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) [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)]

Dr. Vladimir S. Bundin, Senior Counselor, Department of Security & Disarmament Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Moscow [formerly: Head of the BTWC Department of the Russian Munition Agency, Moscow; Member, National Academy for Biotechnology of Russia; Chief Scientific Secretary, Academy of Biotechnology of Russia, and of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR]

Ms. Cécile Chauvallon, PhD Student, Ecole Supérieure de Commerce Extérieur (ESCE), Paris, France

Mr. Michael Crowley, Project Coordinator, Bradford Non-lethal Weapons Research Project, Department of Peace Studies, Bradford University, UK

Mr. Richard Ekwall, OPCW DG Chef de Cabinet, The Hague, The Netherlands

Prof. Georg Frerks, Professor of Conflict Prevention and Conflict Management, Centre for Conflict Studies, Utrecht University, The Netherlands; Professor of Disaster Studies, Wageningen University; Chairman, Pugwash Nederland [formerly: Senior Policy Advisor, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Head, Conflict Research Unit, Netherlands Institute of International Relations]

Mr. Richard Guthrie (UK), Co-ordinating Editor, CBW Events -- http://www.cbw-events.org.uk [formerly: Project Leader, CBW Project, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Solna, Sweden; Producer, CBW Conventions Bulletin, Harvard Sussex Program]

Mr. John Hart (US), Researcher, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Solna, Sweden [formerly: VERTIC (London); Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, California]

Dr. Alexander Kelle (Germany), Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Department of European Studies and Modern Languages, University of Bath, UK [formerly: Lecturer in International Politics, Queen’s University Belfast]

Dr. Walter Krutzsch, formerly: Deputy Head of delegation of DDR to the Conference on Disarmament; Chairman of working groups of the ad hoc Committee on Chemical Weapons; Senior legal officer under short-term contracts  in the Provisional Technical Secretariat / Technical Secretariat of the OPCW

Amb. Maarten Lak, Dutch Permanent Representative to the OPCW, The Hague [formerly: Director, Strategic Policy Planning, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Deputy Director, Regional European Affairs; Counsellor, Political and Consular Affairs, Netherlands Embassy Bonn; Team Netherlands’ EU Presidency team for Yugoslavia Conference; CSCW Vienna Deputy Head of Delegation; Deputy Director, Asia/Pacific, MFA]

Mr. Lee Litman, First Secretary, British Embassy The Hague, The Netherlands

Mr. Michael Luhan, Head Media & Public Affairs, Media and Public Affairs Branch, Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), The Hague, The Netherlands

Prof. Robert Mathews, Principal Research Scientist, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia ; Associate Professor, Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, University of Melbourne

Prof. DSc. Jiˇriˇ Matoušek, Professor of Toxicology, Masaryk University Brno, Faculty of Science, EU Research Centre of Excellence for Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, Brno, Czech Republic; Chairman, OPCW Scientific Advisory Board; Member, Research Advisory Board, American Biographical Institute; Member, Research Council, International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, UK; Accredited Representative of the WFSW to the UN Office, Vienna; Member, INES Executive Council; Head, Czech Pugwash Group [formerly: Director, Institute of Environmental Chemistry and Technology, Brno University of Technology; Director, Czechoslovak NBC-Defence R&D Establishment; Member, Czechoslovak Delegation to the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva; Visiting Professor, International Institute for Peace, Vienna]

Dr. Caitriona McLeish (Ireland), Research Fellow, Science & Technology Policy Research (SPRU), The Freeman Centre, University of Sussex,, Brighton BN1 9QE, UK
Home:  Flat 5 Fairways, Dyke Road, Brighton BN1 5AD, UK, Tel.: (++44-1273) 873556

Dr. Jan Medema, retired (2002) from TNO and currently part time Consultant in Biological and Chemical Defence [formerly: Head, Chemical and Biological Defence Research, TNO; Study Director (until 1999), NATO Long-Term Scientific Study for Chemical and Biological Defence (1999-2002)]

Amb. Arend Meerburg, retired Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands; Member: International Panel on Fissile Materials, IPFM, International Group on Global Security, Pugwash Netherlands

