Recent and upcoming nonproliferation activities, events, and announcements involving the CNS center, staff, and programs.

Updated: Sep 19, 2011

CNS Welcomes New Experts to Our Monterey Office

The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies is pleased to announce that Ambassador Aruni Wijewardane has assumed the post of Director of the International Organizations and Nonproliferation Program (IONP). Ambassador Wijewardane has served as a career diplomat with the Sri Lanka Ministry for External Affairs since 1988. She has extensive experience in multilateral negotiations on issues relating, inter alia, to disarmament, nonproliferation, and human rights in New York, Geneva, and Vienna. She served as Governor for Sri Lanka on the IAEA Board of Governors, as well as Permanent Representative to the CTBTO. She was a member of the UN Secretary General's Panel of Government Experts on Verification.

Dr. Avner Cohen, who continues his work at CNS as a Senior Fellow, relocated to Monterey in August 2011 and has been appointed a professor in the Monterey Institute's Graduate School of International Policy and Management. Dr. Cohen is widely acclaimed for his path-breaking history of the Israeli nuclear program. Dr. Cohen joined CNS in 2010 after serving as a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2009-10) and following a ten-year affiliation with the Center for International and Security Studies (CISSM) at the University of Maryland. Dr. Cohen is a two-time winner of the MacArthur Foundation research and writing awards, and was a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). He has been a visiting professor at a number of U.S. universities, and in 2005, was Forchheimer Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University.

Other New Additions to CNS

Anne Harrington, Postdoctoral Fellow (Monterey)

Amanda Moodie, Research Associate, International Organization and Nonproliferation Program (Monterey)

Bilal Saab, Visiting Fellow (Washington DC)

Meghan Warren, Research Associate (Washington DC)

Hakan Akbulut, Research Assistant (Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation)