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Samran ALI (Pakistan) Research Officer, Center for International Strategic Studies (CISS)
Samran Ali is a Research Officer at the Center for International Strategic Studies (CISS), Islamabad. He has studied at the Department of Defence and Strategic Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. His areas of interest include global nuclear and strategic issues, arms control, emerging technologies, strategic capabilities, as well as conventional arms in South Asia. He has extensively written on these issues in national and international publications. |
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Afra Abdelrahman Mohammed BAKHIT (Sudan) Master’s Student, Safe and Reliable Nuclear Applications, LUT University, Finland
Afra is an Erasmus Mundus joint master’s degree student (EMJMD) studying under program of Safe And Reliable Nuclear Application (SARENA) (2021–2023). She holds a BSc of Engineering (Honours) in Nuclear Engineering from Sudan university of science and technology. She worked as a Teaching Assistant in the department of Nuclear engineer giving tutorials in (Introduction to Nuclear Engineering and Radioactive Protection and Shielding), and National service at Sudanese Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Authority (SNARRA). |
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Sweta BASAK (India) Doctoral Fellow, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Ms. Sweta Basak is pursuing her Ph.D. from the School of International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her research interests include arms control and disarmament, environmental security, Indian Foreign Policy, and Middle Eastern Politics. At present she also works as a research associate with the government of NCT of Delhi. She has been associated with the CTBT Youth Group initiative since 2017 and is an active member of the CYG Coordination team. She is a Political Science graduate from Presidency University and holds her Master’s in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. |
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Ahmed ELSABAGH (Egypt)
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Elif ERGINYAVUZ (Turkey) Master’s Student, International Relations, Hacettepe University
Elif is a Master’s Student at Hacettepe University, where she is studying International Relations. Previously, she worked as an intern at both the Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Foreign Affairs Directorate for EU Affairs in Turkey. She is currently a Leadership Team Member at International Student/Young Pugwash and a mentee within the Young Women in Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Mentorship Programme. She is a graduate of the OSCE-UNODA Scholarship for Peace and Security training programme and member of the Women in Nuclear Global Young Generation. Her research interests are nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and gender related issues in the nuclear field. |
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Ian FLEMING-ZHOU (Zimbabwe)
Board Member, Emerging Voices Network, BASIC
Ian Fleming Zhou is on the board of BASIC's Emerging Voices Network. He is a contributing editor for The Geopolitics & chaired a Peaceful Uses working group at the 10th NPT Review Conference. He holds a Master of Arts in International Politics from the University of South Africa. His areas of specialization are nuclear diplomacy, peaceful uses, disarmament, and foreign policy. |
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Shinichi HIRAO (Japan)
Operation and Training Officer, The Japan Ground Self Defense Force (JGSDF)
Shinichi is an Operation and Training Officer of the Japan Ground Self Defense Force (JGSDF) where he is responsible for maintaining readiness and enhancing tactical excellence of his infantry regiment by organizing training and communication with other regiments and U.S. Forces in Japan. Before assigned to the current position, he interned at two think tanks in the U.S.: Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA and Hudson Institute where he conducted research about U.S. extended deterrence and missile defense in East Asia as well as NATO’s defense policy. He earned his Master of Public Policy from the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, the University of Virginia. He received his B.A. in Law from the University of Tokyo. His main research interests include U.S. extended nuclear deterrence, North Korea’s nuclear strategy, Japan-U.S.-Korea trilateral security cooperation, and nuclear nonproliferation. |
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Youssef Hosny (Egypt) Undergraduate student, Nuclear and Radiation Engineering Department, Alexandria University
Youssef is a junior year student at Alexandria University, where he studies nuclear and radiation engineering. Focusing in his studies on radiation detection, radiation protection and reactors safety. Before entering the faculty of engineering, he was a student in Victoria college school where he had an interest in nuclear engineering. His research interests include nuclear reactors safety, nuclear protection, radiation detection, nuclear nonproliferation issues and nuclear disarmament. |
