Richard S. Goorevich is director of the Department of Energy's Office of International Regimes and Agreements, a post he has held since the office was formed in 2005. The Office of International Regimes and Agreements has responsibilities for nuclear export controls, international safeguards policy, nonproliferation treaties and regimes, and international physical protection. He joined the Department of Energy in 1991 and has worked in the area of nuclear nonproliferation and export controls since 1993. From 2001 to present, he has been chairman of the Nuclear Suppliers Group Consultative Group.
Rich Hooper is an independent contractor with Wind River Consulting. He has forty years of experience in nuclear material safeguards, nonproliferation, and related areas as both a technical contributor and manager. In mid-1991, while section head of statistical analysis in the Safeguards Department at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), he was seconded to the Iraq Action Team. He participated in fifteen onsite inspections in Iraq and completeness inspections in South Africa. In mid-1993, he became manager of Programme 93 + 2, the IAEA's development program for strengthened, more efficient safeguards, and in 1994 became director of the IAEA's Safeguards Concepts and Planning Division. He left the IAEA in 1998 and now works in Japan, the United Kingdom, and Austria as a private consultant.
Michael Krepon is the cofounder of the Henry L. Stimson Center and a diplomat scholar at the University of Virginia. His new book, Better Safe Than Sorry: The Ironies of Living with the Bomb, will be published in December by Stanford University Press.
Russell Leslie is the head of the International Safeguards Section of the Australian Safeguards and Non-Proliferation Office. He has participated in and presented at numerous international conferences and written extensively on safeguards, the role of the IAEA, and proliferation issues. He is earning a master's degree in nuclear science at the Australian National University; his article is co-winner of the student prize of the Doreen and Jim McElvany 2008 Nonproliferation Challenge Essay Contest.
Grégoire Mallard obtained his Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University in July 2008. He is a Richard Tomlinson postdoctoral fellow at McGill University for the current school year, after which he will join the faculty at Northwestern University as assistant professor of sociology in September 2009. He coedited Global Science and National Sovereignty: Studies in Historical Sociology of Science (2008) and has published articles in the American Sociological Review, Research Evaluation, and Science, Technology and Human Values. He can be contacted at [email protected]. His article is co-winner of the student prize of the Doreen and Jim McElvany 2008 Nonproliferation Challenge Essay Contest.
Janne E. Nolan is professor of international affairs at the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and a project director at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University. Nolan has served as foreign policy director at Century Foundation, as senior fellow in foreign policy at Brookings Institution, and as senior international security consultant at Science Applications International Corporation. She has been a foreign affairs officer in the State Department and has been a member of the secretary of defense's Policy Board. Author of numerous books and articles about the politics of national security, Nolan has served on several congressionally appointed blue ribbon commissions and as a policy adviser to presidential and Senate campaigns.
Danielle Peterson joined the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in 2005. She has coauthored and presented papers on nonproliferation politics and predictive analysis for nuclear nonproliferation and international safeguards. Peterson is a graduate of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Arian L. Pregenzer is senior scientist in the Global Security Program at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is responsible for new initiatives in arms control and nonproliferation and for developing strategies for international engagement across multiple laboratory missions. Under her leadership, Sandia's Cooperative Monitoring Center (CMC) was established in 1994. A sister center, the CMC@Amman, was established Jordan in 2003. In 2004, she worked with the National Nuclear Security Agency and the Arab Science and Technology Foundation to initiate the Iraqi Science and Technology Engagement Program, which supports peaceful scientific research and business development with Iraqi scientists.
Nathan Pyles is president of Johnson Health Tech NA, a research and development company specializing in fitness and wellness products. He has helped start and grow several successful global fitness equipment companies. He earned a bachelor's degree in political science and economics from the University of Pennsylvania. His article won first runner-up in the Doreen and Jim McElvany 2008 Nonproliferation Challenge Essay Contest.
Lawrence Scheinman is distinguished professor at the Washington, DC, office of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. He has been involved in nuclear-related matters as an academic and as a government and international organization official for thirty-five years. He was assistant director at the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, responsible for nonproliferation and regional arms control in the Clinton administration. His prior government service includes principal deputy to the deputy undersecretary of state for security assistance; head of international policy planning in the Energy Research and Development Administration; and senior advisor to the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency—all of the above while on leave from his position as professor of government and associate director of the Peace Studies Program at Cornell University. He has published extensively in the fields of nonproliferation, arms control, and international nuclear cooperation.
Bruce M. Sugden is a defense analyst in the Washington, DC area. He does consulting for the Department of Defense and commercial clients on combating weapons of mass destruction, future global strike force structure alternatives, nuclear policy and strategy, and emerging deterrence requirements and technology issues. He earned master's degrees in international relations and public policy studies at the University of Chicago and served for six years in the U.S. Air Force as a missile launch officer.
James W. Tape is an independent consultant with JWT Consulting in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is the U.S. member of the International Atomic Energy Agency's Standing Advisory Group on Safeguards Implementation. He joined Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in 1975 and was responsible for programs in international policy and analysis; nuclear transfer and supplier policy technical support; domestic safeguards technology development; materials protection, control, and accounting technology transfer to the former Soviet Union; and international safeguards, including cooperative programs with Japan. He retired from LANL in July 2005, and is a past president and current fellow of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management.
Ward Wilson has spent more than a quarter-century ruminating on how to prevent nuclear war; he writes regularly at RethinkingNuclearWeapons.org. His writing has also appeared in International Security, Dissent, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and the Chicago Tribune, among others. In the spring of 2007, his groundbreaking reevaluation of the bombing of Hiroshima “effectively demolished [the] generally accepted myth that the atomic bombings brought World War II to an end” (Freeman Dyson). He has presented his conclusions about Hiroshima at the New America Foundation National Laboratory, Los Alamos, the Naval War College, the United Nations, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Henry L. Stimson Center, and Princeton University. He holds a degree in history from American University and is a former Robert Kennedy Memorial Fellow. His article won the grand prize in the Doreen and Jim McElvany 2008 Nonproliferation Challenge Essay Contest.
Jing-dong Yuan directs the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and is associate professor of international policy studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. His research focuses on Asia-Pacific security, arms control and nonproliferation issues, and China's defense and foreign policy. He is the coauthor of China and India: Cooperation or Conflict? (2003) and has published in Asian Survey, International Herald Tribune, Jane's Intelligence Review, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Quarterly, among others. His article, “Effective, Reliable, and Credible: China's Nuclear Modernization,” appeared in the July 2007 Nonproliferation Review.