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CO-CHAIRS
Desmond Browne (United Kingdom). Convener, Top Level Group of UK Parliamentarians for
Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation. Convener, European Leadership
Network for Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation. Former Secretary of
Defense of the United Kingdom.
Igor Ivanov (Russia). President, Russian International Affairs Council, and Professor, Moscow
State Institute for International Relations. Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian
Federation.
Sam Nunn (United States). Co-chairman and Chief Executive Office of the Nuclear Threat
Initiative and Distinguished Professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the
Georgia Institute of Technology. Former Senator from the state of Georgia, including service as
Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
PARTICIPANTS
Charles Boyd (United States). Starr Distinguished National Security Fellow, Center for the
National Interest. Retired General and former Deputy Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Forces in
Europe.
Richard Burt (United States). Chairman of Global Zero, USA and Managing Director for Europe and Eurasia, McLarty Associates. Former U.S. Chief Negotiator at the Strategic Arms Reduction
Talks.
Evgeny Buzhinsky (Russia). Senior Vice President, PIR Center. Former Head of the International
Treaty Directorate, Deputy Head of the Main Department of International Military
Cooperation, Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. Lieutenant General (retired).
James Cartwright (United States). Former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff. General, U.S.
Marine Corps (retired).
Hikmet Ҫetin (Turkey). Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey.
William Cohen (United States). Chairman and CEO of The Cohen Group. Former U.S. Secretary of Defense . Former Senator from the state of Maine.
James Collins (United States). Director, Russia and Eurasia Program, Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace. Former U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation. Former Ambassadorat-Large and Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for the New Independent States.
Stephen Covington (United States). Strategic and International Affairs Adviser to Supreme
Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR).
Viktor Esin (Russia). Former Chief of Staff, Strategic Rocket Forces of the Soviet Union.
Daniel Fata (United States). Vice President, The Cohen Group. Former Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy.

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Søren Gade (Denmark). Former Defense Minister of Denmark.
Stephen Hadley (United States). Principal, RiceHadley Group. Senior Advisor for International
Affairs, United States Institute of Peace. Former U.S. National Security Advisor.
Tom Holter (Norway). Assistant Director General and Head of the Policy-Planning Section,
Security Policy Division, Norwegian Ministry of Defense.
Ian Kearns (United Kingdom). Chief Executive, European Leadership Network.
Former Deputy
Chair of the independent IPPR Commission on UK National Security. Former Adviser to the UK
Parliamentary Committee on National Security Strategy.
Catherine Kelleher (United States). Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International Studies,
Brown University, and Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland. Former U.S.
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, and Representative of the Secretary of Defense to NATO.
Robert Legvold (United States). Director, Euro-Atlantic Security Initiative. Marshall D. Shulman
Professor Emeritus, Columbia University.
Imants Lieǵis (Latvia). Former Minister of Defense of Latvia.
Linas Linkevicius (Lithuania). Consultant to the Prime Minister of Lithuania and former
Minister of Defense of Lithuania.
Simon Lunn (United Kingdom). Consultant on NATO to the Nuclear Threat Initiative. Former
Secretary General, NATO Parliamentary Assembly.
Jessica Mathews (United States). President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Janusz Onyszkewicz (Poland). Chairman of the Executive Council, Euro-Atlantic Association.
Former Minister of Defense of Poland.
Alain Richard (France). Former Minister of Defense of France.
Malcolm Rifkind (United Kingdom). Former Defense Secretary and former Foreign Secretary.
Adam Daniel Rotfeld (Poland). Co-chairman, Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matters.
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland.
Volker Rühe (Germany). Former Minister of Defense of Germany. Former Member of the
Bundestag.
Sergey Rogov (Russia). Director, Institute of the USA and Canadian Studies (ISKRAN). Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Trevor Soar (United Kingdom). Former Commander-in-Chief Fleet of the Royal Navy. Admiral
(retired).
Jeffrey Sorenson (United States). Executive Director of Operations, The Cohen Group. Former
Assistant to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense.
Ellen Tauscher (United States). Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International
Security Affairs. Former Congresswoman and Chair of the House Armed Services
Subcommittee on Strategic Forces.
Reha Taşkesen (Turkey). Former Assistant Commander of the International Security Assistance
Force in Afghanistan. Former aide-de- camp to President Demirel. Major General (retired).
Vyacheslav Trubnikov (Russia). Former Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation.
Former Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation. Former
Ambassador of the Russian Federation to India. Retired General and Ambassador.
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PARTICIPANTS—Nuclear Threat Initiative
Joan Rohlfing (United States). President and Chief Operating Officer.
Steve Andreasen (United States). National security consultant to the Nuclear Threat Initiative.
Lecturer, Herbert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota.
Robert Berls (United States). Senior Advisor, Nuclear Materials Security Program and Director of NTI’s Moscow Representative Office.
Isabelle Williams (United Kingdom). Senior Program Officer, International Program.
Deepti Choubey (United States). Senior Director for Nuclear and Bio-Security.
Frederick Iseman (United States). Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, CI Capital Partners.
Advisor to the Board of Directors of the Nuclear Threat Initiative.
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