Participants and Biographies

James Wyllie (UK) is Reader in International Relations and director of the postgraduate Strategic Studies program at the University of Aberdeen. He was previously a Research Officer in the Ministry of Defense, Tutor in Politics at Durham University, and Lecturer at the University of East Anglia before joining the Department of Politics and International Relations at Aberdeen as a lecturer in 1979. In 1988, he was a Commonwealth Research Fellow in Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary. His research interests are in Middle East security, European security, and strategic theory. From 1989 until 1993 James Wyllie was also international affairs analyst for Grampian Television News and Current Affairs Department. In addition, he was specialist correspondent (Middle East) for the monthly Jane’s Intelligence Review between 1992 and 1997, during which he published over 40 articles on Middle East security issues. He makes frequent contributions to BBC and independent radio current affairs and news programs. Since 1997 he has been a senior academic member of the RAF Higher Level Defense Studies Selection Board, and between 2001and 2004 he was a member of the UK Council of Military Education Committees. For over twenty five years he has delivered presentations to a variety of academic, military and political audiences in the UK, Europe and elsewhere. Recently he has given presentations at the RMA Sandhurst, the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, the Emirates Centre for Strategic Studies, the Royal College of Defense Studies, and the EUFOR Peace Support Operations Training Centre, Sarajevo. He has an extensive network of contacts in the British armed forces and in the foreign and defense policy-making communities, and is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Royal United Services Institute for Defense Studies.

Yury Yudin (Russia, UN) graduated from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute in 1988 as a nuclear physicist. He was a Research Associate at RFNC-VNIIEF – the Russian Federal Nuclear Center – All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics. Since mid-1990s he has been engaged in research activities in the field of nonproliferation and arms control. In 1999, he became a Director of a newly established Russian non-governmental organization – Analytical Center for Non-proliferation. The center was established to facilitate arms control and nonproliferation research carried out by the former Russian nuclear-weapons scientists. Currently Yury Yudin is a Senior Researcher at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) and manager of the Multinational Approaches to the Nuclear Fuel Cycle project. He holds a PhD in nuclear engineering. He has special expertise in nuclear engineering, nuclear non-proliferation, and nuclear disarmament.

Sudan Delegation is represented by two members of the Sudanese Ministry of Energy. Rifa’at Kubashi Babker affiliated with Sudanese Atomic Energy Agency Taj Al-Deen Al-Shareef legal consultant at the Ministry of Energy

National Emergency and Crises Management Authority of the UAE is represented by two of its members.

Jordan University Delegation represented by:
Dr. Maher Dabbas
Dr. Ziyad Hawamdeh
Dr. Abbas Rifaei
Dr. Abdul Latif Shareef
Dr. Mohamad Tahat
Eng. Ibrahim Louzi

China Delegation is represented by three members from China’s National Nuclear Corporation

Higher Council for Science and Technology of Jordan consist of:
Dr. Riad Al-Baitar
Dr. Laila Abu Hassan