Lassina Zerbo, Nagasaki 2015

Dr. Lassina Zerbo is the Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), a position that he assumed on 1 August 2013. He previously served as Director of the Organization’s International Data Centre (IDC). Dr. Zerbo has been instrumental in cementing the CTBTO’s position as the world’s centre of excellence for nuclear test-ban verification, as well as in driving forward efforts towards the entry into force and universalization of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT).