Brett Isselhardt is a Ph.D. student
in the nuclear engineering department at UC Berkeley. His research interests
revolve around the security of nuclear
materials
with a focus on advanced mass spectrometry methods, and national security
policy. He is currently supported by the Student Employee Graduate
Research Fellowship program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Before
starting
at Berkeley, Isselhardt received his BS in Physics with Honors from Westmont
College and spent a year in industry developing technology for lithium ion
batteries and fuel cell catalysts.
Michael Krepon is co-founder and president emeritus of
the Henry
L. Stimson Center in Washington, D.C. Prior to co-founding
the
Stimson Center, Krepon worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace, the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency during the Carter administration,
and in the U.S. House of Representatives, assisting Congressman Norm Dicks.
He received an M.A. from the School of Advanced International Studies,
Johns Hopkins University, and a B.A. from Franklin & Marshall College.
He also studied Arabic at the American University in Cairo, Egypt.
Krepon is the author or editor of eleven books and over 350 articles. Selected
publications include Escalation Control and the Nuclear Option in South
Asia (Stimson Center, 2004), Nuclear Risk Reduction in South
Asia (Palgrave, 2004), Cooperative Threat Reduction, Missile
Defense and the Nuclear Future (Palgrave, 2003), and Space Assurance
or Space Dominance: The Case Against Weaponizing Space (Stimson Center,
2003).
Joseph R. McGhee is a former foreign service officer with over twenty years
of experience in international affairs. As IGCC's Washington representative,
McGhee works to increase IGCC's profile within the policy community and serves
as IGCC's liaison in Washington, D.C. He designs, implements, and manages IGCC
outreach activities, programs, and fundraising initiatives in Washington, D.C.,
for the U.S. Congress, government agencies, nongovernmental and other organizations,
academic institutions, and other foreign policy-related organizations. McGhee
also identifies and develops funding sources for UC system-wide fellowships,
projects, and programs.
Mary Beth Nikitin is a fellow in
the CSIS International Security Program, where she concentrates on issues
related to preventing
weapons of mass destruction proliferation and terrorism. She is coordinator
of the Strengthening the Global Partnership project, a consortium of 23
research
institutes in 18 European, Asian, and North American countries working to build
political and financial support for G-8 efforts to reduce the dangers of nuclear,
biological, and chemical weapons. Other CSIS projects she has been involved
with include the Congressional Proliferation Prevention Forum, the Heading
Off an
Iranian Nuclear Weapons Capability project, the Changing Face of Proliferation,
and the South Asian Nuclear Risk Reduction Centres.
Nikitin has worked at the
UN Department for Disarmament Affairs in New York and at the Center for Nonproliferation
Studies in Monterey, where she was program
associate for the Nonproliferation Education group and the International
Organizations and Nonproliferation project. She regularly publishes and
presents her research
at international conferences. She received her master’s degree at the Monterey
Institute of International Studies and her bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth
College.
Joseph Pilat is with the Nonproliferation and
International Security Division of Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos,
New Mexico. He was a special advisor to the Department of Energy's representative
at the Third Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT),
and served as representative of the Secretary of Defense to the Fourth NPT
Review Conference and as an adviser to the U.S. delegation at the 1995 NPT
Review and Extension Conference. Dr. Pilat also served as representative
of the Secretary of Defense to the Open Skies negotiations. He has been special
assistant to the principal director and assistant for nonproliferation policy
in the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Negotiations
Policy, a senior research associate in the Congressional Research Service
and a research associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies
in London.
Dr. Pilat has taught in the Department of Government of Cornell University
and the College of William and Mary, and in the Department of History of
Georgetown University. He has been a senior associate member of St. Antony's
College, Oxford University, a visiting fellow at Cornell's Peace Studies
Program and a Philip E. Mosely Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International
Studies.
Dr. Pilat has lectured widely at academic and policy institutions. He has
written numerous articles and opinion pieces for U.S. and European scholarly
journals and newspapers, and is the author or editor of many books, including Beyond
1995: The Future of the NPT Regime (1990), and 1995: A New Beginning
for the NPT? (1995).
Adam Scheinman is assistant deputy
administrator for nonproliferation and international security in the Department
of Energy’s
National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). In this position, he has
responsibility for all nonproliferation policy, arms control, and regional
security programs. Prior to this, Scheinman held the position of policy
director in the same office, where he was responsible for coordinating
research, policy programming, and outreach.From January 2001 through March
2005, Scheinman was director of the NNSA Office of Export Control Policy
and Cooperation. From June 1998 through December 2000, he served
as apecial assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nonproliferation
and National Security, where he coordinated all aspects of the department’s
nonproliferation and arms control agenda. From November 1995 through June
1998, Scheinman was a foreign affairs specialist in the DOE International
Policy and Analysis Division, where he was lead officer for the Fissile
Material Cutoff Treaty, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, and South Asian
regional affairs.
Prior to joining the Department of Energy, Scheinman
held positions with non-governmental organizations specializing in nuclear
nonproliferation and arms control. He has also published a number of
scholarly articles in the field and is co-editor of At the Nuclear
Crossroads: Choices About Nuclear Weapons and the Extension of the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation
Treaty (1995).
Scheinman graduated from Cornell University in 1987, where he received
a Bachelors of Arts degree. He received a Master of Arts degree from the
George Washington University Elliot School of International Affairs in 1990.
Andrew K. Semmel is Acting Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy and Negotiation at
the U.S. Department of State. His primary responsibilities include the development
and execution of policies and initiatives
to stem the
spread
of nuclear weapons and associated technologies and know-how, including export
controls.
From September 2001 to January 2003, Semmel served as the executive
director of the U.S.–China Security Review Commission, a bipartisan
government commission
of twelve private citizens appointed by the Congressional leadership. He
was responsible for the commission’s public hearings, research, briefings,
foreign travel, and preparation of an annual report of findings and recommendations
to the Congress on the security implications of economic and financial
relations
between the United States and China. He was on the personal staff of Senator
Richard G. Lugar from 1987 to 2001, where he served as the senator’s senior
legislative assistant for foreign policy.
Semmel has authored or co-authored publications
on diverse foreign
policy and national security issues. He has served as president of the
comparative foreign policy section of the International Studies Association
and the governing
board of the International Studies Association.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and has been a tenured
associate professor of political science at the University of Cincinnati.
He has also been an adjunct visiting professor in the Master of Science
in Foreign
Service Program (MSFS) at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
In
1981, Semmel took a position with the Department of Defense as a foreign
affairs specialist
in the Defense Security Assistance Agency (DSAA). He served as chief
of the analysis division of DSAA until he moved to the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee in February 1985, where he had primary responsibility for
U.S. security assistance
legislation, arms sales, and related foreign policy and national security
issues.
IGCC Director Susan L. Shirk is an Asia specialist, with
an emphasis on Chinese politics, U.S.-China relations, and Pacific international
affairs.
Shirk is professor
of political science at the Graduate School of International Relations
and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) at UC San Diego. A former director of IGCC
(1991–1997), Shirk accepted an assignment at the U.S. Department
of State in 1997, where she served as deputy assistant secretary for China
in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Shirk is the author of
How China Opened Its Door: The Political Success of the PRC's Foreign
Trade and Investment Reforms and The Political Logic of Economic
Reform in China, and editor of Power and Prosperity: Economic and Security
Linkages in the
Asia Pacific. Shirk returned from her three-year term at the U.S.
State Department in 2000 to become an IGCC research director.She was reappointed
IGCC director in July 2006.
