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Amb. Peter Galbraith
Member of the Board, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
Lt. General Robert Gard
Chair of the Board, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
Amb. Thomas Graham
Member of the National Advisory Board, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
Gen. Joseph Hoar
Member of the National Advisory Board, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
John Isaacs
Senior Fellow
Col. Richard Klass
Member of the Board, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
Edward Levine
Member of the board, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
Matthew Meselson
Member of the National Advisory Board, Council for a Livable World
Jim Walsh
Member of the Board, Council for a Livable World
Dan Wirls
Member of the Board, Council for a Livable World
Frank von Hippel
Member of the National Advisory Board, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
Biographies
Amb. Peter Galbraith – Member of the Board, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
Ambassador Peter W. Galbraith is the Senior Diplomatic Fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. Prior to joining the Center, Galbraith was a professor of National Security Strategy at the National War College. He has held senior positions in the United States government and with the United Nations, including U.S. Ambassador to Croatia and Director for Political, Constitutional, and Electoral Affairs at the U.N. Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET).
Lt. General Robert Gard – Chair of the Board, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
Lt. General Robert G. Gard, Jr. is Chairman of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. During his military career, Gard saw combat in both the Korea and Vietnam wars, and served a three year tour in Germany. He also served as Executive Assistant to two secretaries of defense; the first Director of Human Resources Development for the U.S. Army; Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs; and President of National Defense University (NDU).
Amb. Thomas Graham – Member of the National Advisory Board, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr. was Special Representative of the President for Arms Control, Nonproliferation and Disarmament from 1994 to 1997. Internationally known as one of the leading authorities in the field of arms control agreements to combat the spread of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons, Ambassador Graham has served as a senior U.S. diplomat involved in the negotiation of every major international arms control and non-proliferation agreement for the past 30 years. Currently, he is Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Thorium Power.
Gen. Joseph Hoar – Member of the National Advisory Board, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
General Joseph P. Hoar is a retired U.S. Marine Corps officer and former Commander of the United States Central Command. During the Vietnam War, Hoar was assigned with the 2nd Marine Division, commanding Company M, 3rd Battalion. Hoar was the Deputy for Operations for the Marine Corps during the Gulf War, and prior to that he was General H. Norman Schwarzkopf’s chief of staff at Central Command. After retirement, he set up the consulting firm J.P. Hoar & Associates. Since 2002, Hoar has actively opposed the war in Iraq.
John Isaacs – Senior Fellow
John Isaacs is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and Council for a Livable World. He is one of the leaders of the nation’s arms control community and has long been an expert on the workings of Congress, representing the Council on Capitol Hill since 1978. Isaacs previously served as a Legislative Assistant on foreign affairs to Representative Stephen Solarz (D-NY), a Legislative Representative on foreign policy and defense budgets for Americans for Democratic Action, and a Foreign Service Officer in Vietnam.
Col. Richard Klass – Member of the Board, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
Colonel Richard Klass. USAF (ret.) is a graduate of the US Air Force Academy, the National War College and Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He flew over 200 combat missions in Vietnam and served in the Executive Office of the President as a White House Fellow. His awards include the Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross and Purple Heart.
Edward Levine – Chairman, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
Dr. EDWARD LEVINE, chairman of the board of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, is a retired senior professional staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which he served from 1997 until 2011. He was a professional staff member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence from 1976 until 1997.
Dr. Levine was the Foreign Relations Committee’s lead Democratic specialist on arms control, nonproliferation, and U.S arms sales to other countries. He played a major staff role in the Senate’s consideration of the Chemical Weapons Convention, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty, the Moscow Treaty, the New START Treaty, protocols to the Convention on Conventional Weapons, conventions relating to nuclear safety, arms sale agreements with the United Kingdom and Australia, and the U.S.-India nuclear agreement. He also helped to oversee and to maintain funding for U.S. nonproliferation programs and U.S. contributions to the IAEA and the CTBTO Preparatory Commission.
Dr. Levine served both Republican and Democratic members of the Senate Intelligence Committee. One of his roles was to write or co-author the committee’s assessments of U.S capabilities to monitor compliance with SALT II, the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty, the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty, the Threshold Test-Ban Treaty and the Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty, the Open Skies Treaty, and the Chemical Weapons Convention.
Prior to working for the U.S. Senate, Dr. Levine taught political science at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and at Rice University. He received his B.A. in political science from the University of California (Berkeley) and his M.A. and Ph.D. in international relations from Yale University.
Matthew Meselson – Member of the National Advisory Board, Council for a Livable World
Matthew Meselson is Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences at Harvard University and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government. He received the Ph.D. in chemistry and physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1957 and was an Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry at CalTech until he joined the Harvard faculty in 1960, where he teaches and conducts research in molecular genetics.
Since 1963 Dr. Meselson has been interested in chemical and biological defense and arms control and has served as a member of the Arms Control and Nonproliferation Advisory Board to the Secretary of State and as a consultant on CBW matters to various U.S. government agencies. He is co-director of the Harvard-Sussex Program on Chemical and Biological Weapons and co-editor of its quarterly journal, the Chemical Weapons Convention Bulletin. Dr. Meselson is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Institute of Medicine, the Academia Sanctae Clarae (Genoa), the Academie des Sciences (Paris), the Royal Society (London), and the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Jim Walsh – Member of the Board, Council for a Livable World
Dr. Jim Walsh is an expert in international security and Research Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Security Studies Program (SSP). Dr. Walsh’s research and writings focus on international security, and in particular, topics involving nuclear weapons. He is one of a handful of Americans who has traveled to both Iran and North Korea for talks with officials about nuclear issues. Dr. Walsh has testified before the United States Senate on the issue of nuclear terrorism and on Iran’s nuclear program. The British newspaper, The Independent, named Dr. Walsh and his co-authors as having offered one of the 10 best and original ideas of 2008.
Before coming to MIT, Dr. Walsh was Executive Director of the Managing the Atom project at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and a visiting scholar at the Center for Global Security Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He has taught at both Harvard University and MIT. Dr. Walsh received his Ph.D from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dan Wirls – Member of the Board, Council for a Livable World
Daniel Wirls is a Professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz, Merrill College. He formerly held a position as the Department Chair in Politics for the University of California at Santa Cruz from 2005-2010 and many years ago worked at Council for a Livable World. He has written several books and published extensively on politics, national security, and defense policy. Wirls received his B.A. in Political Science from Haverford College. He holds a M.A. and Ph.D from the Department of Government at Cornell University.
Frank Von Hippel – Member of the National Advisory Board, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
Frank von Hippel is a nuclear physicist and Professor of Public and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. A former Assistant Director for National Security in the White House Office of Science and Technology, von Hippel’s areas of policy research include nuclear arms control and nonproliferation, energy, and checks and balances in policymaking for technology. Prior to coming to Princeton, he worked for ten years in the field of elementary-particle theoretical physics.
