Andreas Persbo
Executive Director
andreas.persbo [at] vertic.org

Andreas Persbo was appointed Executive Director in February 2010 by the Board of Trustees at the 2010 Annual General Meeting.

He specializes in nuclear arms control. This includes work on confidence-building measures between States and the verification of nuclear disarmament. Andreas is also responsible for maintaining the organization's watching brief on issues relating to the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and International Atomic Energy (IAEA) safeguards. He also monitors the development of verification mechanisms for the proposed Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty (FMCT).

In addition, he acts as the chief liaison to the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization in respect to national implementation of nuclear arms control agreements.

Andreas holds an juris kandidat (LL.B. LL.M) in public international law and European human rights from Stockholm University, Sweden. Formerly a legal practitioner and a consultant with the British American Security Information Council (BASIC), Andreas has been with VERTIC since 2004.

He is a member of the International Law Association and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

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Angela Woodward
Programme Director - National Implementation
angela.woodward [at] vertic.org

Angela Woodward specializes in the legal, policy and technology aspects of arms control and disarmament verification across the nuclear, biological, chemical and conventional weapons fields. She has published and spoken widely on BTWC implementation and verification. In 2005 she initiated VERTIC’s programme to provide legislative assistance for national implementation of the BTWC. Along with VERTIC colleague Andreas Persbo, Angela is also currently working on the UK-Norway process on verifying nuclear warhead dismantlement.

Angela joined VERTIC in April 1999 and was promoted to Deputy Director in January 2005 and Executive Director in August 2007. She stepped down to manage the NIM programme in June 2009.

During 2006 she served as an adviser to the chair of the UN Group of Governmental Experts on Verification in All its Aspects and as a non-official member of the New Zealand delegation to the BTWC Sixth Review Conference. From April 2006 to March 2007 she was the Legal Coordinator for the EU Joint Action on the BTWC (2006/184/CFSP) and was subsequently a UK legal expert to this activity. From January 1998 to April 1999 she worked for the Programme for Promoting Nuclear Non-Proliferation (PPNN) at the Mountbatten Centre for International Studies, University of Southampton, United Kingdom.

Angela holds an LLM in Public International Law (Merit) from the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, and a BA (Hons) in Political Science and an LLB from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. She is a Member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and an Associate Member of the UK Higher Education Academy. Angela holds joint New Zealand/British nationality.

Angela is a non-resident staff member based in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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David Cliff
Research Assistant
david.cliff [at] vertic.org

David joined VERTIC’s Nuclear Arms Control and Disarmament Programme as a Research Assistant in May 2010, having previously worked at VERTIC as an intern. His work encompasses a range of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation issues, particularly within the context of VERTIC’s work with the UK-Norway Initiative on verified warhead dismantlement and its work in support of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. David also contributes to VERTIC’s quarterly publication Trust & Verify and provides assistance to the work of the National Implementation Measures and Environment programmes.

David holds a BA in Geography and an MA in International Affairs, both of which he studied for at the University of Exeter. In addition to his previous intern role at VERTIC, David has also interned at the International Relations and Security Network in Zurich, where he wrote several articles on nuclear weapons issues for online publication.

Hassan Elbahtimy
Researcher
hassan.elbahtimy [at] vertic.org

Hassan contributes to VERTIC’s Nuclear Arms Control program. This includes work on verification of nuclear disarmament and researching nuclear confidence-building measures between States with a focus on Middle East, South Asia and Africa.

Hassan Elbahtimy is currently a PhD candidate in War Studies Kings College London. He holds M.B.B.Ch from Cairo University, International Relations Graduate Diploma from American University in Cairo and MA in Science and Security from War Studies Department, Kings College London. In 2006, he was awarded the United Nations Disarmament Fellowship upon successful conclusion of the program. Hassan is fluent in Arabic, English and French.

Rocío Escauriaza Leal
Legal Officer
rocio.escauriaza [at] vertic.org

Rocío is researching the status and effectiveness of national implementation measures adopted for the Biological Weapons Convention, the Chemical Weapons Convention and United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004) for VERTIC's National Implementing Measures Project. She is directly involved in providing legislative assistance to States Parties to implement the Biological Weapons Convention and the development of assistance tools to that end. She also participates in the organization of VERTIC workshops and meetings on national implementation issues.

