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Biographies of Contributors 1727Email: , and .Website: .Mustafa Aydin (Turkey) is Professor of International Relationsand Rector at Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey,as well as the President of the International RelationsCouncil of Turkey. Previously he served as the Head of InternationalRelations Department at the University of Economicsand Technology, and the Director of InternationalPolicy Research Institute (IPRI) of Ankara. He wasUNESCO Fellow at the Richardson Institute for PeaceStudies, UK (1999); Fulbright Scholar at the JFK School ofGovernment, Harvard University (2002); Alexander S. OnassisFellow at the University of Athens (2003); and ResearchFellow at the EU Institute for Security Studies, Paris (2003).His most recent work includes Central Asia in Global Politics(in Turkish, 2004); International Security Today; UnderstandingChange and Debating Security (ed. with K.Ifantis, 2006); Turkish Foreign and Security Policy (ed.2006); Regional In/secuity: Redefining Threats and Responses(ed., 2007); Turkey’s Eurasian Adventure (in Turkish,2007).Address: Prof. Dr. Mustafa Aydin Kadir Has University,Cibali Campus, Kadir Has Caddesi, 34083 Cibali, Istanbul,Turkey.E-Mail: .Website: .Alyson J.K. Bailes (UK) is currently Visiting Professor atthe University of Iceland in Reykjavik, teaching on variousaspects of security studies, and also teaches a security policycourse at the College of Europe in Bruges. From July2002-August 2007 she was Director of the Stockholm InternationalPeace Research Institute (SIPRI), the first womanever to hold that post. Her former career was spent largelyin the British Diplomatic Service and included postings inHungary, Germany, NATO HQ, China, Norway, and Finlandwhere she served as Ambassador. She was posted in1970-1974 in Hungary, where she learned her first foreignlanguage. She went on to deal with arms control at the UKDelegation to NATO in Brussels, then had a sequence ofhome-based jobs including the EU internal policy desk; atemporary attachment to an EU ‘Wise Men’ study team oninstitutional reform; and an exchange posting to the BritishMinistry of Defence. She was posted again in 1981-1984 atthe Embassy in Bonn, dealing with defence and Berlin-relatedmatters. In 1984 she returned to the FCO as DeputyHead of Policy Planning Department. She was selected in1986 to be the Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassyin Beijing and began work there in 1987 after sevenmonths learning Mandarin. She spent two and a half yearsin China, including the time of the Tian'anmen events, andduring this period was part of the Sino-British negotiatingteam for the future of Hong Kong. On return to the UKshe took a short academic sabbatical at the Royal Institutefor International Affairs in London. In 1990-1994 she wasDeputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Oslo,and in 1994-1996 Head of the FCO Security Policy Department.From 1996 to 1997 she was a Vice-President responsiblefor security policy programmes at the New York-basedEast-West Institute, and then became political director ofthe Western European Union, after which she was appointedambassador of Great Britain in Finland. Her current researchinterests include European, Nordic and Arctic securityissues and roles of non-state actors. Her 2009 bookThrough European Eyes and recent papers can be accessedat: . She is a member of theBoards of several think-tanks, academic organizations andperiodicals.Address: Amb. Alyson J.K. Bailes, Strandvegur 12, ibud0307, IS-210 Gardabaer, Iceland.Email: .Website: .Alex H. Barbat (Spain): Civil Engineer of Technical Universityof Iasi, Romania; Doctor of Civil Engineering of theTechnical University of Catalonia UPC, Barcelona (Spain).He is Professor of Structural Mechanics at the TechnicalUniversity of Catalonia (UPC). He conducts most of his researchactivity in the UPC’s International Centre of NumericalMethods in Engineering (CIMNE), in the field of seismicdamage evaluation for structures, stochastic simulationof the damage process and active and passive structuralcontrol, seismic risk evaluation and disaster preparedness.He published more than 60 articles in refereed internationaljournals on these topics and collaborated in morethan 14 projects of the European Commission. He is thePresident of the Association for Earthquake Engineering(AEIS) of Spain. He leads the Risk Management Group ofCIMNE. He wrote various books; the last three are: Elriesgo sísmico en el diseño de edificios (Madrid: CalidadSiderúrgica, 1998); Diseño sismorresistente de edificios(Barcelona: Reverté, 2000); and El riesgo sísmico y su prevención(Madrid: Calidad Siderúrgica, 2000).Address: Prof. Dr. Alex H. Barbat, Calle Jordi Girona 1-3Mod. C1. Campus Nord, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña,Barcelona, Spain.Email: .Steffen Bauer (Germany) is a Senior Researcher at the GermanDevelopment Institute (DIE) in Bonn and a researchassistant to the German Advisory Council on GlobalChange (WBGU) since 2006. He is a political scientist atthe DIE’s department “Environmental Policy and Managementof Natural Resources” with a focus on internationalorganization and global environmental governance. He isalso the Science and Technology Correspondent of Germanyto the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification(UNCCD). Recent research interests include securityand development implications of climate change, the relevanceof international secretariats in global environmentalgovernance, and adaptation to climate change and desertificationwith a regional focus on Sub-Sahara Africa. He haspublished inter alia in: Climate and Development, GlobalEnvironmental Politics, Global Environmental Change,Journal of Environment and Development and in the Reviewof International Organizations and has been a reviewerfor the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, UNEP’s GlobalEnvironment Outlook as well as a host of academic