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SIPRI Yearbook 2013

• Wael Abdul-Shafi (Germany/Palestine) was an intern with the SIPRI Military Expenditure and Arms Production Programme in 2012. He is studying for a masters degree at the University of Gothenburg.

• Marie Allansson (Sweden) is a Research Assistant and Information Officer with the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) at the Uppsala University Department of Peace and Conflict Research. Prior to joining the UCDP, she conducted an internship at the United Nation Development Programme (UNDP) Iraq Country Office, based in Jordan, focusing on small arms and light weapons. She has contributed to the SIPRI Yearbook since 2012.

• Dr Ian Anthony (United Kingdom) is Director of the SIPRI Arms Control and Non-proliferation Programme. His publications include Reforming Nuclear Export Controls: The Future of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, SIPRI Research Report no. 22 (2007, co-author), and The Future of Nuclear Weapons in NATO (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 2010, co-author). He has contributed to the SIPRI Yearbook since 1988.

• Dr Sibylle Bauer (Germany) is Director of the SIPRI Dual-use and Arms Trade Control Programme. Before joining SIPRI in 2003, she was a Researcher with the Institute for European Studies (ULB), Brussels. Since 2005 she has designed and implemented capacity-building activities in Europe and South East Asia, with a focus on legal and enforcement issues related to the enhancement of transit, brokering and export controls. Her publications include ‘Arms trade control capacity building: lessons from dual-use trade controls’, SIPRI Insights on Peace and Security no. 2013/2 (Mar. 2013). She has contributed to the SIPRI Yearbook since 2004.

• Dr Elin Bjarnegård (Sweden) is Assistant Professor at the Uppsala University Department of Government and is a member of the core group of the East Asian Peace programme at the Uppsala University Department of Peace and Conflict Research. She has authored or co-authored a number of publications on issues related to gender and conflict, as well as to Thai politics. Her recent publications include Gender, Informal Institutions and Political Recruitment (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and ‘Revisiting representation: communism, women in politics, and the decline of armed conflict in East Asia’, International Interactions (forthcoming, co-author).

• Nenne Bodell (Sweden) is Director of the SIPRI Library and Documentation Department and of the SIPRI Arms Control and Disarmament Documentary Survey. She has contributed to the SIPRI Yearbook since 2003.

• Vincent Boulanin (France) has been a Visiting Research Fellow at SIPRI since 2008, working with the SIPRI Arms Production Project. He is a doctoral student at l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris, looking at the development of the European defence industry in the realm of security. His other interests include the development of military and security technologies and their impact on the practice of security professionals and the social construction of threats and risks. He has also conducted research and published on the Swedish defence industry and Swedish defence policy.

• Mark Bromley (United Kingdom) is a Senior Researcher with the SIPRI Arms Transfers Programme, where his work focuses on European arms exports and arms export controls, South American arms acquisitions and efforts to regulate the international arms trade. Previously, he was a policy analyst for the British American Security Information Council (BASIC). His recent publications include Transparency in Military Spending and Arms Acquisitions in Latin America and the Caribbean, SIPRI Policy Paper no. 31 (Jan. 2012, co-author), and ‘The review of the EU Common Position on arms exports: prospects for strengthened controls’, Non-proliferation Papers no. 7 (Jan. 2012). He has contributed to the SIPRI Yearbook since 2004.

• Professor Tilman Brück (Germany) is Director of SIPRI. He is a development economist with research interests in the interrelationship between peace, security and development (especially at the micro-level), the economics of post-war reconstruction, and the economics of terrorism and security policy. He also collects and analyses household-level surveys to study poverty and employment and how they relate to conflict. He is a co-founder and co-director of the Households in Conflict Network and a founding member of the Global Young Academy. He was previously a full professor of development economics at Humboldt-University of Berlin and a head of department at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW).

• Christina Buchhold (Germany) is a Research Assistant for the Director and the SIPRI Dual-use and Arms Trade Control Programme. Before joining SIPRI she was a Research Assistant at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and at a Ugandan non-governmental organization.