Dr. Oliver Meier, International Representative and Correspondent, Arms Control Association, Berlin, Germany; Research Fellow, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg [formerly: Staff person and advisor to Uta Zapf (member of German Bundestag); Senior Arms Control and Disarmament Researcher, Verification Research, Training and Information Centre (VERTIC); Senior Analyst, Berlin Information Center for Transatlantic Security (BITS); Visiting Fellow, Center for International Security and Arms Control, Stanford University]

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

Dr. Robert P. Mikulak, Director, Chemical and Biological Weapons Threat Reduction, Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, Washington, DC, USA

Mr. Patrice Palanque, Senior Planning Officer, OPCW, The Hague, The Netherlands

Amb. Lyn Parker, UK Permanent Representative to OPCW and Ambassador to the Netherlands [formerly: British High Commissioner to the Republic of Cyprus; previous overseas postings in Greece, India and Brussels (EU) as well as working in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Cabinet Office, London

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

Amb. Rogelio Pfirter, Director-General of the Technical Secretariat of the OPCW, The Hague, The Netherlands
*Office: OPCW, Johan de Wittlaan 32, 2517 JR The Hague, The Netherlands.

Prof. Julian Robinson, Sussex Director, Harvard-Sussex Program, Science & Technology Policy Research (SPRU), University of Sussex, Brighton, UK; Member, Pugwash CBW Steering Committee

Mr. Martin Rudduck, Head of CWC National Authority, London, UK

Miss Katie Smallwood, Research Student, Harvard Sussex Program, University of Sussex, UK [formerly: Intern / HSP Researcher, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons]

Dr. Thomas Stock, Sales Manager, Dynasafe Germany GmbH, Mülheim, Germany [formerly: SIPRI CBW Programme, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI (1988-1996); Sales Manager, Technip Germany GmbH and Mannesmann Demag, Düsseldorf, (1998-2002); Lobbe Munex GmbH (1996-1997)]

Ms. Lisa Tabassi, Legal Officer, Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), Provisional Technical Secretariat, Vienna, Austria [formerly: 1997-2007:  Legal Officer . OPCW Technical Secretariat; 1993-1997:  Senior Research Assistant, Legal Division, Provisional Technical Secretariat, Preparatory Commission for the OPCW]

Dr. Ralf Trapp (Germany), Consultant, CBW, Arms Control and Disarmament, Chessenaz, France [former positions at the OPCW: Senior Planning Officer, Office of the Deputy Director-General; Secretary, Review Conference Steering Group; Branch Head, Government Relations & Political Affairs; Branch Head, International Cooperation; Branch Head, Policy & Review; also former Member of the German as well as GDR CD delegations]

Mr. Gordon Vachon, Head, Inspection Review Branch, Inspectorate Division, OPCW, The Hague, The Netherlands [formerly: 2001-2002: Special Assistant to the Director-General, OPCW; 1998-2001: Canadian Alternate Permanent Representative to the OPCW; 1998 (May-Aug): Acting Director, Non-Proliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament Division (NACD), Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT), Canada; 1994-1998: Deputy-Director and Head of Verification Research, NACD/DFAIT; Senior Verification Research Officer; Assistant Professor of Strategic Studies, Collège Militaire Royal de Saint-Jean; Strategic Analyst at Operational Research and Analysis Establishment, Defence Research Board; and serving military officer (R22eR)]

Dr. Paul Walker, Legacy Program Director, Global Green USA (the US affiliate of Green Cross International, Mikhail Gorbachev, Chairman), Washington, DC, USA [formerly: Professional Staff Member, Armed Services Committee, US House of Representatives; Acting Director, Peace & Conflict Studies, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA; Co-director, Institute for Peace & International Security, Cambridge, MA; National Education Director, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Cambridge; Research Director, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge]

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

Ms. Angela Woodward (New Zealand/UK), Executive Director, Verification Research, Training and Information Centre (VERTIC), London; UK Teacher, Law Department, London School of Economics [formerly: Programme Assistant, Mountbatten Centre for International Studies, University of Southampton, UK (1998-99)]

Pugwash Staff: Claudia Vaughn, Pugwash Conferences, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, via della Lungara 10, I-00165 Rome, Italy, Tel. (++39-06) 6872 606, Fax: (++39-06) 6878 376, Mobile: (++39) 333 456 6661, E-mail: pugwash@iol.it

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