Senator Douglas Roche, O.C. - Chair
Former Canadian Disarmament Ambassador

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.

Senator Roche was Canada's Ambassador for Disarmament from 1984 to 1989. In 1988, he was elected Chairman of the United Nations Disarmament Committee. Senator Roche is the author of seventeen books, including “The Human Right to Peace” (Novalis, 2003). He is affiliated with numerous non-governmental organizations, including the Middle Powers Initiative and the Canadian Pugwash, both of which he is presently chairing. Senator Roche has received numerous awards and honors for his worldwide peace and disarmament work, among them the Papal Medal, the United Nations Association's Medal of Honor, and six Honorary Doctorates. He is a member of the Order of Canada and a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great at the Holy See.

Rt. Hon. Kim Campbell, P.C.
Former Prime Minister, Canada

Kim Campbell served as Canada's nineteenth and first female Prime Minister and previously held cabinet portfolios as Minister of State for Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Minister of Justice and Attorney General and Minister of National Defence and Veterans Affairs. A champion of women's rights, Ms. Campbell is the current Chair of the Council of Women World Leaders - women who have been president or prime minister of their countries. She is a Senior Fellow of the Gorbachev Foundation of North America in Boston and serves on advisory committees for the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard, Northeastern University and the School of Public Policy at UCLA.

Michael Christ
Executive Director, IPPNW

Michael joined the IPPNW organization in 1988 with a background in environmental economics and political activism. He describes his visits to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1989, and to the downwind community of Karaul near the former Soviet nuclear test site in Kazakhstan in 1990, as "life changing." Michael led IPPNW's World Court Project to persuade the World Health Organization and the United Nations to challenge the legality of nuclear weapons at the International Court of Justice. As Director of Programs from 1996 to 1998, he was responsible for numerous projects and campaigns on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament and helped to launch IPPNW's landmines campaign. Michael was appointed Executive Director in January 1998.

Nick Dunlop
Secretary-General, e-Parliament

Nicholas Dunlop is co-founder and Executive Director of the e-Parliament, an initiative to link up the world's democratic members of parliament and congress into a global forum based partly on the internet. He was previously Secretary-General of Parliamentarians for Global Action, an international network of legislators. In 1984, he coordinated the launching of the Six Nation Peace Initiative, bringing together a group of heads of government to work on nuclear weapons issues. In 1987 he was a co-recipient of the first Indira Gandhi Peace Prize. More recently, he was Executive Director of EarthAction, a global network of more than 2,000 citizen groups in 160 countries. Nicholas Dunlop is a citizen of Ireland and New Zealand, and divides his time between Wye, England and Brussels, Belgium.

Dr. Scilla Elworthy
Oxford Research Group

Dr. Scilla Elworthy holds a PhD in political science and is the former Director of the Oxford Research Group, which she founded in 1982 to analyse how and by whom nuclear weapons decisions are made worldwide. She has been a consultant to UNESCO as well as research director for Minority Rights Group, before she managed a self-help organisation in Africa. She is the author of many books and reports on defence and security issues and a gifted public lecturer in Europe, the United States, Russia, China and Japan. Her most recent book is "Power and Sex. A Book About Women" that shows how to replace distorted notions of 'male' power and domination with an inner power, developed through body, mind and spirit.

In 2002 Dr. Elworthy received the Japanese equivalent to the Nobel Peace Prize, the Niwano Peace Prize

Jonathan Granoff
President, Global Security Institute

JONATHAN GLENN GRANOFF, ESQ, 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).

Mr. Granoff holds numerous other titles within the peace and security movement. He is also Vice President of Lawyers Alliance for World Security, Vice President of the NGO Committee on Disarmament at the UN, and he serves on numerous governing boards, such as the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, the Temple of Understanding, and the Middle Powers Initiative. He is Co-Chair of the American Bar Association, Committee on Arms Control and National Security.

Karel Koster
Project on European Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Netherlands

Drs. Karel Koster (1951) is a sociologist, specialised in the relation between war, diplomacy and political change. He runs the Netherlands section of the Project on European Nuclear Non-Proliferation (PENN-Nl) in Utrecht, is a member of the executive of the Middle Powers Initiative (MPI) and European co-ordinator of the Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (PNND). He has specialised in nuclear weapons issues since 1996, with emphasis on political advocacy and co-ordination of anti-nuclear campaigning, nationally and internationally. He is the co-author of books and papers on NATO, Dutch security policy, post Cold War order, the Gulf War and Turkey and developments in NATO nuclear weapons policy and various op/eds on nuclear arms issues published in Dutch newspapers and periodicals.

