Advisory Board
Amb. Alyson J.K. BAILES
Director, Stockholm Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) since July 2002
Alyson Bailes graduated from Oxford in 1969 with a BA (First Class Honors) in Modern History and a MA in 1971.She served under the London Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1969 to 1990, and undertook various postings :
As Desk Officer for the Western European Department (1969)
As Desk Office rat the British Embassy in Budapest (1970)
As Second Secretary in the UK Dlegation to NATO (1974-76)
For the European Community Department (Internal) at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (1976)
As Assistant to the EC “Committee of Wise Men,” appointed by the European Council to advise on institutional improvements in advance of Greek accession (1979)
At the British Embassy in Bonn (1981)
As Deputy Head of Mission, Consul-General, and a member of the Sino-British Joint Liaison Group on the Future of Hong Kong, at the British Embassy in Beijing (1987-89)
In November 1979, Amb. Bailes was appointed Head of Section in DS11, a civilian department dealing with defence outside the NATO area, in the British Ministry of Defence. In 1984, she returned to London as Deputy Head of the Policy Planning Staff.
She took a sabbatical leave of a few months in 1990, in order to research and write on relations between China and Central and Eastern European States at the Royal Institute for International Affairs in London (“Chatham House”). From 1990 to April 1996, she rejoined the Royal Foreign Services again.
She worked as Vice President for the European Security Programme at the EastWest Institute in New York from April 1996 to August 1997. She was then appointed Political Director of the Western European Union in Brussels where she served from September 1997 to July 2000.
Returning to the Diplomatic Service, Amb. Bailes became British Ambassador to Finland from November 2000 to June 2002. She left the British Foreign Service in order to take up her ongoing post at SIPRI from July 2002.
Since 1990, Amb. Bailes has published many articles in international journals, and contributed in numerous books, on topics mostly related to European defence, regional security cooperation, and arms control.
See http://www.sipri.org/
Mr. Jean-Marie CAMBACÉRÈS
President, France-Asie
Mr. Cambacérès graduated from the Bordeaux National School of Agricultural Work Engineers (ENITA) in 1971, with an agricultural techniques engineer degree. He also holds a degree in political sciences from the Grenoble Political Studies Institute (1977). In 1977 and 1979, he studied for an oriental civilization and language unilingual degree (DULCO) and for a superior Chinese language degree, both from the Paris Oriental Language School. Eventually, Mr. Cambacérès graduated from the Paris National Administration School (ENA) in 1980.His career started as a counsellor in the Nice administrative tribunal (1980-81), and rapidly picked up speed within the Cabinet of the Ministre d’Etat, Minister of the Interior from 1981 to 1984. Then, from 1984 to 1986 within the Cabinet of the Ministre d’Etat, Minister of Land Settlement and Planning. In 1986, Mr. Cambacérès was Chargé d’Affaires at the Mediator of the Republic Cabinet until 1988. He was appointed special adviser to the Cabinet of the Ministre d’Etat, Minister of Education in 1988. He was then appointed Representative at the Parliament (1988-93) for the Gard region’s second constituency. From 1993 to 1999, he served as Special Civil Administrator for the Administration General Directorate of the Ministry of the Interior.
From 1973 to 1992, Mr. Cambacérès was tasked with a great array of responsibilities within the French Socialist Party, inter alia as the Asian Affairs National Officer for the Socialist Party under François Mitterrand and Lionel Jospin. He holds memberships within numerous congressional friendship groups with Asian countries.
He was the Founding President of the think-tank AGIR from 1992 to 1997, and from respectively 1993 and 2000, he has been the Founding President of the Association France-Asie and the Association Cambodia, Buddhism and Francophony. He is also a member of the sustainable development-oriented workgroup “MEDICIS Committee”. He is an eminent specialist on Asia, and particularly China, with respectively more than 100 trips to Asia in general and 50 trips made to China. He is a teacher in two French universities.
He is Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters and Knight of the Legion of Honour.
Prof. Bernhard M. HÄMMERLI
President, Information Security Society of Switzerland (ISSS)
Bernhard Hämmerli studied electrical engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, where he received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering in 1983 and 1988, respectively. He worked with IBM (developing communication systems), Swissair (network strategies) and with UBS (communication and security projects), before he was elected professor at HTA in 1992, University of Applied Sciences in Lucerne, Switzerland. He taught microprocessors, languages (Modula, C, C++) and software engineering, and teaches today communications and networks as well as information security. He created and managed an informatics class (92-99), a privacy course (97-01), an executive masters program in IT-Security (98-01) with an extensive hands-on lab in IT-Security, a regional Cisco Academy for CCNA degree (from 98) and CCNP (from 02). He served in multiple worldwide corporations as a consultant and worked as an expert in various commissions, especially for the building up of the Swiss Information Sharing Centre MELANI and Swiss Information Operation Working Group.
Prof. Hämmerli is a member of several scientific and industrial advisory boards and works in several program committees of scientific conferences. He is president of "FGSec The Information Security Society of Switzerland", which is the Swiss Chapter of ACM. Furthermore he is a member of the Swiss “Societé d’Informaticiens” (SI) and of the IEEE Computer Company. He is the editor of a German security and privacy journal and of the European CIIP Newsletter.
See
www.fgsec.ch
www.digma.info
www.ci2rco.org
Dr. Daniel S. HAMILTON
Director, Center for Transatlantic Relations, SAIS, J. Hopkins University
Executive Director, American Consortium on E.U. Studies
Dr. Hamilton is the Richard von Weizsäcker Professor and Director of the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University. He also serves as Executive Director of the American Consortium for EU Studies. He leads the international policy work of the U.S. National Center for the Study of Preparedness and Catastrophic Event Response (PACER), led by Johns Hopkins University, which has been designated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as one of 5 U.S. National Centers of Excellence. Dr. Hamilton is a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs and Associate Director of the Policy Planning Staff; Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Deputy Director, Aspen Institute Berlin. Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University.Publications: Transatlantic Homeland Security (2004); Transatlantic Transformations: Equipping the Alliance for the 21st Century (2004); Beyond Bonn: America and the Berlin Republic (1994); After the Revolution (1990); numerous articles in books, journals, newspapers and other publications
See transatlantic.sais-jhu.edu
Mr. David HEYMAN
Director and Senior Fellow, Homeland Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
David Heyman has the lead over the Center’s homeland security efforts on strategy, policy, research, and education. He is one of the center’s leading scholars on bioterrorism, critical infrastructure protection and risk-based security. He has also helped lead studies on Aviation Security, Threat-Vulnerability Analysis, and the tabletop exercise STEADFAST RESOLVE.Prior to joining CSIS, he served as a senior adviser to the U.S. secretary of energy from 1998 to 2001 and the head of the Department of Energy's Technology Transfer Task Force. From 1995 to 1998, he worked at the White House in the Office of Science and Technology Policy, National Security and International Affairs Division, coordinating U.S. policies, programs, and budgets related to international cooperation in science and technology, including with Russia, OECD, G-8, and the European Union. Before entering the government, Mr. Heyman briefly worked as a consultant with Ernst & Young in their International Privatization and Economics Group in London and was the director of international operations and a senior project manager for a New York–based software company developing supply-chain management systems for Fortune 100 firms. He has worked in Europe, Russia, and the Middle East.
Publications: DHS 2.0: Rethinking the Department of Homeland Security (2004), “Legal Pressures in National Security Restrictions," in The Role of Scientific and Technical Data and Information in the Public Domain (2003), Lessons from the Anthrax Attacks: Implications for U.S. Bioterrorism Preparedness (2002), as well as contributions to Science and Security in the 21st Century: A Report to the Secretary of Energy on the Department of Energy Laboratories (2002), Model Operational Guidelines for Disease Exposure Control (2005).
He has testified before the United States Congress, is a regular guest on CNN, BBC, and FOX News and a frequent on-air contributor to NPR's All Things Considered and WTOP News. He has made appearances on CBS, NBC, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, and the Diane Rehm Show, and can be found quoted in The Washington Post, The New York Times, USA Today, and The Los Angeles Times.
See www.csis.org
Amb. Jean-Daniel TORDJMAN
Special Representative of The French Prime Minister to China for Rail Transportation Projects, Inspecteur Général des Finances
Amb. Tordjman graduated from the National Administration School (ENA, Fr) in 1970, after having completed studies at the Paris Law Faculty, and at the Political Studies Institute (Sciences Po).He then served under several ministries in France and abroad (Finance, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade, Research and Technology…). He served as Plenipotentiary Minister for Economic and Commercial Affairs in the French Embassy of Washington D.C. from 1985 to 1992, and as Ambassador-at-Large, Special Representative of France for International Investment between 1992 and 1999; Deputy Secretary for Commerce, Small Business and Tourism for the French government; Counselor for International Affairs, Ministry of Research and Technology, France
He was elected Executive Vice-President of Trader.com International in 1999, until 2001.
Amb. Tordjman currently serves as Special Representative of The French Prime Minister to China for Rail Transportation Projects, and as Inspecteur Général des Finances. He is also president of the Ambassadors’ Club, and Vice-President of the Electronic Business Group.
He holds the Legion of Honor.
Dr. Rohan GUNARATNA
Head, International Centre for Political Violence & Terrorism Research, Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Singapore
Dr. Rohan Gunaratna has 20 years of policy, operational and academic experience in counter-terrorism. He is Head of the International Centre for Political Violence & Terrorism Research, Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Singapore, and Senior Fellow at the Combating Terrorism Centre, United States Military Academy, West Point.He led the specialist team that designed and built the UN database on the mobility, finance and weapons of Al Qaeda, Taliban and their Entities. He is the author of eight books, including Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror (Columbia University Press, New York), an international bestseller, and the lead author of Jane’s Counter Terrorism. He serves on the editorial boards of Terrorism and Political Violence and Conflict Studies and Terrorism journals.
He is a member of the steering committee of the George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute and Honorary Fellow at the International Policy Institute for Counter-terrorism, Israel. Together with General Russ Howard, Gunaratna chairs the NATO-PfP Working Group on Combating Terrorism.
See http://www.ntu.edu.sg/idss/
Mr. Sergey G. MURSANKOV
Deputy Director for development and external relations, PIR Center (Center for Policy Studies in Russia)
Project Co-ordinator, “Biosafety and Biosecurity: Prospects for International Cooperation” project
Sergey Mursankov was born on 29 September 1959.He graduated in 1990 from the Air Force Academy named after Yury Gagarin. In 2000 he terminated the International Training Courses in Geneva Centre for Security Policy (Geneva, Switzerland).
For about 30 years he served under various units of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation. For 10 years he worked in the Russian Federation foreign diplomatic missions occupying inter alia a post of Liaison Officer with NATO/PCC under the Russian Federation Embassy to Belgium, a post of Military Adviser at the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva. For more than 4 years he was a member of the Permanent Delegation of the Russian Federation to the Conference on Disarmament and participated in the work of the Russian delegations on the issue related to the Inhumane Weapons Convention and BTWC.
His most recent position was with one of the analysis groups of the General Staff of the Russian Federation’s Armed Forces. He is now Deputy Director for development and external relations at the PIR Centre (Centre for Policy Studies in Russia). He also coordinates the project “Biosafety and Biosecurity: Prospects for International Cooperation”.
See http://www.pircenter.org/english/
©2006 EHSA