Rocío has a Law degree from the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid and a LLM in International Law from the University of Westminster where she researched the International Protection of Children's Rights. She has volunteered for the Fairtrade Foundation and has previously worked within the private sector as a lawyer and interned in IBM. Rocío is fluent in Spanish, French and English.

Larry MacFaul
Senior Researcher
larry.macfaul [at] vertic.org

Larry MacFaul manages VERTIC's environment programme. Larry works on treaty architecture and implementation issues. His work has focused on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Kyoto Protocol and proposals for the post-2012 climate change regime, including monitoring, reporting, review, verification and compliance issues.

Larry’s work in this area currently focuses on proposed mechanisms to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD). He is examining the role of monitoring, reporting and verification systems (MRV) in these mechanisms, with a particular emphasis on governance and institutional issues.

He also focuses on illegal logging issues. Larry is currently working on the development and implementation of the Chatham House illegal logging indicators project which measures the extent and effectiveness of the response to illegal logging across a range of countries and sectors. The indicators cover awareness of the issue, government policy development and implementation, private sector policy development and implementation, and what is known about the extent of illegal logging and associated trade. The project currently studies progress in 12 countries. Monitoring of these indicators is to take place biennially.

Larry has published and spoken widely at a range of national and international forums on environmental treaties and related areas. He also coordinates VERTIC’s publication series and acts as joint editor for Trust & Verify and VERTIC Briefs. Larry also assists with review for external climate change publications and is on the editorial board of a forthcoming publication, ‘Climate Law Compliance: Cases and Theory’.

He maintains a watching brief and carries out work on treaty architecture, implementation, monitoring and verification issues across the environmental treaty field and other environment-related international and regional processes.

In addition, Larry assists with various aspects of VERTIC's arms control & disarmament programme.

Larry has a Master's degree in Environmental Assessment and Evaluation from the London School of Economics and a BA in Classics from Oxford University.

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Scott Spence
Senior Legal Officer
scott.spence [at] vertic.org

Scott is undertaking a global review and analysis of national implementing measures for the Biological Weapons Convention and, by extension, the biological weapons-related sections of UN Security Council Resolution 1540. He is leading assistance activities, including workshops in capitals, with the objective of assisting governments to prepare draft legislation to implement the Biological and Chemical Weapons Conventions.

Scott previously worked at Interpol and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. He also worked as an attorney in the New York office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.

Scott earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law and an LL.M. in Public International Law from Leiden University, and undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Virginia (with high distinction) and Harvard University. Scott speaks French and Spanish. He is a member of the International Law Association.

Scott is a non-resident staff member based in The Hague, Netherlands.

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Jasper Pandza
Volunteer to the Executive Director (2009-2010)
jasper.pandza [at] vertic.org

Jasper is currently consulting with VERTIC.

Jasper holds a BSc in Physics and a MA in Science & Security from the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. In September 2009, he started a PhD research project at the Department with the aim of exploring the potential of using deterrence as a means to counter radiological and nuclear terrorism. Besides his research topic, his interests lie in CBRN weapon proliferation and verification.

Meena Singelee
Volunteer to the Arms Control & Disarmament Programme (2009-2010)
meena.singelee [at] vertic.org

Meena holds a BSc (hons) in Politics and a MA in International Relations from the the University of Bristol. She has previous work experience as an analyst with the Embassy of the Republic of Korea and as project officer with the EU delegation to Mauritius. She is fluent in French and Creole and knows basic Hindi and Tamil.

Hugh Chalmers
Intern (May to June 2010)
Hugh.Chalmers[at] vertic.org

Hugh holds a BSc with Honours in Astrophysics from the University of Edinburgh, and is currently undertaking an MA in Science and Security at Kings College, London, where he is focussing his study on the science of arms control verification. Hugh is currently an intern on the VERTIC arms control and disarmament programme and is also an intern for the Centre for Science and Security Studies at Kings College.

