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Michael D. Cohen is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Southern Denmark. His research has been published in International Security and a Stanford University Press edited volume, and has been funded by the Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation, the Simons Foundation, and numerous awards from the University of British Columbia and the University of Southern Denmark. He blogs at the Global Policy Journal and has published in newspapers such as the Australian Financial Review and Berlingske.
Avner Golov is a fellow in the Comparative National Security Project at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya and a researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University. He served on Israel's National Security Council and earned his BA with magna cum laude and MA with summa cum laude, both in Government at the Interdisciplinary Center at Herzliya. His recent opinion articles with General (ret.) Amos Yadlin, "Iran's Plan B for the Bomb," and "Four Possible Deals with Iran," were published in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, respectively. Golov will start his doctoral studies at the Fletcher School at Tufts University in 2014.
Matthias Englert is a research fellow at the Interdisciplinary Research Group in Science Technology and Security at Darmstadt University of Technology. He has a PhD in physics from Darmstadt University of Technology and spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Englert's current research focuses on proliferation resistance of nuclear technologies such as enrichment and intense neutron sources. His recent publications include "Is Nuclear Fission a Sustainable Source of Energy?," Materials Research Society Bulletin, April 2012, and, with Siegfried S. Hecker and Michael C. Miller, "Nuclear non-proliferation," in David S. Ginley and David Cahen, eds., Fundamentals of Materials for Energy and Environmental Sustainability (Cambridge University Press, 2012).
Giorgio Franceschini is a research associate at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF). Before joining PRIF, he worked as a research assistant in the Department of Theoretical Physics at Berlin University of Technology and as a consultant in the telecommunications industry. From 2009-11, he took part in an interdisciplinary research project on fusion technology at Darmstadt University of Technology. Currently, he coordinates PRIF's activities within the EU Non-Proliferation Consortium. His recent publications include, with Harald Müller, "Germany," in Paolo Foradori, ed., Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Europe: Euro-Atlantic Security in a Changing World (Routledge, 2013), and "The NPT Review Process and Strengthening the Treaty: Peaceful Uses," Non-Proliferation Papers 11, EU Non-Proliferation Consortium (February 2012).
Sarah L. Frazar is a program manager at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory focusing on infrastructure development, international safeguards, export controls, physical protection, and scientist engagement. She was the deputy team lead in the International Nuclear Safeguards and Engagement Program at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). Before joining the NNSA, Sarah worked on nonproliferation issues at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and national security issues at the National Security New Service in Washington, DC. She received her undergraduate degree in Government from Colby College and her Master's degree in Security Studies from Georgetown University. Her most recent peer-reviewed publication, co-authored with Stephen Mladineo, was "Safeguards Culture: Lessons Learned," ESARDA Bulletin, Issue No. 44, June 2010.
J. Christian Kessler is a visiting professor at State University of New York at Stony Brook and owner/principal at NorthRaven Consulting. He retired from the State Department's Senior Executive Service in 2008. He was a member of the US delegation to the Hexapartite Safeguards Project negotiations. During the 1980s, he led many US nuclear safeguards and physical protection programs and worked on nuclear nonproliferation efforts involving Argentina, Brazil, India, Iraq, North Korea, and Pakistan. Later, Kessler represented the United States in the Wassenaar Arrangement; negotiated satellite cooperation agreements with allies and India; and participated in Project Sapphire, a secret effort to remove highly enriched uranium from Kazakhstan. Prior to joining State, he worked for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Center for Naval Analyses, and a Member of Congress. He holds Master's degrees from Indiana University and the National War College.
Wolfgang Liebert is professor at the Institute of Safety and Risk Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, in Vienna. He was scientific director of the Interdisciplinary Research Group in Science, Technology, and Security of the Darmstadt University of Technology until 2012. He received a PhD in theoretical physics from University of Frankfurt. Liebert's publications include, with Jan C. Schmidt, "Towards a prospective technology assessment: challenges and requirements for technology assessment in the age of technoscience," Poesis & Praxis 7 (2010), and an edited volume with Susanne Hartard, Competition and Conflicts on Resource Use (Sigma, forthcoming).
Stephen V. Mladineo is a senior nonproliferation advisor at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington, DC, supporting projects for the Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation. He is a fellow of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management. Stephen is a former US Navy submarine officer who commanded the nuclear attack submarine USS Bergall (SSN-667). He also served in staff positions for the Atlantic Submarine Force and in the Pentagon, and was associate dean of faculty at the US National War College. He is a graduate of the US Naval Academy, and holds Master of Arts Degrees from the University at Albany and the US Naval War College.
Harald Müller is executive director of Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, professor of international relations at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, and a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University Center for International Relations in Bologna, Italy. He is also a member of the Nonproliferation Review's editorial board. Dr. Müller has served on the German delegations to the last four NPT Review Conferences, on the UN Secretary-General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, and on the International Atomic Energy Agency's Expert Group on Multinational Nuclear Arrangements. His most recent books are Norm Dynamics in Multilateral Arms Control: Interests, Conflicts, and Justice (ed., with Carmen Wunderlich, University of Georgia Press, 2013), and Building a New World Order: Sustainable Policies for the Future (Haus Publishing, 2009).
Janne E. Nolan is a research professor of international affairs at The George Washington University and a member of the Nonproliferation Review's editorial board. She is the author of several books about national security, including Guardians of the Arsenal: The Politics of Nuclear Strategy (Basic Books, l989), An Elusive Consensus: Nuclear Weapons and American Security After the Cold War (Brookings Institution Press, 1999), and most recently, Tyranny of Consensus: Discourse and Dissent in National Security (The Century Foundation, 2013).
Peter Tzeng is currently a student at Yale Law School. He graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University in 2011 with a Bachelor of Arts from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He wrote his senior thesis on US intervention in sensitive nuclear technology transfers in the 1970s. In the fall of 2010, he was a senior commissioner for a student task force on managing nuclear energy in a disarming world. In the summer of 2009, he interned at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, researching multilateral approaches to the nuclear fuel cycle. Peter has studied in China, Kyrgyzstan, and Egypt, and speaks Chinese, Russian, and Arabic.
William Walker has been professor of international relations at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, since 1996, having previously worked at the Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, and the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London. His many publications on nuclear affairs include, with David Albright and Frans Berkhout, Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium: World Inventories, Capabilities and Policies (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 1997); Nuclear Entrapment: THORP and the Politics of Commitment (Institute for Public Policy Research, 1999); with Malcolm Chalmers, Uncharted Waters: The UK, Nuclear Weapons and The Scottish Question (Tuckwell, 2001); and A Perpetual Menace: Nuclear Weapons and International Order (Routledge, 2012).
Nicholas J. Wheeler is professor of international relations and director of the Institute for Conflict, Cooperation, and Security at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Saving Strangers: Humanitarian Intervention in International Society (Oxford University Press, 2000); with Ken Booth, The Security Dilemma: Fear, Cooperation, and Trust in World Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008); and with Mlada Bukovansky, Ian Clark, Robyn Eckersley, Christian Reus-Smit, and Richard Price, Special Responsibilities: Global Problems and American Power (Cambridge University Press, 2012). He is currently writing a book provisionally entitled Trusting Enemies. He is co-editor with Professor Christian Reus-Smit of the journal Cambridge Series in International Relations.