Dr. David Krieger
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation

Dr. David Krieger is founder and president of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. NAPF is a non-profit, non-partisan international educational organization. He holds a PhD in political science and is a graduate (cum laude) of the Santa Barbara College of Law. NAPF has initiated several important peace projects such as a World Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and a Magna Carta for the Nuclear Age calling for individual accountability for crimes under international law. Krieger who has made the abolition of nuclear weapons a life-time commitment, is the author and editor of numerous books on global issues: disarmament, technology, earth citizenship, and editor of the Waging Peace Series. He also serves as adviser to a number of foundations including the Foundation for the Establishment of an International Criminal Court and the Committee of 100 for Tibet.

Ron S. McCoy, M.D.
President, IPPNW

Ronald McCoy retired in 1996 as an obstetrician and gynecologist in order to devote more time to the work of nuclear disarmament, in the hope that the 20,000 babies he delivered over 40 years could live in a safer, nuclear-free world. In 1988, he founded the Malaysian affiliate, Malaysian Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, of which he is still chair. He became Vice-President of the Asia-Pacific Region of IPPNW in 1993, and served as federation Co-President in 1996 and in 1998. He was a member of the Malaysian government's delegation when it made its oral submission on the legal status of nuclear weapons to the International Court of Justice in 1995 and of the Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons in 1996. Dr McCoy is married and has three children.

Ambassador Miguel Marín-Bosch
Former Deputy Foreign Minister, Mexico

Miguel Marín Bosch is the former the Deputy Foreign Minister of Mexico for Africa, Asia, Europe and the United Nations. A career diplomat, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1969 and one year later obtained first place in the Mexican Foreign Service entrance exams. In 1976 he reached the rank of Minister and was designated Ambassador in 1979. From 1994 to 2002 he was an Eminent Ambassador. Foreign postings included the Permanent Mission to the United Nations (1975-1976 and 1983-1988 as Deputy Permanent Representative) and the Permanent Mission to the International Organisations based in Geneva (1971-1975, Deputy Representative to the Disarmament Conference 1977-1979 and Permanent Representative 1989-1995). From 1995 to November 2000 he served as Consul-General in Barcelona. He devoted his attention mostly to multilateral affairs, especially disarmament matters. Since 1999 he has been a member of the UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, which he presided over in 2000. He studied history at Yale University (obtaining a Bachelor’s degree in 1964) and at Columbia University (Master’s degree in 1967 and a Ph.D. in 1996). He has been professor at Mexico’s National University (UNAM); the University of the Americas; the Mexico Institute of Technology (ITAM); and at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. He is author of some 40 articles and five books on disarmament, international relations and history.

Krishna Ahooja Patel
President, WILPF International

Dr. Ahooja-Patel was educated at the University of Bombay (Political Science), is a Barrister-at-Law from Inner Temple, London, and obtained a Doctorate in International Economic Relations from the University of Geneva.  She had researched and published several articles on Women and Employment, International Migration and Development Issues.  She has served for 25 years in the United Nations, including 10 years in the International Labour Office, Geneva, when she was editor of an ILO journal, Women and Work during the UN Decade for Women (1977-1986).  From 1986 to 1990, she served as the Deputy Director of UN International Institute of Research and Training for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW), Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.  In 1990, she was appointed to a prestigious Chair on Women's Studies, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. In 1992, after working as a research scholar at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, she joined the International Development Studies Program at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia where she is currently a Professor.  She is also a Director of the newly established Institute on Equity and Development at the Gujarat Vidyapith (India University of Learning) founded by Mahatma Gandhi in 1922, Ahmedabad.

Jean du Preez
Director, International Organizations and Nonproliferation Program
Center for Nonproliferation Studies
Monterey Institute of International Studies

Jean P. du Preez is Director of the International Organizations and Nonproliferation Program of the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. His program conducts research and provides policy analysis on the new roles and activities of international nonproliferation and disarmament organizations, treaties and regimes as they deal with emerging proliferation concerns.

