Participants and Biographies

Francesco Lo Mancino (Italy, NATO) attended the Military Academy in Modena during the period 1974-1976. He was promoted to Lieutenant in the Engineer Corps, and attended the Officer School in Turin during the period 1976-1978. He served as platoon leader, Company Commander and S3 at 184th Engineer Battalion in Villa Vicentina (Udine) during the period Participants Biographies 72 1978-1988. Col. Lo Mancino commanded the 132nd Engineer Battalion in Motta di Livenza (Treviso) in 1996 and 21st Combat Enginneer Regiment (assigned to the “Garibaldi” Brigade) in Caserta during the period 2000-2001. He attended the 113th Junior Staff College, 113th Advanced Staff College and 111th Senior Course at the NATO Defense College. Especially noteworthy among the courses attended abroad is the “Civil Affairs” course at the US Special Warfare School. During his career he has also served as UN Military observer in Iran, Staff Officer at the Army Staff Infrastructure Department in 1991 as well as other leading positions. He has been the Chief Engineer at NRDC-IT in Solbiate Olona (VARESE) from December 2001 to August 2007. During the same period he also covered the following operational appointments: KFOR JOC Chief in Pristina (Kosovo), from December 2003 to March 2004, and IFOR VIII Chief Engineer in Kabul, Afghanistan, from July 2005 to December 2005. Since 1 March 2008, he is serving as Senior Special Advisor to the Commandant for NATO Operations at the NATO School. Col. Francesco Lo Mancino has a degree in “Strategic Science” at the Turin University and a degree in “International and Diplomatic Science” at the Trieste University. He has also a master in “Strategic Science” at the Turin University.

Kenneth N. Luongo (US) currently the President and Founder of Partnership for Global Security (PGS). Before founding PGS, Mr. Luongo served as the Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Energy for Nonproliferation Policy and the Director of the Office of Arms Control and Nonproliferation at the U.S. Department of Energy. Mr. Luongo also served as the Director of the Department of Energy’s North Korea Task Force and as Director of the Russia and Newly Independent States Nuclear Material Security Task Force. Prior to joining the Department of Energy, Mr. Luongo served as a professional staff member in several offices of the U.S. Congress, including the House and Senate Armed Services Committees. In addition, Mr. Luongo acted as the Senior Washington Representative for Arms Control and International Security with the Union of Concerned Scientists, served as the Senior Program Associate with the Program on Science, Arms Control, and National Security of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and held appointments as a Senior Visiting Fellow and as a Visiting Research Collaborator with Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security.

Grégoire Mallard (France) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University. Born and raised in Paris, he graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, after which he obtained a Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University, and completed post-doctoral work at McGill University. Grégoire is completing a book manuscript on the history of international treaty making practices in the nuclear field. His book focuses on the writing of treaties between the US and Europe, from the Second World War and up to the ratification of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty by West European nations in the mid- 1970s. He co-edited Global Science and National Sovereignty: Studies in Historical Sociology of Science (Routledge, 2008), and published articles in various topics in the historical sociology of science, ranging from the history of the Euratom Treaty negotiations to the analysis of rules of fairness in the organization of peer evaluation. His articles appeared in the American Sociological Review, Critique Internationale, the Nonproliferation Review, Research Evaluation and Sociologie du Travail.

Maurizio Martellini (Italy) is Secretary General of the Landau Network-Centro Volta, Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Insubria (Como, Italy) and Member of the Pugwash General Conferences. He published in the fields of fundamental physics on specialized journals and authored about a hundred articles on national and international geopolitical and international affairs. He is member of the Scientific Council of Limes – The Italian Review of Geopolitics. As Secretary General of LNCV, Prof. Martellini organized International Conferences, Schools and Workshops and edited publications as well as specific Case Studies. His fields of Research and Analysis are: methods in theoretical and nuclear physics; global issues concerning energy efficiency, military conversion (dualuse technologies), management and disposal of radioactive waste; scientific and technological aspects 73 concerning international security, NBCR disarmament, arms control and non-proliferation issues; internationalization of Science and Technology as a tool of multilateral cooperative diplomacy

Michael D. McCormack (US) obtained his B.Sc. with honors from the Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University, 2009. He joined Team Iran-Cornell in 2008. Worked with Urban Planning/Architecture firms and Community Non-Governmental Organizations in New Orleans, New Jersey, Rome and Abu Dhabi. Worked in New Orleans to create a post- Katrina disaster recovery plan based on a participatory community driven process. Michael worked in Rome on inter-community relations in a gentrifying environment and speaks Italian.

Bjørn Midthun (Norway) is affiliated to the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He currently serve as an Assistant Director General in the Section for Disarmament, Nonproliferation and Export Control can participate.

