PIR CENTER RESEARCH COUNCIL

The Research Council was formed in February 1998 to provide additional expertise for the PIR Center`s studies and to raise the quality of the Center`s published materials. It was also envisaged that the Research Council would hold formal discussions on the most pressing international security issues and discuss and evaluate the Center`s ongoing and future research projects.

The Research Council consists of more than 50 Russian and foreign policymakers, scientists, and military officials who are professionally involved in international security matters, especially in the field of arms control.

The Research Council is comprised of three types of members: individual, associate (government officials), and corporate (research institutions and organizations). For example, the following are corporate members of the Research Council: the All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics (VNIIEF), the Kurchatov Institute-Russian National Center, the Moscow State University for Foreign Relations, and the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI).

Members of the Research Council conduct expert evaluation of the PIR research and publications, give consultations to the PIR staff, review the manuscripts and research projects.

Topics covered by the Research Council meetings have included:

"Regional Aspects of Restructuring the Russian Nuclear Complex: Problems and Prospects" (September 20, 2001)

Dmitry Evstafiev, PIR Senior Research Associate;

Dmitry Kovchegin, PIR Junior Research Associate;

Ivan Safranchuk, Director of the Moscow Office, Center for Defense Information

"Security Issues in Northeast Asia and Developments on the Korean Peninsula" (July 3, 2001)

Lee Jai-chun, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Korea to the Russian Federation

"The Problems of Implementation of the US-Russian Plutonium Disposition and Management Agreement" (May 18, 2001)

Laura Holgate, Vice President for Russia/NIS Programs of the Nuclear Threat Initiative

"Representatives of Nuclear Threat Initiative foundation meet with the representatives of Russian NGOs and research institutions" (May 18, 2001)

Laura Holgate, Vice President for Russia/NIS Programs of the Nuclear Threat Initiative

Vladimir Orlov, Director of the PIR Center

"Proliferation of Missiles and Missile Technologies: Threats to Russian Security" (April 16, 2001)

Rebecca Johnson, Executive Director of the Acronym Institute

Vitaly Lukyantsev, Senior Counselor of the Department for Security and Disarmament Affairs of the Russian MFA

"START III Dialogue and Future Decisions on the ABM Treaty" (October 5, 2000)

Vasily Lata, PIR Advisor

Ivan Safranchuk, PIR Research Associate

"Prospects of Russian Military Reform" (September 21, 2000)

Vasily Lata, PIR Advisor

Ivan Safranchuk, PIR Research Associate

Prof. Yury Fedorov, Department Head in the Institute for US and Canadian Studies

"Export Controls in the Transforming World System: Economic Aspects" (July 5, 2000)

Dmitry Evstafiev, PIR Senior Research Associate

Elina Kirichenko, Head of the Center for North American Studies at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Anatoly Bulochnikov, Director of the Center for Export Controls

Pavel Bykov, Correspondent of the Expert magazine

"The Current Problems of the ABM Treaty" (June 14, 2000)

Ivan Safranchuk, PIR Center Research Associate

"The Results of the NPT Review Conference" (June 2, 2000)

Boris Kvok, Deputy Director of the Department on Security and Disarmament of the MFA

Roland Timerbaev, PIR Center Senior Advisor

Vladimir Orlov, PIR Center Director of the PIR Center

"Russia: Nuclear Weapons and Nonproliferation – in the Context of the Coming NPT Review Conference" (April 18, 2000)

Ivan Safranchuk, PIR Center Research Associate

Roland Timerbaev, PIR Center Senior Advisor

"The Safe Storage of Nuclear Weapons in Russia and Disarmament Problems" (October 5, 1999)

Joshua Handler, Researcher of the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies at the Princeton University

"The Cooperative Threat Reduction Program: Prospects for Development" (July 1, 1999)

Brigadier General (ret.) Thomas E. Kuenning, Director of the Cooperative Threat Reduction for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (USA)

Valery Semin, Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Department of Security and Disarmament

Colonel-General (ret.) Yevgeny Maslin, PIR Center Senior Advisor and former Head of the 12^th Main Directorate of the Ministry of Defense

"The Future of Russian Nuclear Forces" (May 28, 1999)

Colonel-General (ret.) Yevgeny Maslin, PIR Center Senior Advisor and former Head of the 12^th Main Directorate of the Ministry of Defense

Ivan Safranchuk, PIR Center Research Associate

"Israel`s View on the Middle East Security Agenda" (February 18, 1999)

Zvi Magen, Ambassador of Israel

"Pakistan, South Asia, and Problems of Regional and Global Security" (December 15, 1998)

Mansoor Alam, Ambassador of Pakistan

"The Future of the Russian Nuclear Arsenal" (February 18, 1998)

Sergei Kortunov, First Deputy to the Secretary of the Defense Council

Ambassador (ret.) Roland Timerbaev, President of the PIR Center

"Conventional Arms Exports from Russia" (November 14, 1997)

Gennady Khromov, Senior Expert of Glavkosmos

Pyotr Vlasov, Correspondent of the journal Expert

Igor Khripunov, Deputy Director of the Center for International Trade and Security at the University of Georgia, GA, USA

"The Prospects for Instituting a Safeguards Culture in Russia" (October 29, 1997)

Prof. William C. Potter, PIR Center Research Council and the Director of the Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute of International Studies

"Russian Nuclear Exports and Export Controls in their Present Phase" (May 17, 1997)

John Lepingwell, Research Associate of the Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute of International Studies

For more information, please contact Assistant Director Maria Vernikova at phone
+7-095-234-0525; fax +7-095-234-9558 or at info@pircenter.org


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