Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei

Diplomat

Egypt

Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei is the former director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and a co-recipient of the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize. ElBaradei served as the head of the IAEA for three consecutive terms, as well as the IAEA’s legal adviser and assistant director general for external relations. Previously, he was an adjunct professor at the New York University School of Law, a special assistant to the Egyptian foreign minister and a delegate at the Permanent Missions of Egypt to the United Nations in New York and in Geneva. He also briefly served as the vice president of Egypt in 2013.

ElBaradei is the recipient of numerous prizes for his efforts for peace and on nuclear issues, which include the 2008 Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace and, together with the IAEA, the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize.

Amb. Tetsuya Endo

Diplomat

Japan

Ambassador Tetsuya Endo was an accomplished Japanese diplomat and public servant. A graduate of Tokyo University, he worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, serving in the United Kingdom and Mexico. He became a governor of the International Atomic Energy Association and later the vice chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of Japan in 2001. He was also an executive director of the Japanese Institute of International Affairs.

Endo passed away in December 2019.

Col. Gen. (ret.) Viktor Ivanovich Esin

Military Commander

Russia

Retired Colonel General Viktor Ivanovich Esin is the former chief of staff of the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces. He is now a science fellow at the Institute for United States and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISKRAN).

Esin is co-chair of the Global Zero NATO-Russia Commission.

Hon. Gareth Evans

Political Leader

Australia

The Honorable Gareth Evans is an accomplished Australian public servant and chancellor of the Australian National University. He is also an honorary professorial fellow, a position he has held since 2012. From 2008 to 2010, Evans served as co-chair of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament. He also served as president and CEO of the International Crisis Group, an independent global organization, from 2000 to 2009. As the foreign minister of Australia from 1988 to 1996, he was best known for his role in developing the United Nations peace plan for Cambodia, helping conclude the Chemical Weapons Convention, and initiating a new Asia-Pacific regional economic and security architecture.

He has written and edited numerous books on international affairs. In recognition of his leading work on responsibility to protect and his contributions to conflict prevention and arms control and disarmament, Evans was awarded the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute Four Freedoms Award for Freedom from Fear in 2010. In 2012, he was named a Companion of the Order of Australia and and honorary fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.

Min. Muhammad Amin Fahim

Political Leader

Pakistan

Minister Muhammad Amin Fahim served as minister of commerce and senior minister of Pakistan. He was the vice chairman of the Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) and leader of its parliamentary party in the National Assembly. Fahim earned a degree in political science before entering politics in 1970 as an elected member of the National Assembly from the Sindh Province. He occupied several ministerial posts, including federal minister, during Benazir Bhutto’s tenure in office.

Fahim passed away in November 2015.

Min. Nabil Fahmy

Political Leader

Egypt

Nabil Fahmy was Egypt’s foreign minister and the founding dean of the School of Public Affairs and Global Policy at the American University in Cairo. He was also the chair of the Middle East Project at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies.

A former ambassador to the United States and Japan, Fahmy is a career diplomat, and has played an active role in efforts to bring peace to the Middle East, as well as in international and regional disarmament affairs. He headed the Egyptian delegation to the Middle East Peace Process Steering Committee in 1993 and the Egyptian delegation to the Multilateral Working Group on Regional Security and Arms Control emanating from the Madrid Peace Conference in December 1991. Over the years, Fahmy has been a member of the Egyptian Missions to the United Nations (disarmament and political affairs) in Geneva and New York. He was elected vice chairman of the First Committee on Disarmament and International Security Affairs of the 44th Session of the U.N. General Assembly in 1986. From 1999 until 2003, he was also a member of the U.N. secretary-general’s Advisory Board of Disarmament Matters, serving as board chairman in 2001.

Dr. Shai Feldman

National Security Expert

Israel

Dr. Shai Feldman is the Judith and Sidney Swartz Director of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University. Feldman is also an associate fellow of the Royal United Services Institute in London and a senior fellow and member of the board of directors of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. In 2001-03, he served as a member of the UN secretary-general’s advisory board on disarmament matters. Feldman was director of Tel Aviv University’s Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies’ Project on U.S. Foreign Defense Policies in the Middle East and the center’s Project on Regional Security and Arms Control in the Middle East.

President José María Figueres

Political Leader

Costa Rica

José María Figueres was president of Costa Rica from 1994 to 1998. Under his presidency, Costa Rica implemented a comprehensive national development strategy based on the tenets of sustainability. After leaving office, he led the United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force, and then the World Economic Forum, as its CEO. He has also served as CEO of Concordia 21 in Spain, dedicated to supporting organizations that promote development and democratic values around the world. Since 2012, he has served as chairman of the Carbon War Room, a non-governmental organization now part of the Rocky Mountain Institute that works to implement entrepreneurial market-driven solutions to climate change.