Hok An, Indonesia (1944)
is a chemist who lives and works in Frankfurt, Germany. He is a member of "Nyamuk Indonesien Forum" and has been active for many years in Indonesian human rights affairs. He works on development issues and has recently published research on Indonesia's ambitious nuclear energy program.
Edith Ballantyne, Czechoslovakia (1922)
lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland, is president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), and secretary of the Special NGO Committee for Disarmament at the United Nations. From 1976 to 1982, she was chair of CONGO, the Conference of NGOs with Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council. In 1995, Mrs Ballantyne was awarded the Gandhi Peace Award for her dedication to peace and justice in general and for her WILPF work in particular.
Dirk Bannink, the Netherlands (1958)
is editor-in-chief of the international WISE News Communique, published in Amsterdam, twenty times a year, and a research associate of LAKA, the Dutch Documentation and Research Center on Nuclear Energy. He has published many articles, reports, brochures and book contributions on nuclear energy issues.
Frank Barnaby, United Kingdom (1927)
is a nuclear physicist by training. At the moment he works as an independent consultant, for instance, for Greenpeace International. During the Fifties, he was associated with the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment in Aldermaston, United Kingdom. From 1971 until 1981, he was director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), and from 1981 until 1985, he held a visiting professorship at the Free University of Amsterdam. Professor Barnaby's books are published in many languages.
Gerard Berkhof, the Netherlands (1933)
is professor of Strategic Studies at Leiden University and a retired general of the Dutch army. He has worked at the Ministry of Defence in The Hague as director of the Strategy, Nuclear Affairs and Arms Control Branch. From 1986 to 1987, he was chief of staff of the NATO Headquarters AFCENT (Allied Forces Central Europe) in Brunssum, Netherlands. Professor Berkhof has written several books on military and strategic issues. He is board member of several international research institutes, including the International Institute for Stategic Studies (IISS) in London.
Bharat Bhushan, India (1956)
lives and works in New Delhi as chief of the News Service of the Indian Express, one of India's largest national dailies. Previously, he was the Washington correspondent for the Indian Express, and before that a reporter for the Times of India. He holds a doctorate in sociology from the Imperial College, London. He has published many articles on nuclear and security issues.
Bas Bruyne, the Netherlands (1957)
is coordinator of the nuclear, oil, and climate campaigns at Greenpeace Netherlands. He previously worked as an anti-nuclear campaigner at Greenpeace International and Greenpeace Netherlands, and as the nuclear campaign coordinator at the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW). He is co-founder of Atomic Mirror, a nuclear disarmament program of the Earth Trust Foundation (US). He regularly writes on issues relating to nuclear energy and nuclear disarmament.
Jan Herman Burgers, the Netherlands (1926)
was from 1965 to 1972 head of the disarmament desk of the Dutch Foreign Affairs Department. In this position he was closely involved in the NPT negotiations. From 1977 to 1987, he worked for the same ministry on human rights issues. From 1987 to 1991 he was a member of the Dutch Advisory Committee on Human Rights and Foreign Policy.
Shaun Burnie, United Kingdom (1963)
lives and works in Amsterdam as coordinator for nuclear research at Greenpeace International. He was born in Edinburgh and studied War Studies at King's College, London. He has published numerous articles, reports, and book contributions on both security and nuclear matters.
Martin Butcher, United Kingdom (1963)
is director of the Center for European Security and Disarmament (CESD), Brussels, an associate of the British American Security Information Council (BASIC), UK, and author of many reports and articles on security issues. In 1994 and 1995, he was adviser to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament on the preparation of their NPT report.
Ben Cramer, Switzerland (1955)
was, at the time of these seminars, disarmament campaigner for Greenpeace France. Ben Cramer is a journalist who, before joining Greenpeace, wrote for several newspapers and magazines, and worked as a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center for Peace Research and Strategic Studies (CIRPES), Paris. He has authored and co-authored several reports and books on European security issues.
John Grin, the Netherlands (1961)
is a physicist and political scientist who teaches at the University of Amsterdam. He is a board member of the Dutch Interchurch Peace Council (IKV) and has published on international disarmament and environmental matters. His PhD thesis at the Free University of Amsterdam was on methods for political assessment of military technologies.
