SIPRI is pleased to announce that Tariq Rauf has been appointed Director of SIPRI's Arms Control and Non-proliferation Programme.
Rauf is an internationally respected authority on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation issues. From 2002 to 2011 he was Head of the Verification and Security Policy Coordination Office at the International Atomic Energy Agency, reporting to the Director General, in which capacity he dealt with high-priority verification cases involving Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, South Korea and Syria.
Read Rauf's SIPRI Essay on the role of safeguards in a nuclear weapon-free zone in the Middle East.