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

 
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 direction of the brand-new Regional Postgraduate Course on Disarmament and Nonproliferation launched in 2010. She is usually appointed to lecture different audiences and she wrote many articles, papers and OpEds about topics of her expertise.
Sergio Duarte - High Representative for Disarmament Affairs - United Nations (2007 - ). Retired Ambassador of the Foreign Service of Brazil. He was Ambassador in Managua, Ottawa, Beijing and Vienna (including international organizations in Vienna). He participated in twelve UN General Assemblies (Commission I). Advisor (1966-68) and subsequently Alternate Representative of Brazil (1979-86) at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. President of the Review Conference of the Treaty of Nuclear Weapons Prohibition in Seabed (1992) and of the Review Conference of the Treaty of Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (2005). Chairman of the Board of Governors (1999-2000) of IAEA. In the Brazilian Foreign Ministry he was Undersecretary of Control (1991) and Undersecretary of the Foreign Service (1991-93), among other charges.
José Luis Cancela - Permanent Representative of Uruguay to the UN, with the rank of Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador. He was chairman of the Committee on Disarmament and International Security of the UN General Assembly during the 64th Session. He held one of the Vice-Chairs of the 8th NPT Review Conference 2010. During his career in the Foreign Service of Uruguay he served in the embassies in Bulgaria, Belgium and Spain, in joint committees with the European Union, the Committee on the Application of Safeguards Agreement of the WTO, and the Meeting Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the OAS.
Sergio 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 twenty-five 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 to the National Secretary of Defense.
Gustavo Ainchill - Lawyer, Plenipotentiary Minister of the Argentine Foreign Service. He is the Director of International Security, Nuclear and Space Affairs (DIGAN) of the Argentine Foreign Ministry. He entered the diplomatic service in 1985. He took part in treaties and at the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Economic and DIGAN. He was assigned to the Mission of Argentina for Disarmament, the Embassy of Argentina in the Uruguay and the Permanent Mission of Argentina to the United Nations. He specializes in nuclear issues and disarmament, as well as environmental issues.
Rebecca JohnsonRebecca Johnson - Executive Director of the London-based Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy, and Vice Chair of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). 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 arms control negotiations, civil society, British defense policy, space weaponization and international security. She has served as a consultant to the EU, the International WMD Commission, and the UN, 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.
Corey Hinderstein - Vice President for International Programs of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI). She also led NTI’s work in developing and launching the new World Institute for Nuclear Security (WINS), a new international organization based in Vienna, Austria. Previously, Ms. Hinderstein was Deputy Director and Senior Analyst at the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS). Hinderstein is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, serves on the international Executive Committee for the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (INMM), member-at-large on the Board of Directors of ISIS, and is a member of Women in International Security. Ms. Hinderstein graduated cum laude from Clark University in Worcester, MA, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She has been with NTI since April 2006.
Hyun Cho - Deputy Minister for Multilateral and Global Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Republic of Korea. Prior to this he served as Ambassador for Energy and Resources (2008-2009), Deputy Permanent Representative of the Korean Mission to the United Nations in New York (2006-2008), and Director-General of International Economic Affairs (2004-2006). Having a special interest in development cooperation and trade, he has developed his diplomatic career in these and related fields in overseas posts including in the U.S, the Central African Republic, and Belgium, as well as secondment to the OECD Secretariat. He holds a Ph.D in Political Science from the University of Toulouse and recently taught at Ewha Women’s University in Seoul.
