Participants and Biographies
"Confronting Biological Threats:
Biosecurity, Biological Weapons Nonproliferation, and Regional Cooperative Mechanisms”
Amman, Jordan
October 27 - 29, 2008
 

Mohammad Gwied Irtaimah Abbadi Is an International Communications Staff Officer for the Jordan Armed Forces (JAF) International Affairs Directorate. He handles all correspondence regarding international conferences and seminars while coordinating with embassies located in Amman regarding their country’s affiliates in JAF training centers. His previous assignments include the post of Public Relations Officer of the Military Branch of Mu’tah University, His Royal Highness Prince Feisal’s Ibn Al-Hussein Royal Jordanian Air Force (RJAF) Commander Secretary, Protocol and Public Relations Officer, Abroad Course Officer, and Commander Assistant for Administration for the RJAF. Mr. Abbadi has completed the Information Exchange Course at NATO Headquarters in Belgium, the Advanced Military Training Course at the Senior Staff Officers School in the United Kingdom, and the Activity Manager Course at Lakeland Air Force Base in the USA. He has also completed numerous local training courses and attended multiple international seminars and conferences.

Mr. Abbadi obtained a Bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature along with a Diploma in Military Science from the Military Branch of Mu’tah University in 1992. He went on to complete a Master’s degree program in 2006 at Mu’tah University’s Civilian Branch, graduating with a degree in English Language Methodology.

Mr. Abbadi has received the Long Loyal Service Medal from the RJAF, along with the Proficiency and Administrative Leadership Insignia.

Dr Mustafa Alani is the Senior Advisor and Director of the Security and Terrorism Studies Department at the Gulf Research Center (GRC) in Dubai. Before assuming his position at the GRC, Dr. Alani worked as a Senior Consultant on Middle East Security at the Middle East Security Program, The Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI), Whitehall, London.

Dr. Alani was educated at the Department of Politics, University of Baghdad and later at the Department of International Relations at Keele University. He received his doctorate from the University of Exeter.

He is a frequent lecturer in his fields of interest on political and security developments in the Middle East region in general, with special focus on the security issues and political developments affecting the Gulf states (the GCC, Iraq, Iran and Yemen.) He contributes frequently to the international news agencies and leading newspapers in English and Arabic. His most recent contribution was an important article on NATO- Middle East relations published in the "NATO Review" December Issue. Dr Alani is the author of several books and essays on security and defense:

Rashed Khalifah Al-Boflasah is a Lieutenant Colonel in the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces. Before assuming the position of Head of the Director General’s Office in 2003, he held various positions including lecturer in civil defense sciences at the Dubai Police Academy from 2000 to 2003, aviation safety technical officer, head of the training unit, and a member of the committee for aviation disasters at the Dubai International Airport.

Lt. Col. Al-Boflasah holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law, a Diploma in Preventing Aviation Accidents, and a Diploma in Firefighting. He is also a certified lecturer and CPR technician.

Omar Al-Dwairi works in the International Contact and Arms Control Branch of the Jordan Air Force (JAF) General Headquarters. His previous positions include instructing TEFL and ALC at the Language Institute, Test Control Officer, translator with the United Nations Protection Force in Croatia, Staff Officer and International Contact in the JAF General Headquarters, and military observer of the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Col. Al-Dwairi has participated in several conferences related to arms control in Geneva as well as attended numerous activities related to the NATO Mediterranean Dialogue Process.

Mr. Al-Dwairi received a Bachelor’s degree in English from Yarmouk University in Irbid, Jordan in 1985. He has also completed courses in English Language Proficiency in the USA.

Haneen Al-Halawani is the Hospital Quality Improvement Task Manager for the Health System Strengthening (HSS) in Amman, Jordan. Her duties include facilitating the establishment, supervision of Hospital Safe Motherhood Committees (HSMCs) in target hospitals. She also assists the Safe Motherhood Team Leader with the design, implementation and management of all inventions related to improving the quality of safe motherhood services at Ministry of Health and Royal Medical Services hospitals.

Before joining the HSS in 2007, MS. Al-Halawani worked with Partners for Health Reform Plus (PHRplus) and various pharmaceutical companies including a self-owned pharmacy.

MS. Al-Halawani obtained a BS in Pharmacy with honors from Jordan University of Science and Technology in 1991, followed by a MS in International Health Policy and Management from Brandeis University in Boston, Massachusetts in 2005.

Qasem faour Qasem Al-Hindawi has worked in the areas of nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) support and training for many years. He has maintained the posts of executive officer with the NBC Support Unity in the Jordan Armed Forces (JAF), Assessment and Evaluation Officer at the Royal Engineering Corps, NBC Technical Staff Officer with the NBC Support Unit, NBC Safety and Training Officer at the Royal Engineering School, Platoon Leader, Company Deputy Commander, Company Commander with the NBC Support Unit. Mr. Al-Hindawi deals mainly with training, field exercises, and familiarization with NBC specialists and within military units. His international involvement includes a one-year assignment to the UN Peace Keeping Force Mission in Sudan.

Mr. Al-Hindawi obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Jordan in 1991. He has also completed multiple Tactical and NBC courses in Jordan, the USA, and Europe.

Nisreen Al-Hmoud is a researcher and h Head of the Microbiology Unit (MU) at the Royal Scientific Society (RSS) in Amman. She also heads the Water Quality Studies Division (WQSD) at Environmental Research Center (ERC) also at the Jordanian Royal Scientific Society (RSS).

Abdulrazaq Al-Huthaili is affliated to the Ministry of Health in Tunisia. He heads toxicology laboratories at the medical emergency center in Tunis.

Rashed Al-Matroshi assumed the position of Director General of Civil Defense in Dubai in 2003. He is a Major General in the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces. Gen. Al-Matroshi has held various administrative and field positions, most recently working with the Dubai Police Headquarters as the Head of the Rescue Directorate.

Gen. Al-Matroshi prefers engaging in fieldwork to bureaucracy, and holds many skills related to being the director of the civil defense department in Dubai. He uses sophisticated programs and possesses advanced leadership skills. He is qualified in driving any type of vehicle, specifically rescue and support vehicles. Gen. Al-Matroshi believes that effective leadership is based on communal planning, execution, evaluation, and development.

Gen. Al-Matroshi holds a degree from the Geography Department at Emirates University in the UAE.

Muflih Ayed Al-Mutairi is a Lieutenant Colonel at Kuwait National Guards. He obtained a BA in military science for Mutah University and a diploma from Ali Subah Al-Salim Military College. He currently serve as the head of human resources department at National Guards and the scientific qualification department. LTC Mutairi is married with 5 kids.

Ali Hasan Al-Mutwa is a Major in the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces. He is currently the Head of the Operations Directorate. Before assuming the directorship of the Operations Directorate, Major Al-Mutwa was an officer in the explosives department, an area officer, and the director of the civil defense center. Major Al-Mutwa holds a license in Law.

Amjad Abdallah Ali Al-Qudah is a Major with the Special Operations Brigade in the King Hussein Brigade, Jordan. He is a battalion commander in the Special Operations Battalion, with experiences in prison and border security, and police training.

Major Al-Qudah holds a Bachelor’s Degree and has participated in many police courses including anti-rioting, street fighting, police operation tactics, and marksmanship.

Dr. Oraib Hisham Al-Smadi has been a Primary Health Care Task Manager for the Jordan Health Systems Strengthening Project in Amman, Jordan since June 2005, and in January 2007 became the Senior Task Manager. Her duties include managing activities related to improving the quality of primary health care services within the Ministry of Health, along with collaborating with the Clinical Training Task Manager in the development and implementation of the primary health care training plan. Before joining the Jordan Health Systems Strengthening Project, Dr. Al-Smadi was the Director of Abu-Nussier Comprehensive & Training Medical Center. She has worked in numerous hospitals during his career, and currently serves as a specialist in Family Medicine for the Ministry of Health in Jordan.

Dr. Al-Smadi obtained a B.SC. in Medicine from Jordan University in 1986 and completed the Jordanian Medical Council with a major in Family Planning in 1997.

Dr. Mohammed Mahmoud Al-Turk is the Director of Disaster Management within the Jordanian Ministry of Health and also serves with disaster management team with the World Health Organization. Prior to accepting his current positions, he was the Director of Occupational Health for the Jordanian Ministry of Health, had also been employed as Director of Health in many governorates of Amman and Madaba, and has lent his expertise as an occupational health consultant.

Dr. Al-Turk received his B.Sc. in Medicine from Istanbul, Turkey, his M.Sc. in Occupational Health from London, UK, and joined the Jordan Board of Community Medicine in 1987. He has authored papers on numerous topics, including the impact of industrial hazards on the health of workers in Jordan, occupational noise-induced deafness in textile industries in Zarqa, and most recently, the level of preparedness of the Jordanian Ministry of Health for effectively responding to health-related disasters.