Professor Colin McInnes
colin.mcinnes [at] vertic.org

Professor McInnes holds a personal chair in International Politics at Aberystwyth University. He is the University’s Dean of Graduate Studies and was formerly Head of the Department. He has lectured at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and was a Visiting Research Fellow at the centre for Defence Studies, University of London.

He was also a Special Advisor to the House of Commons Defence Committee as well as Chair of the British International Studies Association. His primary research interest concerns the relationship between global health, particularly HIV/AIDS, and foreign and security policy. Professor McInnes also lectures on war, strategy and intelligence, and is well published on topics concerning modern warfare, military strategy, and international security.

Dr. Edward Ifft
ed.ifft [at] vertic.org

Dr. Ifft, a retired member of the Senior Executive Service, is a Foreign Affairs Officer at the State Department and an Adjunct Professor with Georgetown University’s Security Studies Programme.

He has served on the U.S. delegations to the SALT, TTBT, START and CTBT negotiations, was the Senior State Representative to both the START and CTBT negotiations, and served as Deputy U.S. Negotiator to START. Dr. Ifft has served as Deputy Director of the On-Site Inspection Agency and Senior Advisor to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. He served for three years as Executive Secretary of the U.S.-USSR Space Cooperation Agreement and was U.S. Acting Commissioner for the ABM Treaty for two years. He has authored numerous journal articles and chapters in two books published by the United Nations.

Ms. Nomi Bar-Yaacov
nomi.bar-yaacov [at] vertic.org

Nomi Bar-Yaacov is an international lawyer and Foreign Policy Adviser on Middle Eastern affairs, with extensive expertise in arbitration, mediation, and international organisations.

She advises governments, intergovernmental organisations and NGO’s on political and security issues in the Middle East. She also advises a number of investment banks and law firms on issues relating to her field of expertise. For the past six years she has testified before the Foreign Affairs Select Committee of the UK House of Commons in its investigations on Middle East security, including the latest hearing in February 2009 on the war in Gaza. She is a regular participant in Track II Diplomacy meetings on the Middle East peace process and the wider region. She is also a frequent commentator on Middle Eastern affairs for the BBC World Service, BBC World TV, SKY News, CNN and Al-Jazeera (Arabic and English).

Bar-Yaacov is the former head of the Middle East Conflict Management Programme at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London. Earlier in her career, she worked as a political adviser at the United Nations both in the Executive Office of the Secretary General, and in the Department of Political Affairs in the Organisation’s Headquarters in New York. She was also legal adviser to the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti, and political adviser to the UN mission in Guatemala. In the late 1990’s she worked as legal adviser for the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, and as a war crimes investigator in the Bosnian-Serb Republic.

At the turn of the millennium Bar-Yaacov worked as AFP’s diplomatic correspondent covering the Balkans and Middle East. Bar-Yaacov has won numerous awards and grants for her work, most notably from the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the United States Institute of Peace, the Ford Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. She has published extensively on issues relating to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, UN peacekeeping operations, international law and human rights in policy journals including the IISS’ quarterly Survival. She lectures on a regular basis in the NATO Defence College in Rome and a number of universities in the UK and Italy. She holds degrees in law from the University of Cambridge, the European University Institute and Columbia University in NY. She was also a Junior Research Fellow in the Middle East Centre at St Antony’s College, Oxford.

Dr. Odette Jankowitsch-Prevor
odette.jankowitsch-prevor [at] vertic.org

Dr. Jankowitsch-Prevor is a consultant with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and specialises in international nuclear law. She has a PhD in Law from Vienna University and has been a Senior Fellow researching international law at New York University.

She has also lectured at the International School for Nuclear Law, Montpellier, annually since 2001 as well as in various other institutions. Dr. Jankowitsch-Prevor’s expertise includes radiation protection, safety and security legislation, international treaties and conventions, and non-proliferation. She advises governments on nuclear legislation and conducts numerous training seminars both in the field as well as at IAEA headquarters.

