CENTER FOR ENERGY AND SECURITY STUDIES - Key Persons
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- Director of the International Institute for Caspian Studies
Dr. Maleki is Director of the International Institute for Caspian Studies, and a Senior Associate of the Belfer Center's International Security Program at Harvard University. He was Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Research and Education from 1988 to 1997. In 1997-2002 - Advisor to Iran's Foreign Minister. Author of numerous publications on the issues of Iran's international cooperation in the field of the peaceful use of nuclear energy.
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- Conference Logistics Coordinator
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- Chairman of the Moscow Nonproliferation Conference
- Co - Chair and Director of the 2022 Moscow Nonproliferation Conference
- Conference Chairman
- Director of Center for Energy and Security Studies ( CENESS ) Member of the Advisory Board under the Russian Security Council
- Editor - in - Chief of the Nuclear Club
Mr. Anton Khlopkov is Editor-in-Chief of the Nuclear Club journal. He is also a member of the Advisory Board under the Security Council of the Russian Federation. From 2000 to 2009 he has worked for the PIR Center (Center for Policy Studies in Russia), including as Deputy Director (2003-2007) and Executive Director (2007-2009). In 2001-2002, he was a Member of the Working Group on Nonproliferation and Export Control of the Partnership for Peace Consortium.
Amb. Guerreiro is a career diplomat with more than 40 years of experience. Since 1979 he has been working in the Brazilian Embassies in USA, Egypt, France. During 2012-2013 he was a Permanent Representative of Brazil to the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva, Switzerland. From 2006 to 2012 was a Permanent Representative of Brazil to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and other related organizations, Vienna, Austria. In 2001-2006 served as a Director-General of the Department of International Organizations, Ministry of External Relations. He served as a chair of the IAEA Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety convened in June 2011 following the Fukushima Daiichi accident.In 2013 was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Brazil to the Russian Federation.
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- Media Coordinator of the Moscow Nonproliferation Conference
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- Director of the Moscow Nonproliferation Conference
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- Assistant
- Chairman
- Assistant to the Conference Chairman
- Research Associate at the Center for Energy and Security Studies ( CENESS )
Assistant to the Chairman of the Moscow Nonproliferation Conference
Dmitry Konukhov
Research Associate at the Center for Energy and Security Studies (CENESS)
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- Member of the Expert Committee for the State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation
Dr. Ning Li is a member of the Expert Committee for the State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation, China. He is also an Associate Director for International Cooperation, Berkeley Nuclear Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, USA and the Director of Asia Development for TerraPower. He was formerly the Industrial Fellow for Civilian Nuclear Programs, a project leader and a technical staff member of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the deputy coordinator of the US DOE GNEP/AFCI US-China civilian nuclear energy cooperation.
Greg Thielmann was previously a U.S. Foreign Service Officer for 25 years, last serving as Director of the Strategic, Proliferation and Military Affairs Office in the Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research. He has served more than three decades in the executive and legislative branches of the U.S. government, specializing in political-military and intelligence issues. Before joining the Arms Control Association as a senior fellow in 2009, he worked for four years as a senior professional staffer of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI). His foreign posts included the U.S. Embassies in Brasilia, Brazil; Moscow, USSR; and Bonn, Germany, and the U.S. Mission in Geneva, Switzerland on the U.S. Delegation to the INF arms control negotiations. Thielmann also served as Deputy Director of the State Department's Office of German, Austrian and Swiss Affairs and as Special Assistant to Ambassador Paul Nitze (then Special Adviser to the President and Secretary of State on Arms Control Matters). He is currently a member of the trilateral (German-Russian-U.S.) Deep Cuts Commission.
Before joining the Carnegie Endowment in the October 2008 Acton was a lecturer at the Centre for Science and Security Studies in the Department of War Studies at King's College London. He is a member of the trilateral Commission on Challenges to Deep Cuts and a member of the Nuclear Security Working Group. He has provided evidence to the UN Secretary General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters and the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future.
