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Here you will find information about the outstanding group of speakers who participated in the International Seminar "Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament: The future of the NPT" , ordered per their position on the schedule.

Irma Arguello
 		Irma Arguello - Founder and Chair of the Non-proliferation for Global Security Foundation, an international private and non-profit initiative based in Buenos Aires. She focuses her public action on promoting the idea of a world free of WMD, and in particular, the abolition of nuclear weapons achieved through cooperation, fair global rules and equity among nations. She holds degrees in Physics, Business, and National Defense. She worked as a scientist at the National Atomic Energy Commission of Argentina and held managerial positions at international companies. She has developed and now participates in the directon of the brand-new Regional Postgraduate Course on Disarmament and Nonproliferation, to be launched in 2010. She is usually appointed to lecture different audiences and she wrote many articles, papers and OpEds about topics of her expertise.  
 Rebecca JohnsonRebecca Johnson - Executive Director of The Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy based in London and publisher of Disarmament Diplomacy, the respected international journal on global security and multilateral arms negotiations. She holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and writes extensively on the UN system and multilateral treaties, notably the NPT and CTBT, as well as other disarmament and nonproliferation negotiations, civil society, British defense policy, space weaponization and international security. She has served as a consultant to the EU and provided evidence to British, German and EU parliamentary committees. Her recent book on the CTBT, titled Unfinished Business was published by the UN in 2009.
 Rolf Ekéus

Rolf Ekéus - Chairman of the SIPRI Governing Board since 2002. He was a member of the Advisory Board on Disarmament of the Secretary General of the UN from 1998 to 2003, High Commissioner on National Minorities appointed by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) from 2001 to 2007, as well as on the Board of Directors of the Nuclear Threat Initiative. Since 2005, he has been a Commissioner of the International Commission on Missing Persons. He is also member of the Supervisory Council of the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe. From 1991 to 1997, he led the UN Special Commission on Iraq.

 González GálvezSergio González Gálvez - Doctor Honoris Causa from the Autonomous University of Nuevo León, lawyer, served for 42 years as a career diplomat, Ambassador Emeritus of the Mexican Foreign Service, Deputy Secretary of Foreign Relations for two administrations, Mexican Ambassador to Japan, and Law Consultant for the Mexican Foreign Office. He served as Mexican Delegate for the Disarmament Conference in Geneva, Mexican Ambassador to Brazil, Mexican Representative in 25 UN General Assemblies, participant in the negotiation and approval of the Tlatelolco Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean. Published author, he is currently an advisor for the National Secretary of Defense.
 Joseph Cirincione Joseph Cirincione - President of the Ploughshares Fund since 2008. He served previously as senior vice president for national security and international policy at the Center for American Progress and as director for nonproliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He worked in the U.S. House of Representatives as a professional staff member of the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Government Operations, and served as staff director of the bipartisan Military Reform Caucus. He is an expert advisor to the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States. He also serves as a member of the Advisory Committee to the Commission on the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism.
