Ian Anthony
Research Director, Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Programme, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Stockholm

Ian Anthony is the Research Coordinator at SIPRI and the Director of the SIPRI Programme on Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-proliferation. He has published numerous books on issues related to arms control, disarmament and export control. Recent publications include ‘Reforming Nuclear Export Controls: The Future of the Nuclear Suppliers Group’. He was the project Leader, for the European Arms Export Control Project, 1998 – 2003.

Guy Roberts
Deputy Assistant Secretary General for WMD Policy; Director, Nuclear Policy Planning Directorate, NATO Headquarters, Brussels

Guy B. Roberts is the Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Weapons of Mass Destruction Policy and Director, Nuclear Policy Planning Directorate for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). In that capacity he is responsible for developing policy on issues related to combating the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and overseeing NATO’s nuclear deterrence posture. Previously, Mr. Roberts was Principal Director for Negotiations Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defence responsible for advising senior Defence Department officials on the entire range of United States arms control and non-proliferation policies. He was also responsible for implementing policy guidance and DoD positions for current and emerging proliferation issues in multilateral arms control and disarmament fora.

Ralf Roloff
Senior German Professor, George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Dr. Ralf Roloff is senior German professor in the Marshall Center's College of International and Security Studies.  He is also in charge of accreditation for the college.  Dr. Roloff served as acting Deputy Dean briefly in 2008. He served as Deputy Course Director for academics in the Senior Executive Seminar and in the Program on Advanced Security Studies (PASS). He has taught at the Marshall Center since 2003. Dr. Roloff's experience is in international relations, international security and international political economy, European integration, and German foreign and security policy. Prior to the Marshall Center, Dr. Roloff was acting professor of international and European politics, University of the German Armed Forces, Hamburg from 2000 – 2003. From 1999 – 2000, he was acting professor of international politics at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz. He was assistant professor and executive officer at the Research Institute for Political Science and European Affairs at the University of Cologne from 1994 – 1999, and lecturer and assistant to the director of the department of political science, University of Trier from 1991 – 1993.

Harry L. Heintzelman
Deputy Director, Office of Euro-Atlantic Security Affairs, Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.

Mr. Heintzelman oversees the newly created section of ESA tasked with enhancing security relations and related dialogue with NATO and the EU.  Formerly, he was a member of the Office of Strategic Issues where he served as the Department’s working-level representative to the Department of Defense’s Nuclear Posture Review.  He was detailed to the Verification, Compliance, and Implementation Bureau’s front office from 2004 to February 2009 to assist in addressing high priority issues.  From June 2006 – January 2007, he served as the Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of that Bureau.  Among other duties, he has chaired the Korean Technical Working Group, an interagency verification and elimination working group established by the NSC to support the complete, irreversible, and verifiable elimination of the DPRK’s nuclear and nuclear weapons programs.  In the past, he developed and directed implementation of the U.S. strategy to assist in Libya’s elimination of its WMD programs and MTCR-class missile systems and co-chaired the team that developed and directed the implementation of “Project Sapphire” – the removal of weapons-grade uranium from Kazakhstan to the United States for safe keeping.