On 3-4 December 2005 the Pugwash Study Group on the Implementation of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Conventions held its 23rd workshop in Geneva.
Achieving a successful outcome of the Sixth Review Conference
Rapporteur: C.A. McLeish
Participant List
Dr. Jan van Aken, Head, Study Group on Biological Arms Control, Hamburg University, Germany
Dr. Maurizio Barbeschi, Scientist, Preparedness to Accidental and Deliberate Epidemics, Department of Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response, Communicable Disease Cluster (EPR/CSR), World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland
Amb. Sergey Batsanov, Director, Geneva Office of International Pugwash; Member, Pugwash CBW Steering Committee; Member, International Advisory Board, Geneva Centre for Democratic Reform of Armed Forces (DCAF)
Ms. Una Becker, Research Associate, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), Germany
Dr. Kenneth Bernard (USA), Adviser to the Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland [formerly: Special Assistant to the President for Biodefense, Homeland Security Council, White House]
Mr. Robert Blum, Foreign Service Officer, US Department of State, Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, Washington, DC [formerly: Delegate, US Delegation to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons]
Mr. John Borrie, Project Leader, Disarmament as Humanitarian Action, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), Geneva, Switzerland
Mr. Bernhard Brasack, Permanent Representative of Germany to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva
Mr. Bob Brooks, National Coordinator, CWC/BTWC, Nonproliferation and Disarmament (Chemical, Biological, Conventional), Department of Foreign Affairs, Ontario,Canada
Ms. Sarah Broughton, Head of CBW Section, Counter Proliferation Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London, UK [formerly: 2nd Secretary, UK Mission to the UN, NY]
Dr. Vladimir S. Bundin, Senior Counselor, Department of Security & Disarmament Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Moscow
Col. (ret.) Pierre Canonne, Member, Pugwash Council; Senior Lecturer, Disarmament and Arms Control, Univ. Marne-la-Vallés/Paris, France
Monsieur Paulino Franco de Carvalho Neto, Mission of Brazil
Dr. Marie Chevrier, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, USA; Chair, Scientists Working Group on Biological and Chemical Weapons, Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Washington, DC
Dr. Nancy Connell, Professor, Vice-Chair for Research, Department of Medicine, and Director, Center for BioDefense, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA
Dr. Filippa Corneliussen (Norway), Research Fellow, BIOS Centre, London School of Economics, UK
Dr. Ottorino Cosivi (Italy), Project Leader, Preparedness for Deliberate Epidemics, Global Alert and Response, Department of Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response (CSR), World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland
Ms. Katharine Crittenberger, Deputy Director, Office of Conventional & CBW Affairs, Bureau of Verification, Compliance and Implementation, US Department of State, Washington, DC; Deputy Head of Delegation, US Delegation to Meetings of BWC States Parties
Prof. Malcolm Dando, Professor of International Security, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK
Dr. Deng Hongmei, Counsellor (Disarmament Affairs), Permanent Mission of China to the UN at Geneva
Mr. Daniel Feakes (UK), Research Fellow, Harvard Sussex Program SPRU-Science & Technology Policy Research, The Freeman Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Mr. Jamie Fly, Action Officer, Nonproliferation Policy, Office of the US Secretary of Defense, Washington, DC
Mr. Masahiro Fujikawa, Officer, Biological and Chemical Weapons Conventions Division, Disarmament, Nonproliferation and Science Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tokyo, Japan
Prof. Erhard Geissler, retired Head, Bioethical Research Group, Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
Dr. Jozef Goldblat (Sweden/Switzerland), Vice President, Geneva International Peace Research Institute (GIPRI), Geneva, Switzerland; Consultant, United Nations, Geneva
Mr. Mikaël Griffon, Conseiller, Mission Permanente de la France
Mr. Andrew Grotto, Senior Analyst, Center for American Progress, Washington, DC, USA
Prof. Jeanne Guillemin, Senior Advisor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Security Studies Program, Cambridge, MA, USA; Professor of Sociology, Boston College Institution
Mr. Richard Guthrie (UK), Project Leader, CBW Project,. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Solna, Sweden
Dr. Gert Günter Harigel, Senior Physicist (Emeritus), European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland (1995- ); Secretary and Treasurer, Geneva International Peace Research Institute (GIPRI)
Ms. Melissa S. Hersh, Department of Disarmament Affairs, UN Office, Geneva; UK Emergency Planning College, CBRN Recovery Lecturer; CIMIC planning (UK/NL)
Dr. Iris Hunger, Senior Researcher, Study Group on Biological Arms Control, Hamburg University, Germany
Ms. Tehmina Janjua, Minister, Deputy Permanent Representative of Pakistan, Geneva, Switzerland
Mr. Ian Kenyon, Visiting Research Fellow, SPRU-Science & Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK; Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Mountbatten Centre for International Studies, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, UK