 Peter HakimPeter Hakim - President of the Inter-American Dialogue. He writes and speaks widely on hemispheric issues, is regularly interviewed on radio and television and has testified more than a dozen times before Congress. His articles have appeared in renowned newspapers and journals form the U.S and Latin America. He was a vice president of the Inter-American Foundation and worked for the Ford Foundation in New York and Latin America. He has taught at MIT and Columbia. He has served on boards and advisory committees for the World Bank, Council on Competitiveness, Inter-American Development Bank, Foreign Affairs en Español, Partners for International Change, and Human Rights Watch.
 Rafael GrossiRafael Grossi - Minister Plenipotentiary of the Argentine Foreign Service and Director General of Policy Coordination in the field of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. He served in the Argentine Mission to international organizations in Geneva, also at the Office of the Deputy Secretary for Foreign Policy and was then transferred to the Embassy of Argentina in Belgium where he served as Head of Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2002 he was appointed Chief of Cabinet of the Director General of the International Agency for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. He was Chairman of the Group of Experts of the UN on Registration of Conventional Arms. He represented Argentina in various forums such as the First Committee of the UNGA, the Commission for Disarmament, the IAEA and NATO.
 B.S PrakashB.S.Prakash - Ambassador of India to Brazil since 2008. He was Consul General of India in San Francisco. He has served in Indian Embassies in Germany, Saudi Arabia and Austria. He was the Deputy Chief of Mission in Sri Lanka and was India’s Ambassador in Uganda. In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Prakash was the head of the Division dealing with the UN. He has been a member of the Indian delegations to the United Nations and to a number of other multilateral conferences. He was India’s alternate representative to the IAEA in Vienna. He has led Indian delegations in discussions and conferences on a number of political issues.
 Dingli ShenDingli Shen - Professor of International Relations at Fudan University, Shanghai and Director of the university’s Center for American Studies. He is also Executive Dean of the Institute of International Studies. He is the Co- Founder and Director of China’s first non-government-based program on arms control and regional security, at Fudan University. Shen teaches nonproliferation, international security and China’s foreign policy in China and U.S. His research areas cover China-U.S. security and nuclear relationship, regional security and nonproliferation issues, and Chinese and American foreign and defense policies.
 Vladimir OrlovVladimir Orlov - Founder and President of The Russian Center for Policy Studies, Editor-in-Chief of Security Index Journal  and President of the Centre russe d'etudes politiques – PIR Center's European branch. In 1994 Dr. Orlov founded the PIR Center, also launched the first Russian journal on nonproliferation issues, Yaderny Kontrol and served as its Editor-in-Chief. In 2007 he launched a new Russian journal on international security issues, Security Index. Since 1997, Dr. Orlov has been a member of the Public Board at the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. He is a member of the Russian Pugwash Committee at the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the Monterey Nonproliferation Strategy Group and of the Trialogue Club International which he founded in 1993.
 Sergio DuarteAmbassador Sergio Duarte - High Representative for Disarmament since 2007.The Ambassador has served for 48 years in the Brazilian Foreign Service. His diplomatic appointments include a Permanent Mission to the UN in Geneva, where he was a member of the Brazilian delegation to the 18-nation Disarmament Committee. He was accredited Representative of Brazil before international organizations headquartered in Vienna and Governor for Brazil at the Board of Governors of the IAEA. In 1988, he was elected President of the Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty Prohibiting the Emplacement of Nuclear Weapons on the Seabed and the Subsoil Thereof. He served as Chairman of the Board of Governors of IAEA. In 2005, he was elected President of the VII Review Conference of the Parties to the NPT.
 