Col. Naser Al-Zubi assumed the position of Director of International Affairs at Jordan Armed Forces (JAF) Headquarters (HQ) in 2007. Prior to this, he was the chief of the International Communication Branch in the JAF HQ. He began his career in 1984 when he was commissioned as an Intelligence second lieutenant, and then in 1986, he was promoted to first lieutenant.

Col. Al-Zubi’s prior experiences are many. He was assigned as chief of the translation and research section in the military intelligence school, senior officer within the military intelligence directorate, commandant of supplies and research wing, commandant of the military intelligence wing, commandant of psychological operations in the military intelligence school, chief of the military liaison branch with Israel and the Palestinian National Authority, and chief of the international communication branch. Dr. Al-Zubi was assigned to work as a UN liaison officer and security officer in UN peacekeeping forces headquarters for Jordanian forces in the former Yugoslavia from 1993-1994. He is considered the national focal point of contact in Jordan with international organizations concerned in small arms and light weapons control. He is also the Point of Contact (PC) between the Jordan Armed Forces and the Centre of Humanitarian Dialogue in Geneva. From 2005 on he has maintained a position as a Member of the National Committee for Fighting Terrorism, and in 2006 he was promoted to a Colonel.

In 1984, Col. Al-Zubi was awarded with a diploma of military science from the Royal Military Academy where he graduated with high honors. Followed by a high diploma in Human Studies in 1985. Col. Al-Zubi obtained a Bachelor’s degree in English literature and old drama in 1994, along with a Masters degree in English Legal Translation in 2000, both from Yarmouk University. His later studies include obtaining a diploma in Strategic studies at the United States Defense College, Washington D.C., in 2002, and an academic degree in strategic and regional studies from the diplomatic institute in Jordan. He also holds a diploma in Polygraph from the USA, along with having completed numerous intelligence courses in the USA and Europe.

Col. Naser Al-Zubi has been awarded the National Medal for Peace Keeping Operations twice, along with the Military Medal for Long-Standing in the Army and the Military Administration Merit award.

Dr. William Kwabena Ampofo is a Senior Research Fellow at the Virology Department in Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research located within the College of Health Sciences at the University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana. With a PhD in molecular virology from the Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan, his research interests include molecular and serological investigations of viruses, prevention of viral infections and anti-viral therapy. He has led and participated in several studies of public health importance. His publications in various scientific journals cover medicine, immunology and microbiology, biological sciences and molecular biology. He has participated in several scientific conferences, meetings, workshops and seminars with a recent focus on Biosafety and Biosecurity.

Dr. Ampofo has teaching responsibilities in the Biological Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Department School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana. He also conducts research supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate students covering vacation training of various biomedical students from the University of Ghana, the University of Cape Coast, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, the University of Development Studies and the Accra Polytechnic. He recently established a medical virology-training program in Ghana to teach practical skills and provide practical exposure in the field of medical virology to biomedical students of tertiary institutions. Participation in this course now has also included laboratory technologists and healthcare professionals.

Dr. Ampofo is a key member of various institutional and national committees such as Biosafety, HIV, Avian Influenza and Laboratory Diagnoses. He also serves internationally as a consultant, expert virologist and temporary advisor for agencies such as the World Health Organization, the Commonwealth Secretariat – Health Division and United States Agency for International Development.

Dr Ian Anthony is currently Director of Research and Head of the Arms Control and Nonproliferation Programme at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). SIPRI is an independent institute for research into problems of peace and conflict, especially those of arms control and disarmament. It was established in 1966 to commemorate Sweden’s 150 years of unbroken peace. Under Swedish law the Institute has the status of an international foundation. The Institute is financed mainly by the Swedish Parliament. The staff and the Governing Board are international. The Institute also has an Advisory Committee as an international consultative body. Between 2000 and 2002, Dr. Anthony was Chairman of the Nonproliferation and Export Control Working Group within the NATO Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes.

Dr. Anthony received his Ph.D from the University of London and is the author of five monographs and the editor of four volumes, the most recent of which are Reforming Nuclear Export Controls: The Future of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (Oxford University Press: Oxford 2007), Reducing Threats at the Source: A European perspective on cooperative threat reduction (Oxford University Press: Oxford 2004), and A Future Arms Control Agenda (Oxford University Press: Oxford 2001).

Tanya Anthony is a trained biologist at the Department of State in Washington, DC. She currently works in the bureau of Verification, Compliance and Implementation within the office of Biological Weapons Affairs. She received a B.S. in Microbiology and a M.S. in Health Services Administration.

Ms. Anthony’s portfolio involves providing high-fidelity support for the verification, compliance, and implementation of treaties, agreements, and commitments related to the production, possession, use of biological weapons and the attribution of use in suspicious biological outbreaks throughout the world. These agreements include the Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare (the 1925 Geneva Protocol) and the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction (the BWC). She also helps her office draft, review, and finalizes the BW portion of the President's Report to Congress on "Adherence to and Compliance with Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament Agreements and Commitments.

Thomas Austin is the Director for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (CBRNE) Countermeasures Programs and Initiatives in the Phantom Works Homeland Security organization across The Boeing Company. He has fifteen years of experience leading and supporting advanced research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) programs and projects with USAF/AFRL, DARPA and NASA customers, and he has designed and developed operational flight hardware for military aircraft and supported commercial aircraft production programs at Boeing and McDonnell Douglas. He has expertise working with government, industry and academia integrating CBRNE countermeasures systems, technologies, concepts of operations and counterterrorism tactics, techniques and procedures into advanced integrated system security solutions to protect critical infrastructure under programs with the Department of Homeland Security (Transportation Security Administration, Science & Technology Directorate and the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office) and the Department of Defense (National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Defense Threat Reduction Agency and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). Additional past expertise in RDT&E of systems engineering, breakthrough enabling technologies assessment and integration, large-scale wind tunnel testing and flight testing advanced aerodynamics and propulsion systems.

Thomas Austin has received a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from University of Southern California (1986), an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from University of Southern California (1987), and a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from University of Southern California (1992).

Georgi Avramchev has held the position of Permanent Representative of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the United Nations Office at Geneva and other International Organizations in Switzerland since February 2005. In this capacity he acted as Chairman of the 2008 meetings of the Biological Weapons Convention. Before his appointment in Geneva, Ambassador Avramchev was a Special Adviser to the Minister of Economy of the FYR of Macedonia.

In 1975 Ambassador Avramchev obtained a Bachelor of Science from Deree College in Athens, Greece, and in 1978 he earned his Masters degree in Business Administration at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Luciano Borin, Italian national, graduated at the University of Padua and at INSEAD.
He started his career with Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (ENI), Italy’s State Oil Company, and subsequently joined the World Bank, where he coordinated programs of industrial and SMEs development in Eastern Europe, Asia, South America and Africa.

He developed the first World Bank industrial operations in China and Poland, and directed a large number of initiatives concerning start-ups and SMEs development. He has been Director of the World Bank Resident Office in Somalia, and Deputy Director of the World Bank Regional Office for Eastern Africa in Nairobi, Kenya.

In 1996 he was appointed Head of the West and Central Africa Regional Office of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank Group, in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, where he coordinated regional investment activities, including large private infrastructure projects and specific programs to support small business.

In 2001 he joined the African Development Bank as the Director of Private Sector Operations, developing in a few years a portfolio of 1.5 billion US Dollars supporting the banking sector, infrastructures, extractive industries, agribusiness, tourism and SMEs development. He has been Board Director in major regional development finance institutions, initiated ADB activities in the renewable energy sector, and launched several innovative programs targeting small business, start-ups and women entrepreneurs.
He is author of several publications in the area of infrastructure and SMEs development.

Mr. Borin has developed a vast experience in the formulation of strategies and programs to support private sector development in emerging economies. He has world-wide expertise in the evaluation of investment projects in a broad range of sectors, including finance, agribusiness, tourism, manufacturing, extractive industries and infrastructures. He had successfully lead large scale fund raising campaigns to support development initiatives.

Since January 2007 he is President of ActionStream International, a company based in Italy which focuses on industrial consultancy services , SMEs development and renewable energy for rural communities.

Dr. Robert Bull has a Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Alabama in Birmingham. He completed his post doctoral training at the University of Virginia before going to work for the Naval Medical Research Center in Silver Spring, Maryland. At the Naval Medical Research Center, Dr. Bull developed assays for the detection of toxins and pathogens. As head of the Immunodiagnostics and Microbiology Departments, Dr. Bull managed assay development and biological safety level 3 operations. In addition, Dr. Bull’s laboratories provided support to the investigation and clean up following the Bacillus anthracis attacks that happened in the United States in 2001. Currently, Dr. Bull works for the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Virginia where he manages casework and works on research activities to expand the tools available for forensic examinations of biological threat agents.