• Dr Peter Clevestig (Sweden) is Senior Researcher with the Chemical and Biological Security Project of the SIPRI Arms Control and Non-proliferation Programme. He specializes in safety and security of biological materials, biotechnology and related policies. He has authored several articles and book chapters on bioterrorism, security aspects of the life sciences and the threats posed by infectious diseases, as well as Handbook of Applied Biosecurity for Life Science Laboratories (2009). He has contributed to the SIPRI Yearbook since 2008

• Jane Dundon (Ireland) is an Associate Researcher with the SIPRI Armed Conflict and Conflict Management Programme. Prior to joining SIPRI she worked with Transparency International and has volunteered with Amnesty International for several years. Her research interests include peace operations, crisis management and international human rights law.

• Vitaly Fedchenko (Russia) is a Senior Researcher with the SIPRI Arms Control and Non-proliferation Programme, with responsibility for nuclear security issues and the political, technological and educational dimensions of nuclear arms control and non-proliferation. Previously, he was a visiting researcher at SIPRI and worked at the Center for Policy Studies in Russia and the Institute for Applied International Research in Moscow. His publications include Reforming Nuclear Export Controls: The Future of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, SIPRI Research Report no. 22 (2007, co-author). He has contributed to the SIPRI Yearbook since 2005.

• Dr Alexander Glaser (Germany) is Assistant Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. He is a participant in the university's Program on Science and Global Security and works with the International Panel on Fissile Materials, which publishes the annual Global Fissile Material Report. He works on nuclear energy and security policy with a focus on nuclear non-proliferation and arms control. He is co-editor of Science & Global Security. He has contributed to the SIPRI Yearbook since 2007.

• Lina Grip (Sweden) is a Researcher with the SIPRI Arms Control and Non-proliferation Programme and is SIPRI's coordinator for the EU Non-proliferation Consortium. She is also a doctoral candidate in political science at Helsinki University. Her research interests include regional and multilateral non-proliferation and arms control policies and processes, with a focus on the European Union. Her recent publications include ‘Assessing selected European Union external assistance and cooperation projects on WMD non-proliferation’, Non-proliferation Papers no. 6 (Dec. 2011) and ‘The role of the European Union in delivering Resolution 1540 implementation assistance’, Non-proliferation Paper No. 22 (Oct. 2012)

• John Hart (United States) is a Senior Researcher and Head of the Chemical and Biological Security Project of the SIPRI Arms Control and Non-proliferation Programme. He is a doctoral candidate in military sciences at the at the Finnish National Defence University. His recent publications include The Future of the Chemical Weapons Convention: Policy and Planning Aspects, SIPRI Policy Paper no. 35 (Apr. 2013, co-author). He has contributed to the SIPRI Yearbook since 1997.

• Dr Paul Holtom (United Kingdom) is Director of the SIPRI Arms Transfers Programme. Previously, he was a Research Fellow with the University of Glamorgan Centre for Border Studies. His research interests include the monitoring of international conventional arms transfers, promoting transparency in international arms transfers and initiatives to strengthen conventional arms transfer controls to prevent trafficking. His most recent publications include ‘The UN Arms Trade Treaty: arms export controls, the human security agenda and the lessons of history’, International Affairs (2012, co-author). He has contributed to the SIPRI Yearbook since 2007.

• Dr Susan T. Jackson (United States) was Head of the SIPRI Arms Production Project until May 2013. She is currently Assistant Professor of International Relations at Malmö University. Her work focuses on the links between militarization and globalization and she has published on the national security exception and the marketing of militarism. She has contributed to the SIPRI Yearbook since 2010.

• Shannon N. Kile (United States) is a Senior Researcher and Head of the Nuclear Weapons Project of the SIPRI Arms Control and Non-proliferation Programme. His principal areas of research are nuclear arms control and non-proliferation, with a special interest in Iran and regional security issues. His publications include Europe and Iran: Perspectives on Non-proliferation, SIPRI Research Report no. 21 (2005, editor), and Verifying a Fissile Materials Cut-off Treaty: Technical and Organizational Considerations, SIPRI Policy Paper no. 33 (2012). He has contributed to the SIPRI Yearbook since 1993.

