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Angela Woodward
Executive Director

angela.woodward [at] vertic.org

Angela Woodward researches the legal aspects of treaty negotiation, implementation and verification as well as the status of states' national legislation to implement treaty obligations. Her current work focuses on agreements prohibiting biological and chemical weapons. Angela manages VERTIC's programme on 'Promoting effective verification of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention,' under which she is preparing a study on 'Strengthening mechanisms and tools for verifying biological weapons compliance.' Angela also manages VERTIC's project on 'Enhancing national implementation of treaties and norms prohibiting weapons of mass destruction,' under which she is working with Andreas Persbo to develop training materials and model laws for national implementation of related agreements, including UN Security Council Resolution 1540, which reiterates the need for effective domestic controls to comply with these treaties and to prevent non-state actors proliferating nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, related materials and delivery systems. Jointly with Andreas, Angela is also conducting a comprehensive global survey of states' national implementation of treaties and norms controlling nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. In addition, she monitors the implementation of agreements regulating small arms and light weapons, in particular the 1997 Landmine Convention and United Nations arms embargoes.

Angela has an LLM in Public International Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in Political Science and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Angela previously worked for the Programme for Promoting Nuclear Non-Proliferation (PPNN) at the Mountbatten Centre for International Studies, University of Southampton.

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Rocio Escauriaza
Research Assistant

rocio.escauriaza [at] vertic.org

Rocio 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 NIM project. She is preparing case studies of states' penal and regulatory law and national oversight structures and will assist in organising VERTIC workshops and meetings on national implementation issues.
Rocio 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. Rocio 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 design and implementation issues in multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs). 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 and compliance issues. Larry maintains a watching brief and carries out work on treaty design, implementation, monitoring and verification issues across the MEA field and other environment-related international and regional processes.

In addition, he carries out work for 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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Andreas Persbo
Senior Researcher

andreas.persbo [at] vertic.org

Andreas Persbo manages VERTIC's nuclear arms control programme. 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 liasion to the International Atomic Energy Agency and the 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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Scott Spence
Consultant

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 will also be leading visits to capitals with the objective of assisting governments to prepare draft legislation to implement the Biological and Chemical Weapons Conventions.

Scott previously worked as the Biocriminalization Project Manager at Interpol and as a Harvard Sussex Program Researcher and Legal Consultant on national implementing measures at 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 is fluent in French and speaks intermediate Spanish.

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Unini Tobun (on leave until 6/2008)
Administrator

unini.tobun [at] vertic.org

Unini Tobun currently works as the administrator in VERTIC. She is responsible for VERTIC's financial accounts and payroll, IT network, website technical management, publication sales administration and general office management. She helps with the logistics for VERTIC events and travel, and also coordinates VERTIC's intern programme. She holds a BA (Combined Honours) in Business Administration and Property Management from the University College Northampton, and gained her MA in Information Systems Management at Bournemouth University in 2004. Her MA thesis focused on the Evaluation of CRM Implementation and Performance Measurement in the Public Sector.
   
 
  VERTIC Science Fellows
Further information about the VERTIC Science Fellowship programme is available here.
   
  Interns
 

For further information about VERTIC's internship programme, contact the relevant researcher: Andreas Persbo for nuclear matters; Rocio Escauriaza for biological and chemical matters and Larry Macfaul for matters relating to the environment.

   
  International Verification Consultants Network
  Richard Butler AO (arms control and disarmament verification)
Dr Roger Clark (seismic verification)
Jayantha Dhanapala (arms control and disarmament)
Dr Jozef Goldblat (arms control and disarmament agreements)
Dr Edward Ifft (arms control and disarmament agreements)
Dr Patricia Lewis (arms control and disarmament agreements)
Peter Marshall CMG OBE (seismic verification)
Dr Robert Mathews (chemical and biological disarmament)
Dr Colin McInnes (Northern Ireland decommissioning)
Dr Graham Pearson (chemical and biological disarmament)
Dr Arian Pregenzer (co-operative monitoring)
Dr Rosalind Reeve (environmental law)
 

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