Irma Argüello is founder and chair of the NPSGlobal Foundation, a private nonprofit initiative that focuses on improving global security and reducing risks stemming from WMD proliferation. Prior to her role with NPSGlobal, she was a consultant specializing in strategy formulation and implementation, new projects, and change management. Argüello also had a successful eleven-year managerial career at international organizations, and she worked for three years as a scientist for the Argentine National Atomic Energy Commission's reprocessing plant project. She earned a Licenciatura (master's-level degree) in physics from the Universidad de Buenos Aires and an MBA from IDEA/Wharton School, and she also pursued defense and security studies (master's level) at the Escuela de Defensa Nacional, Argentina. She lectures frequently on nonproliferation-related issues, and her writing has been published widely.
Deborah Berman is a doctoral student in political science at MIT. Her interests include shifts in balance of power and grand strategy in non-democratic regimes. She has previously held positions with the Brookings Institution and the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, where her work explored the motivation and dynamics of nuclear proliferation in states. Her other publications include a series of analyses on the proliferation threat in the Middle East for the Department of Defense.
Ralph A. Cossa is president of the Pacific Forum CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies) in Honolulu. He is senior editor of the Forum's quarterly electronic journal, Comparative Connections. Cossa is a member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Regional Forum's Experts and Eminent Persons Group. He is a founding member and former international co-chair of the multinational track-two Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP), which links member committees from twenty-one Asia-Pacific countries. He co-chairs the CSCAP study group aimed at halting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in the Asia Pacific region and also serves as executive director of the US Member Committee. He is a frequent contributor to regional newspapers, including the Japan Times, Korea Times, and International Herald Tribune.
Nabil Fahmy is chairman of the Middle East Project at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and the dean of the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the American University in Cairo. Since 2008, he has been ambassador at large at the Egyptian Foreign Ministry after serving as ambassador to the United States (1999–2008) and to Japan (1997–99). He was the political advisor to the foreign minister (1992–97) and chaired the Egyptian delegation to the Arms Control and Regional Security working group emanating from the Madrid Arab-Israeli peace conference, and he has held numerous posts in the Egyptian government since 1974. Fahmy has played an active role in the efforts to bring peace to the Middle East and in international and regional disarmament affairs.
Thomas Fingar is the Oksenberg-Rohlen Distinguished Fellow at Stanford University. His previous positions include deputy director of national intelligence for analysis, and, concurrently, chairman of the National Intelligence Council (2005–2008); assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research; director of the State Department's Office of Analysis for East Asia and the Pacific; and chief of the China Division. From 1975 through 1985, he held a number of positions at Stanford, including research associate in the Center for International Security and Cooperation and director of the university's US-China Relations Program. He has published dozens of articles and monographs on policy and policy making in China, including China's Quest for Independence. His most recent book, Reducing Uncertainty: Intelligence and National Security, will be published by Stanford University Press this spring.
Brad Glosserman is executive director of the Pacific Forum CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies) in Honolulu. He is co-editor of Comparative Connections, the Pacific Forum's quarterly electronic journal, and writes, along with Ralph Cossa, the regional review. He has written a number of monographs, journal articles, and book chapters on US foreign policy, Asian security relations, and regional security. Prior to joining Pacific Forum, Glosserman was, for ten years, a member of the Japan Times editorial board, and he continues to serve as a contributing editor for the newspaper. Glosserman has a JD from George Washington University, an MA from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, and a BA from Reed College.
S. Paul Kapur is associate professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the US Naval Postgraduate School and a faculty affiliate at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation. He has written extensively on the international security environment in South Asia and on nuclear weapons proliferation and deterrence. His most recent book is India, Pakistan, and the Bomb: Debating Nuclear Stability in South Asia (Columbia University Press, 2010), co-authored with Sumit Ganguly.
Mustafa Kibaroglu teaches courses on arms control and disarmament in the Department of International Relations at Bilkent University in Ankara. He holds a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering and a master's in economics from Bogazici University in Istanbul, and a PhD in international relations from Bilkent University. Kibaroglu has had fellowships with the UN Institute for Disarmament Research, the University of Southampton, and the Monterey Institute of International Studies; he spent 2004–2005 at Harvard University's Belfer Center. He is a council member of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. Kibaroglu is the author of Global Security Watch—Turkey: A Reference Handbook and editor of Defense Against Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism. His articles have appeared in journals such as the Nonproliferation Review, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Middle East Journal, Security Dialogue, and Arms Control Today.
Michael Krepon is the co-founder of the Stimson Center, a Washington, DC–based think tank specializing in analysing national and international security problems. He has written or edited thirteen books, including Crisis Prevention, Confidence Building, and Reconciliation in South Asia (1995); Global Confidence-Building: New Tools for Troubled Regions (1999); Cooperative Threat Reduction, Missile Defense, and the Nuclear Future (2002); Escalation Control and the Nuclear Option in South Asia (2004); Nuclear Risk Reduction in South Asia (2004); and Better Safe than Sorry: The Ironies of Living with the Bomb (2009).