• Hans M. Kristensen (Denmark) is Director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists (FAS). He is a frequent consultant to the news media and institutes on nuclear weapon matters and is co-author of the ‘Nuclear notebook’ column in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. His recent publications include Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons (FAS, 2012), Trimming Nuclear Excess: Options for Further Reductions of U.S. and Russian Nuclear Forces (FAS, 2012), and Reducing Alert Rates of Nuclear Weapons (UNIDIR, 2012, co-author). He has contributed to the SIPRI Yearbook since 2001.

• Dr Jaïr van der Lijn (Netherlands) is a Senior Researcher with the SIPRI Armed Conflict and Conflict Management Programme, where he leads research on peacekeeping, peacebuilding and conflict management. Previously he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael’ and an Assistant Professor at Radboud University Nijmegen. His research interests include the future of peace operations, evaluation and factors for success and failure of peace operations, and comprehensive approaches in missions. His most recent publications include ‘Afghanistan post-2014: groping in the dark?’ (Clingendael, May 2013) and ‘The future of peace operations’, (Clingendael, Jan. 2013).

• Professor Erik Melander (Sweden) is a professor at the Uppsala University Department of Peace and Conflict Research. He is the Deputy Program Leader of the East Asian Peace programme and Deputy Director of the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP). His research interests include patterns of armed conflict, gender and war, geographic aspects of ethnic conflict, and prevention of genocide.

• Dr Neil Melvin (United Kingdom) is Director of the SIPRI Armed Conflict and Conflict Management Programme. Prior to joining SIPRI he held senior adviser positions in the Energy Charter Secretariat and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). He has worked at a variety of leading policy institutes in Europe and published widely on issues of conflict. His recent publications include ‘Don't oversell “overspill”: Afghanistan and emerging conflicts in Central Asia’, Central Asia Policy Brief no. 6 (Elliott School of International Affairs, Dec. 2012). He contributed to the SIPRI Yearbook in 2006–2007 and 2011–2012.

• Zia Mian (Pakistan/United Kingdom) is a physicist with Princeton University's Program on Science and Global Security, where he directs the Project on Peace and Security in South Asia. He is co-deputy chair of the International Panel on Fissile Materials and co-editor of Science & Global Security. His work focuses on nuclear weapons, arms control and disarmament, and nuclear energy issues in India and Pakistan. He contributed to the SIPRI Yearbook in 2003 and since 2007.

• Tamara Patton (United States) is a Researcher with the SIPRI Arms Control and Non-proliferation Programme. Her research interests include non-proliferation and disarmament issues related to both nuclear and conventional weapons, with a particular focus on technologies for transparency and verification. Her recent publications include A New START Model for Transparency in Nuclear Disarmament (UNIDIR, 2013, co-author), and ‘Using 3D modeling for verification design’, Trust & Verify (Apr.–June 2012).

• Dr Sam Perlo-Freeman (United Kingdom) is Director of the SIPRI Military Expenditure and Arms Production Programme. Previously, he was a Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England, working on defence and peace economics. His recent publications include ‘Military expenditure and the global culture of militarism’ in The Marketing of War in the Age of Neo-Militarism (Routledge, 2012) and ‘Budgetary priorities in Latin America: military, health and education spending’, SIPRI Insights on Peace and Security no. 2011/2 (Dec. 2011). He has contributed to the SIPRI Yearbook since 2003.

• Susanne Schaftenaar (Netherlands) is a Research Assistant with the East Asian Peace programme at the Uppsala University Department of Peace and Conflict Research. Her main research interests are unarmed insurrections and post-war democratization.

• Phillip Schell (Germany) is a Researcher with the SIPRI Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Programme. His research focuses on security issues related to the arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, with a regional specialization on East Asia and South Asia. His recent publications include A New START Model for Transparency in Nuclear Disarmament (UNIDIR, 2013, co-author). He has contributed to the SIPRI Yearbook since 2012

• Dr Elisabeth Sköns (Sweden) is Head of the SIPRI Africa Security and Governance Project. Her recent publications include ‘The private military services industry’, SIPRI Insights on Peace and Security no. 2008/1 (Sep. 2008, co-author), ‘The economics of arms production’ in Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict (Elsevier, 2008, co-author), ‘The military-industrial complex’ in The Global Arms Trade (Routledge, 2010, co-author) and ‘The US defence industry after the cold war’ in The Global Arms Trade (Routledge 2010). She has contributed to the SIPRI Yearbook since 1983.

