Policy Staff Directory
Marie Isabelle Chevrier is Chair of the Center�s American Scientists' Working Group on Biological and Chemical Arms Control and associate professor of political economy at the University of Texas at Dallas, where she teaches courses in Negotiations, International Negotiations, Public Management, War and Peace and other topics. She is the former associate director of the Harvard Sussex Program on Chemical and Biological Armaments and Arms Limitation at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University and has been on the faculty of two NATO Advanced Study Institutes on biological weapons control. Dr. Chevrier�s extensive research on arms control negotiations has been published in numerous journals. She has contributed book chapters to Arms Control Toward the 21st Century, Biological Warfare edited by Ray Zilinskas and Biological Weapons: Limiting the Threat edited by Joshua Lederberg and others. Dr. Chevrier has served as a member of the Working Group on Biological and Chemical Weapons since its inception. She is also an active member of the Pugwash Study Group on the Implementation of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Conventions. In 2004 Dr. Chevrier received a Fulbright scholarship to teach at the Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Jamia Millia Islamia University, in New Delhi, India. Dr. Chevrier received her Master�s and Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University.
Ambassador Peter Galbraith is the Senior Diplomatic Fellow and will continue to perform work on conflict resolution and post-conflict reconstruction with particular focus on countries in the arc of crisis extending from the Balkans in the west to Indonesia in the East. As a former U.S. Ambassador to Croatia, Ambassador Galbraith negotiated the 1995 Erdut Agreement that ended the Croatia War. He later served as Director for Political, Constitutional and Electoral Affairs for the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor in 2000-2001. He also has extensive experience in Iraq, India/Pakistan and Southeast Asia. Ambassador Galbraith comes to the Center from the National War College where he has been a professor of National Security Strategy.
Lt. General Robert G. Gard, Jr. (U.S. Army-retired) is the Senior Military Fellow and will focus on the government’s plan to deploy a national missile defense system as well as other non-proliferation issues. General Gard finished a distinguished career in the U.S. Army as President of the National Defense University (NDU). Following his tenure at NDU, General Gard served as President of the Monterey Institute of International Studies for more than a decade until 1998. General Gard has been active on national security issues as a consultant in Washington, D.C. including work on alternatives to anti-personnel land mines for the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation.
John Gilbert is a Senior Science Fellow with the Center and is also currently a senior arms control analyst with a large professional and technical services company where he has supported a variety of national and international chemical, biological, and nuclear material control, non-proliferation, and counter-terrorism initiatives. Over the past ten years, he has specialized in on-site inspection operations and management. Previously, Mr. Gilbert served as a senior officer in the U.S. Air Force, retiring as a Colonel after more than 25 years. He served on and commanded strategic missile crews, spent over 15 years managing organizations that analyzed foreign WMD capabilities and delivery systems, and was one of the first-ever U.S. on-site inspectors (under the INF Treaty) beginning in 1988. He established the chemical and biological operations division within the U.S. On-Site Inspection Agency (now part of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency), and was a member of U.S. national Chemical Weapons delegations and negotiating teams in Geneva, The Hague, and Moscow. He has trained several hundred arms control inspectors for the United States, including those conducting missile, nuclear, and chemical inspections, biological weapon fact-finding visits, and other operations. Many of the people he trained served with distinction on UNSCOM and UNMOVIC (successor to UNSCOM) teams.
Christopher Hellman is the Defense Budget and Policy Analyst. He works on a broad range of issues related to U.S. military spending, including military planning and policy, U.S. military bases and base closures, major Pentagon weapons systems, trends in the defense industry, and global military spending. Prior to joining the Center, Chris spent over six years as Senior Research Analyst at the Center for Defense Information,covering similar matters related to the military budget. He also worked for two years as a Policy Analyst for Physicians for Social Responsibility as a military budget specialist. Beginning in 1984, Chris spent ten years on Capitol Hill as a staffer working on national security and foreign policy issues. He is a frequent media commentator on military planning, policy and budgetary issues and is the author of numerous reports and articles.
John Isaacs is the Senior Policy Director at the Center for Arms Control (1995-present) and served as its executive director from 1991 to 1994. John is one of the leaders of the nation's arms control community. Since 1978, John has been the representative of the Council for a Livable World in the nation's capital. His former work includes serving as: principal foreign affairs legislative assistant to Representative Stephen Solarz (D-NY); legislative representative specializing in foreign policy and defense budget issues for Americans for Democratic Action; and a foreign service officer serving 18 months in Vietnam. John is a monthly contributor to and editor of The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. In addition, John has also published articles in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Atlanta Journal, the St. Louis Post Dispatch, the Christian Science Monitor, Nuclear Times, Arms Control Today, American Journal of Public Health and Technology Review. John holds a master's degree from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College.
Lynn Klotz, the Center's Senior Science Fellow, is a biotechnology consultant, former Harvard faculty member, and former biotechnology executive. Dr. Klotz is expert in many areas of biotechnology and biological-weapons control. He has published several papers on biological- and chemical-weapons issues relating to biotechnology, industry, and the now-abandoned BWC Protocol. He was a recipient of the prestigious Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar grant for teaching excellence while at Harvard and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for The Gene Age.
Carah Ong is the Iran Policy Analyst for the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation. Since 1999, Ong has worked for non-governmental organizations on nuclear disarmament, arms control, nuclear energy and waste, and missile defense issues. She has published numerous articles and briefings, and has spoken all across the US and around the world on these issues. In June 2004, following the US lifting decades-long sanctions, Ong was a member of the first delegation of twelve Americans to visit Libya in order to establish relations with the government and civil society. Ong serves on the National Advisory Board of Washington and Lee University’s Alsos Digital Library on Nuclear Issues. She is co-editor of the books A Maginot Line in the Sky: International Perspectives on Ballistic Missile Defense (2001) and Hold Hope, Wage Peace (2005). Ong is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara and holds degrees in Spanish and in Global Peace and Security.
Dr. Alan Pearson is the Director of the Biological and Chemical Weapons Control Program at the Center (effective September 2004). Currently, Dr. Pearson is a Global Security Science and Technology Fellow for the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Nuclear Threat Initiative at the Department of Homeland Security. At DHS, he is working on the Biological and Chemical Countermeasures Portfolio in the Science and Technology Directorate. Previously, Dr. Pearson was a Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Medical School and a post-doctoral Research Fellow at the American Cancer Society. Dr. Pearson received his Ph.D. in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Guy Stevens is the Chief Operating Officer of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. Previously, he served as the Center's Director of Technical and Information Services, in addition to performing the duties of a policy analyst and researcher. Guy received a B.A. in political science from Bates College and a M.A. in international relations from American University.
Leonor Tomero recently joined the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation to work on international security and specifically non-proliferation issues. Prior to joining the Center, she was President of the Lawyers Alliance for World Security (LAWS), where she had also previously served as Director for Western Europe and Latin America, leading programs to enhance international commitment under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty regime. Leonor also worked on the staffs of Senator Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Congresswoman Shelley Berkley (D-Nev.-1) on nuclear waste, energy, and environmental issues. While in law school she served as a law clerk at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and in the U.S. Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Section.
She is a member of the LAWS Board of Directors and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of International Law and Politics at Georgetown University. She holds a J.D. from American University, an M.A. in national security studies from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, and a B.A. in government from Cornell University.