Lisa Sanders Luscombe is project manager for the English Language and Nonproliferation (ELAN) Program, part of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies Education Program. She was managing editor of the Nonproliferation Review from 2002 through 2006. She develops curricula and educational programs on language and nonproliferation issues for the ELAN Program, the Visiting Fellows Program, and the Critical Issues Forum. She has also developed teacher-training workshops and courses on language and nonproliferation for high school teachers in the closed nuclear cities of Russia, faculty at Tomsk Polytechnic University in Russia, and diplomats in both the Custom Language Service at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy. Her research interests include language teaching and critical theory—language as a tool for social transformation—and cross-cultural language issues in nonproliferation contexts. She holds a master's from MIIS in teaching English to speakers of other languages.
Harald Müller is executive director of the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt and professor of international relations at Goethe University Frankfurt. His field of work encompasses arms control, nonproliferation and disarmament, international security policy, and theory of international relations. He is a consultant to the German government on arms control issues, and he participated in the 2010 Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. He is also a member of the Nonproliferation Review's Editorial Board. His latest book is Building a New World Order: Sustainable Policies for the Future (Haus, 2009).
Benoît Pelopidas earned his PhD in political science at Sciences Po (Paris) and at the University of Geneva. He is a postdoctoral fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and the past recipient of a predoctoral grant from the Swiss National Fund for Scientific Research and a three-year French Ministry of Defense doctoral grant. He is author of The Seduction of the Impossible: A Study on the Renunciation of Nuclear Weapons and the Political Authority of Experts (Sciences Po University Press, forthcoming in 2011 in French). He is co-author of When Empire Meets Nationalism: Power Politics in the US and Russia (Ashgate, 2009). His article in this issue won the Outstanding Essay Prize in the 2010 McElvany Nonproliferation Challenge.
Pavel Podvig is an independent analyst based in Geneva, Switzerland, where he manages the research project Russian Nuclear Forces. He started his work on arms control at the Center for Arms Control Studies at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, where he led the project that produced the book Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces (MIT Press, 2001). His current research focuses on the Russian strategic forces and nuclear weapons complex, as well as on technical and political aspects of nuclear nonproliferation, disarmament, missile defense, and the US-Russian arms control process. Podvig is a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials.
Richard Sabatini is a graduate of the University of Southern California, with specializations in security studies and foreign policy. His particular interests and expertise lie in public policy, with experience with the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Additionally, he has built a diversified range of nonproliferation experience, most recently at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Washington, DC.
Scott D. Sagan is the Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science, co-director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation, and a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford University. He is the author of, among other works, The Limits of Safety (Princeton University Press, 1993), Moving Targets (Princeton University Press, 1989), co-author (with Kenneth N. Waltz) of The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed (W.W. Norton, 2003), and editor of Inside Nuclear South Asia (Stanford University Press, 2009). He is a member of the Nonproliferation Review's Editorial Board.
J. Peter Scoblic, a staff member in the US Senate, is the author of U.S. vs. Them (2008), a history of conservatism in the nuclear age, which he wrote while a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He previously served as executive editor of The New Republic and editor of Arms Control Today.
Scott Snyder is director of the Center for US-Korea Policy at the Asia Foundation, senior associate at Pacific Forum CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies), and adjunct senior fellow for Korean Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He lived in Seoul, South Korea as Korea representative of the Asia Foundation during 2000–2004. Previously, he worked as a program officer at the US Institute of Peace and as acting director of the Asia Society's Contemporary Affairs Program. Snyder received his BA from Rice University and an MA from Harvard University. He is the recipient of the Pantech Visiting Fellowship, an Abe Fellowship, and the Thomas G. Watson Fellowship. His latest book is China's Rise and the Two Koreas: Politics, Economics, Security (Lynne Rienner, 2009).
Leonard S. Spector is deputy director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) and leads the CNS office in Washington, DC. Before joining CNS, he served as the assistant deputy administrator for arms control and nonproliferation at the National Nuclear Security Administration in the Department of Energy (DOE), where he managed the Initiative for Proliferation Prevention and the Nuclear Cities Initiative programs. Before his tenure at DOE, he was senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and director of its Nuclear Non-Proliferation Project, and he established the Program on Post-Soviet Nuclear Affairs at Carnegie's Moscow Center. Prior to joining the Carnegie Endowment, Spector served as chief counsel to the US Senate Energy and Proliferation Subcommittee, where he assisted in drafting the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act and the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. He began his career in nuclear nonproliferation as a special counsel at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Jane Vaynman is a PhD candidate at the Department of Government at Harvard University and a National Security Studies Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Previously, she worked at the Carnegie Moscow Center and the Nonproliferation Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her current projects include research on security cooperation agreements, arms control, and the nuclear nonproliferation regime.