• Dr Margareta Sollenberg (Sweden) is a Researcher with the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) and an Assistant Professor at the Uppsala University Department of Peace and Conflict Research. She worked as a Project Leader at UCDP in 1994–2003 and has co-authored a number of articles and book chapters on armed conflicts. She contributed to the SIPRI Yearbook in 1995–2003.

• Carina Solmirano (Argentina) is a Senior Researcher with the SIPRI Military Expenditure and Arms Production Programme, responsible for monitoring military expenditure in Latin America, the Middle East and South Asia. Previously, she worked at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, Colorado. Her recent publications include Transparency in Military Spending and Arms Acquisitions in Latin America and the Caribbean, SIPRI Policy Paper no. 31 (Jan. 2012, co-author) and ‘The politics of military spending and arms acquisitions in Latin America’, Export Vooruzheny (July/Aug. 2012). She has contributed to the SIPRI Yearbook since 2010.

• Isak Svensson (Sweden) is Associate Professor at the Uppsala University Department of Peace and Conflict Research. He was previously Director of Research at the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago. His areas of expertise are international mediation in civil wars and religious aspects of conflict-resolution processes. His most recent books are The Go-between: Ambassador Jan Eliasson and the Styles of International Mediation, (USIP Press, 2010, co-author), and Ending Holy Wars: Religion and Conflict Resolution in Civil Wars (University of Queensland Press, 2012).

• Lotta Themnér (Sweden) is a Research Coordinator with the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) at the Uppsala University Department of Peace and Conflict Research. She has edited nine editions of the UCDP's States in Armed Conflict and has co-authored a number of articles and book chapters on armed conflicts. She has contributed to the SIPRI Yearbook since 2005.

• Dr Stein Tønnesson (Norway) is a Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and Adjunct Professor at Uppsala University, where he leads the East Asian Peace programme. His publications are mainly about nationalism and nation building, the history of war and revolution in Indochina, and the disputes in the South China Sea.

• Dr Andrea Viski (Hungary) is a researcher with the SIPRI Non-proliferation and Arms Control Programme and the SIPRI Dual-use and Arms Trade Control Programme. She is the author of several publications on export controls, international nuclear law, trade control regimes and other areas, including ‘The Missile Technology Control Regime 25 years on’, World Export Controls Review (June 2012), and ‘International law and nuclear export controls’, International Journal of Nuclear Law (2011).

• Professor Peter Wallensteen (Sweden) has been Senior Professor of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University since 2012 and Richard G. Starmann Senior Research Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame since 2006. He held the Dag Hammarskjöld Chair of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University in 1985–2012. He directs the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) and the Special Program on International Targeted Sanctions (SPITS). His publications include Understanding Conflict Resolution: War, Peace and the Global System (Sage, 3rd edn, 2012) and Peace Research: Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2011). He has contributed to the SIPRI Yearbook since 1988.

• Pieter D. Wezeman (Netherlands) is a Senior Researcher with the SIPRI Arms Transfers Programme. Prior to rejoining SIPRI in 2006 he was a Senior Analyst for the Dutch Ministry of Defence in the field of proliferation of conventional and nuclear weapon technology. His recent publications include Arms Flows to Sub-Saharan Africa, SIPRI Policy Paper no. 30 (Dec. 2011, co-author). He has contributed to the SIPRI Yearbook since 1995.

• Siemon T. Wezeman (Netherlands) is a Senior Fellow with the SIPRI Arms Transfers Programme. His areas of research include the monitoring of arms transfers, with a particular focus on the Asia–Pacific region and North America, the use of weapons in conflicts, and transparency in arms transfers. His recent publications include Arms Flows to Sub-Saharan Africa, SIPRI Policy Paper no. 30 (Dec. 2011, co-author). He has contributed to the SIPRI Yearbook since 1993.

• Helén Wilandh (Sweden) was a Research Assistant with the SIPRI Military Expenditure and Arms Production Programme and worked on the SIPRI Project on Security, Democratization and Good Governance in Africa. Her main research interest is African security issues.