Anita Nilsson - Director of the IAEA Office of Nuclear Security. From 1996 to 2002, in the Department of Safeguards, she was Chair of the Information Review Committee. Before joining the IAEA, Ms. Nilsson worked in various managerial and leadership positions at the Swedish Nuclear Power Inspectorate, dealing with non-proliferation, international and national safeguards, bilateral nuclear supply and co-operation. She was in charge of the Swedish nuclear security support to the Newly Independent States and the Baltic States. Ms. Nilsson is Master of Science and Medical Doctor.
Masood Khan - Pakistan’s Ambassador to China (2008 - ). From 2005 to 2008, he was Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations and Other International Organisations in Geneva and also Pakistan’s Ambassador to the Conference on Disarmament. Earlier, Ambassador Khan worked as Foreign Office Spokesman in Islamabad; Director-General United Nations and Disarmament; and Director-General East Asia and Pacific. He has also served in Beijing, The Hague, New York (Permanent Mission to the UN), and Washington D.C. In 2005, in his capacity as Committee Chair, he helped resolve the issue of Internet Governance during the World Summit on Information Society. He was President of the Conference on Disarmament from June to August in 2005. In 2006, Ambassador Khan, as President of 6th Review Conference (RevCon) of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), steered the RevCon to a successful conclusion. He was also the Chairman of the BWC meetings in 2007.
Gary Samore - White House Coordinator for Arms Control, Weapons of Mass Destruction and Terrorism. Before joining the Obama Administration, he was Vice President for Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in New York. Before joining CFR, Dr. Samore was vice president for global security and sustainability at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in Chicago. From 2001 to 2005, he was Director of Studies and Senior Fellow for Nonproliferation at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London. Dr. Samore was Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Nonproliferation and Export controls during the Clinton Administration. Before the National Security Council, Dr. Samore worked on nonproliferation issues at the Department of State. In 1995, he received the Secretary of Defense Medal for Meritorious Civilian Service for his role in negotiating the North Korea nuclear agreement. Prior to the State Department, he worked at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Rand Corporation. Dr. Samore was a National Science Foundation Fellow at Harvard University, where he received his MA and PhD in government in 1984.
Vladimir Orlov - Founder and President of PIR 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. In 2010 Vladimir Orlov took part in the work of the Preparatory Committee for the 2010 NPT Review Conference as a member of the Russian delegation. Dr. Orlov participates in the work of several international centers and groups in the area of international security. He is a member of the Russian Pugwash Committee at the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); member of the Monterey Nonproliferation Strategy Group; Geneva Centre for Security Policy Associate Fellow; member of the Trialogue Club International which he founded in 1993.
Hilde Skorpen - Prior to being appointed ambassador for disarmament affairs in August 2010, Ms. Hilde Skorpen served as deputy permanent representative of the Norwegian mission to the UN in Geneva, and as representative to the Conference on Disarmament since August 2006. Prior to that, she was Deputy Director General at the Section for Disarmament and Non-proliferation at the Foreign Ministry. Ms. Skorpen has also been posted to the Norwegian delegation to NATO in Brussels and to Malaysia. Ms. Skorpen has a Ph.D in Political Science from Boston University, with Security studies as area of specialization.