Dr. Natividad Carpintero-Santamaría is a professor at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, where she also serves as General Secretary of the Institute of Nuclear Fusion. She conducts research in the areas of nuclear fission, nuclear fusion, WMD proliferation, and terrorism. Dr. Carpintero-Santamaría has published seventy-five papers, as well as authored the book, The Atom Bomb: The Human Factor during Second World War (Ediciones Díaz de Santos, 2007).

She obtained a diploma in High Studies of Defence at the Spanish Centre for High National Defence Studies (CESEDEN) and is currently a corresponding member of the European Academy of Sciences. In 1991 she was awarded the Alfonso XIII Prize of History of Applied Sciences by the Spanish Academy of Sciences.

Dr. David M. Coates is a microbiologist and virologist, who has worked in and managed both high and maximum containment laboratories. He has advised government and international organisations on biosecurity, biological verification, and the technical aspects of dual-use CBW export control policy and implementation. He is currently the Technical Focus for CB Cooperative Threat Reduction at the Defense Science and Technology Laboratory in the U.K.

Julie Gianelloni Connor is a 27-year veteran of the Department of State, and was promoted to the Senior Foreign Service in 1999. Her overseas assignments have included Bogota, Colombia (twice); Santiago, Chile; Tel Aviv, Israel (twice); Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Jakarta, Indonesia; Guatemala City; and Asuncion, Paraguay. Julie also headed up the U.S. Embassy’s public diplomacy efforts in Gaza from 2000-2001. In Washington, Julie has been a Senior Advisor and Acting Deputy Director for the Department’s Office of International Women’s Issues (G/IWI), served as the Deputy Director of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy; and been USIA’s desk officer for France, Spain, and Portugal.

In her current assignment in the Department’s Bureau of Verification, Compliance, and Implementation, Julie is heading the Bureau’s effort for more outreach to other governments on arms control verification and compliance.

In her last overseas assignment in Bogota, Julie headed the Narcotics Affairs Section (NAS), managing a budget of $460 million, a staff of 600, and a fleet of 200 helicopters and spray planes. During her tenure, her section’s top goal, the eradication of coca (the precursor for cocaine), rose by over 22%, compared to the previous highest-ever annual increase of 2.8%. Julie led NAS to review standard business practices, then worked with the Ambassador to renegotiate with the Government of Colombia the terms under which coca eradication programs would be carried out. The changes she inaugurated, including a fleet modernization effort, resulted in increased efficiency and effectiveness.

In Santiago, Julie headed the Public Affairs Section (PAS), served as Acting Deputy Chief of Mission (A/DCM) for seven months, and briefly was Chargé. While A/DCM over the 9/11/01 period, Julie was in charge on the day a letter bomb was delivered to the embassy. Her role in coordinating the embassy’s response to that event resulted in a letter of commendation from Deputy Secretary Armitage. Serving as Chargé on the six-month anniversary of 9/11, Julie delivered a speech to assembled Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials and the diplomatic corps on the implications of 9/11 for the U.S. Government. And as Director of PAS, Julie organized the one-year 9/11 anniversary events, which received national news coverage and included a first-ever visit to the U.S. chancery by Chilean president Ricardo Lagos.

Peace and democracy initiatives topped Julie’s focus in Tel Aviv, where she organized projects bringing together Israelis and Palestinians.

Julie has been the recipient of numerous department and USIA awards, including two performance awards and two Superior Honor Awards.

Julie holds an M.S. in National Security Strategy from the National War College, an M.A. from the University of Houston, and a B.A. from Rice University. She has one son, James.

Dr. Charles D. David is a Senior Scientist for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (CBRNE) Countermeasures Programs in The Boeing Company. He is currently assigned to the Phantom Works Homeland Security organization. A physicist with over 30 years experience in high technology business endeavors, he has focused on CBRNE since joining Boeing in 2002. Dr. David has experience in both the defense as well as the commercial marketplace. Since joining Boeing, he has focused on Homeland Defense issues and BioSecurity in particular.

Charles David has received a B.S. in Physics from Tulane University, an M.S. in Physics from the Air Force Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in Physics from The University of Texas.

Paula A. DeSutter was sworn in as Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Verification, Compliance, and Implementation on August 14, 2002. The Bureau for Verification, Compliance, and Implementation has principal responsibility for the overall supervision of all matters relating to the verification of and compliance with international arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament agreements and commitments. The Bureau led, coordinated, and participated in the implementation of the United States' effort to assist Libya in meeting its December 2003 commitment to eliminate its weapons of mass destruction programs and long-range missiles. The Assistant Secretary is the principal policy liaison to the U.S. Intelligence Community for verification and compliance issues. The Bureau prepares the U.S. assessment of other nations' compliance with their arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament commitments.

Ms. DeSutter brings to her position an extensive background in verification and a career focus on national security and intelligence. She served for over four years as a Professional Staff Member of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI). Ms. DeSutter was professional staff liaison to Senator Jon Kyl and was responsible for legislation and oversight of intelligence collection, analysis and activities related to proliferation, terrorism, arms control, the Persian Gulf States, India, Pakistan, China, and Afghanistan.

Prior to her work in the Senate, Ms. DeSutter held numerous positions in the Verification and Intelligence Bureau in the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA). She was selected to represent ACDA as a student at the National War College, then returned to the National Defense University as a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at its Center for Counter-Proliferation Research.

Ms. DeSutter's publications include Denial and Jeopardy: Deterring Iranian Use of NBC Weapons (NDU Press, 1998).

Ms. DeSutter holds a Master of Arts in International Relations, a Master of Science degree in National Security Strategy from the National War College, a Master of Arts in Economics, and a B.A. in Political Science. Her work at the National War College earned her the President’s Strategic Vision Award for Excellence in Research and Writing, and she was a Distinguished Graduate.

Amelia du Rand is a Researcher with the African Development and Weapons of Mass Destruction project at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) in Pretoria, South Africa. She is currently studying for a Masters degree in international relations with an emphasis on post-reconstruction reconstruction.

Dr. Saad El Kabbaj is currently the Director of Research and Medical Analysis Laboratory "LRAM" of "Gendarmerie Royale" in Rabat, Morocco. He has a Doctorate in Medicine as well as specialization degrees in medical biology, Diplôme de spécialité en Biologie Médicale: Bacteriology, Virology, Immunoserology, Biochemistry, Hematology et Parasitology from Mohamed V University, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy in Rabat, Morocco. In addition, he has a certificate specialization of infectious products and diagnostic samples from IATA, France and degrees in Insurance Quality in Medical Biology from the University of Paris V, Faculty of Pharmacy, France.

In addition to his current position, Dr. El Kabbaj is a founding member of the "Foundation Mohammed VI" of research and maintenance at Arganier, the Director of Accreditation program of “LRAM”, Vice-President of Research Group of Health and Environment (G.R.S.E), and a member of French Society of Clinical Biology (SFBC). He has also authored numerous publications, including the book Les Principales Urgences Chirurgicales, Questions à l’usage des Candidats à l’internat, which was prizewinner of Roussel-Diamant, Morocco, 1987.

Abdullah Hasan Elamin is a Major General in the Sudanese Army. He graduated from Military College and has completed the Basic Signal and Infantry Battalion courses. While in Sudan, he also attended High War College and took a Command and Staff course. Most recently, he was a part of the Jordanian Combined Operation Administration.

During his career in the Jordanian Army, Mr. Elamin has served with the following units: West Area, Signal Corps, Upper Nile, Equatorial Area, West Niwer Area, Chemical Corps, and the Ministry of Defense. His hobbies include football and music as well as spending time with his wife and six children.

Rocio Escauriaza is a legal officer researching the status and effectiveness of national implementation measures adopted for the Biological Weapons Convention, the Chemical Weapons Convention and United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004) for VERTIC's National Implementing Measures Project. She is directly involved in providing legislative assistance to States Parties to implement the Biological Weapons Convention and the development of assistance tools to that end. She also participates in the organization of VERTIC workshops and meetings on national implementation issues. Rocio has a Law degree from the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and an LLM in International Law from the University of Westminster, where she researched the International Protection of Children's Rights. She has volunteered for the Fairtrade Foundation, previously worked in the private sector as a lawyer, and has also interned at IBM. Ms. Escauriaza is fluent in Spanish, French and English.

Dr. Julie E. Fischer is a Senior Associate with the Henry L. Stimson Center. Dr. Fischer leads Stimson’s Global Health Security project where her team explores the growing demands on the world's public health infrastructure, from policies intended to contain transnational disease threats to a new role for international health interventions in defense and diplomacy. This project centers on practical policies and approaches - including norms, administrative structures, and public and private sector partnerships - to strengthen regional and global capabilities for disease detection and prevention.

Dr. Fischer is a former Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow and American Association for the Advancement of Science Congressional Fellow. As professional staff with the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, she worked on issues related to medical emergency preparedness and the consequences of biological, chemical, and radiological exposures during military service. She served as a senior research fellow at the University of Washington/Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, and an independent consultant to a Thai-U.S. collaboration aimed at strengthening Thai capacity to identify and control emerging infections of regional and global significance. Dr. Fischer received a BA from Hollins University and a PhD in microbiology and immunology from Vanderbilt University.

