Project Staff

Elisabeth Sköns
(Sweden)

Leader of the SIPRI Military Expenditure and Arms Production projects. Her most recent publications outside SIPRI include papers on the costs of conflict and on the financing of peace missions for the International Task Force on Global Public Goods; and chapters on defence offsets in Arms Trade and Economic Development: Theory and Policy in Offsets (Routledge, 2004), on the restructuring of the West European defence industry in Mot et avnasjonalisert forsvar? [Towards a denationalized defence?] (Abstrakt, 2005), on the costs of armed conflict in Peace and Security, Expert Papers Series no. 5 (Secretariat of the International Task Force on Global Public Goods, 2006), on financing of security in The Statesmans Yearbook 2007 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), and on the economics of arms production (with Paul Dunne) for the Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict, 2nd edn (Academic Press, forthcoming 2007). She has contributed to the SIPRI Yearbook since 1983.

Noel Kelly
(United Kingdom)

Project Assistant for the Military Expenditure, Arms Production and Arms Transfers projects. He is responsible for the electronic archives common to these three research areas, and maintains the SIPRI reporting system for military expenditure. Before joining the projects he was an intern with the SIPRI Armed Conflict and Conflict Management Project. In 2007, he completed the Master's programme in History of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). In 2006, he graduated with a BA degree in History and Politics from Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Natasza Nazet (on leave of absence)
(France/Poland)

Project Secretary. She studied English Literature and Civilisation at the University of South Brittany in France, graduating in June 1998. She worked as a French teacher in London in 1998-1999. She also worked as a customer service agent for a Swedish paper company during 2000-2001. In 2002 she studied Swedish, before starting at SIPRI, as secretary to the arms production, arms transfers and military expenditure projects in January 2003. Natasza is responsible for the maintenance of the archives, the Arms Transfers Project's web pages and for the SIPRI reporting system of military expenditure.

Catalina Perdomo
(Colombia)

Research Associate with the SIPRI Military Expenditure Project, responsible for monitoring military expenditure in Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. Previously, she worked at the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) in Washington, DC, at the Washington, DC, office of the Fundación Ideas para la Paz of Colombia and at the Bogotá office of Management Sciences for Development. She is the author of several publications on security and development, including the chapter ‘International assistance for security sector reform’ in Obsevatorio de Análisis de los Sistemas Internacionales 2007–2008 [Observatory for international systems analysis 2007–2008] (Universidad Externado de Colombia, 2007), and co-author of Informe sobre la implementación de la estrategia de desarrollo subnacional [Report on the implementation of subnational development strategy] (IADB, 2004). She has contributed to the SIPRI Yearbook since 2004.

Dr. Sam Perlo-Freeman
(United Kingdom)

Researcher with the SIPRI Arms Production Project, responsible for monitoring data on the major arms producing companies worldwide. Previously he was a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of the West of England, working in the field of Defence and Peace Economics, in which he is the author of a number of publications, including The Demand for Military Expenditure in Developing Countries (International Review of Applied Economiscs, 2003), and Offsets and Development of the Brazilian Armaments Industry (in Arms Trade and Economic Development: Theory and Policy in Offsets, Routledge, 2004). He also worked on policy papers for Oxfam and BASIC. He previously worked for SIPRI on the Military Expenditure project, contributing to the 2003 and 2004 Yearbooks, and is co-author of Armament and Disarmament in the Caucasus and Central Asia, SIPRI Policy Paper no. 3 (July 2003).

Petter Stålenheim
(Sweden)

Researcher with the SIPRI Military Expenditure Project, responsible for monitoring data on military expenditure, with a special focus on Europe and Central Asia, and for the maintenance of the SIPRI Military Expenditure Database. In 2005–2006 he was acting Leader of the SIPRI Military Expenditure and Arms Production projects. He has previously worked as a consultant to the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) in Stockholm and lectured at the George C. Marshall Center in Germany. He is co-author of Armament and Disarmament in the Caucasus and Central Asia, SIPRI Policy Paper no. 3 (July 2003). He has contributed to the SIPRI Yearbook since 1998.