Korea), Researcher, Science & Technology Policy Research (SPRU), University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
*Office: SPRU, The Freeman Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QE, UK; Tel.: (++44-1273) 678 758, Fax: (++44-1273) 685 865, E-mail: joyuplee@hanmail.net

Dr. Patricia Lewis (UK), Director, UNIDIR, Geneva, Switzerland [formerly: Director, VERTIC, London; Lecturer in Physics, University of Auckland, New Zealand]
*Office: UNIDIR, Palais des Nations, Geneva CH-1121, Tel.: (++41-22) 9174293, Fax: (++41-22) 9170176, E-mail: plewis@unog.ch

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/Fifth Review Conference (1999-2001)]
Office : Mountbatten Centre for International Studies, Department of Politics, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK, Tel.: (++44-23) 8059-3660, Fax: (++44-23) 8059-3533, E-mail: J.Littlewood@soton.ac.uk

Prof. Robert Mathews, Principal Research Scientist, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia ; Associate Professor, Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, University of Melbourne
*Home : 44 Hedderwick Street, North Balwyn 3104, Victoria, Australia, Tel. : (++61-3) 9857-5720, E-mail : bobmathews17@hotmail.com

Ms. Kathryn McLaughlin, Research Fellow, Landau Network-Centro Volta (LNCV), Como, Italy [formerly : Publications Assistant, Harvard-Sussex Program, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK]
*Office: LNCV, Villa Olmo, Via Cantoni 1, I-22100, Como, Italy, Tel.: (++39-031) 579 820, Fax: (++39-031) 570 174, E-Mail care of : gabriella.morini@centrovolta.it

Dr. Caitriona McLeish (Ireland), Research Fellow, Science & Technology Policy Research (SPRU), The Freeman Centre, University of Sussex,, Brighton BN1 9QE, UK
*Office: SPRU, The Freeman Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QE, UK; Tel.: (++44-1273) 873 556, Fax: (*44-1273) 685 865, E-mail: C.A.McLeish@sussex.ac.uk

Dr. Kay Mereish, Chief, Biological Planning and Operations, UNMOVIC, New York, NY, USA [formerly:? Chief Scientist at ITT; National Security Council, Department of Commerce, Department of States and USAMRIID-Fort Detrick]
Office: UN Secretariat Building ?UNMOVIC, 42nd Street and 1st Avenue, Room S-3001F, New York, NY 10017, Tel.: (++1-212) 963-4094, Fax: (++1-212) 963-8001, E-mail:.? mereish@un.org

Prof. Matthew S. Meselson, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
*Office: Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, 7 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA, Tel.: (++1-617) 495-2264, Fax: (++1-617) 496-2444, E-mail: msm@wjh.harvard.edu

Mr. Piers D. Millett, Project to Strengthen the Biological Weapons Convention, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK
*Office: ?Project to Strengthen the Biological Weapons Convention, University of Bradford, Bradford, W. Yorks. BD7 1DP, UK, Tel.: (++44-1274) 234187, E-mail: P.D.Millett@Bradford.ac.uk

Prof. Kathryn Nixdorff (USA/Germany), Dept. of Microbiology and Genetics, Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany
*Office: Dept. of Microbiology and Genetics, Darmstadt University of Technology, Schnittspahnstr. 10, D-64287 Darmstadt, Germany, Tel.: (++49-6151) 163955, Fax: (++49-6151) 162956, E-mail: nixdorff@bio.tu-darmstadt.de

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]
Office: Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD7 1DP, UK, Email: Graham_Pearson@compuserve.com

Dr. Peter Prosser, UNMOVIC Analyst, UNMOVIC, United Nations, New York, NY, USA [formerly:? WMD Section Head, Australian Department of Defense]
Office: UN ?UNMOVIC, 42nd Street and 1st Avenue, Room S-3001D, New York, NY 10017, Tel.: (++1-917) 367-3377, E-mail:.?prosserp@un.org

Mr. Francesco Quattrini, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Center for the Politics of International Security, Weapons and Disarmament Section, Berne, Switzerland
*Office: ?Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Center for the Politics of International Security, Weapons and Disarmament Section, Berne, Switzerland, Tel.: (++41-31) 324-5741, Fax: (++41-31) 324-9067, E-mail: lukas.rosenkranz@eda.admin.ch Francesco.quattrini@eda.admin.ch

Mr. Guy Roberts, Principal Director, Negotiations Policy. Department of Defense. Washington, DC, USA [formerly: Associate Counsel (Arms Control), Department of the Navy, DOD]
Office:? OSD/OASD/ISP/NP Rm 4c762, 2900 Defense Pentagon, Washington DC 20301-2900, Tel.: (++1-703) 695-4503, Fax:? (++1-703) 693-4576, E-mail:.guy.roberts@osd.mil

Prof. Julian Perry Robinson, Sussex Director, Harvard-Sussex Program, Science & Technology Policy Research (SPRU), University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
*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

