IRSS - Key Persons


Dr. David Lowry

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Fellow
Dr. David Lowry is a senior research fellow at IRSS. He is also an independent research consultant based in London, UK, with specialist knowledge of UK and EU nuclear and environment policy. On behalf of members of the UK and European parliaments, he has drafted numerous parliamentary questions, motions, speeches, and articles.

Dr. Thomas Boudreau

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Fellow
Dr. Thomas Boudreau is a senior research fellow at IRSS. He is also a professor at Salisbury University, Maryland, where he teaches in the Center for Conflict Resolution. One of his research interests is the concept of Earth's atmosphere as a global trust.

Gail Epstein

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Gordon R. Thompson

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director
  • Executive Director, IRSS ( Cambridge
Gordon R. Thompson, D.Phil., is the executive director of IRSS. He was educated in Australia and the UK, in engineering and science, obtaining his doctorate from Oxford University in 1973. Dr. Thompson has been based in the United States since 1979. Over the past three decades he has acquired wide experience with natural resource, international security, and sustainability issues. One of his areas of interest is the impacts of nuclear technologies and the opportunities to limit those impacts. Dr. Thompson has coordinated multidisciplinary teams, organized international conferences, and provided expert testimony in a variety of contexts.

John Clark

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors

John Smith

Job Titles:
  • Staff Accountant

Paula Gutlove

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Director
  • Deputy Director, IRSS ( Cambridge

Robert Goble

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Research Professor, Clark University ( Brookline