Maria Rite Gismondo completed her undergraduate and postgraduate education at the University of Catania, Italy, where she received degrees in Biology and Medicine and Surgery, as well as a Specialization in Microbiology and Virology. She was a microbiology intern at the Institute of Microbiology located within the University of Milan, as well as at Tennessee University in the USA. Additionally, she was an intern and Junior Resident in Clinical Microbiology at London Hospital, London, UK and was and intern and Junior Resident in Oral Microbiology at the London Hospital Medical School for Dentistry.

Ms. Gismondo taught for twelve years at the University of Catania before accepting her current position as an Associate Professor of Clinical Microbiology at the Medical School of the University of Milan, Italy where she teaches Clinical Microbiology at the Specialization of Gastroenterology, Microbiology and Virology, Internal Medicine, Bronchopneumology, and Reumatology. She has published over 230 papers in peer-reviewed journals.

In addition to her extensive educational career, Ms. Gismondo is Chief of the Laboratory of Microbiology in both L.Sacco University Hospital and in LITA in the University of Milan. She is also Chief of the Italian National Reference Lab for Bioterrorism, Chief of the Italian BSL4 National Reference Lab for SARS and Infectious Emergencies, a delegate of the Ministry of the University and Research for the Commission of the Smith and Kline Foundation, a member of the National Commission on Aids, and a member of the national commission “Unità Alto Isolamento” of the Italian Government. She also a part of the editorial board of the Journal of Antimicrobial and Chemotherapy, Medicine and Person, Journal of Probiotics and Prebiotics, and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases.

Aktham Jeries Haddadin is currently the Director of the Medical Laboratories of the Jordanian Ministry of Health, a position he has held since 1994. His previous positions include Director of the Central Public Health Laboratory in Amman and he was also the Head of Microbiology Department in the Central Public Health Laboratory. Mr. Haddadin has a B.Sc. in Medicine and received a scholarship from the World Health Organization to pursue a Master’s Degree in Bacteriology at Manchester University Medical School.

Elisa D. Harris is a Senior Research Scholar at the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM). Prior to holding this position, she was the Director for Nonproliferation and Export Controls on the National Security Council staff from 1993 to 2001. Her primary responsibility was coordinating U.S. policy on chemical, biological and missile proliferation issues.

Ms. Harris has held a number of research positions, including in the Foreign Policy Studies program at the Brookings Institution, the Royal United Services Institute for Defense Studies in London and the Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. She is the author of numerous publications on chemical and biological weapons issues and has testified frequently before the U.S. Congress. Ms. Harris has a B.A. in Government from Georgetown University and an M.A. in International Relations from Oxford University.

Dr. Andreas Hartmann joined Emergent BioSolutions in August 2005. As President of Sales & Marketing for the company’s biodefense products, he provides services internationally to governmental and military customers.

Prior to joining Emergent BioSolutions, Dr. Hartmann was with Bavarian Nordic GmbH for over five years. Acting as Vice President of Commercial & Business Development with expertise in the field of bio-defense, he focused on the international sale of smallpox vaccines. Dr. Hartmann’s work significantly contributed to international supply contracts for the company’s biodefense vaccines. He has more than seventeen years of experience with international Pharma/Biotech Marketing & Sales and Business Development. At Janssen-Cilag, Sanofi-Winthrop, and Ares-Serono, he followed a classical carrier from Product Manager to Business Unit Manager with direct Sales Force Management responsibilities. Dr. Hartmann obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ).

Sally M. Hoffer (1973) graduated in 1995 with honorary degree at the University of
Amsterdam in molecular biology and chemistry. From 1995 to 2001 she worked at the
University of Utrecht at the Department Molecular Microbiology where she received
her PhD degree. From 2001 till 2003 she worked at Dutch Institute for Dairy Research
as post-doctoral fellow.

In 2003 she joined the National Institute of Public Health and Environment (RIVM).
She’s project leader of the CBRN-response organisation and of the international
Environmental Assessment Module. As scientific researcher she advises on chemical
and biological incidents especially in the field of terrorist attacks. Besides her tasks as
scientific researcher, she takes part in the Environmental Incidents Response
Organisation (MOD), a 24/7 organisation supporting the local response organisations
in case of chemical incidents. Task of the MOD is exposure-assessment and health
impact assessment. For this aim the MOD can dispose of advanced field-measurement
techniques and medical, toxicological, industrial safety, radiation and biological
expertise.

On a national level she coordinates the Dutch National Laboratory Network (Dutch acronym LLN-ta), tasked by the Department of Environment. This network organizes the analytical laboratories that have expertise in the field of chemical, biological, and radiological agents which can be used in a terrorist attacks, so-called CBRN terrorism. Aim is to achieve an effective and quick analytical response in such events. Coordination encompasses for instance the organisation of exercises (both desktop en wet-lab exercises), development of new methodologies en the design and building of a mobile chemical en biological laboratory.

Furthermore, she heads the project CBRN security at hospitals in the Netherlands. RIVM is commissioned by the Department of Public Health to provide support to these organizations that handle CBRN agents and knowledge and are in need of advice concerning security measures to raise their resilience.

Dr. Iris Hunger heads the Research Group for Biological Arms Control at the Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Centre for Science and Peace Research at the University of Hamburg in Germany.
Her areas of expertise include weapons of mass destruction with a focus on biological weapons, weapons of mass destruction terrorism, scientific aspects of bioweapons development and control, nonproliferation and arms control, role of scientists in bioweapons development and arms control, and international negotiations.

Prior to accepting her current position, Dr. Hunger was Assistant to the Chairman of the Ad Hoc Group of States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention at the United Nations in Geneva from 1997 until 2001. From 2002 to 2004 she worked at the Planning Staff of the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin as expert on weapons of mass destruction and terrorism. She is a biochemist with a Ph.D. in international relations from Technical University Darmstadt, Germany and is also the author of Biowaffenkontrolle in einer multipolaren Welt: Zur Funktion von Vertrauen in internationalen Beziehungen (Bioweapons Control in a Multipolar World: The Role of Trust in International Relations).

Kamal Uddin Yusuf Mohamad Hussein has been qualified by the basic military police officers in Sudan, the core criminal investigation officers, and the basic intelligence officers. He has served with the Equatorial Military Zone, the Department of the Military Police, and the Department of Military Justice.

Mr. Hussein received a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the University of Niles in 1994. He went on to obtain a Postgraduate Diploma in Law from the University of Niles and another Postgraduate Diploma in International Law from the University of the World Africa Institute for the Study of Disasters and Refugees in 1999. He received a certificate of admission to the legal profession from the Ministry of Justice in Sudan, the Institute for Legal Reform in Sudan, and the Center for Judicial Studies from the Ministry of Justice and the Arab Republic of Egypt. Mr. Hussein has also completed an advanced course in arbitration from the arbitration center in Ain Shams University, Egypt.

Abdel-Aziz Mohamed Kamal is senior professor in the Department of Community, Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University. Also serve as president of the Egyptian Society of Occupational and Environmental Health and Past president of the Mediterranean society of Occupational Medicine as well as being Past President of the AFRICAN ASSOCIATION of OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH.

Prof. Kamal obtained his M.B.BCh, Faculty of Medicine from Cairo University in 1971

Dr. Ali Karami is the Head of the Research Center of Molecular Biology at Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences since 2006, where he conducts research on medical biodefense though the improvement of education, prevention, detection, treatment, decontamination, threat reduction, threat assessments, and threat analysis. He has worked for more than twenty years on issues related to the medical aspects of BW and BTW. He has attended multiple BTWC expert meetings along with state party meetings regarding biosecurity, biosafety, bioethics, and the ethical use of science and technology. Not only does he take a keen interest in bioweapon nonproliferation activities at the national, regional, and international levels, he also conducts national programs on preventing the misuse of science and technology for WMD, specifically in regards to bioweapons and bioterrorism.

Dr. Karami obtained a BA with honors in Medical Lab Technology and a Master in Medical Microbiology from the Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 1984 and 1990 respectively. He received his Ph.D. from the Panume Institute at Copenhagen University in 1995 after completing a thesis on the genetic characterization of borrelia burgdorferi (a Lyme Disease Agent) and protection from it by the recombinant OspA vaccine, which was presented in the International Congress of Lyme Disease in June 1996.

Barry Kellman, J.D. Yale (76), is Professor of International Law and Environmental Law and is Director of the International Weapons Control Center at DePaul University College of Law.

