Jochen Ahlswede works for the German Federal Office for Radiation Protection. He studied physics at the University of Hamburg, where he worked with Martin B. Kalinowski at the university's Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Centre for Science and Peace Research on a project dealing with krypton-85 and meteorological modeling of its atmospheric transport in order to detect clandestine plutonium separation. His diploma thesis dealt with modeling nuclear fuel cycles to assess civilian plutonium inventories for different fuel cycle strategies in plutonium-handling countries.
Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley is an assistant professor at George Mason University (GMU), Department of International Affairs. Before joining GMU in 2008, she was a senior research associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and was founding editor-in-chief of the International Export Control Observer. Over the past decade her research has covered a large spectrum of WMD proliferation issues, including proliferation finance, illicit trafficking, export control, brain-drain prevention, and WMD knowledge transfer mechanisms.
Lyndon Burford is a PhD candidate in political studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, where he researches the role of non-nuclear-armed states in nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation. Burford has a master's degree in political science and an honors degree in diplomacy and international relations. Since 2009, he has been a New Zealand representative on the Study Group on Countering the Proliferation of WMD in the Asia-Pacific, hosted by the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP). In this context he helped draft and edit the CSCAP Handbook on Preventing the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Asia-Pacific. His article, “Principled Pragmatism: Non-Governmental Influence on New Zealand Nuclear Disarmament Advocacy 1995–2000,” was recently published in Global Change, Peace and Security.
Patrick Disney recently completed a master's degree program in international relations at Yale University, where he focused on Iran and nuclear nonproliferation. He is a contributor to the Atlantic and previously worked at the National Iranian American Council in Washington, DC.
Ursula Jasper is a senior researcher at the Center for Security Studies in Zürich, Switzerland. Previously, she was a doctoral researcher at the School of Economics and Political Science at the University of St. Gallen and a research associate at the St. Gallen Center for Security Economics and Technology. From 2009 to 2010, she was a research fellow in the International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Her writing has appeared in the journals Security Dialogue and Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft, as well as in the International Encyclopedia of Peace (2010).
Joan Johnson-Freese is a professor of national security affairs at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. She has written more than 100 articles on space and space security issues, as well as books on the Chinese and Japanese space programs. She is a member of the Space Studies Board of the National Academies of Science and the Advisory Committee of the Secure World Foundation. Her latest book on space security is Heavenly Ambitions: America's Quest to Dominate Space (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009).
Peter Jones is an associate professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa. Prior to joining the academy he spent fourteen years in the Canadian civil service dealing with Middle East issues, arms control and nonproliferation issues, and national security questions in the Privy Council Office (the Prime Minister's Department) and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. He also served as project leader of the Middle East Regional Security and Arms Control project at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute for four years. He is the author of numerous papers and studies on Middle East security and arms control questions, Iran issues and track-two diplomacy, including Towards a Regional Security Regime for the Middle East: Issues and Options (1998, republished with an extensive new afterword in 2011), and “Succession and the Supreme Leader in Iran,” Survival, January 2012. He holds a PhD in war studies from King's College London and a master's in war studies from the Royal Military College of Canada.
Martin B. Kalinowski is professor for science and peace research and director of the Carl-Friedrich von Weizsäcker Centre for Science and Peace Research at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He holds a PhD in nuclear physics (1997) dealing with international tritium control and was a member of the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Science, Technology, and Security (IANUS) at Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. He then joined the Provisional Technical Secretariat of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization in Vienna, Austria (1998–2005). His research agenda deals with novel measurement technologies as well as nuclear and meteorological modeling of atmospheric radioactivity as a means to detect clandestine nuclear activities such as plutonium separation and nuclear testing.
John Krige has a PhD in physical chemistry and a PhD in the history and philosophy of science. He joined the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2000 as Kranzberg Professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society. Krige's research focuses on the intersection between support for science and technology and the foreign policies of governments, both in Western Europe and as an instrument of American “soft power.” He co-edited, with Kai-Henrik Barth, Global Power Knowledge: Science, Technology and International Affairs (Osiris, 2006). His most recent monograph is American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe (MIT Press, 2006).
James Clay Moltz is a professor at the US Naval Postgraduate School. He has published several books on nuclear weapons and nonproliferation topics, as well as on space security. His most recent book is Asia's Space Race: National Motivations, Regional Rivalries, and International Risks (Columbia University Press, 2012).
Michal Onderco is a doctoral researcher in political science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research interests include the interplay between economic and security policy and the role of law in international security. Previously, he worked as a security analyst for the Association for International Affairs in Prague. He received an LLM in law and politics of international security at Vrije Universiteit; before that, he studied at Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany, and at Sciences Po in Paris.
Andreas Persbo is the executive director of the London-based Verification Research, Training, and Information Centre (VERTIC), where he has been working on a range of issues for the last eight years. His focus has been on on-site inspections, with a special emphasis on on-site inspections of warhead dismantlement, fissile material controls and monitoring, and inspection methodology for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, as well as inspection arrangements for ballistic missiles. Persbo has contributed chapters to several books, and his articles have appeared in, among others, CTBTO Spectrum, Disarmament Forum, Jane's Intelligence Review, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and Arms Control Today. His latest publications include Irreversibility in Nuclear Disarmament: Practical Steps Against Nuclear Rearmament (VERTIC, 2011) and A Reflection on the Current State of Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Safeguards (SIPRI, 2012).
Wolfgang Wagner is a professor of international security at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and a research leader at the Amsterdam Global Change Institute. He has published extensively on European foreign and security policy and the democratic control of military mi ssions. He has held positions at the universities of Tübingen and Frankfurt and at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. His work has appeared in the Journal of Peace Research, Review of International Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, Parliamentary Affairs, Journal of International Relations and Development, and Foreign Policy Analysis, among others. His most recent book is titled Die demokratische Kontrolle internationalisierter Sicherheitspolitik (Nomos, 2010).
Fred Wehling is an associate professor at the Graduate School of International Policy and Management and program chair for nonproliferation and terrorism studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and a fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. Before coming to the Monterey Institute in 1998, Wehling was a consultant at the RAND Corporation, coordinator of policy research for the University of California's Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, and a researcher at the Cooperative Monitoring Center at Sandia National Laboratories. In addition to teaching courses on policy analysis, nuclear nonproliferation, terrorism, and other topics, Wehling develops online courses and instructional materials and conducts research on terrorism with chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear materials. A member of the International Nuclear Security Education Network, he is a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Bioterrorism Defense, second edition (2011) and The Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism (2005) and the author of various other books, articles, and reports.