Dr. Patricia Lewis
patricia.lewis [at] vertic.org

Dr. Lewis is the Deputy Director and Scientist-in-Residence at the James Martin for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute for International Studies. She previously served for ten years as Director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) and was also formerly the Director of VERTIC. She holds a BSc in Physics from the University of Manchester and a PhD in Nuclear Structure Physics from the University of Birmingham.

Dr. Lewis’s area of expertise concerns aspects of science, verification, arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation. She is well-published in these fields and has consulted for the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office on the CFE Treaty. She has also been a reviewer for the Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, a Member of the Tokyo Forum for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament and a Commissioner on the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (Blix Commission), as well as others.

Ambassador Richard Butler
richard.butler [at] vertic.org

Ambassador Butler is currently Global Diplomat in Residence, Professor, at the Center for Global Affairs, New York University; and Distinguished Scholar of International Peace and Security at the school of International Affairs at Penn State University.

He is the former Executive Chairman of the United Nations Special Commission to disarm Iraq (UNSCOM). Before that appointment he had been Australian Ambassador to the United Nations New York; Australian Ambassador for Disarmament, Geneva, and chaired the Canberra Commission on the elimination of Nuclear Weapons.

In 1996 he tabled the CTBT in the UN General Assembly and managed the campaign for its adoption. He also served, previously, as Diplomat in Residence at the Council on Foreign Relations, New York; and, as Governor of Tasmania, Australia. In 1998 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia “for services to international peace and disarmament”, and in 2003 he was made a Companion of the Order.

Dr. Robert J. Matthews
robert.mathews [at] vertic.org

Robert J. Mathews is a principal research scientist in the Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) and a senior fellow in the Faculty of Law at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

He is also scientific advisor to the Australian delegations to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague, Netherlands, and to the Biological Weapons Convention Ad Hoc Group in Geneva. Additionally, he is a member of the Australian Red Cross National Advisory Committee on International Humanitarian Law.

Dr. Rosalind Reeve
rosalind.reeve [at] vertic.org

Dr. Reeve is an associate fellow with the Energy, Environment and Development Programme at Chatham House in London as well as Senior Legal and Policy Adviser for the International Fund for Animal Welfare.

She has worked extensively as a consultant legal advisor and field investigator with organisations such as Defenders of Wildlife, Global Witness, IFAW, INECE, the Lusaka Agreement Task Force, UNEP, and the Zambian Ministry of Tourism. She also served as Campaign Director for the Environmental investigation Agency between 1989 and 1993. Dr. Reeve’s primary areas of expertise are CITES (international wildlife trade, ivory trade), environmental crime, environmental compliance and enforcement, the Convention on Biological Diversity, and other areas of African environmental studies.

Professor Graham Pearson
graham.pearson [at] vertic.org

Professor Graham Pearson is Visiting Professor of International Security at the University of Bradford. His primary areas of research concern the BTWC (Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention) and WMD inspection, verification and destruction regimes.

He was formerly the Director General and Chief Executive of the Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment with the Ministry of Defence (MoD). Professor Pearson works extensively on the strengthening of the international treaties totally prohibiting biological and chemical weapons, and has been involved in education, outreach and codes of conduct for chemists as a means of strengthening the safeguards against CBW production and proliferation. He has published extensively and has presented numerous papers and testimonies to international conferences and national committees.

Dr. Arian L. Pregenzer
arian.pregenzer [at] vertic.org

Dr. Arian L. Pregenzer is Senior Scientist at the Cooperative Monitor Center (CMC) at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She spearheaded the establishment of the CMC in 1994 in order to enable international technical cooperation on security problems.

She works on how sharable technology can contribute to achieving non-proliferation, arms control and other international security objectives through international technical cooperation. Dr. Pregenzer has worked on a diverse range of topics, including crisis prevention in Northeast Asia and nuclear material security in India and Pakistan.

She has recently worked closely with U.S. government officials as well with officials in Jordan to establish a CMC in Amman. She has also worked on revitalising the Iraq science and technology community. Dr. Pregenzer formerly served as a technical advisor to the Department of Energy’s (DoE) Office of Arms Control. During this period she represented the DoE at the multilateral chemical weapons negotiations at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva.

