Ray Acheson

Director of Reaching Critical Will at the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom

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Rabia Akhtar

Director, Centre for Security, Strategy and Policy Research, University of Lahore; Non-resident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council, Washington DC

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Nobumasa Akiyama 

Professor of International Relations, School of International and Public Policy and the Graduate School of Law at Hitotsubashi University

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William Alberque

Director of the Strategy, Technology, and Arms Control Programme, 

International Institute for Strategic Studies in Berlin

 

Michael Albertson

Deputy Director, Center for Global Security Research (CGSR), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Former Senior Policy Advisor, Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), Office of Nuclear and Missile Defense Policy

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Anatoly I. Antonov

Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United States 

 

Alexei Arbatov 

Head of the Center for International Security, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations

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Thóra Arnórsdóttir

Managing editor, Icelandic National Broadcasting Service (RÚV)

 

Catherine Ashton

Former High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy

 

Eileen Babbitt

Professor, Practice of International Conflict Management, The Fletcher School, Tufts University, Co-Director, Program on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution, The Fletcher School, Tufts University, Faculty Associate, Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School

 

Andrey Baklitskiy

Senior Research Fellow, Center for Euro-Atlantic Security at the Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University

Senior Researcher, WMD Programme, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research

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Andrey Baykov 

Associate Professor, Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO University

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Arvid Bell

Lecturer on Government at Harvard University; Director of the Negotiation Task Force (NTF) at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

 

Sarah Bidgood

Director, Eurasia Nonproliferation Program, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies

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Alexander Bollfrass

Senior Researcher, Center for Security Studies, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Associate, Negotiation Task Force, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Mariana Budjeryn

Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom (MTA) and the International Security Program (ISP) at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center

 

Matthew Bunn

Professor of the Practice of Energy, National Security, and Foreign Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government

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Lu Chuanying

Senior Fellow, Director of Research Center for Global Cyberspace Governance, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies

 

Susan Corke

Senior Fellow and Director of the bipartisan Transatlantic Democracy Working Group (TDWG) with The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF)

 

Thomas Countryman

Chair, Arms Control Association Board of Directors, Former U.S. Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security

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Tarja Cronberg

Distinguished Associate Fellow, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Former Member of European Parliament

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Christopher Daase

Professor for International Organization at the University of Frankfurt; Deputy Director of the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt

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Nikita Degtyarev

ACONA Fellow '23, Research Consultant, Open Nuclear Network (ONN)

 

Abdolrasool Divsallar

Co-leader of the Regional Security Initiative at the Middle East Directions Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies; Policy Leader Fellow at the School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute

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Jóna Sólveig Elínardóttir

Director of the Hybrid Threats Department, Icelandic Ministry for Foreign Affairs

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Anna-Katharina Ferl

Research Associate, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt

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Beatrice Fihn

Executive Director, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) 

2017 Nobel Peace Prize-Winning Campaign Coalition 

 

Andrew Futter

Professor of International Politics, University of Leicester

Member, Cyber-Nuclear Security Threats Task Force, Nuclear Threat Initiative

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Nancy Gallagher

Director, Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM); Research Professor, University of Maryland's School of Public Policy

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Sarah Gamberini

Senior Policy Fellow, National Defense University (NDU), Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction (CSWMD) 

 

Rebecca Gibbons

Associate Professor, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Southern Maine

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Francesca Giovannini

Executive Director, Project on Managing the Atom at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs

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Oleksii Goncharenko

Member of Parliament, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine

 

Rose Gottemoeller 

Former Deputy Secretary General of NATO; Frank E. and Arthur W. Payne Distinguished Lecturer at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

 

Thomas Graham, Jr.

Former U.S. Special Representative for Arms Control, Non-Proliferation, and Disarmament, Acting Director and Acting Deputy Director, U.S Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

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Hugh Gusterson

Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, George Washington University 

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Sascha Hach

Research Associate and Doctoral Researcher, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt

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Melissa Hanham

Deputy Director, Open Nuclear Network

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Pia Hansson

Director, Institute of International Affairs at the University of Iceland

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Jingjie He

ACONA Fellow '23, PhD Candidate, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Emily J. Holland

Assistant Professor, Russia Maritime Studies Institute at the United States Naval War College

Visiting Scholar, NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia

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Renata Hessmann Dalaqua 

Head of Gender and Disarmament Program, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research

 

Vincent J. Intondi

Former Director of Research for American University’s Nuclear Studies Institute 

 

Igor Istomin

Associate Professor, Department of Applied International Political Analysis, MGIMO University; Davis Senior Scholar, Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

 

Moriba Jah

Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas, Former Spacecraft Navigator, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Katrín Jakobsdóttir

Prime Minister of Iceland

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Dominik Jankowski

Policy Adviser, Office of the Secretary General, NATO

 

Tinatin Japaridze

Director of Policy and Strategy, The Critical Mass

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Tianjiao Jiang

Associate Professor, Development Institute

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Angela Kane

Sam Nunn Distinguished Fellow at NTI, Former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, and Under-Secretary-General for Management 

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Vasily Kashin

Senior Research Fellow, Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, National Research University–Higher School of Economics

Research Fellow, Institute of the Russian Far East 

 

Togzhan Kassenova

Nonresident Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

 

Laura Kennedy

Former U.S. Ambassador to Turkmenistan, Former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Former U.S. Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva and Special Representative for Biological Weapons Convention Issues

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Soo Kim 

Policy Analyst, Rand Corporation 

Adjunct Instructor, American University 

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Daryl G. Kimball 

Executive Director, Arms Control Association 

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Alexander Kmentt

Ambassador and Director of Disarmament, Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Austrian Ministry for Foreign Affairs

Former Permanent Representative of Austria to the Political and Security Committee of the European Union

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Matt Kokkinos 

Coordinator, Negotiation Task Force 

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Alexander Kolbin

Consultant, PIR Center

 

Andrey Kortunov

Director General, Russian Affairs Council 

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Dmitry Kovchegin 

Independent Researcher and Consultant, Nuclear Regulatory Analysis 

Former Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, Harvard Kennedy School  

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Laura Lepsy

Junior Expert and Researcher on Arms Control Matters 

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Robert Litwak

Senior Vice President and Director of International Security Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Former Director for Non-Proliferation, National Security Council

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Herbert Lin

Senior Research Scholar, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Hank J. Holland Fellow in Cyber Policy and Security, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

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Rosa Magnusdottir 

Associate Professor of History, Aarhus University

 

Jeffrey Mankoff 

Senior Associate, CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program 

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Thilo Marauhn

Professor for Public Law and International Law, Justus Liebig University Giessen 

 

Adlan Margoev 

Analyst, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University 

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Rose McDermott

David and Mariana Fisher University Professor of International Relations, Brown University

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Oliver Meier

Senior Researcher, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg

Former Deputy Head, International Security Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs 

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Steven Miller 

Director of the International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard University Kennedy School 

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Izumi Nakamitsu

Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations

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Nomsa Ndongwe

Research Associate, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies 

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Michiru Nishida

Professor, Nagasaki University 

Former Special Advisor for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan

 

Jón Gunnar Ólafsson

Former Acting Director of the Institute of International Affairs at the University of Iceland

 

Jón Ólafsson

Professor of Cultural and Russian Studies, University of Iceland

 

Silja Bára Ómarsdóttir

Professor at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Iceland

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Brynja Huld Óskarsdóttir

Defence Specialist, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Iceland

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Christian F. Ostermann

Director of the History and Public Policy Program (HAPP), Woodrow Wilson Center 

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