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- Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic Research
Kayhan Barzegar is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic Research (CSR). He has been a Research Associate at the MIT Center for International Studies since 2011. Dr. Barzegar was a Research Fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center during 2007-2011, and at the London School of Economics (LSE) during 2002-2003. He is author of many publications in International Spectator, The Washington Quarterly, Middle East Policy. Dr. Barzegar is the Editor of English-language Discourse, An Iranian English Quarterly.
Kees Nederlof is Ambassador and Dutch Sherpa for the Nuclear Security Summit which will be held in the US in 2016. During the Dutch presidency of the Nuclear Security Summit (2012-2014) he held the position of Sous-Sherpa. Before that he was Advisor for Strategic Affairs and Missile Defence at the Security Policy Department of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague in 2010. He held various functions abroad, amongst others: Head of Research and Atomic Questions Department at the Dutch Permanent Representation to the EU in Brussels (2005-2010), Deputy Head of Mission at the Dutch Embassy in Copenhagen (2001-2005), Deputy Permanent Representative at the Dutch Mission to the IAEA in Vienna (1995-2000), setting up the Dutch Embassy in Zagreb and leading it as Chargé d'Affairs (1993-1994). In the eighties and early nineties he held various posts at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague, predominantly in the nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation area.
Lars Erik Bäckström joined Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Diplomatic Attaché in 1980. He served as Second Secretary and Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of Finland in Ankara, Turkey (1983-1986); as First Secretary and Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of Finland in Lagos, Nigeria (1986-1989). He was a Desk Officer for Central and Eastern Europe of MFA in Helsinki (1989-1991). From 1991 until 1994 he served as Counsellor (Political Affairs) at the Permanent Mission of Finland to the United Nations, New York. He also worked as a Counsel lor (EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy) at the Permanent Representation of Finland to the European Union in Brussels, Belgium (1994-1997); as a Director for Humanitarian Assistance, MFA, Helsinki (1997-2005). In 2005 he was appointed Ambassador to Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar and occupied that position for a period of four years. From 2009 until 2013 he served as Ambassador to the People's Republic of China and Mongolia, and in 2013 he was appointed Ambassador and Deputy Facilitator (MEWMDFZ) of MFA in Helsinki.
From 2001 to 2009, Ms. Holgate was the Vice President for Russia/New Independent States Programs at the Nuclear Threat Initiative. Prior to joining NTI, Ms. Holgate directed the Department of Energy's Office of Fissile Materials Disposition from 1998 to 2001. She was Special Coordinator for Cooperative Threat Reduction at the Department for Defense from 1995 through 1998, where she provided policy oversight of the "Nunn-Lugar" Cooperative Threat Reduction program. Her academic credentials include an SM from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Political Science, and two years on the research staff at Harvard University's Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government.
After graduating from the English Department of Beijing Foreign Languages Institute (now known as the Beijing Foreign Studies University) in 1980, Mr. Li worked in the Division of South Asian, Middle Eastern and African Studies, CIIS. He served as Second Secretary in Chinese Embassy in Tanzania from 1989 to 1993. From 1995 to 1998, he served as Consul in Chinese Consulate General in Los Angeles.
Dr. Floyd was appointed to the position of Director General, Australian Safeguards and Non-proliferation Office (ASNO) in December 2010. He is responsible for Australia's implementation and compliance with regard to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, Chemical Weapons Convention and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty as well as engaging in further development of safeguards and non-proliferation regimes. He has been appointed by the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency to his Standing Advisory Group on Safeguards Implementation. Prior to this appointment as Director General of ASNO, Dr. Floyd served for more than seven years in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C) where he held a number of senior executive positions providing advice to the Prime Minister on policy issues covering counter-terrorism, counter-proliferation, emergency management, homeland and border security.
She was the chief U.S. negotiator of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START). Prior to the Department of State, in 2000, she became a Senior Associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she also served as the Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center (2006-2008). In 1998-2000, Deputy Undersecretary of Energy for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation and before that, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nonproliferation and National Security, she was responsible for all nonproliferation cooperation with Russia and the Newly Independent States.
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- Communications & Social Media Coordinator