Peter Sawczak - Political Counsellor at the Embassy of Australia in Washington since August 2008. Prior to this, he served as Counsellor at the Australian Mission in Brussels (2006-08) and was Director of Counter-Proliferation at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (2003-06), during which time he oversaw publication of a major government policy paper, Australia's Role in Fighting Proliferation (2005). Dr Sawczak has previously been on posting at the Embassy of Australia in Moscow (1994-98) and worked as an adviser on defence and security issues at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (2000-02). He holds a PhD is Slavic Studies from Monash University, where he is an Adjunct Research Fellow.

Luis Filipe de Macedo Soares -Ambassador, currently Permanent Representative of Brazil to the Conference on Disarmament. Mr. Macedo Soares was successively designated to the desks of all countries of the Hemisphere and, in 1968, he headed the Division of the Organization of American States. For 20 years, between 1969 and 1989, he participated in many meetings in the framework of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission. In 1979, Ambassador Macedo Soares took part in the negotiations for the Convention on Prohibition and Restriction on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) being until 1980 in charge of the disarmament desk in the Brazilian Chancery. From 1992-1995, he was designated Director General for the Americas. From 1998 to 2000, he was a member of the Group of Governmental Experts on Small Arms and Light Weapons convened by the UN Secretary General and Representative of Brazil to the Preparatory Committee of the United Nations Conference that took place in 2001. In 2003 he was appointed Undersecretary General for South America in the Ministry of External Relations and National Coordinator of the Common Market Group the executive body of the MERCOSUR. Also in 2003 he was designated Chief Negotiator at the Trade Negotiations Committee of the Free Trade Area of the Americas FTAA.
Roberto Cirimello -Chemical Engineer, with a Postgraduate course in Nuclear Metallurgy. He worked in the CNEA for 40 years in the development of nuclear fuel technology. He was head of the project that developed the CANDU fuel technology and Manager of the Fuel Cycle Area. At the IAEA, he performed as an international expert in Nuclear Fuel Technology in 5 countries. In the last decade, he was President of SAGNE (General Director's Advisory Group on Nuclear Power and Fuel Cycle) for 5 years and for 3 years chairman of the Steering Committee of the INPRO (International Project on Innovative Technology of Reactors and Fuel Cycle). He is currently an independent consultant in Nuclear Fuel Technology and Fuel Cycle, professor at the Instituto Balseiro and Advisory Board member of the Secretariat for Institutional Assessment at the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation.
Álvaro 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.
José Miguel Capdevilla -Foreign Service Officer of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile. He has served as Alternate Representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, Head of the Department of Defense and International Security of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has served in the embassies of Chile in the former Yugoslavia, Venezuela and now in the Chilean Embassy in Argentina, where he serves as political advisor.
Carmen Buján Freire - Career diplomat, since August 2010 Permanent Representative of Spain at the UN and International Organizations based in Vienna. Ms. Buján holds a law degree and started to work as a diplomat in 1993. She has been representing Spain in Rumania, Pakistan and Hungary. Advisory Member in the Coordination of Spain's Participation in the United Nations Security Council and Deputy Director General for International Affairs of Terrorism. She has been a Counselor at the Embassy of Spain in Buenos Aires and since 2008 to 2010 she was Director General for Strategic Affairs and Terrorism.
Roberto García Moritán - Career diplomat with the rank of Ambassador. Permanent Representative to the International Organizations in Geneva (1989-1993). Member of the Atomic Energy Commission Board (1994-1997). Director of INVAP and CONUAR. Assistant Secretary for Latin American Policy (1999-2001). Undersecretary of Foreign Policy (2001 - 2003). Vice-Chancellor (2003-2008). President of the Conference on Disarmament (1993 and 2009). Currently President of the Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on Trade of Conventional Arms Treaty.
Jayantha DhanapalaJayantha Dhanapala - He was a Secretary General of the Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process of Sri Lanka from mid 2004 to end of 2005. In November 2007 Dr. Dhanapala was unanimously elected President of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. He has had a distinguished career spanning the private sector, government, the United Nations and academia from 1962–2004. He entered the Sri Lankan Foreign Service in 1965 and served thereafter in diplomatic postings in London, Beijing, Washington D.C., New Delhi and Geneva, culminating in ambassadorial appointments in Geneva (1984–87) accredited to the UN and in Washington D.C. (1995–97). He represented Sri Lanka and chaired groups in the Non-aligned Movement and SAARC Conferences, Commonwealth meetings, the Conference on Disarmament and disarmament treaty related meetings, UNCTAD, the Commission on Human Rights and other human rights bodies, ILO, WHO, WIPO, and WMO amongst others. He was President of the 1995 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review and Extension Conference. He served as Director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Geneva (1987–92). Later, Dhanapala was hand picked by Kofi Annan for Under Secretary General to re-establish the Department of Disarmament after the UN reforms of 1997 (1998–2003).
 Gioconda Ubeda -  Ms. Ubeda has held several positions in the Foreign Service and the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica. Counselor in Mexico and Argentina, Charge d'Affaires ad-hoc in Argentina, and Minister Counselor and General Consul in this country. She has been Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Costa Rica in Mexico and Presidential Commissioner for the Project of Mesoamerican Integration and Development. Beginning in 2010, took for four years as Secretary General of the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL). She was also a professor at the University of Costa Rica for over seven years, in courses of International Law and International Humanitarian Law. In 2005, during the election to the presidency of 2006-2010, was Director of Press Spokesperson and President of Costa Rica, Dr. Oscar Arias Sánchez.
  Mark Fitzpatrick - Senior Fellow for Non-Proliferation and Director of the Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme, International Institute for Strategic Studies, in London. He is the author of The Iranian Nuclear Crisis: Avoiding worst-case outcomes (2008) and the editor of IISS strategic dossiers on Iran’s Ballistic Missile Programmes: a net assessment (2010), Preventing Nuclear Dangers in Southeast Asia and Australasia (2009), Nuclear Programmes in the Middle East: In the shadow of Iran (2008) and Nuclear Black Markets: Pakistan, A.Q. Khan and the Rise of Proliferation Networks (2007). Mr Fitzpatrick joined IISS in October 2005 after a 26-year career in the US Department of State. In his last posting, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Non-proliferation. He also served for four years at the US Mission to International Organizations in Vienna, including as Charge d’Affairs and as Counselor for Nuclear Policy, in charge of liaison with the International Atomic Energy Agency.

 

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