Odair Dias Gonçalves
Odair Dias Gonçalves - President of Brazil´s National Commission for Nuclear Energy (CNEN), President of the Administrative Council of Brazilian Nuclear Industries (INB) and President of the Administrative Council of Nuclebras. Dr. Gonçalves also lectures at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He holds a BSc in Physics from the University of São Paulo, a Masters and PhD in Physics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a Post Doctorate Degree from Hahn Meitner Institute in Germany.
 Olli HeinonenOlli Heinonen - Deputy Director General, Head of the Department of Safeguards, at the International Atomic Energy Agency, since July 2005. The Department of Safeguards is responsible for verifying that nuclear material placed under safeguards is not diverted to nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices and that there is no undeclared nuclear material or activities in non-nuclear weapons States party to the NPT. Before joining the International Atomic Energy Agency in 1983, he was a Senior Research Officer at the Technical Research Centre of Finland Reactor Laboratory Otakaari, Espoo, Finland. From 1999–2002, Mr. Heinonen was Director of Operations A and from 2002-2005, he was the Director of Operations B in the Department of Safeguards.
 Camilo Reyes Camilo Reyes Rodriguez - Director of the Observatory of Small and Light Weapons, Ammunition and Explosives and professor of Colombian Foreign Policy. He was Chancellor of Colombia and Deputy Foreign Minister. He has been officer of the diplomatic career and Consular of Colombia from 1973 until 2008. He is highly experienced on disarmament, human rights, international humanitarian law and in promoting and managing international cooperation. He has served as President of the International Conference of the UN on Illicit Trade of small and light weapons, President of the Conference on Disarmament and signed on behalf of Colombia the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Accumulation, Production and Transfer of Antipersonnel Mines.
 Alfredo LabbéAlfredo Labbé - Director of the International and Human Security Division of the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva where he participated in various debates on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, the trafficking of small and light weapons, and on disarmament. He represented Chile in the general debate of the “VII Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons”.
 Odilon Marcuzzo do Canto Odilon Marcuzzo do Canto - Secretary of the Argentine-Brazil Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials since 2007. From 2003 to 2005, he was the President of Brazil´s Science and Technology Foundation (FINEP). He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineer from Federal University of Santa Maria where he is now a Professor of Physics. He was Professor of Atomic and Nuclear Physics in different undergraduate and graduate courses at the same University until 1999, having been Head of the Physics Department, Director of the Natural and Exact Sciences Center and Dean of the University. He also holds a Master and a PhD in Nuclear Engineering form the University of California – Berkley.
 Rolf Mützenich Rolf Mützenich - Representative of Cologne as a Member of the German Bundestag for the Social Democratic Party since 2002. He has written extensively on the regional security framework and the role of regional powers like Syria and Iran, nuclear proliferation and Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the Israeli- Palestinian peace process, and the role of the German Armed Forces in Lebanon. Mr. Mützenich serves as a full member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Subcommittee on Disarmament and Arms Control. He is an alternate member on the Committee for Work and Social Security. Since 2004, he has served as the speaker on disarmament for the SPD caucus.
 Yury YudinYury Yudin - Senior Researcher at UNIDIR and manager of the Multilateral Approaches to the Nuclear Fuel Cycle project. Previously, he was Director of a Russian NGO, the Analytical Center for Non-proliferation, and Senior Researcher at RFNC–VNIIEF, the Russian Federal Nuclear Centre at the All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics in Sarov. He graduated from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute as a nuclear physicist and holds a PhD in nuclear engineering. He has special expertise in nuclear engineering, nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament.
 Álvaro BermúdezÁlvaro Bermúdez - Former Director of Energy and Nuclear Technology for Uruguay. Member of the Nuclear Energy Commission created to study the implantation of the nuclear option in Uruguay. He was Uruguay’s representative to the IAEA’s Annual International Conference. Published author and international consultant, he has experience in the field of electric energy plants in Irak, Argentina; industrial installations at the Petrochemical Pole of Bahia Blanca, at the aluminum facilities of Tajikistan and petroleum engineer in Schlumberger, among several other countries.
 Gareth EvansGareth Evans - President of the International Crisis Group since 2000. He has been involved for 21 years in Australian politics. As Foreign Minister, he was best known for his role in developing the UN peace plan for Cambodia, helping conclude the Chemical Weapons Convention, and helping initiate new Asia Pacific regional economic and security architecture. He was Co-Chair of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, and a member of the UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, the Blix Commission on WMD and the Zedillo International Task Force on Global Public Goods. In 2008, he was appointed Co-Chair of the International Commission on Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament. He is also a member of the UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Committee on Genocide Prevention.
 Ramesh ThakurRamesh Thakur - Founding Director of the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Canada. He was previously Senior Vice Rector of the UN University (and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations); a Commissioner and one of the principal authors of The Responsibility to Protect, Senior Adviser on Reforms, and Principal Writer of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s second reform report, and serves on the international advisory boards of institutes in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America.
 Pierre GoldschmidtPierre Goldschmidt - Nonresident Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Association Vinçotte Nuclear. He was the Deputy Director General, Head of the Department of Safeguards at the International Atomic Energy Agency from 1999 to 2005. Before the IAEA, Goldschmidt was, for 12 years, Director General of Synatom. He was a member of the Board of Eurodif. He has headed numerous European and international committees, including as Chairman of the Uranium Institute in London and Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Euratom Supply Agency.
 Gustavo AinchilGustavo Ainchill - Lawyer, career diplomat since 1985 and Plenipotentiary Minister. He has served in Treaties, as Director of the General Bureau for International Security, Nuclear and Spacial Affairs (DIGAN) and the Secretariat of Economic Relations. He was member of the Argentine Mission for Disarmament, stationed at the Argentine Embassy for the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, and at the Permanent Mission of Argentina to the UN. He is a specialist in nuclear, disarmament and environmental issues.
 Susan BurkSusan Burk - Special Representative of the President Obama for Nuclear Non-proliferation Affairs, with the rank of Ambassador since June, 2009. She served as the first Deputy Coordinator for Homeland Security in the State Department’s Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism. She coordinated the Department’s handling of cross-cutting policy issues related to homeland security and counterterrorism. She established and chaired the State Department’s Homeland Security Coordinating Committee. Also, she served as Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Nonproliferation and as chief U.S. negotiator for the Statement of Interdiction Principles. She joined the Bureau of Nonproliferation in 2002 as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nonproliferation Controls.

 

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