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Preliminary List of Participants

INTRODUCTION // AGENDA // BACKGROUND PAPERS // PARTICIPANTS

On June 11th, 2005 the Scientists Working Group on Biological and Chemical Weapons held a symposium on incapacitating biochemical weapons in Geneva, Switzerland.

Antoine Abi Ghanem
Holy See

David Atwood
Representative, Disarmament and Peace
Quaker UN Organization

Bjørn Berdal
Armed Forces Institute of Microbiology
Norway

John Borrie
Project Leader, Disarmament as Humanitarian Action
UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

Robert Brooks
Nuclear and Chemical Disarmament Implementation Division
Foreign Affairs Canada

Marie Chevrier
Professor, School of Social Sciences
University of Texas, Dallas

Ottorino Cosivi
World Health Organization (WHO)

Robin Coupland
Medical Advisor, Mines-Arms Unit, Legal Division
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

Susan Crowley
Senior Director of International Relations
Merck, Sharpe & Dohne (Europe)
International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA)

Malcolm Dando
Professor & Director, Bradford Disarmament Research Centre
Department of Peace Studies
University of Bradford

Neil Davison
Bradford Non-Lethal Weapons Research Project
Bradford Disarmament Research Centre
University of Bradford

Daniel Feakes
Research Fellow
Harvard-Sussex Program, SPRU
University of Sussex

George Fenton
Colonol, USMC (Retired)

Jamie Fly
Nonproliferation Policy, Office of the Secretary of Defense
United States
Department of Defense

Paulino Franco de Carvalho
Counselor
Permanent Mission in Geneva
Brazil

Zhigang Fu
Counselor
Permanent Mission in Geneva
China

Emil Gasimov
Third Secretary
Permanent Mission in Geneva
Republic of Azerbaijan

Alan Goldhammer
Assistant Vice-President for Scientific Affairs
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)

Edward Hammond
Director, US Office
Sunshine Project

Françoise Hampson
Professor
Department of Law
University of Essex

Alastair Hay
Professor of Environmental Toxicalogy
School of Medicine
University of Leeds

Magnus Hellgren
Minister for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation
Sweden

Peter Herby
Head, Mines-Arms Unit, Legal Division
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)


Cem Isik
Third Secretary
Permanent Mission in Geneva
Turkey

Bernard Jeanty
Switzerland
Department of Defense

Nik Kiddle
Deputy Permanent Representative
New Zealand UN Office
New Zealand

Alexander Kovalchuk
Third Secretary
Permanent Mission in Geneva
Russian Federation

Gabriele Kraatz-Wadsack
Colonal, Assistant Head of Division
Federal Foreign Office, Department for Disarmament and Arms Control
Germany

Walter Krutzsch
Germany (Retired)

Sergey Kulagin
Second Secretary
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Russian Federation

Mikhail Kustovsky
First Secretary
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Russian Federation

Vadim Linyuchev
Counselor
Permanent Mission in Geneva
Russian Federation

Detlef Maennig
Degussa, AG
International Council of Chemical Association/European Chemistry Industry Council (CEFIC)

Louise Martingale
DSTL Porton Down, UK

Robert Mathews
Principal Research Scientist
DSTO, Australia

Patrick McCarthy
Geneva Forum

Jack Melling
Former Director of CAMR, Porton Down
Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

Kay Mereish
UNMOVIC

Kathrynn Nixdorff
Professor
Department of Microbiology and Genetics
Darmstadt University of Technology

Alan Pearson
Director, Biological and Chemical Weapons Control Program
Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

Graham Pearson
Visiting Professor
Department of Peace Studies
University of Bradford

Brian Rappert
Department of Sociology
University of Exeter

James Revill
University of Bradford

Julian Perry Robinson
Sussex Director
Harvard-Sussex Program
University of Sussex

Roger Roffey
Director of BW-Defense Research
FOI Swedish Defense Research Agency

Barbara Rosenberg
Chair, Scientists Working Group
Professor, Natural Sciences
State Univ. of New York, Purchase

Ken Staley
Office of Chemical and Biological Weapons Conventions
Bureau of Arms Control
State Department, USA

David Steuerman
Nuclear and Chemical Disarmament Implementation Division
Foreign Affairs Canada

Ben Steyn
Chemical and Biological Defense Advisor to the Surgeon General
SANDF
South Africa

Amb. Tibor Tóth
Hungary

Ralf Trapp
Senior Planning Officer
Office of the Director
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)

Jonathan Tucker
Senior Researcher
Monterey Institute for International Studies
Center for Nonproliferation Studies

Harmen van Dijk
Nuclear Affairs and Non-Proliferation
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Security Policy Department
Netherlands

Ville Vilen
Permanent Mission in Geneva
Finland

Amb. Adolph von Wagner
Chairman, Council on Disarmament During Completion of CWC Negotiations
Germany (Retired)

Mark Wheelis
Senior Lecturer
Section of Microbiology/DBS
University of California, Davis

Reto Wollenman
Researcher, Biological Defense
ETH Zurich
Center Security Studies

Jean Pascal Zanders
Director
BioWeapons Prevention Project

Andrzej Zielinski
National Institute of Hygiene
Poland