DR. VLADIMIR A. ORLOV
DR. VLADIMIR A. ORLOV is the founding Director of the Moscow-based PIR Center -Center for Policy Studies in Russia. In addition to carrying out his overall responsibilities as the head of the Center, Dr. Orlov directs the Center's Nuclear Nonproliferation & Russia Program, is the Editor-in-Chief of the Center's journal on international security, arms control, and nonproliferation, Yaderny Kontrol (Nuclear Control), and serves as the Chair of the PIR Arms Control Educational Seminar Series for the Russian Decision-Making Community and Legislators.
Orlov is also a consultant to the United Nations on nonproliferation education and is a professor at the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI). In addition, Vladimir Orlov is the Director of the Editorial Board of the Nuclear Security newsletter of the National Press Institute in Moscow and a member of the Russian Pagwash Committee. In 1994, he was a visiting scholar and Senior Researcher at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies and is currently a member of the Core Group on Nuclear Nonproliferation at the institute. Orlov was the Vice President, a member of the Board of Directors, columnist, political analyst, and head of department for Moskovskiye Novosti (Moscow News) from 1990-1996. Orlov graduated in 1990 from the Moscow State Institute for International Relations (MGIMO) under the Foreign Ministry of the USSR. In 1997, he defended his dissertation in political science at MGIMO as well.
Orlov writes for The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Nezavisimoye Voyennoye Obozreniye (Independent Military Review), Moscow News, The Moscow Times, Vremya MN daily, Itogi, Yaderny Kontrol (Nuclear Control), Nonproliferation Review, Krasnaya Zvezda daily, Pro et Contra quarterly, and other Russian and international media. He has also edited several books and written chapters for several books on nonproliferation published in the West and in Russia. Among most recent ones, there are Export Controls: Policies and Practices (2000), Nuclear Nonproliferation Textbook (2000), and Nuclear Nonproliferation in the U.S. - Russian Relations: Challenges and Opportunities (2001), Nuclear Nonproliferation, the second edition of the textbook, in two volumes (2002) in which he is both editor and co-author.
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