Ambassador Roland M. Timerbaev

Amb. Timerbaev is a leading Russian expert in nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction. He is the Chairman of Board and Senior Advisor at the PIR Center.

Amb. (ret.) Roland Timerbaev is a world leading expert in the area of nuclear nonproliferation and arms control, one of the founding fathers of the NPT Treaty. He has been chairing the PIR Executive Council since 1999 (PIR President in 1995-1998) and is Senior Advisor of the PIR Center. After graduating the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) in 1949, he worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR/Russia, which he left in 1992. In 1988-1992, he headed the USSR/Russian Mission to International Organizations in Vienna. Amb. Timerbaev participated in negotiating the NPT, the ABM Treaty, the IAEA safeguards system, the Threshold Test Ban Treaty, the PNE Treaty and some other arms control agreements. In 1974-1978, he participated in the work to establish the Nuclear Suppliers Group. Amb. Timerbaev took part in all six NPT Review Conferences.

Roland Timerbaev is Doctor of History, Professor, who delivered lectures in the MGIMO, the Monterey Institute of International Studies and the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute. He has a great number of publications on arms control, nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament. Among them are "Peaceful Atom on International Arena" (1969), "Verification of Arms Control and of Disarmament" (1983), "Complete Prohibition of Nuclear Tests" (1986), "Russia and Nuclear Nonproliferation. 1945-1968" (1999). One of the authors of "Nuclear Nonproliferation Handbook" and "The Nuclear Suppliers Group: Why and How It Was Created (1974-1978)" published by the PIR Center in 2000.

Education

• Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), 1949
• Candidate's Degree from Moscow Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), 1968. Dissertation: "International Cooperation in the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy"
• Doctor's Degree from Moscow Diplomatic Academy, 1982. Dissertation: "Verification of Arms Control and of Disarmament"

Diplomatic Career

• USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Division of UN Affairs, staff member, 1949-50

• USSR Mission to UN, staff member, 1950-53

• USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department of International Organizations, Third, Second, First Secretary, 1953-58

• USSR Mission to UN, New York, First Secretary, Counsellor, 1958-63

• USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department of International Organizations, Deputy Director, 1964-85

• USSR Mission to UN, First Deputy Permanent Representative with the rank of Ambassador, 1986-87

• USSR/Russian Mission to International Organizations in Vienna, Permanent Representative, 1988-92

Participation in International Negotiations

• IAEA Safeguards Committee, 1964

• Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, New York and Geneva, 1966-68

• Committee on Disarmament, Geneva, 1967, 1968, 1969

• SALT-I, Vienna and Helsinki, 1970

• Model Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement (INFCIRC/153), Vienna 1970

• Sea-Bed Treaty, Geneva, 1971

• MBFR Talks, Vienna, 1973

• Threshold Test Ban Treaty, Moscow, 1974

• Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty, Moscow, 1975-76

• Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), London, 1975-77

• Tripartite Talks on CTBT, Washington and Geneva, 1977-80

• NPT Review Conferences, Geneva, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990

• NPT Review and Extension Conference, New York, 1995 (as representative of Russian and US NGOs)

Teaching and Research

• Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Senior Researcher, Moscow, 1969-70

• Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Professor, 1982-85

• Monterey Institute of International Studies, Visiting Professor and Ambassador-in-Residence, Monterey CA, 1992-95

• Moscow Institute of Engineering and Physics (MEPHI), Professor, 1997

• Center for Policy Studies in Russia (PIR Center), Moscow, President, 1995 - 1998, Chair of the Board and Senior Adviser, 1999

Major Publications

• Issues before the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in; "UN Specialized Agencies in Today's World," Moscow, Nauka Publishers, 1967

• Peaceful Atom on International Arena, Moscow, International Relations Publishers, 1969

• UN and Maintenance of International Peace, Ed., Moscow, International Relations Publishers, 1973

• Disarmament Issues and the Future of Europe (with Valery Abarenkov), Moscow, International Relations Publishers, 1978

• Problems of Nuclear Disarmament (with Valery Abarenkov and Lev Semeyko), Moscow, Moscow,Nauka Publishers, 1982

• Verification of Arms Control and of Disarmament, Moscow, International Relations Publishers, 1983

• Militarism and Disarmament (with Valery Abarenkov and Boris Krasulin), Moscow, Politizdat, 1984

• Problems of Verification, Moscow, Nauka Publishers, 1984

• Complete Prohibition of Nuclear Tests, Moscow, Nauka Publishers, 1987

• A Major Milestone in Controlling Nuclear Exports, in: Eye on Supply, Spring 1992, MIIS

• Inventory of International Nonproliferation Organizations and Regimes, 1993, 1994, and 1995 Editions, MIIS

• Security Assurances to Non-Nuclear-Weapon States (with George Bunn), in: The Nonproliferation Review, Fall 1993

• The IAEA's Role in Nuclear Arms Control: its Evolution and Future Prospects (with Susan Welsh), in: The Nonproliferation Review, Spring-Summer 1994

• A Hostage to Political Realities, Security Dialogue, December 1994

• Nuclear Verification Under the NPT: What Should It Cover - How Far May It Go? (with George Bunn), PPNN Study Five, Southampton, 1994

• Nuclear Disarmament: How Much Have the Five Nuclear Powers Promised in the Non-Proliferation Treaty? (with George Bunn), in: "At the Nuclear Crossroads," Lanham MD, University Press of America, Inc., 1995

• Nonproliferation Organizations and Regimes beyond 1995, in: "1995: a New Beginning for the NPT?" New York, Plenum Press, 1995

• IAEA and Nuclear Arms Control: Past, Present and Future, in: "International Atomic Energy Agency: Personal Reflections", Vienna, IAEA, 1997

• Russia and Nuclear Nonproliferation. 1945-1968, Moscow, Nauka Publishers, 1999

• International Co-operation in Nuclear Safety (with Abram Ioirysh), in: "Yearbook of International Co-operation on Environment and Development, 1999/2000" Norway The Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 1999

• Regular publications in Yaderny Kontrol, a Russian language monthly on nuclear arms control published by PIR Center