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Pugwash Meeting no. 278

18th Workshop of the Pugwash Study Group on the
Implementation of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Conventions:
The Resumption of the Fifth BWC Review Conference 2002 and Beyond

Geneva, Switzerland, 9-10 November 2002


Participant List

Mr. Sameh Aboul-Enein
Counsellor for Disarmament, Mission of Egypt to the UN, Geneva, Switzerland

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

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

Mr. Abdul Basit
Chargé d’Affaires, Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland

Amb. Serguei Batsanov
Director, Special Projects, Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), The Hague, The Netherlands

Ms. Una Becker
PhD Associate, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), Frankfurt, Germany

Mr. Bernhard Brasack
Head of the CW/BW Division, Foreign Office, Berlin, Germany

Dr. Vladimir S. Bundin
Senior Specialist, Agency on the Munitions of the Russian Federation, National Authority for CWC, Biology Department, Moscow, Russia

Col. (ret.) Pierre Canonne
Member, Pugwash Council ; Senior Lecturer, Disarmament and Arms Control, Univ. Marne-la-Vallés/Paris, France

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

Prof. Paolo Cotta-Ramusino
Secretary General, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs; Professor of Mathematical Physics, University of Milan, Italy

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

Dr. Brian Davey
Head, Health and Safety Branch, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), The Hague, The Netherlands

Ms. Patricia Frericks
WHO Intern, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland

Prof.. Erhard Geissler
retired Head, Bioethical Research Group, Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Dr. Jozef Goldblat
Vice President, Geneva International Peace Research Institute (GIPRI), Geneva, Switzerland; Consultant, United Nations, Geneva

Ms. Chandre Gould
Senior Researcher, Centre for Conflict Resolution, Cape Town, South Africa

Mr. Edward H. Hammond
US Director of the Sunshine Project, Austin, Texas

Dr. Gert Harigel
Senior Physicist (Emeritus), European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland

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

Mr. Peter Herby
Coordinator, Mines-Arms Unit, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Geneva, Switzerland

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

Mr. Koichi Ito
Director, Biological and Chemical Weapons Conventions Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tokyo, Japan

Dr. Martin Kaplan
Member, Pugwash Council; Director, Pugwash Conferences Geneva Office

Dr. Alexander Kelle
Marie Curie Research Fellow, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK

Prof. Eduard Kellenberger
retired Professor, Institut de Génétique et Biologie Microbienne (IGBM), Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Prof. Barry Kellman
Director, International Weapons Control Institute, DePaul University College of Law, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Dr. David Kelly
Senior Adviser, Proliferation and Arms Control Secretariat, Ministry of Defence, London, UK

Mr. Ian Kenyon
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Mountbatten Centre for International Studies, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, UK

Mr. Patrick Lamb
Deputy Head, Non-Proliferation Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London, UK

Mr. Richard Lennane
Political Affairs Officer, Secretary of the Fifth Review Conference of the BWC, UN Department for Disarmament Affairs (Geneva Branch), Geneva, Switzerland

Dr. Patricia Lewis (UK)
Director, UNIDIR, Geneva, Switzerland

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

Dr. Jez Littlewood
Research Fellow, Mountbatten Centre for International Studies, Department of Politics, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

Ms. Kathryn McLaughlin
Research Associate, Landau Network-Centro Volta

Prof. Robert Mathews
Principal Research Scientist, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia

Dr. Oliver Meier
International Representative and Correspondent, Arms Control Association (ACA), Berlin, Germany

Mr. Piers D. Millett
Doctoral Candidate, Project on Strengthening the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK

Prof. Matthew S. Meselson
Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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

Mr. Angelo Persiani
First Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Italy to the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva, Switzerland

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

Mr. Roger Roffey
Director of BW-Defence Research, Swedish Defence Research Agency, FOI NBC-Defence, Umeå, Sweden; and Ministry of Defence, Unit for International & Security Affairs, Stockholm; Member of the Board, Swedish Pugwash Group

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

Mr. Andreas C. Schröder
Deputy Head of BW/CW Section, Department for Disarmament and Arms Control, Foreign Office, Berlin, Germany

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

Amb. Ali-Ashgar Soltanieh
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tehran, Iran [formerly : Deputy Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations, Geneva]

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

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

Dr. Annika Thunborg
First Secretary, Swedish Mission to the UN in Geneva, Switzerland

Amb. Tibor Toth (Hungary)
Chairman, Ad Hoc Group of the States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention, Geneva, Switzerland

Ms. Fiona Tregonning (New Zealand)
Harvard Sussex Program Hague Researcher at the OPCW, The Hague, The Netherlands

Dr. Mark Wheelis
Senior Lecturer, Section of Microbiology, University of California, Davis, California, USA

Ms. Angela Woodward
Legal Researcher, Verification Research, Training and Information Centre (VERTIC), London, UK

Dr. Jean Pascal Zanders
Project Leader, CBW Project, SIPRI, Solna, Sweden

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Pugwash Staff:

Rome Office: Claudia Vaughn, Pugwash Conferences, Rome, Italy
Geneva Office: Ida Milli, Pugwash Conferences, Geneva, Switzerland