Robert Kelley
robert.kelley [at] vertic.org

Robert Kelley is a recently retired Director of the IAEA. He is a nuclear engineer from the United States who has worked in the US Department of Energy Complex for over 30 years. He has worked in nuclear nonproliferation efforts at Livermore, Los Alamos and was Director of the Remote Sensing Laboratory in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Bob has field experience as the Chief Inspector for IAEA in Iraq on several occasions including four years inspecting Iraq’s clandestine nuclear weapons program in the 1992 and 2002 time periods. He also participated in the evaluation of South Africa’s nuclear weapons in 1993, and the inspections of the vestiges of Libya’s nuclear weapons program in 2004. At IAEA headquarters he also served as a Senior Inspector for countries in South and Southeast Asia and Africa. He has carried out weapons inspections in Libya, Iraq, and South Africa, and normal inspections in Egypt, Turkey, South Korea, Taiwan, Syria, Tanzania, Pakistan, India, and DR Congo, among others.

Bob’s practical laboratory experience includes plutonium metallurgy, gas centrifuge design, weapons engineering, nuclear emergency response and remote sensing. He lives in the Vienna Woods suburb of Klosterneuburg, with his wife Kathy, who is a technical translator for the IAEA.

David Keir
david.keir [at] vertic.org

Originally a research chemist in academia, David Kleir joined the nuclear industry in the 1980s, as part of a UKAEA team, analysing nuclear reactor accidents and their environmental consequences worldwide.

Subsequently he headed a group looking at chemical and biological risks, and developing assessment methods for release of genetically modified organisms. He provided technical reportage for the European Union on member state implementation of GMO directives, as well as developing risk assessments for legacy anthrax and other biohazards.

Returning to nuclear issues in the late nineties, he then acted as a safety consultant in the UK nuclear weapons field, specialising in nuclear safety cases and environmental management systems. Since 2001 he has been a key member of the Arms Control Verification Research programme, based at Aldermaston.

Director of his own company, D.K. Scientific, he is both an integrated member of the AWE team and an independent voice within the scientific community.

Minister Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Victor S. Slipchenko
victor.slipchenko [at] vertic.org

Mr. Victor Slipchenko entered Soviet Union and later Russian Federation diplomatic service in 1968 upon graduation from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. Over more than 40 years of diplomatic service, Mr. Slipchenko had acquired vast experience in negotiation and implementation of arms control and disarmament agreements as well as in building both international and domestic consensus on these issues.

In particular, Mr. Slipchenko was an active participant in the trilateral negotiations on a comprehensive nuclear test ban in the late 70s and bilateral talks with the United States on the TTBT Verification Protocol in the 80s. During his diplomatic service , in particular in his capacity as Russian Foreign Ministry’s Deputy Director for Disarmament Affairs, Mr. Slipchenko had been actively involved in the formation and day-to-day implementation of the Russian arms control and non-proliferation policy, inter alia, by co-ordinating his country’s review and decision making processes on withdrawal and dismantlement of nuclear weapons as well as on the safe disposal of HEU and plutonium released as a result of Russia’s nuclear disarmament program.

In 1993, Mr. Slipchenko was appointed by the Russian Government as Deputy Chief Negotiator for CTBT in Geneva. In that capacity he had contributed to the elaboration in the Conference on Disarmament of a draft treaty on the subject, inter alia , while serving as Friend of the Chair on on-site inspections. Through his eleven-year service in the United Nations Secretariat, in particular in the UN Department for Disarmament Affairs, Mr. Slipchenko had acquired experience in arms control administration and management in an international organization. From 2005 to 2009, he had served as expert of the UN Security Council’s Committee 1540 on non-proliferation.

Mr. Slipchenko had participated in many international seminars and conferences on arms control and security issues and published numerous articles on these subjects both in Russia and abroad. In 2009, he authored a book entitled One Life of a Disarmament Diplomat. Mr. Slipchenko retired from his country’s foreign service with a diplomatic rank of Minister Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.

He is married and has two children.

General Sir Hugh Beach, GBE, KCB, MC
Co-chair
hugh.beach [at] vertic.org

General Sir Hugh Beach has had a distinguished military career with the British Corps of Royal Engineers which included seeing action in France in 1944 and in Java in 1946.

