Ambassador Richard Butler was Australia’s first ambassador for disarmament and subsequently convened the Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. He was also ambassador to the United Nations, where he tabled the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. From 1997 to 1999, he was the executive chairman of the United Nations Special Commission to Disarm Iraq (UNSCOM). He also served as the global diplomat in residence at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University and a distinguished scholar of international peace and security at the Penn State University School of International Affairs.
Italy
Dr. Francesco Calogero
National Security Expert
Dr. Francesco Calogero
National Security Expert
Italy
Dr. Francesco Calogero is an Italian physicist and professor of theoretical physics at the Sapienza University of Rome. He is the former secretary-general of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, serving from 1989 to 1997. During his tenure, Pugwash and its co-founder Joseph Rotblat received the Nobel Peace Prize “for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms.” Calogero also served as chair of the Pugwash Council from 1997 to 2002 and is currently a council member. He was a member of the governing board of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute from 1982 to 1992.
United Kingdom
Rt. Hon. Lord Menzies Campbell
Political Leader
Rt. Hon. Lord Menzies Campbell
Political Leader
United Kingdom
The Right Honorable the Lord Campbell of Pittenweem CH CBE QC is a member of the House of Lords, serving as spokesperson for defence. He was a long-time member of Parliament of the United Kingdom until 2015, serving on the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee and the Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee. Campbell was knighted in 2004 for services to Parliament, and in 2006 was elected chancellor of the University of St. Andrews. He is also a founding member of Parliament’s Top Level Group, which promotes nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation.
Brazil
Pres. Fernando H. Cardoso
Political Leader
Pres. Fernando H. Cardoso
Political Leader
Brazil
President Fernando Henrique Cardoso was president of Brazil from 1995 to 2002, winning successive elections in the first round by an absolute majority. Cardoso was president when Brazil, in an important move, acceded to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1998. A scholar by training, he earned a doctorate in sociology at the University of São Paulo and was president of the International Sociological Association.
Cardoso is a professor-at-large at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, and was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. He is a member of The Elders, an eminent group of world leaders working to address difficult global challenges. In 2013, he became a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
United States
Sec. Frank Carlucci
National Security Expert
Sec. Frank Carlucci
National Security Expert
United States
Frank Carlucci was a former U.S. secretary of defense and national security advisor and served the Reagan administration in various capacities. He was U.S. ambassador to Portugal from 1974 to 1977, and deputy director of the CIA from 1978 to 1981. During his tenure as secretary of defense (1987-1989), he made important budget decisions on procurement, weapons systems and downsizing the military. After leaving the Pentagon, Carlucci joined the Carlyle Group, an investment partnership in Washington. He was also affiliated with the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a conservative think tank, and was a member of the board of trustees for the RAND Corporation’s center for Middle East Public Policy.
Carlucci passed away on June 3, 2018.
United States
Pres. Jimmy Carter
Political Leader
Pres. Jimmy Carter
Political Leader
United States
Jimmy Carter was the 39th president of the United States. Significant foreign policy accomplishments of his administration include the Panama Canal treaties, the Camp David Accords, the treaty of peace between Egypt and Israel, the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) II treaty negotiated with the Soviet Union and the establishment of U.S. diplomatic relations with China.
Since his presidency, Carter has championed human rights around the world, founding the Carter Center and working to ensure the integrity of numerous elections worldwide. He is a frequent volunteer for the housing charity Habitat for Humanity and was the 2002 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for his international work. Carter is a member of The Elders, an eminent group of world leaders working to address difficult global challenges.
United States
Gen. (ret.) James E. Cartwright
Military Commander
Gen. (ret.) James E. Cartwright
Military Commander
United States
Retired General James E. Cartwright served as commander of U.S. Strategic Command, before being nominated and appointed as the 8th vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the nation’s second highest military officer. In his role as vice chairman, Cartwright chaired the Joint Requirements Oversight Council, co-chaired the Defense Acquisition Board and served as a member of the National Security Council Deputies Committee, the Nuclear Weapons Council and the Missile Defense Executive Board.
Cartwright was the inaugural holder of the Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies for the Center for Strategic & International Studies. From 2011 to 2013, he was a member of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee, a federal advisory committee that provides advice and counsel to the leadership of the Department on matters concerning defense policy.
Cartwright’s command assignments include: commander, United States Strategic Command (2004-2007); commanding general, First Marine Aircraft Wing (2000-2002); and deputy commanding general, Marine Forces Atlantic (1999-2000). He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps in November 1971 and received his master’s degree in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College and completed a fellowship with Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Former Foreign Minister Hikmet Çetin’s political career began after he was elected to the Turkish Parliament in 1977 as a member of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), and was appointed deputy prime minister in 1978. In 1997, he was re-elected to Parliament from the Social Democratic People’s Party (SHP). Çetin worked at various executive levels within SHP, including the post of the secretary-general. In 1991, he was re-elected to Parliament and then served as minister of foreign affairs in the two coalition Governments between 1991 and 1994. He was once again appointed as minister of state and deputy prime minister in 1995. In the 1995 general elections, Çetin retook his seat and was elected as the Speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly in October 1997. In 2003, he was appointed NATO senior civilian representative for Afghanistan, where he served until 2006. In 2013, Çetin became a member of the Global Leadership Foundation, which works for human rights and promotes good governance and democratic leadership.
