Kirk C. Bansak is a research associate at the Washington, DC, office of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), where he contributes to the Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Program. Bansak obtained his bachelor's degree in 2009 from Harvard University, where he earned a foreign language citation in Mandarin and graduated magna cum laude with highest honors in his field, social anthropology; his focus was on the anthropology of science. Bansak has also worked for Raytheon Technical Services Company, and he held an International Affairs Fellowship with the Council of American Ambassadors.
Nancy W. Gallagher is the research director at the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland and a senior research scholar at the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy. She co-directs the Advanced Methods of Cooperative Security Program, an interdisciplinary effort to address the security implications of globalization by developing more refined rules to regulate powerful, multipurpose technologies. She was the executive director of the Clinton administration's Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Task Force. She wrote The Politics of Verification (1999) and coauthored Reconsidering the Rules for Space Security (2008) and Controlling Dangerous Pathogens (2007). She has also written numerous articles on space, nuclear arms control, public opinion, and other topics. She received her PhD from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Siegfried S. Hecker is co-director of the Stanford University Center for International Security and Cooperation, senior fellow of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and professor (research) in the Department of Management Science and Engineering. He was director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1986 to 1997 and senior fellow until July 2005. His current professional interests include plutonium research, nuclear weapons policy, cooperative nuclear threat reduction around the globe, nuclear energy, and nonproliferation and counterterrorism. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and a member of the Indian Institute of Metals. He has received a number of professional awards, including the presidential Enrico Fermi Award in 2009.
Michael Krepon is co-founder of the Stimson Center and the author and editor of thirteen books, including Better Safe than Sorry: The Ironies of Living with the Bomb (2009) and Cooperative Threat Reduction, Missile Defense, and the Nuclear Future (2002). His article, “The Limits of Influence: US-Pakistani Nuclear Relations,” appeared in the March 2011 issue of the Nonproliferation Review. His weekly blog posts appear at ArmsControlWonk.com.
Jeffrey S. Lantis is professor of political science at the College of Wooster. He served as a visiting scholar in the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University (Fall 2010), where he conducted research for a new book on the politics of nuclear nonproliferation. He is author of The Life and Death of International Treaties (2009) and co-editor of Foreign Policy in Comparative Perspective: Domestic and International influences on State Behavior (second edition forthcoming in 2012). In addition, he has published articles on nuclear deterrence, nonproliferation, and foreign policy decision making in Arms Control Today, International Security, Contemporary Security Policy, European Security, and Comparative Strategy.
Joshua Pollack is a senior policy analyst at SAIC, specializing in arms control, deterrence, and nonproliferation. He is a graduate of Vassar College and the University of Maryland, where he attended the Maryland School of Public Policy. He has contributed frequently to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and ArmsControlWonk.com. His recent publications also include “Tracing Syria's Nuclear Ambitions,” in the Fall/Winter 2010 issue of the Journal of International Security Affairs, and “North Korea's Nuclear Exports: On What Terms?,” which appeared on 38North.org in October 2010.
Jacqueline C. Reich teaches courses on international relations and comparative politics at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She coordinates both the political science and the global studies programs at the college. She received bachelor's degrees in political science and French at the University of Pittsburgh and earned her master's degree and PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. Reich's research interests include international relations theory, arms control and nuclear nonproliferation, the emergence of liberal democracies and the rule of law, and international institutions. She is currently working on a project that seeks to illuminate the differing roles of democracies and authoritarian states in promoting change in the state system.
Karen Winzoski is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She is also on the Steering Committee of the Science, Technology, and Society Research Cluster at NUS. Winzoski holds a PhD in political science from the University of British Columbia and a master's and honors degree from the University of Calgary. Winzoski's publications include “Unwarranted Influence? The Impact of the Pharmaceutical and Biotech Industry on US Policy on the BWC Verification Protocol,” in the November 2007 issue of the Nonproliferation Review. In general, Winzoski's research examines the impact that scientists have on foreign policy.