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Mahmoud JAVADI (Iran) Postgraduate Researcher, European University Institute (EUI) Mahmoud is a Postgraduate Researcher at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy, where he studies transnational security governance in Europe and the Middle East. Before joining the EUI, he worked with various research think tanks in Iran where he produced policy papers and briefs on European foreign, security and defence policies in the Middle East. He was also a Research Assistant at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) where he conducted background research on EU policies in the Middle East. He received his master’s degree in European Studies from the University of Tehran, Iran in 2015 and his B.A. from Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran, in 2013. His main research interests include arms control, nuclear non-proliferation, and transatlantic security strategy in the Middle East. |
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Palwasha KHAN (Islamic Republic of Pakistan) Independent Researcher Currently an independent researcher, Palwasha Khan holds a Master’s in Strategic and Nuclear Studies and an MPhil in Strategic Studies from the National Defense University, Islamabad. Her academic research focused on nuclear signaling and strategic equilibrium in South Asia. Palwasha also writes for Pakistan Politico on issues of relating to strategic stability, cybersecurity infrastructure for nuclear installations and role of emerging technologies in national security determination. She has previously served as a Junior Researcher at the Arms Control and Disarmament Affairs and has also remained a fellow with Center for Security, Strategy and Policy Research (CSSPR), University of Lahore. |
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Mathilde LE MOAL (France) Master’s Student, International Politics, Criminology and International Law, University of Edinburgh Mathilde’s research interests lie at the intersection of her BA in Politics and IR (University of York) and her masters’ degree in Global Crime, Justice and Security (University of Edinburgh). She wrote/published several papers using IR and criminologist perspectives to investigate nuclear proliferation, thereby looking into state cooperation under the NPT regime as well as nuclear trafficking, sabotage, corruption. Mathilde worked as a research consultant for the World Nuclear Industry Status Report and interned at the French Ministry of Defence, before completing a traineeship at the EU Delegation to the International Organisations in Vienna where she worked on IAEA & UNODC portfolios. |
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Reem MOHAMED (Syria) Independent Consultant Reem is a subject-matter expert in international arms control, non-proliferation, and disarmament. She works as an independent consultant for private firms and journals specialising in strategy, defence and security. For three years, she was the deputy chief editor of the New Defence Order. Strategy journal covering international defence and military issues and conducting interviews with top level decision makers in the military industrial complex around the world. She holds a Master’s Degree in Strategic and Arms Control Studies with a focus on disarmament, non-proliferation and international treaties controlling weapons of mass destruction. Reem has conducted extensive research on the Chemical Weapons Convention and the mandate of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. |
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Yeсhan MOON (Republic of Kore) Ph.D. Student, Department of Political Science, Yonsei University Yechan Moon is a Ph.D. student of political science at Yonsei University, and his research interests are nuclear nonproliferation, economic sanctions, and North Korea. He was a research fellow of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Nuclear Nonproliferation Education and Research Center (NEREC). He received a master's degree from the Korea Development Institute (KDI) School of Public Policy and wrote a thesis about measuring the effectiveness of the US secondary sanction against North Korea for nuclear nonproliferation. |
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Lucia MADERO MURILLO (Mexico) STEM-MBA Student, University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management Lucia is a STEM-MBA student at the University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management, specializing in strategy and entrepreneurship. In addition to being a CTBTO-CENESS Research Fellow, Lucia is also a member of the Hiroshima-ICAN Academy on Nuclear Weapons and Global Security 2022 and will be presenting at the ISYP Third Nuclear Age Conference. She is a founding member of BASIC’s Emerging Voices Network and has previously participated in the 6th Global Citizens Assembly in Nagasaki, the Summer School for Non-Proliferation and Disarmament in Mexico City, and the 2015 Critical Issues Forum in Hiroshima. Her research interests include nuclear non-proliferation, artificial intelligence in nuclear weapons, and deterrence in a digital age. |
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Doniyor MUTALOV (Uzbekistan) Undergraduate Student, International Relations, Webster University in Tashkent Doniyor Mutalov is a senior year student at Webster University Tashkent. His works mainly focus on emerging security issues, and his research interests are the regulation of novel armaments (LAWS) and nuclear disarmament under the TPNW. He previously interned at the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs. His native language is Uzbek, and he is fluent in Russian and English and mastering French. |