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]
*Office: Division of Natural Sciences, SUNY Purchase, 734 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, New York 10577-1400, USA; Tel. (++1-914) 251-6643, Fax: (++1-914) 251-6635, E-mail: bhrosenb@purvid.purchase.edu

Mr. Andreas C. Schr?der, 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]
*Office: Ausw?rtiges Amt, Referat 243, Werderscher Markt 1, D-10117 Berlin, Germany, Tel.: (++49-1888) 17-4543, Fax: (++49-1888) 17-54543, E-mail: 243-0@auswaertiges-amt.de

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]
*Office: Dept. of International Relations, LSE, University of London, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK, Tel.. (++44-20) 7955 7394, Fax: (++44-20) 7955-7446, E-mail: n.sims@lse.ac.uk

Mr. Nikita Smidovich (Russia), UNMOVIC, New York, NY, USA [formerly: positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR]
Office:? 866 UN Plaza New York NY 10017, USA, Tel.:? (++1-212) 963-9029, E-mail:? Smidovich@un.org

Mr. Scott Spence (USA), Harvard Sussex Program Hague Researcher at the OPCW, The Hague, The Netherlands
Office: OPCW, Johan de Wittlaan 32, 2517 JR The Hague, The Netherlands, Tel.: (++31-70) 416-3213, Fax: (++31-70) 306-3535, E-mail: Spence@planet.nl

Mr. David Steuerman, Implementation Officer for the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Non-Proliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament Division (IDA), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada [formerly: Trade Commission at Canadian Embassy in Japan (Tokyo)]
*Office: DFAIT, IDA, 125 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0G2, Canada, Tel.:? (++1-613) 995-9284, Fax:? (++1-613) 944-3105, E-mail: david.steuerman@dfait-maeci.gc.ca

Prof. Jean-Pierre Stroot (Belgium/Switzerland), retired Physicist ; Geneva Pugwash Office ; President of the Board of the Geneva International Peace Research Institute (GIPRI), Geneva, Switzerland [formerly: Director of Research, IISN, Belgium; Research Associate, CERN]
Office: GIPRI, rue de la Voie-Creuse 16, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland, Tel. (**41-22) 919 79 40, Fax: (**41-22) 919 79 43; E-mail:stroot@gcsp.ch

Mrs. Sabine Taufmann, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva, Switzerland
*Office: ?Permenent Representation of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Conference on Disarmament, 28c, chemin du Petit-Saconnex, 1209 Geneva, Switzerland, Tel.:? (++41-22) 730 11 64, Fax: (++41-22) 730 11 67, E-mail:? sabine.taufmann@diplo.de

Dr. Mark Wheelis, Senior Lecturer, Section of Microbiology, University of California, Davis, California, USA
*Office: Section of Microbiology, University of California, 1 Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616 USA, Tel. (++1-530) 752-0562, Fax: (++1-530) 752-3633, E-mail: mlwheelis@ucdavis.edu

Dr. Jack P. Woodall (USA), 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]
*Office: UFRJ, Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Depto. de Bioquimica Medica, Bloco D Subsolo Sala 16, Cidade Universitaria, 21941-590 Rio de Janeiro - RJ, Brazil, Tel.: (++55-21) 2270-5988 ext.142/143, Fax: (++55-21) 2270-8647, E-mail: woodall@promedmail.org

Ms. Angela Woodward (New Zealand), Legal Researcher, Verification Research, Training and Information Centre (VERTIC), London, UK [formerly: Programme Assistant, Programme for Promoting Nuclear Non-Proliferation (PPN), Southampton, UK (1998-99)]
*Office: VERTIC, Baird House, 15/17 St. Cross Street, London EC1N 8UW, UK, Tel.: (++4-20) 7440 5041, Fax: (++44-20) 7242 3266, E-mail: angela@vertic.org

Mrs. Yang Yi, Third Secretary, Permanent Mission of China, Geneva, Switzerland [formerly with Arms Control and Disarmament Department, Foreign Ministry of China]
*Office:? Permanent Mission of China, 11 Chemin de Surville, 1213 Petit-Lancy, Geneva, Switzerland, Tel.: (++41-22) 879-5671, Fax: (++41-22) 879-5660, E-mail: Yang_Yi@mfa.gov.cn

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)
*Office: BWPP, Avenue de S?cheron 12, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland, Tel.: (++41-22) 908-5836, Fax: (++41-22) 738-3582, Email: jpzanders@bwpp.org

Mr. Joshua Zarka, Counsellor, Israeli Mission, Geneva, Switzerland
*Office:? 1-3, avenue de la Paix, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland, Tel.:? (++41-22) 716 05 00, Fax: (++41-22) 716 05 55, E-mail: cd@geneva.mfa.gov.il

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Pugwash Staff:

Rome Office:? Claudia Vaughn and Mimma de Santis, Pugwash Conferences, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, via della Lungara 227, I-00165 Rome, Italy, Tel. (++39-06) 6872 606, Fax: (++39-06) 6878 376, E-mail: pugwash@iol.it

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