United States
Civic Leader
Civic Leader
United States
Michael Douglas is an Academy Award-winning actor and producer, known for such films as “Wall Street,” “Fatal Attraction,” and “The American President” among many others. Douglas is a passionate advocate for nuclear disarmament and currently serves as an advisor to the Ploughshares Fund. In 1998, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed him Messenger of Peace.
Russia
Diplomat
Diplomat
Russia
Ambassador Yuri Dubinin was a professor of international politics at Moscow State Institute of International Affairs and Moscow International Higher Business School. Prior to that, he was permanent representative of the USSR to the UN and ambassador to the Ukraine, Spain, France and the United States. From 1994 to 1996, he served as Russian deputy foreign minister.
Dubinin received his doctorate from Moscow State Institute of International Relations, where he focused on international politics in reference to Asia and the Pacific region. He was a member of the Oriental Studies Association of Russia and a board member for the U.N. Association of Russia and the Russia-USA Association.
Dubinin passed away on December 20, 2013.
Pakistan
Military Commander
Military Commander
Pakistan
Retired Major General Mahmud Ali Durrani is a former national security advisor to the prime minister of Pakistan and former ambassador to the United States. Prior to that, Durrani was an advisor at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Durrani has worked extensively to further peace efforts between Pakistan and India. He retired from Pakistan’s army in 1998 with the rank of major general.
Durrani is a member of the Global Zero Commission on Nuclear Risk Reduction.
Russia
Military Commander
Military Commander
Russia
Retired Major General Vladimir Dvorkin is a senior advisor at the PIR Center, a prominent Russian think tank, and the Carnegie Moscow Center. He is also a chief researcher of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations at the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Earlier in his career, he served in the Strategic Rocket Forces. From 1993 to 2001, he was director of the Fourth Central Research Institute of the Russian Ministry of Defense. He supported preparations for Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) II, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) I and START II, and made a significant contribution to formulating Soviet and Russian positions at the negotiations on strategic offensive arms control and reduction.
Dvorkin is a member of the Nuclear Crisis Group and the Global Zero Commission on Nuclear Risk Reduction.
United States
Diplomat
Diplomat
United States
Secretary Lawrence Eagleburger was an American diplomat, who served in many capacities in the government, most notably as U.S. secretary of state under President George H.W. Bush. He was also a member of the National Security Council; executive assistant to Henry Kissinger at the White House; political advisor and chief of the political section of the U.S. Mission to NATO in Brussels; deputy assistant secretary of defense; deputy assistant to President Richard Nixon for national security affairs; ambassador to Yugoslavia; and assistant secretary of state for European affairs.
Eagleburger passed away on June 4, 2011.
Israel
Military Commander
Military Commander
Israel
Retired Brigadier General Uzi Eilam joined the research staff of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University in 2002 as a senior research fellow. Prior to that, he served as the director general of the Israeli Ministry of Defense Mission to Europe. His military career included a term as a commanding officer in the paratroopers as well as experience in military research and development at Israel Defense Forces (IDF) headquarters.
After retiring from the IDF, Eilam served as director general of the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission and as chief scientist and director of research and development in the Ministry of Defense. Following a dispute between the U.S. and Israel over sales of military equipment to China, he was appointed to draft a proposal on supervision and control of Israel’s military exports.
Eilam is also an author; his book, “Eilam’s Arc: How Israel Became a Military Technology Powerhouse,” was released in 2011. Eilam’s current research focuses on European defense theory and the European defense industry.
Eilam is an advisor to the Global Zero Commission on Nuclear Risk Reduction.
Sweden
Diplomat
Diplomat
Sweden
Ambassador Rolf Ekeus is a Swedish diplomat, chairman emeritus of the board of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, and chairman of the Swedish Pugwash Network. He is also a member of the executive board of the European Leadership Network for Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament and serves on the board of the Nuclear Threat Initiative. From 1991 to 1997, he was the director of the UN Special Commission in Iraq. In this position, he was responsible for working towards the elimination of infrastructure for nuclear weapons.
Ambassador Ekeus has spent his diplomatic career working on nonproliferation issues. In 1996, he was recognized for his contributions to the field with the Wateler Peace Prize from the Carnegie Foundation. Ambassador Ekeus has also served as Swedish ambassador to the United States and to the Conference on Disarmament, and member of the advisory board on disarmament of the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Egypt
Diplomat
Diplomat
Egypt
Ambassador Abdel Raouf El Reedy is a lawyer and the co-founder and chairman of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs. He is also a member of the Egyptian Pugwash Group, and was a member of the international advisory board of the Council on Foreign Relations. He served for eight years as the Egyptian Ambassador to the United States, and has held other diplomatic posts at the UN, the Arab League Secretariat, and as Egypt’s ambassador to Pakistan. He has represented Egypt in numerous international fora, including at the UN Conference on Trade and Development and the UN Conference on Disarmament.