Vladimir Bilcik
Research fellow, Slovak Foreign Policy Association (SFPA)
Vladimir Bilcik heads the European Studies Program in the Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (RC SFPA) and lectures on European integration and IR theory in the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Philosophy at Comenius University in Bratislava. His research interests include the role of post-communist member states in the EU, EU relations with eastern neighbours and EU foreign policy. He co-authored (with Zuzana Lisonova & Peter Dobis) New Member States and EU Foreign Policy. From Outsiders to Visible Voices (Comenius University Press, 2009), has published in various journals such as Osteuropa, Slovak Foreign Policy Affairs, Dějiny a současnost and regularly contributes to Yearbook of Foreign Policy of the Slovak Republic. He studied at Swarthmore College (B.A.), University of Oxford (M.Phil.) and Comenius University (PhD.)
Vladimir Bilcik heads the European Studies Program in the Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (RC SFPA) and lectures on European integration and IR theory in the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Philosophy at Comenius University in Bratislava. His research interests include the role of post-communist member states in the EU, EU relations with eastern neighbours and EU foreign policy. He co-authored (with Zuzana Lisonova & Peter Dobis) New Member States and EU Foreign Policy. From Outsiders to Visible Voices (Comenius University Press, 2009), has published in various journals such as Osteuropa, Slovak Foreign Policy Affairs, Dějiny a současnost and regularly contributes to Yearbook of Foreign Policy of the Slovak Republic. He studied at Swarthmore College (B.A.), University of Oxford (M.Phil.) and Comenius University (PhD.)
Duncan Depledge
Research Analyst, Climate Change and Security Programme, Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, London
Duncan Depledge is a Research Analyst working on the Climate Change and Security Programme at the Royal United Services Institute, London. He holds an M.Phil in Geographical Research from the University of Cambridge, as well as an MA in Political Theory and a BA (Hons) in History from the University of Sheffield. His postgraduate research explored the remarkable changes that have occurred in UK security discourses since 1997 in response to the growing prevalence of climate change and other environmental issues. Duncan's latest research at RUSI focuses on the implications of climate change for UK national and international security, and he has contributed to recent RUSI studies on climate change implications for global governance, and climate-related security impacts in Mesoamerica and China.
Milan Lapin
Head of the Division of Meteorology and Climatology, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava
Professor Lapin has been Senior Scientist in Meteorology and Climatology and Professor in Physics of the Comenius University in Bratislava. Between 1971 and 1996 he was employed with the Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute. Since 1996 he has been lecturing Meteorology and Climatology at the Comenius University, focusing on physical basis of the Earth climate system and climate change theory. In 1993 – 2001 he was active as the President of the Slovak National Climate Program. He published more than 200 papers and there are more than 180 ISI quotations of his works in the WOS database. He collaborated with the IPCC at reviewing of the TAR (2001) and AR4 (2007) reports.
Research Analyst, Climate Change and Security Programme, Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, London
Duncan Depledge is a Research Analyst working on the Climate Change and Security Programme at the Royal United Services Institute, London. He holds an M.Phil in Geographical Research from the University of Cambridge, as well as an MA in Political Theory and a BA (Hons) in History from the University of Sheffield. His postgraduate research explored the remarkable changes that have occurred in UK security discourses since 1997 in response to the growing prevalence of climate change and other environmental issues. Duncan's latest research at RUSI focuses on the implications of climate change for UK national and international security, and he has contributed to recent RUSI studies on climate change implications for global governance, and climate-related security impacts in Mesoamerica and China.
Milan LapinHead of the Division of Meteorology and Climatology, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava
Professor Lapin has been Senior Scientist in Meteorology and Climatology and Professor in Physics of the Comenius University in Bratislava. Between 1971 and 1996 he was employed with the Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute. Since 1996 he has been lecturing Meteorology and Climatology at the Comenius University, focusing on physical basis of the Earth climate system and climate change theory. In 1993 – 2001 he was active as the President of the Slovak National Climate Program. He published more than 200 papers and there are more than 180 ISI quotations of his works in the WOS database. He collaborated with the IPCC at reviewing of the TAR (2001) and AR4 (2007) reports.