Steven E. Miller (US) has spent 25 years at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He currently serves as Director of the International Security Program, Editorin- Chief of the scholarly journal, International Security, and also co-editor of the International Security Program’s book series, BCSIA Studies in International Security (which is published by The MIT Press). Previously, he was Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and taught Defense and Arms Control Studies in the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Miller is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, where he has long been a member of the Committee on International Security Studies (CISS). He is among the leaders of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, an international scholarly association based in Rome. He is cochair of the U.S. Pugwash Committee, a member of the Council of International Pugwash, and Chair of the Executive Committee of International Pugwash. Miller was among those present in Oslo, Norway when Pugwash was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995 for its work promoting dialogue and arms control during the Cold War. He is also a member of the Advisory Committee of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), a member of the Scientific Committee of the Landau Network Centro Volta (Como, Italy), and formerly a member of the Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London). Miller has written extensively on nuclear weapons issues, US security policy, and US foreign policy. He has coauthored several books, edited or co-editor of more than two dozen books.

George N. Nahas (Lebanon) currently serves as Vice President of the University of Balamand, Dean of the university’s Saint John of Damascus Institute of Theology, and also a faculty member. His academic research focuses on cognitive psychology in the field of conceptualization and the development of the conceptual fields’ theory. A member of several professional societies, including the Lebanese Association of Educational Sciences, the Curriculum Evaluation Forum, and the National Committee of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education; Dr. Nahas is a scholar and professional in his field. For eighteen years he has served as Director of the Collège Notre Dame du Balamand. He also spent nine years as a faculty member of St. Joseph University and four years as a faculty member of Lebanese University. Dr. Nahas holds a B.A. in Teaching Mathematics from the Lebanese University, a D.E.A. (French specialized diploma) in Mathematical Topology from the University of Paris, and a Ph.D. in the Science of Education from the University of René Descartes.

Mahmoud Nasr-Eddin (Leabnon, LAS) is the scientific adviser to the Secretary General of the League of Arab States (Mr. Amr Moussa) on Scientific. He worked between 1967 and 1974 as Scientific Researcher (CEA-CENG) and taught at the faculty of Sciences of Grenoble University (France). In 1974, He obtained, doctorat d’état (es sciences physiques) from the same Participants Biographies 74 University. In 1974 he joined the Faculty of Sciences of the Lebanese University in Beirut. In 1981 he was nominated as Head of physics department and in 1983 as Director of the Faculty of Sciences and Chairman of the Board of the Institute of Applied Sciences. In 1985 he was nominated as Dean of Public Health faculty. In 1993 he left the university and was nominated as Director of the Energy Division. National Council for Scientific Research-Lebanon. In 1996 he founded the Lebanese Atomic Energy Commission (LAEC) and was the director till 2001. Between 1996 and 2001 he represented Lebanon in the General conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and was responsible of all cooperation projects between the IAEA and Lebanon. Between 1996 and 2001 he represented Lebanon in the board and in the General conference of the Arab Atomic Energy Agency (AAEA). He was the coordinator of the cooperation between the AAEA and Lebanon. In 2001 he was elected as Director General of the Arab Atomic Energy Agency.

Alexander I. Nikitin (Russia) is the director of the Center for Euro-Atlantic Security (since 2004) and a Professor of the Political Sciences Department in Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University). The center specializes in research in the spheres of international security and international relations. He is also the director of the Center for Political and International Studies, honorable President of the Russian Political Science Association (RPSA) and Chairman of the RPSA International Cooperation Council in Moscow. He graduated from the Department of Philosophy of Moscow State University in 1979. He obtained his Ph.D. (History of International Relations) in 1983 from the USA and Canada Studies Institute of the Academy of Sciences. Second dissertation (Doctor of Sciences in International Relations) in 2000. Alexander conducted research work for 10 years (1979-1989) in the USA and Canada Studies Institute (Senior Research Fellow, Section Head). He did training in the Soviet Permanent Mission to the United Nations (New York, USA, 1985). Since 1989 till now Dr. Nikitin teaches in the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (since 1996 till now – Professor of the Department of Political Sciences). Since 1989 till present time – Director of the Center for Political and International Studies – non-governmental research institution involved in analytical work, publishing, organization of conferences and research projects. In 1996, he obtained an International Research Fellowship in the NATO Defense College (NDC) in Rome. A guest lecturer in the University of Iowa (USA), NDC (Rome), Geneva Center for Security Policy (GCSP). Prof. Nikittin is a distinguished member in a number of national, regional and international academies and councils. He is author of three monographs, chief editor and principal author of 8 collective monographs and author of more than 100 articles and chapters in academic periodicals, journals and books published in Russian, English, French, Korean, Punjab, Spanish, German languages.