Professor Kellman’s work for the past six years has focused on biological terrorism. His book, BIOVIOLENCE: Preventing Biological Terror and Crime (Cambridge University Press, 2007), is a comprehensive strategy for law enforcers, scientists, and public health officials to prevent intentional disease. He initiated and is Special Advisor to the Interpol Program on Prevention of Biological Terrorism. He served on the National Academies of Sciences Committee on Research Standards and Practices to Prevent the Destructive Application of Biotechnology (2003). He works closely with the United States Departments of State and Homeland Security, as well as United Nations, the European Union, and other governments. He has organized a dozen major international workshops on bioterrorism and speaks often at other conferences and symposia around the world.

Professor Kellman’s professional work has long been concerned with weapons of mass destruction proliferation and terrorism. He worked for ratification and implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention as lead author of the Manual for National Implementation of the CWC (1993; 2nd ed. 1998) and by testifying to Congress as to the constitutionality of its inspection scheme (1997). In 2000, he served as legal adviser to the National Commission on Terrorism. He was commissioned by the Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT) to draft, Managing Terrorism’s Consequences (2003) which reviews legal authorities for responding to terror activity in the United States. He has published widely on: weapons proliferation and smuggling, the laws of armed conflict, Middle East arms control, and nuclear nonproliferation. He has served as Chair of the ABA Committee on International Security of the Section on International Law, and he is a member of the Bipartisan Security Group.

Ayman Khalil is the director of the Arab Institute for Security Studies (ACSIS) since 2002. ACSIS is chaired by HRH Princess Aisha bint Al-Hussein and operates in Jordan as well as various parts of the Middle East. It pursues specialized research on WMD proliferation, cooperative security mechanisms, foreign policy analysis, legislative infrastructure of disarmament treaties as well as other tracks. ACSIS is active in introducing curriculums on security studies, produces a radio documentary on "security terms and terminology" and liaise between military colleges in the Arab region.

Dr. Khalil is a physicist by training and holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Reading University (UK). He served as a chair for the National Initiative on Environmental Security, joined the United Nations for 5 years and commissioned to lead a UN goodwill mission to Turkey and Cyprus in 1999. Known for his extensive relations throughout the MENA region with emphasis on GCC countries; Dr. Khalil role was instrumental in concluding bilateral agreements with the League of Arab States as well as establishing liaison offices for UN special programs in the Gulf region.

Editor of various books, author of many papers and articles, including "White Paper on Jordanian Foreign Policy”.

Fotouh Kodssiah was born in Syria in 1976. She is currently serving as the third secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affaiurs in Syria. MS. Kodssiah has also obtained a BSC in Law.

Steve Kornguth is the Director of the Center for Strategic and Innovative Technologies and Associate Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology at The Universty of Texas at Austin. He is also a Professor in the Department of Pharmacy at The Universty of Texas at Austin and Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Neurology and Biomolecular Chemistry at The University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Dr. Kornguth was a Professor of Neurology and of Biomolecular Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin between 1962 and 1998. His research during this period related to neural development, autoimmune diseases and development of binding agents and platforms for sensors and magnetic resonance image contrast materials. Steve served as Director of Neuroscience programs at the National Science Foundation from 1981-1983. In 1998 he moved to Texas, his research efforts at The University of Texas at Austin relate to Sustaining High OpTempo Performance and developing technologies for defense against biological disease.

Dr. Kornguth has established a team of researchers to investigate the physical and cognitive correlates of activity resulting from long time on task and fatigue. Specifically, the research thrusts include identifying the neurophysiological markers of attentiveness, monitoring brain activity during periods of high and low vigilance, and implementing novel protocols to improve performance in high tempo environments.

Dr. Kornguth received a B.S. in Chemistry from Columbia University and a M.S. in Biochemistry followed by a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Ajey Lele is an Indian Air Force Officer who has worked with the Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses (IDSA) in New Delhi since 2001. He is a post-graduate in Physics and also in Defense and Strategic Studies and he obtained his PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi. Mr. Lele works on issues related to technology and weapons of mass destruction. He has published articles in journals, newspapers and websites, and has authored two books, one on bioterrorism and the other on weather and warfare.

Dr. Jonathan L. Longmire recently joined the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s (DTRA) Advanced Systems and Concepts Office (ASCO) on a change of station assignment from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). He is responsible for expanding the DTRA-ASCO research portfolio in biology and chemistry focused mainly on biosecurity, threat analysis and threat reduction, emerging technologies, and naturally emerging disease.

Prior to joining ASCO, Longmire worked in the Bioscience Division at Los Alamos for approximately twenty-five years. He served as a principal investigator conducting research in the areas of biosecurity, human genomics & genetics, biotechnology development, and genetics of threatened and endangered species. For the three years previous to joining ASCO, Longmire served as the Group Leader for the Biosecurity and Public Health Group at LANL. In this role, Longmire provided oversight for approximately sixty scientists and technicians and managed a wide array of biological programs and biosafety laboratories, including the development of a new, state of the art BSL-3 laboratory. Longmire also served as the Senior Project Leader for the Bio-Defeat Program Portfolio at LANL.

Dr. Longmire has a bachelor’s degree from the University of New Mexico and a Ph.D. in Biology from Texas Tech University. He has published over fifty peer-reviewed scientific articles and book chapters, mostly in the areas of genetics, genomics and molecular biology.

Dr Goasdoue Jean Louis is a biologist. After several years spent practicing biology in hospital, Works now as an adviser for the military High Command to face sanitary events. Subjects of concern essentially focus on epidemiologic monitoring, sanitary crisis management and industrial hazards.

Marwan R. Midani born in New York in 1961. After graduating in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1987, he worked 5 years with the USC Los Angeles County Medical Center in the research at the Preventive Medicine Center.

13 year with in Information & Communication Technology sector, the last 4 with Syriatel?
GSM as Chief Technical Officer. For the last 4 years, COO of INTERGEN N.V. the exclusive marketing arm of EBS (Emergent Biosolutions) for the MENA Region, based in Riyadh, KSA. Specialized in the supply of BioThrax (The Anthrax Vaccine) to Governments and Armed Forces.

Piers D. Millett is a Political Affairs Officer in the Implementation Support Unit for the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) housed in the UN Office for Disarmament affairs in Geneva, Switzerland. He has served as a member of the Secretariat for all meetings of the BWC since 2001. He trained originally as a microbiologist and is still a Chartered Biologist with the Institute of Biology in the UK. He has a doctorate from the University of Bradford (UK) on the past, present, and future of anti-animal biological warfare. His research focused heavily on the impact of developments in the life sciences on biological weapons. He also holds post-graduate degrees in International Politics and Security Studies, as well as Research Methodology. Mr. Millett is widely published on issues related to preventing the acquisition and use of biological weapons and is a regular speaker at conferences around the world. His efforts have seen him collaborate with a range of other intergovernmental organisations, including the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC), Interpol, the UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) and the UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI).

Mostafa Mohaghegh is the Head of Regional Office for West Asia and North Africa of the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR), based in Cairo. Before moving to Cairo he has worked as regional coordinator and advisor in the UNISDR secretariat in Geneva. He has worked in the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in Geneva between 2004 and 2006 as operation manager for Africa and Middle East.
From 2001 to 2004, Mostafa Mohaghegh served as Director of International Affairs at the Iranian Red Crescent Society. In this position, he coordinated as national focal point, Iran’s humanitarian relief operation for Afghan and Iraqi refugees in 2001-2003. He was the Iranian National Coordinator for international assistance during Bam earthquake relief operation and early recovery, December 2003-April 2004.

From 1998 to 2001, Mostafa Mohaghegh worked as programme coordinator for Middle East and North Africa at the IFRC Secretariat in Geneva and has been directly involved in various humanitarian and disaster management programmes in the region. Before joining the IFRC in Geneva, Mostafa Mohaghegh worked from 1996 to 1997 as Deputy Director of International Affairs Department as well as Head of Research Division of Iranian Red Crescent Training and Research Institute. Mostafa Mohaghegh worked as IFRC Disaster Management Delegate in Central Asia in 1994 and 1995 based in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. From 1990 to 1993, He worked as a volunteer in the Iranian Red Crescent, and as a relief worker and coordinator in various disasters such as earthquake and flood operations in Iran as well as in humanitarian relief operations for Iraqi refugees in 1991.

Mostafa Mohaghegh holds a Master Degree in Political Science and unfinished PhD in International Relations. Beside operations and practical work, he has been heavily and progressively engaged in research and training in various fields related to disaster management and risk reduction, humanitarian policies and practices, International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and International Disaster Response Law (IDRL), institutional development and volunteering. He presented his articles and papers on these themes to various international forums. He is a member of the editorial board of Crisis Response Journal, a quarterly magazine published in UK.
Mostafa Mohaghegh is fluent in Persian, English and Arabic and speaks French and some Russian.

