Alexei Arbatov
Scholar-in-Residence
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Moscow Center
Dr. Alexei Arbatov graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1973 with a diploma in international politics.
Since 1976, Arbatov has worked at the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO). He received a post-doctorate degree and completed his dissertation on U.S.-Russian strategic relations in 1982, and is currently a professor at the Academy on security, defense, and law enforcement under the President of Russia.
In 1990, Arbatov became head of the IMEMO Center for Geopolitical and Military Forecasts, which in 2001 was transformed into the Center for International Security, comprising departments on nuclear nonproliferation, regional conflicts, terrorism, and strategic studies.
From 1994 to 2003, Arbatov was a member of the YABLOKO faction in the Russian Parliament (State Duma) and Deputy Chairman of the Defence Committee. After parliamentary elections in 2003, Arbatov returned to IMEMO on a full-time basis.
He is a member of the Advisory Council to the Foreign Minister and heads a panel on strategic planning for the Scientific Board of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. Arbatov is a member of the influential non-governmental organization Council for Foreign and Defense Policy (similar to the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations). Arbatov is the Russian representative at the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission under the leadership of Hans Blix and is a member of the Governing Board of SIPRI, the International Advisory Board of the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces Institute, and the Monterey Institute Center for Nonproliferation Studies.
He is the author of numerous books, articles and papers on issues of global security, strategic stability, disarmament, Russian military reform, and various current domestic and foreign political issues, published in Russia and abroad. He has been awarded military and academic medals and honors.
General Charles G. Boyd
United States Air Force (Ret.)
General Charles Boyd served as president and CEO of Business Executives for National Security from 2002 until 2009. Previously he was senior vice president and Washington program director of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Boyd retired from the United States Air Force in 1995 as Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the U.S.-European Command. He served thirty-five years in the Air Force, logging more than 3,000 flight hours. A fighter pilot in the Vietnam War, Boyd was shot down on his 105th mission and was a prisoner of war for seven years. He is the only former Vietnam POW to have reached the four star rank.
He also served in NATO's Southern and Central Commands and as executive director of the Hart-Rudman Commission, a three-year comprehensive review of national security.
Boyd is a member of the Board of Directors of the Nixon Center, DRS Technologies, Inc., Forterra Systems, Inc., and In-Q-Tel. He is a member of the U.S. Air Force Air University Board of Visitors, is chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Air University Foundation, and serves on the Transformation Advisory Group for U.S. Joint Forces Command as well as the U.S. European Command Senior Advisory Group.
He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Kansas before studying at the Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama.
Thomas P. D'Agostino
Under Secretary for Nuclear Security and Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
Thomas D'Agostino was sworn in on August 30, 2007, as the Under Secretary for Nuclear Security and Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration. President Barack Obama chose to keep him in those same roles in September 2009.
The National Nuclear Security Administration maintains the safety, security, and effectiveness of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile without nuclear testing; reduces the global danger from the proliferation of nuclear weapons and materials; provides the U.S. Navy with safe and effective nuclear propulsion; and provides the nation with an effective nuclear counterterrorism and incident response capability.
In addition to his lengthy career in the federal government, D'Agostino achieved the rank of Captain in the U.S. Naval Reserves, where he helped develop concepts for new attack submarine propulsion systems. He also served with the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Plans, Policy, and Operations in the Pentagon's Navy Command Center. He spent more than eight years on active duty in the Navy as a submarine officer.
D'Agostino's awards include the Presidential Rank Meritorious Executive Award, a Navy Commendation Medal with Gold Stars, a Navy Achievement Medal, a Navy Expeditionary Medal, Meritorious Unit Commendation, and the National Defense Service Medal. He earned his bachelor's from the United States Naval Academy and master's degrees from Johns Hopkins University and Naval War College.
Gareth Evans
President Emeritus
International Crisis Group
Gareth Evans studied arts and law at the University of Melbourne before completing an MA in politics, philosophy, and economics at Oxford. He joined the Oxford Law School, teaching constitutional law from 1971 until 1976. He also practiced as a barrister, specializing in industrial law.
As a member of the Australian Senate and later the House of Representatives from 1978 to 1999, Evans held several positions but was best known as Minister for Foreign Affairs (1988-1996) in the Hawke and Keating Labor governments. He took a key role in the development of the United Nations peace plan for Cambodia and the creation of APEC, the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-Operation forum.
Evans' work in international affairs continued after his retirement from parliament in 1999. He was a member of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission and the United Nations Secretary General's High Level Panel on Threats Challenges and Change, and chaired the World Economic Forum Peace and Security Expert Group. He has been President and Chief Executive of the International Crisis Group since 2000. He was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Laws by the University of Melbourne in 2002.
Michèle Flournoy
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
U.S. Department of Defense
Michèle Flournoy was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy on February 9, 2009. She serves as the principal staff assistant and advisor to the Secretary of Defense and the Deputy Secretary of Defense for all matters on the formulation of national security and defense policy and the integration and oversight of Department of Defense policy and plans to achieve national security objectives.
Prior to her confirmation, Flournoy was appointed President of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) in January 2007. Previously, she was a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where she worked on a broad range of defense policy and international security issues, and served as a distinguished research professor at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University (NDU), where she founded and led the university's 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review working group.
Prior to joining NDU, Flournoy was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Threat Reduction and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy. In that capacity, she oversaw three policy offices in the Office of the Secretary of Defense: Strategy; Requirements, Plans, and Counterproliferation; and Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasian Affairs.
Flournoy was awarded the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service in 1996, the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service in 1998, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff's Joint Distinguished Civilian Service Award in 2000. She is a former member of the Defense Policy Board and the Defense Science Board Task Force on Transformation.
Flournoy earned a bachelor's degree in social studies from Harvard University and a master's degree in international relations from Balliol College, Oxford University, where she was a Newton-Tatum scholar.
Camille Grand
Director
Foundation for Strategic Research
Camille Grand has been managing director of the Foundation for Strategic Research since September 2008.
Prior to this assignment, he was deputy assistant secretary for disarmament and multilateral affairs in the French ministry of foreign affairs (2006-2008). In this capacity, he was in charge of chemical and biological nonproliferation, conventional arms control, small arms and light weapons, land mines and cluster munitions, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, and Council of Europe affairs, and has been directly involved in several arms control negotiations. He has also been the French representative in several groups within the EU and NATO.
From 2002 to 2006 he was the deputy diplomatic adviser to French minister of defense Michèle Alliot-Marie, after three years as an expert on nuclear policy and nonproliferation for the ministry's strategic affairs department. He was a visiting fellow for the European Union Institute for Security Studies (1999-2000), a research fellow for the Institut des relations internaionales et stratégiques, and editor of the quarterly Relations Internationales et Stratégiques (1994-1998).
His publications include several books and monographs and numerous papers in European and American books and journals on current strategic affairs primarily focused on nuclear policy, nonproliferation, and disarmament.
Grand holds graduate degrees in international relations, defense studies, and contemporary history and is a graduate from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris. He also followed the training of the Institut diplomatique of the French ministry for foreign affairs.
Karl Kaiser
Adjunct Professor of Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
Karl Kaiser is an adjunct professor of public policy at the Kennedy School and Director of the Program on Transatlantic Relations of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. He was educated at the Universities of Cologne, Grenoble, and Oxford and taught at the Universities of Bonn, Johns Hopkins (Bologna), Saarbruecken, Cologne, the Hebrew University, and the Departments of Government and Social Studies of Harvard.
Kaiser was a Director of the German Council on Foreign Relations, Bonn/Berlin and an advisor to Chancellors Brandt and Schmidt. He was a member of the German Council of Environmental Advisors.
He serves on the Board of Foreign Policy, Internationale Politik, the Advisory Board of the American-Jewish Committee, Berlin, and the Board of the Federal Academy of Security Policy, Berlin. He is a recipient of the Atlantic Award of NATO.
Kaiser is the author or editor of several hundred articles and about fifty books in the fields of world affairs, German, French, British and U.S. foreign policy, transatlantic and East-West relations, nuclear proliferation, strategic theory, and international environmental policy.
