Ephraim Asculai worked at the Israel Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) for over 40 years, mainly on issues of nuclear and environmental safety. In 1986, he went to work at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna on issues of radiation protection of the public. During 1990–91, he was the Scientific Secretary of the International Chernobyl Project. In 1992, Asculai returned to Israel and became heavily involved in the deliberations leading to the conclusion of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. In his final period at the IAEC, he served as the Director of External Relations. During his sabbatical at the Institute for Science and International Security in Washington, DC he authored Verification Revisited: The Nuclear Case. Dr. Asculai retired from the civil service in 2001. In 2002, he joined the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies (now incorporated into the Institute for National Security Studies). He has since published several papers dealing with WMD nonproliferation in general, and Middle East issues in particular, including the monograph Rethinking the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime in 2004. He received his PhD in Atmospheric Sciences from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Philipp C. Bleek is an assistant professor in the Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies program at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and a fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. His research and teaching focus on the causes, consequences, and amelioration of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons proliferation. He has held fellowships at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Center for a New American Security. He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a fellow of the Truman National Security Project. During the 2012–13 academic year, he is on leave from his faculty position to serve as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow in Nuclear Security.
Yair Evron is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at Tel Aviv University and a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. Professor Evron taught international relations at Tel Aviv University, established the graduate program for security studies, and was a head of the Department of Political Science from 1987–90. He has also taught or was a research fellow at Sussex, Hebrew, Cornell, Concordia, Harvard, MIT, UCLA, Georgetown and Oxford Universities. His research areas include: nuclear proliferation, arms control, Israel's nuclear posture, nuclear and conventional deterrence, and security regimes in the Middle East. His most recent publication is “Israel and the Nonproliferation Regime” in Emily B. Landau and Tamar Maltz, eds., The Obama Vision and Nuclear Disarmament (Tel Aviv: INSS, 2011).
David Friedman is a senior research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. His research focuses on unconventional terrorism, with particular attention to strategies for confronting bioterrorism, including preventing the proliferation of biological weapons to terrorist groups. For nearly twenty-five years, Dr. Friedman served in the Israeli Defense Forces and Israel's Ministry of Defense, where he was responsible for research and development projects in the field of chemical and biological defense. In 2004, Dr. Friedman joined the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Tel Aviv University, now called the Institute for National Security Studies. In addition, Dr. Friedman is an advisor to various organizations such as the Israeli Academy of Sciences, the National Security Council, the Ministry of Defense, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He holds an MSc in microbiology from Tel Aviv University and a PhD in Immunology from the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Justin V. Hastings is a Lecturer in International Relations and Comparative Politics in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney in Australia. His research looks at the relationship between economic and political geography and the structure and behavior of clandestine non-state and hybrid state/non-state organizations, primarily in East Asia. He has written on maritime piracy, terrorism, insurgency, nuclear trafficking, and organized crime. Hastings's book No Man's Land: Globalization, Territory, and Clandestine Groups in Southeast Asia was published by Cornell University Press in 2010. He holds an AB in public and international affairs from Princeton University, and a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Dalia Dassa Kaye is a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation. In 2011–12 she was a visiting professor and fellow at the University of California at Los Angeles's International Institute and Burkle Center. Before joining RAND, Kaye served as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow at the Dutch Foreign Ministry and was a visiting scholar at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations. From 1998 to 2003, Kaye was an assistant professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University. She is the recipient of many awards and fellowships, including a resident fellowship at the Brookings Institution, and publishes widely on Middle East regional security issues. Kaye holds her BA, MA, and PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Emily B. Landau is a senior research associate at the Institute for National Security Studies, where she is also director of the Arms Control and Regional Security program. She has published and lectured extensively on nuclear proliferation and arms control dilemmas in the Middle East and beyond. Dr. Landau is author of Arms Control in the Middle East: Cooperative Security Dialogue and Regional Constraints (2006) and co-editor of the 2011 INSS memorandum The Obama Vision and Nuclear Disarmament. Her most recent publication is the 2012 INSS memorandum, Decade of Diplomacy: Negotiations with Iran and North Korea and the Future of Nuclear Nonproliferation. Dr. Landau is a frequent commentator to Israeli and international media. She teaches arms control in the Executive Program on Diplomacy and Security at Tel Aviv University and at the International School at the University of Haifa. She is also an active participant in track-two initiatives on regional security in the Middle East. She holds a PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Douglas B. Shaw serves as Associate Dean for Planning, Research, and External Relations at The George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. As Associate Dean, he supports the Elliott School's research enterprise, including eight institutes and centers, strategic initiatives, the offices of Public Affairs, Graduate Admissions, and Graduate Student Career Development. As a faculty member, he teaches courses and conducts research on nuclear proliferation and international security. Dr. Shaw previously served as Director of Policy Planning for Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia and in leadership positions in several nongovernmental organizations, including Physicians for Social Responsibility, and the Institute on Religion and Public Policy. Dr. Shaw jointly held political appointments during the Clinton administrations at the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and the US Department of Energy. He holds BSFS, MA, and PhD degrees from Georgetown University in international relations and security studies. His recent publications include “Pluralizing the Priesthood of Nuclear Deterrence,” a chapter in Whose God Rules? edited by Nathan Walker and Edwin Greenlee (Palgrave MacMillan, 2011) and “Lessons of Restraint: How Canada Helps Explain and Strengthen the Nonproliferation Norm,” in the September/October 2010 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
David Vielhaber is a research associate with the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the University of Maryland. His honor's thesis for the Monterey Institute of International Studies' Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies master's program, from which he graduated in December 2011, analyzed the counterproliferation effectiveness of clandestine operations. During his studies, he also worked as a Research Assistant at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and, in the fall of 2010, served as a junior political officer in the Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) branch at the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs in New York. His research interests include security and nonproliferation issues in the Middle East, WMD terrorism, and counterproliferation.
Kathleen M. Vogel is an associate professor at Cornell University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Science and Technology Studies and the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies. Vogel holds a Ph.D. in biological chemistry from Princeton University. Prior to joining the Cornell faculty, Vogel was appointed as a William C. Foster Fellow in the US Department of State's Office of Proliferation Threat Reduction in the Bureau of Nonproliferation. Vogel has also spent time as a visiting scholar at the Cooperative Monitoring Center, Sandia National Laboratories and the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies. Vogel's forthcoming book, Phantom Menace or Looming Danger?: A New Framework for Assessing Bioweapons Threats, examines analytic problems in how the US government and nongovernmental biosecurity communities have analyzed bioweapons threats since the end of the Cold War.
Gerald Felix Warburg is Professor and Assistant Dean at the University of Virginia's Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. As legislative assistant to members of the House and Senate leadership, he played a lead staff role in advancing numerous policy initiatives, including the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978. He is the author of Conflict and Consensus: The Struggle Between Congress and the President Over Foreign Policymaking, and contributed chapters on Congress, lobbying, and national security in the recent book The National Security Enterprise: Navigating the Labyrinth.
Heather Williams is a PhD candidate in the Department of War Studies at King's College London. Her thesis is on “The Legacy of ‘Trust but Verify’ in U.S.-Russia Arms Control” and examines the Presidential Nuclear Initiatives, the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), the Moscow Treaty, and New START. Her forthcoming works include “The Trust Spectrum: Integrating Interests and Behavior in Arms Control” and “Keeping up Appearances: National Narratives and Nuclear Policy in France and Russia” (with Matthew Moran). She has also worked for the Centre for Science and Security Studies at King's College London and the Institute for Defense Analyses in Alexandria, VA.