Taysseer Abd El kareem Mouhirat has worked in the areas of nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) support and training for many years. He has maintained the posts of executive officer with the NBC Support Unity in the Jordan Armed Forces (JAF), Assessment and Evaluation Officer at the Royal Engineering Corps, NBC Technical Staff Officer with the NBC Support Unit, NBC Safety and Training Officer at the Royal Engineering School, and Platoon Leader, Company Deputy Commander, and Company Commander with the NBC Support Unit. Mr. Mouhirat deals mainly with training, field exercises, and familiarization with NBC specialists and within military units. His international involvement includes a one-year assignment to the UN Peace Keeping Force Mission in Sudan.

Mr. Mouhirat obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Jordan in 1991. He has also completed multiple Tactical and NBC courses in Jordan, the USA, and Europe.

Mohammad Majed Namarneh received his B.Sc. in Medical Technology from Yarmouk University in Irbid, Jordan and his M.S. in Applied Biology from Jordan University of Science and Technology in Irbid, Jordan. He has authored two papers titled “Frequency of Phlebotomine Sand Flies and Psammomys Obesus Infections with Leishmania spp. Sweima, an Endemic Focus of Jordan Valley by PCR Analysis” and “Use of D-Proline Assimilation and CGB Medium for Screening Jordanian Cryptococcu Neoformans Isolates.” Major Namarneh was employed as a medical technologist in the private sector before accepting his current position as a medical technologist in the Royal Medical Services.

Elisande Nixon is a senior researcher "la Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique". Joined the foundation on 2005, has a doctorate in pharmacology with experience in clinical research. Does research on NRBC terrorism; chemical and biological Proliferation .

Dr. Gabriel B. Ogunmola - Chairman, Institute of Genetic Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Ibadan, Executive Director, Science and Technology Development Foundation; Past President, Nigerian Academy of Science 2003 – 2006, Chairman Board of Trustee, Lead City University, Ibadan, Chairman, African Regional Committee of International Council for Science (ICSU).

He graduated with a B.Sc. Degree in Physical Chemistry in 1965 and received a Ph.D. in 1968 from the University of Ibadan. Following his Ph.D. conferral, he joined the staff of the Department of Chemistry, University of Ibadan in July 1968 as a NIH, Post Doctoral Research Fellow. Then from 1969-70, he was a Rockefeller Post Doctoral Research Fellow with Professor Britton Chance at the Johnson Research Foundation, Department of Biophysics and Medical Physics, University of Pennsylvania 1969-70.

In 1970, he returned to the University of Ibadan and was appointed lecturer in chemistry in 1970; over the next ten years, he was a Fulbright Fellow at the California Institute of Technology at Princeton University, a Visiting Research Associate at the University of California-Berkeley, a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at University of California-Berkeley, and a Visiting Scientist to the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley.
He was a Visiting Hill Professor of Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis in 1983. He also became the Foundation Dean of Science at Ogun State University in 1983 and was Dean again in 1988/89. A decade later, he traveled to New York to serve as Visiting Investigator in the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre.

As Professor of Chemistry at the University of Ibadan from 1980 until he retired in September 2005, he was engaged in teaching at Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels, with his areas of expertise being Postgraduate research in Biophysical Chemistry, Genetic Chemistry and Biotechnology, Database development, and IT driven services for science and policy development for Science and Technology in Africa. He also served as the Dean of the Faculty of Science from 1986 to 1988, was appointed into the Endowed Chair, received the Olu Allison Professor of Applied Chemistry award in 1989 in recognition of his achievement in Research Applied Chemistry, served as Head of the Department of Chemistry from 1991 to 1993, and was the Director of the Laboratory of Biophysical Chemistry. He was elected into the Fellowship of the Nigerian Academy of Science in 1981 and has served several times on the Council of the Academy. He was elected the President Nigerian Academy of Science in January 2003 for a term of three years.

During his extensive educational career, he has made major and scholarly advances in the field of Biophysical Chemistry of Genetic materials, mostly human erythroid proteins. He is collaborating with many international scientists on sickle cell disease and hemoglobinopathies, genomics and Bioinformatics. Following his retirement from University of Ibadan, Professor Ogunmola established the Institute of Genetic Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine.

Currently, Dr. Ogunmola is the Executive Director of the Science and Technology Development Foundation in Ibadan, Nigeria, and Chairman of the Institute of Genetic Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine.

Prior to his current positions, Professor Ogunmola served the Ogun State Government as Chairman Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital in Sagamu from 2004until 2007. He has also served as Chairman, Remo Anglican Secondary School, Ishara andwas on the Executive Board, Inter Academy Panel from 2003 until 2006.

He is also Chairman of the Board of Trustee for Lead City University and has served as Chairman of the African Regional Committee of International Council for Science (ICSU) since 2004 and will continue until 2010. Additionally, he is a member of the Ogun State Elders Forum of the government of Ogun State of Nigeria, a member of Jury for Physical Science of L’Oreal Unesco award for women in science, and is a member of the InterAcademy Panel (IAP) Biosecurity Committee and Coordinator African Biosecurity issues surveys.

He has served on the editorial Board of the Nigerian Journal of Science and was Deputy Editor and Editor respectively at various times. He helped wrote the implementation plan for National Science Policy for Nigeria in 1988. He has contributed immensely to the development of the scientific enterprise and the image of the discipline of Chemistry and Science in Nigeria. He has been Consultant / Resource Person to national and international agencies in Science and Technology Policy, Science Education, Database Development and Information Technology; Chairman, National Review panel for Biotechnology and Agricultural Research Institute. 2007. Chairman, Federal Government Visitation Panel to Abubakar University of Technology, Bauchi, 2004. Member of governing council of National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure, Abuja, 2005 - 2006. Member, Honourary Presidential Advisory Council on Science and Technology to the President of Nigeria, 2004 - 2007.

Dr. Maxwell Otim Onapa is currently the Deputy Executive Secretary of the Uganda National Council for Science and Technology (UNCST), a government agency mandated to formulate policies for the development of science and technology in Uganda, to advice the government on all matters of science and technology as well as to guide and coordinate research and development. Dr. Otim originally graduated from Makerere University with a degree in Veterinary Medicine in 1991. After graduating, he worked briefly as a research officer on microbiology with the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries before joining the National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO) in 1993. He worked in various research capacities on infectious animal diseases, specifically, the rinderpest virus, a paramyxovirus known for its deadly effects on cattle. In 1998, Dr. Otim proceeded to pursue a two-year master degree course at the Free University of Berlin, Germany where he graduated with Masters in Tropical Veterinary Epidemiology. The results of his research were adopted by the Ugandan Government as a blue print for the eradication of rinderpest in the country. Upon his return to Uganda, Dr. Otim continued pursue his research career on paramyxovirus with emphasis on the Newcastle disease virus (NDV), a devastating poultry and mildly zoonotic infectious virus. He also worked on other zoonotic disease including brucellosis.

In 2002, he was admitted to the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University in Copenhagen, Denmark to pursue a doctorate degree. Before graduating in 2005, he undertook in-depth studies in molecular virology, immunodiagnostics and epidemiology. In the course of his work, he applied molecular tools, such as gene sequencing and phylogenetic analysis, to elucidate the gene sequence of the NDV and its molecular epidemiology. He was able to unravel the genes responsible for the virulence of the virus and was also able to demonstrate that the velogenic virus strains from Uganda were of a novel genotype that had never been isolated.

Dr. Otim took up work on the Avian influenza where he initiated molecular studies of the disease in collaboration with the CDC labs in Uganda. He further established surveillance mechanisms of the avian influenza in poultry and wild birds in the region. Dr. Otim has authored over 10 publications in peer-reviewed journals and has a strong interest in infectious viral zoonotic diseases and emerging infections. Outside his current commitments, Dr. Otim is regularly consulted on issues concerning the research of infectious diseases and he frequently provides input on biomedical research.

Dr. Jamal H. Qunash is the Head of Directorate of Outpatient Clinics and Emergency Departments in the Jordanian Ministry of Health, as well as Chief Specialist of Emergency Medicine. He is a member of the Jordanian and Arabic Board of Emergency and Accidents, in addition to being an orthopaedic consultant for Al Bashir Hospitial. He was previously employed by Al-Bashir Hospital as Chief of the Emergency Department and Deputy Chief of the Orthopaedic Department.

Dr. Qunash received both his B.Sc. in Medicine and his M.Sc. in Orthopaedics from the Sofia Medical Academy in Bulgaria. In 1986, he was admitted into the Jordanian Medical Council in Orthopaedics.

Dr. Sudha Raman has worked at the United Service Institution of India (USI) in New Delhi since 1996. She started as Research Assistant at the Centre for Research and is now the Research Coordinator for the USI-Centre for Strategic Studies and Simulation (USI-CS3), a tri-service organization of the Army, Navy and the Air Force, established in 1870. As research coordinator, she organizes the general administrative tasks of the USI-CS3. This is especially challenging, as the researchers are a mix of military and civilian academics. She also assists in the editing of the USI’s quarterly journal, Journal of the USI, and the USI Digest, a compilation of articles that are relevant for soldiers placed in areas where reading material is not available. Dr. Raman’s earlier positions include researcher to Dr. Thomas Buchsbaum, Chief of Mission at the Austrian Embassy in New Delhi from 1995 to 1996 and researcher at the International Centre for Peace Studies (ICPS) from April to July 1996.