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Phantitra PHUPHAPHANTAKARN (Thailand) Research Fellow, Center for Security Analyses and Prevention Phantitra Phuphaphantakarn, (Ariel Karn), is an OSCE-UNODA Scholarship: Arms Control Training 2021 alumni. She is also a research fellow at Center for Security Analyses and Prevention (based in Prague) specializing in arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation affairs and the Indo-Pacifc security. Phantitra is running her own armament and disarmament studies research team at The New Global Order (based in Rome). Additionally, she was also a selected speaker at EU Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Consortium Next Generation Workshop 2021 regarding the AUKUS partnership and nuclear arms race risk in the Indo-Pacific region, a World Institute for Nuclear Security Scholarship (Cybersecuirty in Nuclear Industry) recipient and a current member of the Women in Nuclear Global Young Generation Network. |
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Queiroz Portorreal Alcantara (Dominican Republic) Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Sciences Radiological Safety Information Manager, Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM); Seismic Network Maintenance Technician, National Seismological Centre (CNS), Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) Queiroz has two leading roles at the institutions he works for. In the Ministry of Energy and Mines he holds the position of radiological safety information manager, where critical information of the country in nuclear technology applications is steward. At the National Seismological Centre he is maintenance technician, helping to keep the seismic station's network radio antennas and modems communicate with the main server at the center. Portorreal's main research focus is using seismic application to learn about the inner layer of the earth and nuclear and isotopic techniques for environmental studies. Before working in the MEM and CNS, he was a research assistant at the Institute of Physics of the UASD and the Nanotechnology Laboratory at the Instituto Tecnologico de Santo Domingo (INTEC). Currently, Queiroz enrolled in a Ph.D. program in Environmental Science. |
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Martin REGGI (US/Italy) B.A and J.D. from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign Licensed attorney in Illinois and the Chicagoland area Mr Reggi is a US/Italian national who obtained his LL.M. in Transnational Justice from the UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) in Turin, Italy and his B.A and J.D. from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. He also holds a University Diploma in International Nuclear Law from the University of Montpellier. He has been a member of UNODC for three years, currently as part of the CBRN Terrorism Prevention Programme focusing on the projects related to the universalisation and effective implementation of the international frameworks related to CBRN terrorism. He is a licensed attorney in Illinois and from the Chicagoland area. |
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Alice SALTINI (Italy) Research Coordinator, European Leadership Network Alice Saltini is a Research Coordinator for the European Leadership Network, as well as the founder and leader of Young Pugwash Italy. Previously, she interned for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization in the External Relations, Protocol and International Cooperation Section and worked as a Research Assistant at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. A regional coordinator of the CTBTO Youth Group, she holds a Master’s degree in Russian studies, and a Post-Graduate certificate in Nonproliferation Studies from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. Her interests relate to arms control and non-proliferation, disarmament diplomacy, West-Russia relations, and international politics, particularly in the context of multilateralism and international law. She is particularly interested in new and creative approaches aimed at achieving ratifications from hold-out Annex-2 States and the early entry into force of the CTBT as a precursor to further nuclear/WMD free zones. |
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Alexandra SEROVA (Russia) Master’s Student, Systems Analysis and Management, National Research Nuclear University MEPhI |
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Aayushi SHARMA (India) Programme Associate, Middle East Treaty Organization Aayushi Sharma is a Programme Associate in the Middle East Treaty Organisation. In this capacity, she heads the Humanitarian Initiative of the organization that aims to build a research base into the Humanitarian Consequences of the WMD usage and Nuclear Testing within the Middle East. She has been a part of the official delegation of METO to the First Meeting of States Parties of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) held in Vienna, 2022. Aayushi has completed her Post Graduation in Conflict Analysis and Peacebuilding from the Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Jamia Millia Islamia, India. Her main focus of research was Arms Control and Disarmament and the issues of peace and conflict in the Middle East as well as South Asia. Aayushi is also interested in understanding the intersectionality of gender and international security framework. |