During the 1960’s he commanded an engineer regiment and an infantry brigade in Germany. He was later Director of the Army Staff Duties at the Ministry of Defence, Commandant of the Army Staff College at Camberley, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of United Kingdom Land Forces and ended his military career as Master General of the Ordinances between 1977 and 1981.

Sir Beach then went on to serve as Warden of St. George House, Windsor Castle (1981-1986), vice-Lord Lieutenant of Greater London (1981-1987), Chief Royal Engineer (1982-1987) and member of the Security Commission (1982-1991). He also chaired the Ministry of Defence Study Groups on Censorship in War (1983) and Education in the Army (1984). Sir Beach now researches and advises on defence policy, arms control and disarmament, and promotes concerns about ethical issues of peace and war.

In addition to being a member of VERTIC’s Board of Directors, he serves in the same capacity for the Council for Christian Approaches to Defence, the Centre for Defence Studies at King’s College London, the International Security Information Services (ISIS), and the British Pugwash Group. He also lectures and has published extensively.

Dr. Owen Greene
Co-chair
owen.greene [at] vertic.org

Owen Greene is the Chair of Management Board at the University of Bradford’s Centre for International Cooperation and Security. He is the author or co-author of 9 books and over 180 research articles, reports or book chapters, plus editor or co-editor of over 15 books, on questions relating to: arms export controls and supplier regimes (including EU, Wassenaar Arrangements, MTCR and NSG) and non-proliferation regimes; arms transparency and confidence-building measures; small arms and light weapons; conflict prevention; democratic governance, security, international assistance and co-operation in conflict-prone regions; security sector reform; regional security (especially Europe, sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia); and the development, implementation and effectiveness of international and regional co-operative arrangements relating to international security and international environmental problems.

He has directed and co-directed numerous research projects relevant to this field, and is the Director of the Consultancy contract on 'Conflict, Security and Development' (CSD), between the UK Department for International Development (DfID) and Bradford University's Centre for International Cooperation and Security, the major framework contract for providing DFID (and the other 'conflict prevention pool ministries - FCO and MoD) with expert advice and research consultancies on issues relating to conflict, security and development, including conflict reduction and prevention, small arms reduction and control, security sector reform, post-conflict peace-building, assistance to war-torn regions, confidence-building measures and illicit trafficking.

Dr Greene is an internationally recognised expert on issues of conflict and security, and is in high demand as a consultant or special advisor for the UN, OSCE, EU, UK and many governments and multilateral policy negotiations and meetings on such issues. Recent research and responsibilities have included Consultant to the UN, EU, and OSCE on small arms, leader of EU Council mission to Cambodia on co-operation in tackling small arms; Team leader for FCO scoping study on conflict prevention in the Western Balkans; Scoping Study on Security Sector reform in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Dr Greene has extensive and recent experience with conducting and overseeing projects relating to conflict and conflict prevention in West Africa, East Africa, Balkans, and South Asia as well as in Central and East Asia and Southern Africa

Professor Wyn Bowen
wyn.bowen [at] vertic.org

Wyn Bowen is Professor of Non-Proliferation & International Security and Director of the Centre for Science & Security Studies, in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London.

In 1994 he spent five months as a Center Associate of the Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Studies, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh. Wyn Bowen received his PhD (1997) and MA (1992) from the University of Birmingham, and a BA (Hons) from the University of Hull (1991). From September 2005 until August 2007 he was Professor of International Security in the Defence Studies Department at King's College.

In 1997-98 he served as a weapons inspector on several missile teams in Iraq with the UN Special Commission and has also worked as a consultant to the International Atomic Energy Agency. Wyn Bowen served as a Specialist Advisor to the House of Commons' Foreign Affairs Committee for inquiries into 'The Decision to go to War with Iraq,' (2003) and 'Weapons of Mass Destruction,' (2000).

He has written widely on proliferation and security related issues and was founding co-editor (2001-2003) of the journal Defence Studies. Prior to joining the College he spent two years as a Senior Research Associate of the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies California.