Huub Jaspers, the Netherlands (1958)
is NPT project coordinator at the Transnational Institute (TNI), Amsterdam, and development education coordinator of the Dutch Philippine Information and Documentation Center (FIDOC), Dordrecht. Previously, he worked as a journalist for over ten years, and published in several languages on matters of foreign policy and security.
Piet de Klerk, the Netherlands (1950)
is a physicist by education and head of the Arms Control Bureau of the Department of Atlantic Cooperation and Security (DAV) of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1987 to 1991, he was based in Vienna as the permanent representative for the Netherlands to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Currently, he is an adviser to the IAEA on restructuring the Safeguards system.
Roland Kollert, Germany (1950)
is a physicist with a doctorate in political science, and an expert on nuclear energy. He lives and works in Regensburg, Germany. His "Bureau for Technology Analysis and Consultancy" specializes in technology assessment. Dr. Kollert has published more than ten books and many articles on safety and risk analysis, radioecology, radiobiology, and nuclear proliferation. His PhD thesis on the military use of civil nuclear technology in Western Europe was published as "Die Politik der latenten Proliferation", Wiesbaden, 1994.
Matthias Küntzel, Germany (1955)
lives and works in Hamburg as a political consultant and journalist. From 1984 to 1988, he was a senior adviser on nuclear energy and nuclear weapons of the Green Party fraction in the Bundestag, the Federal Parliament of Germany. His PhD thesis, entitled "Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland zwischen Nuklearambition und Atomwaffen-Verzicht", formed the basis for his recently published TNI book, "Bonn & the Bomb - German Politics and the Nuclear Option", London, 1995.
Wolfgang Liebert, Germany (1957)
holds a doctorate in physics and is a research associate at the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Science, Technology and Security (IANUS) of the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. He is a member of the Coordination Committee of the International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation (INESAP), and has published many articles, reports, and book contributions on disarmament and nuclear weapon issues.
Klarissa Nienhuys, the Netherlands (1948)
is a chemist and nuclear energy expert, and lives and works in Groningen, the Netherlands. From 1982 to 1989, she was chair of the Dutch Society for the Preservation of the Wadden Sea. From 1975 to 1980, and from 1988 to 1992, she was a research associate on nuclear waste, proliferation, and low-dose radiation at the Institute for Energy and Environmental Science, University of Groningen, the Netherlands.
Jürgen Scheffran, Germany (1957)
holds a doctorate in physics and is a research associate at the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Science, Technology, and Security (IANUS) of the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. He is co-founder of the International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation (INESAP), and is editor-in-chief of the (English-language) INESAP Information Bulletin. He has published many articles, reports, and book contributions on disarmament and nuclear weapon matters.
Bart van der Sijde, the Netherlands (1938)
holds a doctorate in physics and has since 1964 been associated with the Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. Since 1983, he has concentrated primarily on nuclear disarmament matters. He is a board member of the Dutch Interchurch Peace Council (IKV) and of Pugwash Netherlands. In 1985, he published, together with Willem de Ruiter, a reference book on the nuclear legacy from a scientific, historical perspective. In 1995 he issued an overview of the worldwide nuclear weapon situation in Dutch, entitled "Kernwapens op hun retour?".
Vivienne Simon, United States (1950)
is an attorney and life-long activist on international human rights and environmental issues. Previously she was executive director of the Harvard-affiliated Center for Psychology and Social Change (US), and worked as coordinator of nuclear and disarmament programs for Greenpeace International in Amsterdam. In her work with the Harvard-affiliated Cultural Survival she helped to create the Rainforest Marketing Project. She is a free-lance writer and editor, and has been a pioneer in the development of the field of ecopsychology.
Dan Smith, United Kingdom (1951)
is director of the Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO), Norway, and author of several books, ranging from international political analyses to crime novels. He is a fellow of the Transnational Institute (TNI), Amsterdam and was director of TNI from 1991 to 1993. From 1984 to 1987, he was vice-chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), United Kingdom, and from 1981 to 1982 chair of European Nuclear Disarmament (END), UK.
Peter Weiss, United States (1925)
lives and works in New York as an international lawyer. He is co-president of the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA) and is closely involved in the World Court Project, the initiative petitioning the International Court of Justice to render an advisory opinion on the (il)legality of nuclear weapons and their use. He is a member of the Board of Advisers of the Transnational Institute (TNI), Amsterdam.