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Updated: Feb 19, 2010

Dr. Patricia Lewis

Dr. Patricia Lewis is the Deputy Director and Scientist-in-Residence at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Prior to assuming this appointment in August 2008, Dr. Lewis served for ten years as the Director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Geneva, Switzerland. She also previously was the Director of VERTIC, the Verification Research and Training Centre in London, UK.

A dual national of Ireland and the United Kingdom, Dr. Lewis holds a BSc in Physics from the University of Manchester and a PhD in Nuclear Structure Physics from the University of Birmingham. Dr. Lewis has lectured in Physics at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, from where she also carried out research at the Australian National University in Canberra, and as a visiting lecturer at Imperial College London. She has also worked as a volunteer at the Rehabilitation Centres for Children, and at the Thakurpukur Cancer Centre in Kolkata, India.

Dr. Lewis has published and spoken widely on aspects of science, verification, arms control, disarmament and nonproliferation. She was the Elizabeth Poppleton Fellow at the Australian National University in 1992 and the UK Governmental Expert on the 1989-1990 United Nations Expert Study on Verification in All its Aspects. Dr. Lewis was a consultant the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the UK Ministry of Defence on verifying the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty. She was a reviewer for the Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons (1996), a Member of the Tokyo Forum for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (1998-1999) and a Commissioner (Ireland) on the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (2004-2006, commonly referred to as the Blix Commission). In her capacity as Director of UNIDIR, she was a member of the United Nations Secretary General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters (1997-2008).