Sec. Gen. Amr Moussa

Diplomat

Egypt

Secretary General Amr Moussa is the former secretary general of the League of Arab States. Moussa studied law at Cairo University, briefly practicing before joining the Egyptian Foreign Affairs Ministry in 1958. While there, he worked as an assistant and advisor to the minister of foreign affairs and served as director of the Department of International Organizations. From 1983 to 1986, Moussa served as Egypt’s ambassador to India, and in 1990, he was appointed Egyptian ambassador to the United Nations in New York.

In 1991, Prime Minister Atef Sedki appointed Moussa Egyptian foreign minister. He remained foreign minister until 2001, when President Hosni Mubarak appointed him to the League of Arab States. In September 2013, Moussa was elected as head of Egypt’s constitution-drafting committee.

Rt. Hon. Lord David Owen

Diplomat

United Kingdom

The Right Honorable the Lord Owen CH is a former British foreign secretary. He currently sits in the House of Lords as an independent social democrat and is on the board of the Center for International Health and Cooperation. From 1996 to 2009, he served as chancellor of the University of Liverpool. In the 1980s, Lord Owen served as the treasurer of the Palme Commission on Disarmament and Security Issues, a member of the Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issues, and a member of the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Armed Conflict. Together with Lord Douglas Hurd, Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Lord George Robertson, Owen called for progress toward a nuclear weapon-free world in the Times of London.

Min. Ana Palacio

Diplomat

Spain

Minister Ana Palacio is a senior strategic counsel to the Albright Stonebridge Group, a global strategy firm. She previously served as senior vice-president of international affairs at Areva, one of the three global players in nuclear energy transmission and distribution, and as senior vice president of the World Bank. Palacio was the first woman to serve as Spain’s foreign minister. From 1994 to 2002, she was a member of the European Parliament, where she presided first over the Committee for Legal Affairs and Internal Market and later over the Committee for Justice and National Affairs.

Amb. Gopalaswami Parthasarathy

Diplomat

India

Ambassador Gopalaswami Parthasarathy is a visiting professor at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi and a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is also a member of the executive committee of the Center for Air Power Studies in New Delhi and of the panel of experts from India for track-II dialogue with ASEAN. As a distinguished foreign service officer for India, Parthasarathy held posts in Myanmar, Australia, Pakistan and Cyprus until his retirement in May 2000. He has represented India in the delegations of several international conferences including at the United Nations, Non-Aligned Movement and South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation. Prior to his entry in the foreign service, Parthasarathy was a commissioned officer in the Indian army. He is a regular contributor to Indian and foreign newspapers on the topics of foreign policy and national security issues.

Amb. Thomas Pickering

Diplomat

United States

Ambassador Thomas Pickering is a former U.S. diplomat who held the personal rank of career ambassador, the highest in the U.S. Foreign Service. In a diplomatic career spanning five decades, he served as U.S. ambassador to Russia, India, Israel, El Salvador, Nigeria and Jordan. From 1989 to 1992, he served as ambassador and representative to the United Nations in New York. He speaks French, Spanish, Swahili, Arabic, and Hebrew.

Pickering is currently vice chair of Hills & Company, an international consulting firm providing advice to U.S. businesses on investment, trade and risk assessment issues abroad, particularly in emerging market economies. He retired in 2006 as senior vice president of international relations for Boeing.

Pickering is on the Global Zero Board of Directors. He is co-chair of the Nuclear Crisis Group and a member of the Global Zero Commission on Nuclear Risk Reduction, Global Zero NATO-Russia Commission, Global Zero U.S. Nuclear Policy Commission and the Global Zero Commission.

Amb. Steven Pifer

Diplomat

United States

Ambassador Steven Pifer is director of the Brookings Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Initiative. A former ambassador to Ukraine, Pifer’s career as a Foreign Service officer focused on Europe, the former Soviet Union and arms control. In addition to Kyiv, Ukraine, Pifer had postings in London, Moscow, Geneva and Warsaw, as well as on the U.S. National Security Council. At Brookings, Pifer focuses on arms control, Ukraine and Russia.

Pifer is a member of the Global Zero NATO-Russia Commission.

Hon. Douglas Roche

Diplomat

Canada

The Honorable Douglas Roche is an author, parliamentarian and diplomat whose 40-year public career has focused on peace and human security issues. He is the chairman emeritus and current senior advisor of the Middle Powers Initiative, an international network of organizations specializing in nuclear disarmament issues. A former Canadian senator and member of parliament, he served as the Canadian ambassador for disarmament to the UN and, in 1988, was elected chairman of the UN Disarmament Committee.

Roche has been recognized several times for his work for peace and human security. His awards include the Mahatma Gandhi Foundation for World Peace Award, the UN Association’s Medal of Honor and lifetime achievement awards from the Canadian Pugwash Group and the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. In recognition of his work and commitment to nuclear disarmament, the City of Hiroshima named Roche an Honorary Citizen in 2010. He still lectures widely on disarmament issues and has published twenty books over the years, including his 2011 work, “How We Stopped Loving the Bomb.” He is an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Min. Adam Daniel Rotfeld

Diplomat

Poland

Minister Adam Daniel Rotfeld is co-chairman of the Polish-Russian Working Group and member of the UN secretary-general’s Advisory Committee on Disarmament Matters. As the minister of foreign affairs for Poland in 2005, Rotfeld established the Warsaw Reflection Group on UN Reform and Transatlantic Security and Complementarity of European Security Institutions. Prior to his work in the foreign ministry, Rotfeld served as director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. From 1961 to 1989, he was on the staff of the Polish Institute of International Affairs; in the latter decade of that term, he also served as head of the European Security Department.