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Andrej STEFANOVIĆ (Serbia) Diplomat at the Permanent Mission of Serbia to the UN Office in Geneva Andrej Stefanović works for the Mission of Serbia to the UN Office in Geneva, as the disarmament and arms control focal point. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, he worked as a researcher at the Belgrade Center for Security Policy (a think tank based in Serbia), dealing with issues such as counter-terrorism, EU police cooperation, Serbia’s defense industry, and arms transfers. He also interned at the EU Delegation to Serbia and the Institute of International Politics and Economics in Belgrade. He holds a BA in international relations and an MA in European integration, both from the University of Belgrade. He has published extensively on a range of topics: from disarmament and arms control and other security issues to human rights, current international relations topics, and European integration. He is keen to further pursue his central research interests relating to the future of nuclear arms control, both bilateral and in multilateral settings. |
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Abdulrahman TAHER (Somalia) Master’s Student, Nuclear Engineering, Polytechnic University of Milan
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Shuxi YIN (China)
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Wei ZHANG (China) Intern, the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) Wei Zhang is working in the Office of the Director at the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs as an intern. She’s currently a master's candidate in international law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Switzerland. Previously, she pursued an LL.M. from Beijing Institute of Technology and a joint human rights master’s programme at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund University and Peking University Law School where she served as a teaching assistant and published papers in Space Debris Research and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Her research interests include space law and policy, disarmament and arms control, business and human rights, international trade and investment law, etc. |
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Anastasia KULIKOVA (Russia) Intern, Center for Energy and Security Studies (CENESS) Anastasia currently holds bachelor’s degree in International scientific-technological and commercial-industrial cooperation. She also holds the position of coordinator of the IMO youth unit "Scientific Diplomacy Club". Previously, Anastasia was an Intern at PIR Center, where she participated in the preparation of such events as the 114th Extended Summer Session of the Trialogue Club International dedicated to the topic “Assessing the State of Global Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime on the Eve of the X NPT Review Conference” as well as the XXI International School of the PIR Center on Global Security. Her research interests include global and regional security issues, nuclear policy of the P5 countries, research at the intersection of science and diplomacy, nonproliferation of nuclear weapons, nuclear disarmament and peaceful uses of nuclear energy. |
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Ekaterina PORIADINA (Russia) Intern, Center for Energy and Security Studies (CENESS) Ekaterina studies Global and Regional Security and Conflict Management at Ural Federal University. Her research focuses on nonproliferation of nuclear weapons and specifically the Non-Aligned Movement in the NPT review process and the TPNW. In 2021 Ekaterina became a PIR-center member and participated in III Timerbaev Nuclear Debates. In 2021 she published a chapter in a collective monography "The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: the formation of a new regime?" and in 2020 a journal article “The Non-Aligned Movement and the NPT Review Process” in a MGIMO Review of International Relations. Ekaterina is also an active member of Ural Nonproliferation Group. |
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Ruairi DEVEREAUX-HEDDON (Ireland) Intern, CTBTO Ruairí is currently an Intern in the External Relations and International Cooperation section of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization Preparatory Commission (CTBTO). Before this, he acted as Disarmament Trainee at the EU Permanent Mission to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva (EEAS). He has a legal background and holds a Bachelor of Laws (International) degree from University College Cork (UCC) in the Republic of Ireland, where he specialized in International Humanitarian Law and the Laws of Armed Conflict, both at UCC and during his exchange year at the University of Copenhagen. His research interests broadly include international security and disarmament, with specific interests in nuclear security and non-proliferation. |
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Juliana POSADA (Colombia) Intern, CTBTO Juliana is currently an MA Candidate in International Security at the University of Groningen (NL) and an Intern in the External Relations and International Cooperation section of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO). Previously, she worked at International Crisis Group, an international think tank performing analysis on global crises, and the Colombian Permanent Mission to the United Nations. She holds a bachelor in Translations Studies and Communication from the University of Vienna (AT). Her research interests include disarmament, international conflict prevention and resolution. |
