Lyn
Allison was an administrator,teacher and Director
of the Employment and Economic Development Corporation
before moving into local, and then national politics. She has been an Australian Democrats member
of the Australian Senate since July 1996 representing
the state of Victoria.
She is
the Leader of the Australian Democrats.
Abacca
Anjain Maddison, Marshall Islands
Abacca
Anjain-Maddison was first elected Senator as the
representative of the Rongelap Atoll in November
1999. Senator Maddison has represented her people
in negotiating with the US government for compensation
of the nuclear testing damage. She has initiated
a plan to build a museum in Rongelap Island to
remind the people of the history of now almost
lost traditional way of life, nuclear refugees
and struggle for a nuclear-free island. She has
three children.
Raphael
Chegeni, Tanzania
Raphael Chegeni has a background
in Financial Administration and a Docotrate from
Washington International University. He
is Secretary General on the Amani Forum of The
Great Lakes Reg. Parliamentary Forum and East
Africa Chapter Representive on the Parliamentary
Network of the World Bank. He is a member
of Chama Cha Mapinduzi - CCM, the governing party
in Tanzania.
David
Coltart, Zimbabwe
David
Coltart is secretary for Legal Affairs and shadow
minister for Justice and Legal Affairs and a founding
member of the MDC, Movement for Democratic Change. He is a Senior Partner for Webb Low and
Barry, Legal Practitioners, Bulawayo and vocal
advocate for democracy and human rights in Zimbabwe.
Taro
Kono, Japan
Taro
Kono is a member of the ruling Liberal Democratic
Party and Senior Vice Minister for Justice.
Yoshinori
Suematsu, Japan (Deputy Council Member)
Yoshinori
Suematsu is a graduate of Hitotsubashi and Princeton
Universities. He is currently the Acting
Section Chief of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Lotta Hedstrom,
Sweden
Sergei Kolesnikov,
Russia
Sergei Kolesnikov is a
renowned specialist in the field of human embryogeny, he
is a member of the Presidium of the
Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. In 1999 he
was elected to the RF State Duma of the RF Federal
Assembly and re-elected for another term
in 2003. Currently he is the Deputy Chairman of
the RF State Duma Committee for Science and Education. He
is the Laureate of the Lenin Komsomol Prize for
Scince in 1984, he was awarded with the Order
of Peoples Friendship (1985) and Order of
Honor (1996). In 1994 he was elected as IPPNW Co-President,
re-elected in 1996. Since 1998 he has been the
IPPNW Vice-President for CIS countries. He is
also the President of the Russian national
affiliate of IPPNW.
Hallgeir
Langeland, Norway
Lee Mi-Kyung, Republic
of Korea
Kwon, Young-ghil, Republic
of Korea
Francesco
Martone, Italy
Francesco
Martone has worked for Greenpeace International
and was the president of Greenpeace Italy. He
founded and coordinated the Campaign for the
Reform of the World Bank. He has been
a senator since 2001.
Alexa
McDonough, Canada
Alexa
McDonough is Member of Parliament for Halifax.
She is the former leader of Canada's New
Democrats and the first woman to win four consecutive
federal terms in Nova Scotia. She has supported
and participated in dozens of advocacy and social
action groups, human rights organizations, and
professional associations.
Senator Dulce María
Sauri Riancho, Mexico
Dulce María
Sauri Riancho was the first woman to serve as
governor of Yucatán, from 1991 through
1994. Sauri Riancho studied sociology
at the Universidad Iberoamericana. She
is an active member of the Institutional Revolutionary
Party (PRI) since 1981. She has served as deputy
in the Congress of Yucatán and as federal
deputy in the lower house of the Mexican Congress.
Hon
Nick Smith, Aotearoa-New Zealand
Former
Minister of Conservation, Minister of Education
and Minister of Corrections and Former Associate
Minister of Immigration, Treaty Negotiations and
Social Welfare.
Uta Zapf MP, Germany
Senator Emeritus Douglas
Roche (MPI Representative)
Author,
parliamentarian and diplomat, Douglas Roche was
appointed to the Senate of Canada on September
17th, 1998. Previously, he was elected to the
Canadian Parliament four times, serving from 1972
to 1984 and specializing in development and disarmament.
Jonathan Granoff (GSI
Representative)
Jonathan
Granoff has for more than 20 years contributed
his legal expertise, developed as a successful
private attorney, to the movement to eliminate
nuclear weapons. Mr. Granoff was elected President
of the Global Security Institute after the death
of the Institute's founding president, Senator
Alan Cranston (1914-2000).