Amb. Masood Khan, Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the UN, Permanent Mission of Pakistan, Geneva, Switzerland
Mr. Aftab A. Khokher, First Secretary, Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
Ms. Mitslal Kifleyesus-Matschie, Manager, EuroContact, Jena, Germany; Lecturer, Erfurt University [Consultant, Technical Secretariat, OPCW, External Relations Division (1994-98); Harvard Sussex Brussels Researcher, Brussels]
Dr. Gabriele Kraatz-Wadsack, Colonel-Adviser on BW/CW Nonproliferation/Disarmament, Federal Foreign Office, Berlin, Germany
Mr. Patrick Lamb, Deputy Head, Non-Proliferation Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London, UK
Ms. Johanna Lanning (USA), Intern/Student, Boston University, Geneva, Switzerland
Mr. Kobi Leins (Australia), Project Manager, Mines-Arms Unit, Legal Division, International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, Switzerland
Mr. Ajey Lele, Indian Air Force Officer (Wing Commander) working as Research Fellow for the last four years at Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi, India
Dr. Patricia Lewis (UK), Director, UNIDIR, Geneva, Switzerland
Dr. Jez Littlewood, Research Fellow, Mountbatten Centre for International Studies, Department of Politics, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Mr. Dominique Loye, Deputy Head, Mines-Arms Unit, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Geneva, Switzerland
Ms. Jenifer Mackby (USA), Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Washington, DC
Prof. Robert Mathews, Principal Research Scientist, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia ; Associate Professor, Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, University of Melbourne
Ms. Kathryn McLaughlin, Publications Coordinator, BioWeapons Prevention Project (BWPP), Geneva, Switzerland; Fellow, Landau Network-Centro Volta (LNCV), Como, Italy
Dr. Caitriona McLeish (Ireland), Research Fellow, Science & Technology Policy Research (SPRU), The Freeman Centre, University of Sussex,, Brighton BN1 9QE, UK
Prof. Matthew S. Meselson, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; Member, Pugwash CBW Steering Committee
Dr. Piers Millett (UK), Associate Political Officer, Secretariat of the 2004 meetings of the Biological Weapons Convention, Department of Disarmament Affairs, United Nations Office, Geneva, Switzerland; Consultant on science and technology for the ICRC project on Biotechnology Weapons and Humanity
Amb. Andrea Negrotto-Cambiaso, Geneva, Switzerland
Prof. Kathryn Nixdorff (USA/Germany), Dept. of Microbiology and Genetics, Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany
Mr. Brian Parai, 2nd Secretary, Disarmament, Permanent Mission of Canada, Geneva, Switzerland
Ms. Fiona Paterson, Deputy Permanent Representative, UK Permanent Representation to the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva, Switzerland
Graham S. Pearson, Visiting Professor of International Security, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK; Member, HSP Advisory Board; Member, Pugwash CBW Steering Committee
Dr. Imtinan E. Qureshi, Minister (Technical), Permanent Mission of Pakistan, Geneva, Switzerland
James Revill, Research Student, Strengthening the BTWC, Bradford Disarmament Research Centre, Department of Peace Studies, Bradford, UK
Mr. Paul van Rhijn, Second Secretary, Permanent Mission of the Netherlands to the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva, Switzerland
Prof. Julian Perry Robinson, Sussex Director, Harvard-Sussex Program, Science & Technology Policy Research (SPRU), University of Sussex, Brighton, UK; Member, Pugwash CBW Steering Committee
Monsieur l’Ambassadeur Carlos Antonio da Rocha Paranhos, Mission of Brazil, Geneva, Switzerland
Mr. Roger Roffey, Research Director, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Stockholm; Member of the Board, Swedish Pugwash Group
Mr. Ben Rusek, Research Associate, Committee on International Security and Arms Control (CISAC), Policy and Global Affairs, The National Academies, Washington, DC, USA
Mr. Teemu Sepponen, First Secretary, Permanent Mission of Finland, Geneva, Switzerland
Mr. Nicholas Sims, Reader in International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London, London, UK [formerly: Member of UK Delegation to First Review Conference of the BWC (March 1980), Geneva]
Prof. Jean-Pierre Stroot (Belgium/Switzerland), retired Physicist; President of the Board of the Geneva International Peace Research Institute (GIPRI), Geneva, Switzerland; Association Suisse Pugwash, Geneva
Dr. Ralf Trapp (Germany), Senior Planning Officer, Office of the Deputy Director-General, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), The Hague, The Netherlands
Mr. Arjen Vermeer, Trainee, Permanent Mission of the Netherlands to the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva, Switzerland; Student, Centre Universitaire de Droit International Humanitaire (CUDIH), Geneva, Switzerland
Amb. Hendrik Wagenmakers (Netherlands), Consultant, Bern, Switzerland
Mr. Reto Wollenmann, Directorate for Security Policy, Arms Control and Disarmament Policy, Bern, Switzerland
Ms. Angela Woodward (New Zealand), Deputy Director and Arms Control & Disarmament Researcher (Chemical & Biological), Verification Research, Training and Information Centre (VERTIC), London, UK
Dr. Jean Pascal Zanders, Director, BioWeapons Prevention Project (BWPP), Geneva, Switzerland
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