Dr. Athem Alsabti, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of London Observatory / University College London; International Relations Officer for the Iraqi Academy of Science; Founder of the Iraqi National Observatory and a Founding member of the Iraqi National Academy of Science; Fellow of the British Royal Astronomical Society and Member of the International Astronomical Union.
Amb. Wa’el N. Al-Assad, Director, Disarmament & Multilateral Relations Department, League of Arab States, Cairo, Egypt.
Amb. Sergey Batsanov, Director, Geneva Office, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs; Member, Pugwash Council; Member, International Advisory Board, Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), Russia [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 USSR/Russian Federation to the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva (1989-93)].
Prof. Gabriel Baramki, Partner, Alternative Ways Educational Consulting Service; President, Palestinian Council for Justice and Peace [formerly: Consultant to the Palestinian Ministry of Higher Education, Ramallah; Acting President, Birzeit University; Secretary-General, Palestinian Council for Higher Education; Member, Pugwash Council].
Mrs. Haifa Baramki, Management & Training Consultant, Ramallah, Palestine; Vice-President of the YWCA of Palestine [formerly: Director, Continuing Education Center, Birzeit University].
Ms. Nomi Bar-Yaacov, Foreign Policy Adviser on Middle Eastern Affairs, London, UK; [Formerly: Head of the Middle East Conflict Management Program, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), London].
General Sir Hugh Beach, GBE, KCB, MC, Board Member of VERTIC and ISIS, London, UK [formerly : Director of Army Staff Duties at the Ministry of Defence (1971-3), Commandant of the Army Staff College at Camberley (1974-5), Deputy Commander-in-Chief United Kingdom Land Forces (1976-77) and Master General of the Ordnance (Army Board member for Procurement) (1977-81), member of the Security Commission (1982-91) and Director of the Council for Arms Control (1986-89), co-author of Flattering the passions, or, the bomb and Britain's bid for a world role (1999)].
Amb. Grigory Berdennikov, Ambassador at Large Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russian Federation).
Mrs. Sandra Ionno Butcher, Senior Program Coordinator, International Secretariat, Pugwash Conferences, UK; Director, Pugwash History Project; Honorary Research Associate, Science and Technology Studies Department, University College London, USA [formerly: Joint Executive Secretary, British Pugwash Group; Executive Director, Student Pugwash USA; Interim Research Director and Senior Analyst, British American Security Information Council].
Mr. Poul-Erik Christiansen, Middle East Project Consultant, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs and Chair, UK Student Pugwash, UK [formerly Research Officer, Center for International Studies and Diplomacy, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). .
Prof. Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, Secretary-General, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs; Member, Pugwash Executive Committee; Professor of Mathematical Physics, University of Milan, Italy [formerly: Secretary General, Union of Italian Scientists for Disarmament (USPID); Director, Program on Disarmament and International Security, Landau Network – Centro Volta, Como, Italy].
Mr. Hassan Elbahtimy, Researcher, The Verification Research, Training and Information Centre (VERTIC),
Professor Yair Evron, Professor Emeritus, and Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), Tel-Aviv, Israel (formerly Professor, Head, Department of Political Science; Head, Graduate Program, Security Studies, Tel-Aviv University; Visiting Professor or Research Fellow, Harvard, Cornell, UCLA, Concordia, MIT, Georgetown and Oxford Universities).
Amb. Nabil Fahmy, Dean, School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, The American University in Cairo, Egypt [Formerly: Ambassador at Large, Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador of Egypt to the United Nations].
Mr. Mark Fitzpatrick, Senior Fellow for Non-Proliferation, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), USA.
Dr. Paolo Foradori, lecturer at the University of Trento (Italy), Marie Curie - fellow at CNS Monterey (California) and currently visiting at the American University in Cairo (Egypt), Italy.
Mr Sylwin Gizowski, Acting Director, OSI Division and Strategic Coordination and Planning Officer, Office of the Executive Secretary, Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Poland [Formerly: Deputy Head of the Polish Delegation to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva (1987-1993), Representative of Poland to the Preparatory Commission for the OPCW (1993-1995), Head of the Politico-Disarmament Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland (1993-1995), Chairman of the Working Group B on Verification, International Cooperation and Assistance of the Preparatory Commission for the OPCW, Chairman of Expert Group on Chemical Weapons of the OPCW, Director of the Secretariat for the Policy-Making Organs of the OPCW (1997-2005)].
Prof. Galia Golan-Gild PhD, Professor of Government and Chair, Program on Diplomacy and Conflict Studies, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel; Professor Emerita, Department of Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Member, Pugwash Council [formerly: Darwin Professor of Soviet and East European Studies; Chair, Department of Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem].
Amb. Peter Gottwald, Commissioner of the Federal Government for Arms Control and Disarmament, Foreign Office in Berlin, Germany [formerly: Director for North America (1998-2002) at the Foreign Office, Deputy Chief of Mission of the German Embassy in Washington (2003-2006), Permanent Representative of the Republic of Germany to the UN and other International Organizations in Vienna (2006-2008)].
Mr. Rohit Gupta, Researcher, Center for International Studies and Diplomacy, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK.
Amb. Jeremy Issacharoff, Ambassador-at-Large for Strategic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem, Israel [formerly: Deputy Ambassador to the United States, Washington, DC (2005-2009); Deputy Director-General for Strategic Affairs, Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2001-2005); Member of UN Secretary-General's Advisory Board for Disarmament Affairs (2003-2008). Attorney, Member of Israel Bar.].
Amb. Peter Jenkins, CMG, Associate Fellow of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Partner in ADRgAmbassadors (www.adrgambassadors.com), UK [Formerly: UK ambassador to the IAEA (2001-2006), with former posts in Washington, Paris, Brasilia, and Geneva]
Dr. Mustafa Kibaroglu, Associate Professor (non-proliferation, arms control & disarmament matters), Bilkent University, International Relations Department, Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey [formerly: International Security Program & Project on Managing the Atom, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University].
Mr. Basem Masry, Democracy and Good Governance Consultant, London, England [formerly: executive director, Alquds 09; Director of Legislative Office, Moroccan Parliament, ARD; Project Director / Moroccan Parliament, SUNY Ctr for International Development; COP ROL Project, Jordan; COP for IT4youth Project].
Prof. David Menashri, Dean of Special Program and Director, Center for Iranian Studies, Parviz and Pouran Nazarian Chair for Modern Iranian Studies, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Dr. Steven Miller, Director, International Security Program, Center for Science & International Affairs (CSIA), Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Editor-in-Chief, International Security; Chair Pugwash Executive Committee, Member, Pugwash Council; Co-Chair, U.S. Pugwash Group [formerly: Senior Research Fellow, SIPRI; Assistant Professor, Defence and Arms Control Studies, MIT].
Prof. Dr. Götz Neuneck, Physicist, and Member, Pugwash Council; Deputy Director and Head of the “Interdisciplinary Research Group Disarmament, Arms Control and New Technologies”, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH), Hamburg, Germany; Member, Council of the German Physical Society (DPG) and Chairman of their Working Group “Physics and Disarmament” in the Deutsche Physikalische Gesselschaft.
Dr. Daniel Plesch, Director, MA International Studies and Diplomacy, Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy (CISD), School of Oriental and Asian Studies (SOAS), London, UK; Author, Broadcaster; Honorary Fellow, Birkbeck College, University of London and Visiting Senior Research Fellow, University of Keele [formerly: Founder (1987), British American Security Information Council (BASIC); from 2001: Senior Research Fellow, Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies].
Dr. Sabri Saidam, Fateh Council co-chair, advisor on telecommunications and information technology to the President of the Palestinian Authority [Former Palestinian Minister of Telecommunications and Information Technology].
Dr. Gary Samore, Special Assistant to the President and White House Coordinator for Arms Control and Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Amb. Svein Sevje, Norwegian Ambassador to Israel, Norway [formerly: Ambassador to Sudan, Special Envoy for the Middle East (2006-2008), Ambassador to Syria and Lebanon (2002-2006), Head of the Middle East Section, MFA, Oslo (1998-2002); Minister-Counsellor in the Embassy in Tel Aviv/Head of the Representative Office to the Palestinian Authority (1994-98). Served in Brasilia, Madrid, New Delhi, Berlin (GDR)].
Amb. Mohamed Shaker, Chairman, Egyptian Pugwash Group, and Chairman, Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs (ECFA), Cairo [formerly: Ambassador to the UN (New York), Vienna (IAEA) and London].
Dr. Aharon Zohar, Senior Consultant on national planning to the National Planning Administration, and Head of the construction of 11 Bedouin new towns; Consultant, Regional and Environmental Planning, Carmei-Yosef, Israel [formerly: Director, Ashdod Regional Association for Environmental Protection].
