Johan Bergenäs is an associate with the Henry L. Stimson Center's Managing Across Boundaries Program. His expertise and interests center on transnational security threats and national, regional, and international approaches to combat these challenges. He has previously held positions with the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and Oxfam America, and he has worked as a reporter and freelance journalist in the United States and for publications in his native Sweden. Bergenäs's work has been published in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and The Guardian, and in 2008 he authored a chapter in Implementing Resolution 1540: The Role of Regional Organizations, published by the UN Institute for Disarmament Research.
Barry M. Blechman is the cofounder of the Henry L. Stimson Center and a Stimson distinguished fellow focused on nuclear disarmament. Blechman has more than forty years of distinguished service in the national security field and is an expert on political/military policies, military strategy, and defense budgets. He has worked in the Departments of State and Defense and the Office of Management and Budget and is a frequent consultant to the U.S. government. Among other boards and commissions, Blechman served on the Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States, the Defense Policy Board, and the Department of State Advisory Committee on Transformational Diplomacy. A Georgetown PhD in international relations, Blechman has written extensively on national security issues and has taught at several universities.
Alexander K. Bollfrass is a graduate student at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He was previously a research associate for the International Security and Nuclear Weapons program of the Henry L. Stimson Center, where he created Cheater's Risk, an online simulation of nuclear disarmament verification. Prior to joining Stimson, Bollfrass held a Herbert Scoville Jr. Fellowship at the Arms Control Association. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.
Thomas B. Cochran is a senior scientist in the Nuclear Program and holds the Wade Greene Chair for Nuclear Policy at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). He served as director of the Nuclear Program until 2007. He has served as a consultant to numerous government and nongovernment agencies on energy, nuclear nonproliferation, and nuclear reactor matters, and he is currently a member of the Department of Energy's Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee. Cochran is the author of The Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor: An Environmental and Economic Critique (1974) and co-author of several books on nuclear weapons issues. He received his PhD in physics from Vanderbilt University in 1967. He is the recipient of the American Physical Society's Szilard Award and the Federation of American Scientists’ Public Service Award, both in 1987, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Sharon M. DeLand is a principal member of technical staff in the Global Security Program at Sandia National Laboratories. At Sandia, her professional interests have included arms control monitoring technologies, the impacts of on-site inspections, and knowledge management in support of on-site monitoring and inspections. She is currently part of a laboratory team developing approaches to integrate across nuclear domains including nuclear weapons, arms control, and nuclear nonproliferation.
Sumit Ganguly is a professor of political science and holds the Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the co-author (with S. Paul Kapur) of India, Pakistan, and the Bomb: Debating Nuclear Stability in South Asia (Columbia University Press, 2010).
Joanna Kidd is director of the International Centre for Security Analysis at the Department of War Studies, King's College London (KCL). Prior to joining KCL in 2003, she worked as a defense analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London for four years. Before that, she served as a warfare officer in the U.K. Royal Navy. She is a special advisor on strategic export controls for the House of Commons’ Quadripartite Committee, a member of the Project on Nuclear Issues, and an associate of the KCL Centre for Science and Security.
Thomas Lorenz is a senior research fellow at the International Centre for Security Analysis, a research center at the Department of War Studies, King's College London. Prior to joining King's in 2009, he worked as a safeguards information analyst at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna for seven years. Before that, he held positions with the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization in Vienna, the Berlin Information-Center for Transatlantic Security, and the Centre for European Security and Disarmament in Brussels.
Christopher E. Paine directs the Nuclear Program of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in Washington, DC, which he joined in June 1991 after five years with the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy (Democrat of Massachusetts), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, where he helped to guide congressional initiatives ending U.S. production of plutonium for weapons and underground nuclear test explosions. In the 1980s, Paine was a consultant to Princeton University's Project on Nuclear Policy Alternatives, a research fellow at the Federation of American Scientists, a staff consultant for nuclear nonproliferation policy with the House Subcommittee on Energy, Conservation, and Power, and a co-founder of national grassroots campaigns to enact a nuclear weapons freeze and stop deployment of the MX intercontinental ballistic missile. He is the author or co-author of numerous NRDC reports and articles on proliferation and national security policy.
Arian L. Pregenzer is senior scientist in the Global Security Program at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is responsible for initiating new programs in arms control and nonproliferation and for developing strategies for international engagement for multiple laboratory programs. In addition, she provides leadership for Sandia's efforts to integrate across nuclear weapons, arms control, and nonproliferation missions to effectively meet nuclear security challenges.
Lani Miyoshi Sanders is the manager of the Defense Programs Studies Department at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which is part of a larger systems studies organization providing independent, objective evaluations of nuclear weapons and national security issues for the laboratory. Prior to joining Sandia in 1998, she worked for the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board both at its headquarters in Washington, DC, and on-site at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina.
Diego Santos Vieira de Jesus holds a doctorate in international relations and is a professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has experience in various areas, including foreign policy studies, international security, regional integration, and international relations methodology. His research focuses mainly on foreign policy analysis, foreign policy of great and intermediate powers, arms control, disarmament, and nuclear nonproliferation.
Charles Streeper is an analyst and researcher in the Nonproliferation Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. He received a master's degree in international policy studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and a certificate in nonproliferation studies from the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. His topical interests include nuclear transperency and arms control, plutonium disposition, nuclear-weapon-free zones, the Non-Aligned Movement, implementation issues related to the “123 Agreement” between the United States and India, and policy-maker awareness of threats posed by radioactive sources. He has published several articles related to nonproliferation, most recently a chapter on fissile material disposition in a textbook on nuclear safeguards, security, and nonproliferation published by Elsevier.