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Pugwash Conferences
on Science and World Affairs Pugwash
Council Selects New Officers The Pugwash Council is pleased to announce the selection of Prof. M.S. Swaminathan as the next President of Pugwash, and of Prof. Paolo Cotta-Ramusino as the next Pugwash Secretary General, both appointments to be affirmed by the 52nd Pugwash Conference being held in La Jolla, California from 9-14 August 2002, and to take effect at the end of the conference. Both appointments were unanimously made by the Pugwash Council at its recent meetings during the 51st Pugwash Conference in Agra, India, from 12-16 March. In addition, the Pugwash Council approved the creation of the position of Executive Director and named Dr. Jeffrey Boutwell to that role, effective immediately, for the period of the 10th Quinquennium through 2007. All three officers - the President, Secretary General, and Executive Director - will serve on the Pugwash Council during the 10th Quinquennium from 2002-2007. Prof. Swaminathan, father of the ever-green revolution in Asia, is UNESCO-Cousteau Chair in Ecotechnology, and Chairman, of the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation in Chennai (Madras), India. He brings to Pugwash a lifelong commitment to the importance of agricultural sustainability and food security as well as to the traditional Pugwash goals of conflict resolution and the elimination of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction. Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Milan, is a long-time participant in Pugwash activities as well as Secretary General of the Union of Italian Scientists for Disarmament (USPID) and Director, Program on Disarmament and International Security of the Landau Network - Centro Volta, Como, Italy. Jeffrey Boutwell has been working closely with the current Secretary General, George Rathjens, on Pugwash activities for several years now, and was previously Director of the International Security Studies Program at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a staff aide on the National Security Council during the Carter administration. As members of the search committee entrusted with the task of selecting the new officers of Pugwash, we feel that their diverse areas of expertise and perspectives complement each other greatly and will be of substantial benefit to Pugwash in the years ahead. Sir Michael Atiyah,
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