He holds a PhD from Cologne University and an Honorary Doctorate of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Sergey Kislyak
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation in Washington D.C.
Russian Federation
Sergey Kislyak is the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United States. He was appointed in July 2008.
Prior to this assignment, he served as the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (2003-2008), where he focused on arms control and nonproliferation issues. From 1998 to 2003, he served as Ambassador to Belgium and as the Permanent Representative of Russia to NATO.
Previously, he was Director of the Department of Security Affairs and Disarmament of the Russian Foreign Ministry (1995-1998) and Director of the Department of International Scientific and Technical Cooperation at the Foreign Ministry (1993-1995). Kislyak has also served in a number of other positions during his career of more than thirty years in the Foreign Ministries of the Soviet Union and Russia.
He graduated from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute in 1973 and the Soviet Academy of Foreign Trade in 1977.
Fyodor Lukyanov
Editor-in-Chief
Russia in Global Affairs
Fyodor Lukyanov is editor-in-chief of Russia in Global Affairs, published in Russian and English in cooperation with Foreign Affairs. As head of Russia in Global Affairs since its founding in 2002, he greatly contributed to making this journal Russia's most authoritative source of expert opinion on global development issues.
Lukyanov worked as a correspondent, commentator, and editor for numerous Russian print and electronic media. He is an international columnist with Vedomosti, Kommersant, and Gazeta.ru and a commentator on leading national radio stations and TV channels. Lukyanov writes the monthly "Policy Line" column for The Moscow Times and the "Geopolitics" column in the Russian edition of Forbesmagazine. As commentator of Russian foreign policy he is widely contributing to the most influential media in the United States, Europe, and China.
Lukyanov is a member of the Presidium of Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, an influential independent organization providing foreign policy expertise. He is also member of Presidential Council on Human Rights and Civic Society Institutions.
Lukyanov graduated from Moscow State University in 1991 and holds a degree in Germanic languages.
George Perkovich
Vice President for Studies
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
George Perkovich is vice president for studies and director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His research focuses on nuclear strategy and nonproliferation, with a focus on South Asia and Iran, and on the problem of justice in the international political economy.
He is the author of the award-winning book India's Nuclear Bomb. He is co-author of the Adelphi Paper "Abolishing Nuclear Weapons," published in September 2008 by the International Institute for Strategic Studies. This paper is the basis of the book Abolishing Nuclear Weapons: A Debate, which includes seventeen critiques by thirteen eminent international commentators. Perkovich is also co-author of a major Carnegie report, Universal Compliance: A Strategy for Nuclear Security, a blueprint for rethinking the international nuclear nonproliferation regime. The report offers a fresh approach to deal with states and terrorists, nuclear weapons, and missile materials to ensure global safety and security.
He served as a speechwriter and foreign policy adviser to U.S. Senator Joe Biden from 1989 to 1990. Perkovich is an adviser to the International Commission on Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations' Task Force on U.S. Nuclear Policy.
Sam Nunn
Distinguished Professor, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology
Co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Nuclear Threat Initiative
Sam Nunn is co-chairman and chief executive officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), a charitable organization working to reduce the global threats from nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. He served as a U.S. Senator from Georgia for twenty-four years (1972-1996) and is retired from the law firm of King & Spalding. In addition to his work with NTI, Senator Nunn has continued his service in the public policy arena as a distinguished professor in The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech and as chairman of the board of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.
During his tenure in the U.S. Senate, Senator Nunn served as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. He also served on the Intelligence and Small Business Committees. His legislative achievements include the landmark Department of Defense Reorganization Act, drafted with the late Senator Barry Goldwater, and the “Nunn-Lugar” Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, which provides assistance to Russia and the former Soviet republics for securing and destroying their excess nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons.
Raised in the small town of Perry in middle Georgia, Nunn attended Georgia Tech, Emory University, and Emory Law School, where he graduated with honors in 1962. After active duty service in the U.S. Coast Guard, he served six years in the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve. He first entered politics as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives in 1968.