Dr. Raman published a book entitled Nuclear Strategy and the Doctrine of Just War (New Delhi: Manas Publications, 2006), along with numerous articles for publications such as Defense Watch, Strategic Bulletin, and Hindustan Times. Her is currently working on another book discussing the idea of a just nuclear war.

After receiving a BA in Political Science with Honors from Lady Sri Ram College in 1982, Dr. Raman went on to obtain an MA in Political Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, along with a M.Phil and a Ph.D. from the Jawaharlal Nehru University School of International Studies Centre for International Politics, Organization and Disarmament. Her thesis entitled “Ethics and Nuclear Strategy: The Pastoral Letter of the American Catholic Bishops – 1983” was supervised by Professor Matin Zuberi, as was her dissertation entitled “Nuclear Deterrence and the Doctrine of Just War.”

Brian Rappert is an Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Public Affairs in the Department of Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Exeter (UK). His long-term interest has been the examination of how decisions regarding the adoption and regulation of security-related technologies are made, particularly in conditions of uncertainty and disagreement.

His book Controlling the Weapons of War: Politics, Persuasion, and the Prohibition of Inhumanity (Routledge, 2006) seeks to reframe how humanitarian limits are set for the conduct of armed conflict. Biotechnology, Security and the Search for Limits: An Inquiry into Research and Methods (Palgrave, 2007) considers the prospects and problems with introducing security-inspired controls to prevent the destructive use of life science research. Other books from 2007 include A Web of Prevention (Earthscan, co-edited with Caitriona McLeish) and Technology and Security (Palgrave, edited).

Robert M. Scripp is Programme Manager (acting) of the Bioterrorism Prevention Program run by ICPO – INTERPOL. Before being based in Lyon and joining INTERPOL, Mr. Scripp worked with FBI.

Jaber Shammout was born in Syria in 1977. He is currently serving as the third secretary of the Syrian embassy stationed in Amman, Jordan. Mr. Shammout has also obtained a BA in Political Science along with a Diploma in International Relations.

Allen Shofe has served as senior vice president public affairs with Emergent BioSolutions since January 2008. Mr. Shofe served as vice president public affairs from May 2007 to January 2008, and vice president government affairs from 2005 to 2007. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Shofe served as director, federal government affairs for Eli Lilly from 2002 to 2005. Prior to joining Eli Lilly, Mr. Shofe served as chief of staff for Congressman Gil Gutknecht from 2001 to 2002, head of corporate and regulatory affairs, Middle East and North Africa for BAT Industries from 1996 to 2001, traffic control materials division manager for 3M TCM in 1996, and vice president, state government affairs for The Tobacco Institute from 1992 to 1996. Mr. Shofe held various positions related to the election and administration of former Minnesota Governor Arne Carlson from 1990 to 1992, and served as campaign director for the Minnesota Republican Senate Caucus and Republican Party from 1987 to 1990. Mr. Shofe received an LL.M Master of Laws from the University of Leicester School of Law, United Kingdom and a B.A. in International Relations from University of Minnesota-Morris.

Dr. Kimothy L. Smith is the Director of The Global Resource Initiative, a nonprofit organization that focuses its efforts on bolstering the critical resource base of underserved countries and promoting sustainable agricultural practices. Dr. Smith most recently was the Senior Advisor for International Biodefense for the Department of Homeland Security, Office of Health Affairs and was detailed to the U.S. State Department Office of International Health and Biodefense. Dr. Smith has also served as the Acting Director of the National Biosurveillance Integration Center, where he was responsible for setting the vision and strategy of a US Government-wide effort to acquire, aggregate, integrate, analyze, interpret and disseminate all-source biosurveillance information from governmental and private sectors for epidemiological analyses and health protection. Moreover, Dr. Smith was employed by the Department of Homeland Security as the first Chief Veterinarian and served as the Chief Scientist for the Office of Health Affairs. He came to work for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2005 within the Science and Technology Directorate as the Chief of the Research Programs and Countermeasures Office, directing the intramural research program executed through the federal and National Laboratories.

Prior to coming to work with the DHS, Dr. Smith was at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) where he served as the Deputy Division Leader for Operations in the Counter-terrorism and Incident Response Division of the Non-proliferation, Arms Control and International Security Directorate. In this capacity, Dr. Smith was responsible for maintenance and readiness of the Laboratories nuclear response deployment and assessment teams. Before accepting this appointment, Dr. Smith served as a Deputy Associate Program Leader for the Chemical and Biological National Security Program where he was responsible for administering and managing the portfolio of biodefense research projects at LLNL.

Dr. Smith had actively engaged in research execution and program development in the areas of infectious disease ecology, developing molecular typing methods and the application of molecular epidemiological techniques to forensic investigations as an associate professor on the Northern Arizona University (NAU) faculty prior to going to LLNL.

Dr. Smith earned a PhD in molecular epidemiology from Louisiana State University (1999) where he curetted the worldwide Bacillus anthracis collection. He earned his BS in Biochemistry and Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine from Oklahoma State University and was a practicing veterinarian for almost 10 years. During this time, he also owned and managed a cotton and wheat farming operation, in addition to a beef cattle stocker and production operation.

Amy E. Smithson specializes in in-depth field research on issues related to chemical and biological weapons proliferation, threat reduction mechanisms, defense, and homeland security. She has addressed such topics as the reduction of US and Russian weapons capabilities, the status of international treaties outlawing these weapons, export controls, unconventional terrorism, and preparedness for biological and chemical disasters. Often fashioning untraditional issue alliances that cross the private and public sectors, Smithson’s work recommends practical steps that blend technical and policy instruments to reduce threats and to enhance civilian and military defense, preparedness, and response capabilities. Before joining the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, she worked at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Henry L. Stimson Center, where in January 1993 she founded the Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Project. Previously, she worked for Pacific-Sierra Research Corporation and the Center for Naval Analyses.

Smithson’s work has prompted numerous invitations to testify before Congress, and she has frequently assisted the electronic and print media. She earned a PhD in political science at George Washington University, an MA in international relations at Georgetown University, and BA’s in political science and Russian at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

At the Stimson Center, Smithson was on the front lines of the Senate’s consideration of the Chemical Weapons Convention. She authored several pieces, such as “Dateline Washington: Clinton Fumbles the CWC,” Foreign Policy (no. 99, Summer 1995) and The U.S. Chemical Weapons Destruction Program: Views, Analysis, and Recommendations (Stimson Center: September 1994) designed to tackle head-on the likely key debate issues. In addition, Smithson focused on the most egregious proliferation problems and ways to improve nonproliferation tools, for example, in Toxic Archipelago: Preventing Proliferation from the Former Soviet Chemical and Biological Weapons Complexes and Compliance Through Science: US Pharmaceutical Industry Experts on a Strengthened Bioweapons Nonproliferation Regime (Stimson Center: December 1999 and September 2000, respectively). Her research on the likelihood of unconventional terrorist attacks and the readiness of US metropolitan areas to cope with chemical or biological disasters includes Ataxia: The Chemical and Biological Terrorist Threat and the US Response (Stimson Center: October 2000). Recently, she edited a volume of essays, Beijing on Biohazards (Center for Nonproliferation Studies, September 2007) by Chinese experts on bioweapons nonproliferation topics and is completing a book on the biological weapons inspections conducted by the United Nations Special Commission in Iraq from 1991 to 1998. Earlier, she elaborated various proposals for the use of cooperative aerial inspections, co-edited Open Skies, Arms Control, and Cooperative Security (St. Martin’s Press, 1992), and co-authored a study on the US government’s structure for addressing arms control issues in the post-Cold War era. At Pacific-Sierra Research Corporation, she concentrated on strategies and tactics to monitor nuclear weapons accords.

Scott Spence is a qualified attorney with experience in private and public international law. He is currently the Chemical and Biological Weapons Legal Officer at the London-based Verification Research, Training and Information Centre (VERTIC), where he is conducting a global review of national implementing legislation for the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention and the biological weapons related provisions of UN Security Council Resolution 1540. He is also organizing and leading legislative drafting assistance visits to capitals in relation to the implementation of these international instruments.

Mr. Spence previously worked at Interpol and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. As Interpol’s Biocriminalization Project Manager, he collected and analyzed the legislation of thirty-five countries related to the prevention of biological weapons proliferation. At the OPCW, he assisted over thirty States Parties, often in complex face-to-face discussions, with drafting implementing legislation for the Chemical Weapons Convention. He has drafted and co-drafted model legislation for the implementation of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Conventions, respectively (available at www.vertic.org/NIM).

