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Barry
Blechman Dr. Barry M. Blechman is a co-founder of the Stimson Center, and a distinguished fellow focused on nuclear disarmament. He has nearly fifty years of distinguished service in national security and is an expert on political and military policies, military strategy, and defense budgets and industries. He holds a PhD in international relations from Georgetown University, has taught at several universities, and has written extensively on national security issues. In 2010, he co-chaired the Iran Study Group with Daniel Brumberg of the US Institute of Peace; the group's report is called Engagement, Coercion, and Iran's Nuclear Challenge.
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Professor Sissela Bok Sissela Bok, a writer and philosopher, was born in Sweden and educated in Switzerland, France and the United States. Formerly a Professor of Philosophy at Brandeis University, she is currently a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. A former member of the Pulitzer Prize Board, Bok is on the editorial boards of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Common Knowledge, Criminal Justice Ethics, and Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. In 1991, she was awarded the Courage of Conscience award "for her contributions to peacemaking strategies in the tradition of her mother" (Alva Myrdal).
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Susan Eisenhower Susan Eisenhower is the President of the Eisenhower Group, which provides strategic counsel on political, business and public affairs projects. She has also served as an Academic Fellow of the International Peace and Security program of Carnegie Corporation of New York, as a director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and as an Advisor to Johns Hopkins’ Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. She currently sits on the Board of the Nuclear Threat Initiative.
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Dr. Bates Gill Dr. Bates Gill was appointed by the Swedish government to become the seventh Director of SIPRI in March 2007. Before joining SIPRI, he held the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC. Dr. Gill has a long record of research and publication on international and regional security issues, particularly regarding arms control, non-proliferation, peacekeeping and military-technical development, especially with regard to China and Asia.He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of eight books. He has also published in the International Herald Tribune, the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times.
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Catherine
McArdle Kelleher
Catherine McArdle Kelleher has had a distinguished career both in academia and in government. She is a College Park Professor at the University of Maryland, teaching and advising in the areas of international security and American defense policy. Professor Kelleher has taught and written extensively on conventional and nuclear arms control as well as on German, Russian, and European security issues. During the Clinton Administration she was the Personal Representative of the Secretary of Defense in Europe and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia. She founded the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM) and was the first president and founder of Women in International Security (WIIS).
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Ambassador Henrik
Liljegren Henrik Liljegren currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Atlantic Council of the United States. He is also Senior Political and Diplomatic Advisor to the Saab Group. He has been ambassador of Sweden to Ankara (1982-1985), East Berlin (1985-1989), Brussels and Luxembourg (1989-1992), Washington (1993-1997) and for a second time in Ankara (1998-2001). As ambassador to Washington he was instrumental in forging a close relationship between the Bildt Government and the White House as they were assisting Russia and the Baltic States with Russian troop withdrawal from Estonia and Latvia. Liljegren has written an autobiography, entitled From Tallinn to Turkey - as a Swede and Diplomat.
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Dr. Steven E. Miller Steven E. Miller is the Director of the International Security Program, Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly journal, International Security and also co-editor of the International Security Program's book series, Belfer Center Studies in International Security (published by the MIT Press). Previously, he was a Senior Research Fellow at SIPRI and taught Defense and Arms Control Studies in the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Miller is also co-chair of the U.S. Pugwash Committee and a member of the Council of International Pugwash. Miller received his Ph.D. in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
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Mr. Robert Nurick Robert Nurick is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council's International Security Program. Prior to his appointment at the Council, Mr. Nurick was Senior Fellow in the Washington, DC office of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, a non-governmental organization devoted to training and policy research in non-proliferation and related international security issues. Prior to this, Mr. Nurick served as Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center. He is also a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, and the Central Eurasia Studies Society.
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Thomas R. Pickering Ambassador Thomas Pickering is vice chairman of Hills & Company. He retired in 2006 as senior vice president of international relations for The Boeing Company. He has had a career spanning five decades as a US diplomat, serving as under-secretary of state for political affairs, Ambassador to the United Nations, Ambassador to Russia, India, Israel, Nigeria, Jordan and El Salvador. He holds the personal rank of Career Ambassador, the highest in the US Foreign Service. In 1984, he was awarded an honorary doctor-in-laws degree from Bowdoin College, and has received similar honors from 12 other universities.
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Ambassador Thomas L. Siebert
A Washington attorney with over 30 years of private sector experience and a diplomat during the Clinton Presidency, Thomas L. Siebert specializes in international business and governmental affairs related to telecommunications, IT, renewable energy and clean technology. Siebert served as US Ambassador to Sweden from 1994 to1998 and is a member of the Council of American Ambassadors. Ambassador Siebert currently serves on the Diplomatic Council on Energy Security. He has also served as parliamentarian and negotiator on issues such as Palestinian membership in the ITU. He received a B.A. from Georgetown University and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law School.
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Ambassador Kurt Volker
Ambassador Kurt Volker recently joined BGR as Managing Director, International. He also serves as a Senior Fellow and Managing Director of the Center on Transatlantic Relations at the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He served as Ambassador to NATO from 2008 to 2009. From 2005 to 2008, he served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. His prior Foreign Service assignments include Brussels, Budapest, London, and several positions in the U.S. Department of State. He has studied in Sweden and France and speaks Hungarian, Swedish and French.
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Daniel E. Waltz Daniel Waltz is a partner at the Washington, DC law firm of Patton Boggs LLP, where he concentrates his practice on international trade and transactions. Mr. Waltz taught International Business Transactions for two years as an Adjunct Professor at the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University in Washington, DC, has lectured on international legal topics for the International Law Institute and served as the President of the Washington Foreign Law Society. He was the monthly columnist for the Cuba Trade & Investment News from December 2003 until August, 2005.
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Mr. Frederick W. Whitridge Jr. Mr. Whitridge is an entrepreneur and investor greatly interested in international security affairs. He is the President and Founder of the Archipelago Corporation and investment company and was Chief investment officer and vice president of the North American office of the Swedish Wallenberg Group between 1988 and 1992. Mr. Whitridge holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.P.P.M. from the Yale School of Management.
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