The Ninth and Tenth Pugwash Quinquennia 1997–2007

Hitoshi Ohnishi, M.S. Swaminathan and Paolo Cotta-Ramusino at the
Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Memorial, July 2005
Maj. Gen. (ret.) Dr. Mohamed Kadry Said is Head of the
Military Studies Unit and Technology Advisor at the Al-
Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, Al-
Ahram Foundation in Cairo, Egypt; Professor of Missile
Mechanics of Flight at the Military Technical College
(MTC) in Cairo; Member of the Committee of Strategic
Planning of the Egyptian Council of Space Science and
Technology.
Prof. Saideh Lotfian is Associate Professor of Political
Science at the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the
University of Tehran, Deputy Director of the Center for
Middle East Strategic Studies in Tehran, and the former
Director of the Middle East Program at the Center for
Strategic Research. (‡)
Dr. Riad Malki, Director General, Panorama, The Palestinian
Center for the Dissemination of Democracy and
Community Development, Ramallah, West Bank, Palestine.
Formerly at BirZeit University, School of Engineering.
Jeffrey Boutwell, Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, Marie Muller,
Saideh Lotfian, Pan Zhenqiang
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Amb. Miguel Marin-Bosch, Director, Mexico’s Diplomatic
Academy, Mexico D.F. He is former Career Diplomat,
Deputy Foreign Minister (2000-2002); Consul General,
Barcelona (1995-2000); Permanent Representative to
International Organizations in Geneva and to the Conference
on Disarmament (1989-1995); Deputy Permanent
Representative to the UN, New York (1983-1988).
Prof. Amitabh Mattoo, Vice Chancellor, University of
Jammu, Jammu, J&K, India; Member, Prime Minister’s
Task Force on Global Strategic Developments; Professor
of Disarmament Studies, School of International Studies,
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Former
member, National Security Advisory Board.
Prof. Anne McLaren is Principal Research Associate at
Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK, Institute of Cell and
Developmental Biology; a Member of the British Pugwash
Group; Member of the European Commission’s Life
Sciences Group and European Group on Ethics; and
former Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society. (*)
Dr. Steven Miller is Director of the International Security
Program of the Belfer Center for Science and International
Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of
Government, Editor-in-chief of the quarterly International
Security, and Co-chair of the US Pugwash Committee.
Formerly, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm
International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), and
taught defense and arms control studies in the Political
Science Department at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
Prof. Marie Muller is Chair of the Pugwash Council, and
Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Director of the
Centre for International Political Studies at the University
of Pretoria. She is also a Council Member of the Academy
of Science of South Africa, and Chair of the Pugwash
South Africa Group. (‡)
Dr. Götz Neuneck is a physicist working on international
security issues. He is currently Senior Fellow at the Institute
for Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH) in
Hamburg; Member of the Council of the German Physical
Society (DPG), and Deputy Chairman of the Working
Group “Physics and Disarmament” in the DPG.