Mr. Spence worked as a lawyer in New York in international finance and for the Hague Conference on Private International Law as a Recording Secretary at Diplomatic Sessions and Special Commission meetings.

He received his legal training at the University of Virginia School of Law and Leiden University, and earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Virginia and Harvard University. He is a native speaker of English, a fluent speaker of French, and has worked professionally in Spanish.

John C. Stammreich is Vice President for Global Strategy at the Boeing Company, he supports the President for Networks and Space Systems by coordinating the long term strategies of all the business units in N&SS. He is chairman of the enterprise Homeland Security Council and oversees the technical direction of the Phantom Works Homeland Security organization within The Office of the Chief Technology Officer.

Until last fall, he was the Enterprise Homeland Security executive responsible for coordinating the strategies of all the business units performing Homeland Security business. Before the Enterprise Homeland Security position was created in early 2002, Mr. Stammreich served as Vice President of Strategic Management for Boeing Space and Communications (S&C) where he was responsible for overall strategic planning, market analysis and M&A support activities in all the markets served by S&C.

Before joining The Boeing Company in February 2001, he served as President of Xtar, a satellite communications services joint venture between Loral Space and Communications and the Spanish Ministry of Defense. He also served as Vice President and General Manager for Government Programs for Loral Space and Communications, and the executive for government programs on the Corporate Staff.

During his aerospace career, Mr. Stammreich has held leadership positions at TRW Space & Electronics Group that included Director of Advanced Programs, Antenna Center Manager, Director of Advanced Technology and a number of program management leadership assignments. He also was the general manager for the Rexnord Aerospace Mechanisms business unit, which is now a part of ALCOA and Vice President & General Manager of Tecstar's Dynamic Systems Division.

Mr. Stammreich holds a significant number of patents in the areas of aircraft and spacecraft mechanisms and systems.

Mr. Stammreich, born in Brooklyn, N.Y. in February 1944, has a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Manhattan College and a master's degree in mechanical engineering from California State University, Long Beach and graduated from UCLA Anderson School Executive Program.

Noel Stott has worked in both the academic environment and the NGO sector for many years. Stott has been employed by Arms Management Programme in the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) Tshwane (Pretoria, South Africa) office since May 2002 and currently serves as a Senior Research Fellow. His research specializes in arms brokering, the marking and tracing of firearms, and the United Nations small arms process. In 2007, the ISS established a dedicated Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) research project with funding from the Norwegian government. The aim of this project is to identify and improve Africa's role in international efforts to strengthen disarmament and non-proliferation as they relate to WMDs in the context of Africa's developmental imperatives. Since its establishment, Stott has been the Project Leader with responsibility for its direction, funding, financing and staff. Stott holds a BA and a B.Bibl (Hons.) degree as well as two post-graduate diplomas (HDLIS and FDLIS) from the University of Cape Town (UCT).

Dr. Guillermo Velarde is a General in the Spanish Air Force, a member of the European Academy of Sciences, and the Chair Professor of Nuclear Physics at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. Along with being a professor, Dr. Velarde is also the President of the Institute of Nuclear Fusion, where he conducts research in quantum mechanics, nuclear physics, nuclear fusion and WMD proliferation.

Dr. Velarde previously served as Director of Technology for the former Spanish Atomic Energy Commission. His other experiences include publishing seven books, the last one entitled Quantum Mechanics (McGraw Hill, 2002), and 329 papers. He also co-authored the book Inertial Confinement Nuclear Fusion: A Historical Approach by its Pioneers (Foxwell and Davies Publishers) in 2007 with Natividad Carpintero-Santamarí.

In recognition of his scientific career he was awarded the Edward Teller Award in 1997 for his research in inertial confinement nuclear fusion, as well as the Archie Harms Award in 1998 for his research in emerging nuclear energy systems.

Angela Woodward is the Executive Director of VERTIC. Her research generally focuses on the legal aspects of treaty negotiation, implementation and verification as well as the status of states' national legislation to implement treaty obligations.

She is currently focusing on implementation of the agreements prohibiting biological and chemical weapons. Jointly with Scott Spence and Rocio Escauriaza, Angela is participating in the National Implementing Measures Project, under which she is directly involved with the provision of legislative drafting assistance and the development of assistance tools for national implementation of the biological and chemical weapons conventions and related agreements, including UN Security Council Resolution 1540. These agreements reiterate the need for effective domestic controls to comply with these treaties and to prevent non-state actors from proliferating nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, related materials and delivery systems. Jointly with Andreas Persbo, Angela is participating in VERTIC’s project ‘Verified dismantlement of nuclear warheads’, investigating how nuclear warhead dismantlement can be verified and focusing on developing so-called information barrier technology as well as aspects of on-site inspection methodology.

Under previous projects, she focused on the implementation of agreements regulating small arms and light weapons, in particular the 1997 Landmine Convention and United Nations arms embargoes.

Ms. Woodward lectures on Public International Law at the London School of Economics (LSE). She has an LLM in Public International Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in Political Science and a Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

Ms. Woodward previously worked for the Programme for Promoting Nuclear Non-Proliferation (PPNN) at the Mountbatten Centre for International Studies, University of Southampton.

Wouter Wormgoor is working at the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague, at the Security Policy Directorate on arms control and non-proliferation. He is responsible for developing the Dutch positions related to Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and has been working on the Biological Weapons Convention, the Chemical Weapons Convention, the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty and was part, more recently, of the Netherlands delegation during the negotiations on a new Convention on Clustermunitions. Currently, he is working in the field of export-control. Before that, he worked at the Directorate for European Integration, External Affairs in The Hague.

Before joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Wouter Wormgoor worked for a consultancy in Brussels focussing on European Union policy. He also worked at the
Netherlands Centre for International Police Co-operation as Public Affairs Manager and started his professional career at the General Secretariat of Interpol in Lyon, France.

Rafat Yousri is an Egyptian Prof. of Radiation Biology since 1990 and was promoted to the position of Head of Radiobiology Department for three years, then vice dean of radiation research division, then the head (dean ) of the division. In 2001 I have been appointed as the chairman of the National Center for Radiation Research and Technology for 3.5 years .Besides,I have been involved in all activities of the IAEA in the field of radiation processing and applications for about 5 years. Have been assigned as the scientific consultant of the AFRA projects for about 5 years as well as being a member of the NATO conference held in Poland in 2004 on the bioactivation of biological weapons. Have several publications in the field of Radiation Biology, Biochemistry and Nutrition and supervised a number of M.Scs and Ph.Ds theses in different fields of biological sciences .

Dr. Raymond A. Zilinskas graduated from California State University at Northridge with a BA in Biology, and from the University of Stockholm with a Filosofie Kandidat in Organic Chemistry. He worked as a clinical microbiologist for 16 years then commenced graduate studies at the University of Southern California. His dissertation addressed policy issues generated by recombinant DNA research, including the applicability of genetic engineering techniques for military and terrorist purposes. After earning a Ph.D., Dr. Zilinskas worked at the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment from 1981-1982, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization from 1982-1986, and the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI) from 1987-1998. In addition, he was an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of International Health, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, until 1999. Between March and November 1994, he worked temporarily as an analyst for the United Nations Special Commission on Iraqi biological weapons issues. In September 1998, Dr. Zilinskas was appointed Senior Scientist at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) located within the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Then in 2002, he was promoted to Director of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Program. His research focuses on achieving effective biological arms control, assessing the proliferation potential of the former Soviet Union’s biological warfare program, and meeting the threat of bioterrorism. Dr. Zilinskas’ book Biological Warfare: Modern Offense and Defense, a definitive account on how modern biotechnology has qualitatively changed developments related to biological weapons and defense, was published in 1999. Published in 2005 by Wiley & Sons is the important reference work co-edited by Richard Pilch and Dr. Zilinskas entitled Encyclopedia of Bioterrorism Defense. Currently, Dr. Zilinskas is co-authoring a book with Milton Leitenberg on the Soviet biological warfare program, which Harvard University Press plans to publish in 2009.

Oman Delegation is made of various groups representing the Sultan of Oman Police, Armed Forces and Ministry of Defense including:
LTC Saleem bin Salim Al-Hanani           Major Eid Shehi
LTC Ahmad Al-Sabiri                               Major Rashed Shibli
LTC Salim Al-Saidi                                   Major Abdullah Ghilani
LTC. Badir Farsi                                       Captain Mousa Riyami
LTC. Mohamad Mukhaini                        Lt. Mukhtar Alawi
Major Naser Rashdi

Bahrain Delegation is represented by Bahrain Defense Force, with the following officers:
LTC Abdul Rahman Bouainian              LTC Saeed Mansourti

Iraq Delegation is represented by:
Mr. Issam Faisal

Darak Forces is a newly established military institution in Jordan. It is represented by:
LTC Moayad Ebzakh                             Maj Rasmi Tarawneh
Maj Mohamad Maytah                         Major Amjad Quodah
Capt Ashraf Abu Dal