Anuar Ayazbekov is the first secretary at the Department of Foreign Policy Analysis and Forecasting in the Republic of Kazakhstan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He earned a PhD from the School of International Relations, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and holds a Master's degree in International Diplomacy from the Bond University, Australia, and a Bachelor's degree in International Relations from KIMEP University, Kazakhstan. Ayazbekov previously worked in the Analytical Department of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies. His professional research primarily focuses on Central Asian regional affairs and Kazakhstan's foreign policy. His main research interest is the diplomatic history of Kazakhstan in the 1990s.
Bruce G. Blair is a member of the research faculty in the Science and Global Security Program of Princeton University, and cofounder of Global Zero, the international movement for the elimination of nuclear weapons. A former Minuteman missile launch officer, he has conducted numerous official and academic studies of nuclear command and control decapitation and unauthorized and mistaken launch, and has proposed remedies for reducing the risks of inadvertent or accidental use of nuclear weapons. His recent writings include “De-Alerting Strategic Forces,” in George P. Shultz, Sidney D. Drell, and James E. Goodby, eds., Reykjavik Revisited: Steps Toward a World Free of Nuclear Weapons (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2008); “Smaller and Safer: A New Plan For Nuclear Postures,” in Foreign Affairs, co-authored with Victor Esin, Matthew McKinzie, Valery Yarynich, and Pavel Zolotarev (Council on Foreign Relations, September-October 2010); and Global Zero U.S. Nuclear Policy Commission Report, (May 2012). Appointed by Hillary Clinton and re-appointed by John Kerry, Blair currently serves on the secretary of state's International Security Advisory Board.
Paolo Foradori is associate professor at the School of International Studies, University of Trento (Italy) and an associate fellow of the Project on Managing the Atom at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. From 2009–11, he was Marie Curie Fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies. His research focuses on international relations, security studies, arms control, and nonproliferation. He also worked with the United Nations in Russia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Bologna (Italy), a Masters of International Relations from the University of Sussex (UK), and a PhD in International Relations from the University of Trento (Italy).
Christopher M. Jones earned his PhD at The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. He is currently professor of Political Science and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Bradley University. He has published extensively in the areas of foreign policy analysis, US foreign policy, and US national security. Jones is past president of the Foreign Policy Analysis Section of the International Studies Association.
Alexander S. Kolbin graduated from National Research Tomsk State University in 2011 with a Master's degree in international relations. His current research focuses on Russia's nuclear policy and nuclear disarmament in Europe, including nonstrategic nuclear weapons and confidence-building measures needed for encouraging further nuclear weapons reductions. From 2010–13, he worked at the PIR Center in Moscow, most recently as coordinator of the Russia and Nuclear Nonproliferation program (he is currently a non-resident expert). From April–July 2012, he worked as guest researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Since 2013, Kolbin has worked for the Volga-Dnepr Group of Companies—first as a military analyst with focus on humanitarian and security missions worldwide, and currently as head of the International Organizations Affairs Division, responsible for coordination of communications with international and industrial organizations.
Kevin P. Marsh earned his PhD at Northern Illinois University. He is currently visiting assistant professor of Political Science at The College of Wooster. He has also published extensively in US foreign policy, national security, and defense strategy.
Richard Moore is a visiting research fellow at the Department of War Studies, King's College London, working on the history of the British nuclear weapon program. His second book, Nuclear Illusion, Nuclear Reality: Britain, the United States and Nuclear Weapons 1958–64, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2010.
Jaclyn Tandler spent last year as a Fulbright scholar in France researching at the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (FRS). She was previously a junior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in the Nuclear Policy Program. Jaclyn has conducted research on a variety of issues related to nuclear energy, nonproliferation, and international security. She is the author of “The Thin Red Line: Six Observations on Obama's Iran Policy” (Carnegie Proliferation Analysis, 2012); coauthor with George Perkovich of “Le Monde dans l'Impasse du Nucléaire Iranien” (Alternatives Internationales, 2013); and coauthor with Toby Dalton of “Understanding the Arms ‘Race’ in South Asia” (Carnegie Paper, 2012). She is currently a law student at Stanford Law School and holds a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University, where she graduated with honors in international security.