He has served as a former South African diplomat with 17 years' service in international peace- and security-related matters and has extensive experience in multilateral nonproliferation, disarmament, and arms control negotiations. He was also a member of the South African Council for the Nonproliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (the South African national authority for implementing the country's international nonproliferation obligations, including export controls) and their technical advisory committees on export controls.

As a political officer at the South African Embassy in Washington, DC, he promoted South African/U.S. bilateral political and trade relations.

Alice Slater
President, GRACE

ALICE SLATER is President of the Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) working to form links between the research, policy, and grassroots communities in order to promote solutions to preserve the future of the planet and protect the quality of the environment. She is a founder of Abolition 2000, a global network working for a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons and is the Co-Convenor of the Abolition 2000 Working Group for Sustainable Energy. Ms. Slater serves on the Advisory Board of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space and on the Executive Committees of the Middle Powers Initiative, formed to influence the nuclear weapons states to move more swiftly to nuclear abolition. She serves on the NYC Bar Association's Committee on International Security Affairs and United Nations Working Group, and is a board member of the Lawyers Committee for Nuclear Policy. She is a UN NGO Representative and has organized numerous conferences, panels, and roundtables at the UN on nuclear and environmental issues and has spoken frequently at meetings and conferences in the US and internationally. Ms. Slater has written numerous articles, interviews, and op-eds, and has appeared frequently on local and national media.

Prof. Dr. Armin Tenner
Chair, INES

Dr. Maj-Britt Theorin
Member of the European Parliament

Maj Britt Theorin is a member of the European Parliament, she is the Chairperson of the Committee on Women's Rights, and Equal Opportunity since 1999, Deputy Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs , Security and Defence Policy since 1999,

Aaron Tovish
NPT Project Director
NGO Committee for Disarmament, Geneva

With over two decades of experience, Aaron Tovish is one of the world’s foremost disarmament activists. The Euro-American has worked for numerous non-governmental organizations, among them Parliamentarians for Global Action, Earth Action, the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, and the Middle Powers Initiative. Aaron Tovish made significant contributions to a number of successful disarmament campaigns, including the Six Nation Initiative for Peace and Disarmament, the indefinite extension of the NPT in 1995 and the adoption of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in 1996. He currently serves as Director of the NPT Project of the NGO Committee for Disarmament in Geneva and as Geneva Representative of the Middle Powers Initiative.

Dr. Hiromichi Umebayashi
International Coordinator, PCDS
President, Peace Depot, Japan

Alyn Ware
Global Coordinator, PNND

Alyn Ware is the International Coodinator of the Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament ( PNND ), a program of the Global Security Institute. Previously, he served as Executive Director of the Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy and the UN Coordinator for the World Court Project, which led the effort to achieve a ruling from the International Court of Justice on the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons. In addition to his numerous leadership positions within the peace and security field, he is co-author with Merav Datan of "Security and Survival: The Case for a Nuclear Weapons Convention", and with Annie Doherty of "Our Planet in Every Classroom", and has written numerous articles.

Peter Weiss
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President, LCNP
Vice President, IALANA

Peter Weiss is the president of the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms and its US affiliate, the Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy. Mr. Weiss is a graduate of Yale Law School and has lectured and written widely on the international law of war and peace, nuclear weapons and human rights. He was the principal author of the draft brief on the illegality of threat or use of nuclear weapons used by many countries in making written submissions to the International Court of Justice in the 1996 nuclear weapons advisory opinion, and served as counsel to Malaysia at the hearings. He has published several articles on the ICJ opinion, including in the fall 1997 issue of Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems. Mr. Weiss is also a leading human rights lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights, and litigated the seminal case establishing the right of victims of torture to sue their torturers in US courts (Filartiga v. Pena-Irala). Since his retirement in 1996 from Weiss Dawid Fross Zelnick & Lehrman, a leading trademark firm, he has been Senior Intellectual Property Counsel to The Chanel Company Limited. He is also a founder and former President of the American Committee on Africa and former Chairman of the Board of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington. He has also long been an activist for peace in the Middle East and is currently a member of the Arab-Jewish Peace Group in New York and of the Executive Committee of Americans for Peace Now, which supports the Peace Now movement in Israel.