Mr. Takahiko Ito

National Security Expert

Japan

Currently an adviser of Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc., president of the Japan Chapter of the Institute of Nuclear Material Management, president of Japan Atomic Energy Relations Organization and director of Energy Strategist Consultancy Limited, Takahiko Ito has extensive experience in the energy field. He served three years as the commissioner of the Japan Atomic Energy Commission. After graduating from the University of Tokyo with a bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering, Ito worked for many years at Chubu Electric Power Co, Inc., first managing nuclear power stations and later as executive vice president. He recently served as chairman of both the Nuclear Development Steering Committee and the Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan.

H.E. Igor Ivanov

Diplomat

Russia

His Excellency Igor Ivanov is president of the Russian International Affairs Council and a professor at Moscow State Institute for International Relations. He served as foreign minister of Russia from 1998 to 2004, and secretary of the Security Council of Russia from 2004 to 2007. An experienced diplomat, Ivanov joined the Soviet Foreign Ministry in 1973 and, in 1991, became ambassador to Madrid. Ivanov has written numerous books and articles on international security issues.

Amb. Peter Jankowitsch

Diplomat

Austria

Ambassador Peter Jankowitsch is a member of the board and former secretary-general of the Austro-French Centre for Rapprochement in Europe. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Academy of Astronautics, chair of its Social Sciences Section and a former associate editor of Acta Astronautica. A former foreign minister of Austria, he has served as the permanent representative of Austria to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and as the representative of Austria to the United Nations. Prior to joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jankowitsch spent ten years as a member of the Austrian Parliament.

Ms. Shannon O’Leary Joy

Civic Leader

United States

Shannon Joy is the president of the EarthSense Foundation. She is also executive producer of “Mission Blue,” “The Last Animals” and “Franca”; and an associate producer of “Chasing Coral” which won the audience award at the Sundance Film Festival, where she supports the Climate Program. Joy studied at the National Holistic Institute, Berkeley and has worked in the healing arts for two decades. She is a member of Oceans 5, a global funders’ collaborative committed to the protection of the world’s oceans. Joy has also photographed and worked with groups in Cambodia, Dr. Nancy Hendrie of the Sharing Foundation and Executive Director Scott Nelson of the Cambodian Children’s Fund.

Mr. Matake Kamiya

National Security Expert

Japan

Matake Kamiya is professor of international relations at the National Defense Academy of Japan and an adjunct research fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Japan Association for International Security and a member of the board of trustees of the Japan Association of International Relations. Kamiya has published extensively on international relations, international security, Japan’s postwar pacifism, U.S.-Japan security relations and nuclear topics, including Japan’s non-nuclear policy. His English-language publications include “Realistic Proactivism: Japanese Attitudes toward Global Zero,” chapters in edited volumes and articles in The Washington Quarterly and Arms Control Today among others.

Amb. Max Kampelman

Diplomat

United States

Ambassador Max Kampelman was a diplomat, lawyer and educator. He served as U.S. ambassador to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, the counselor of the Department of State and ambassador and head of the U.S. Delegation to the Negotiations on Nuclear and Space Arms with the Soviet Union in Geneva. He held the position of senior advisor to the U.S. delegation to the UN and vice chairman of the U.S. Institute of Peace. In 1999, Kampelman was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the nation, and in 2000 he was among the first to be awarded the Library of Congress Living Legend award.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wrote of Kampelman, “[his] leadership was instrumental to the successful negotiation of human rights commitments and democratic norms that continue to be international gold standards. His contributions to arms control and international security ushered in a more stable, predictable geostrategic landscape. He never stopped working to control the threat posed by nuclear weapons, and he never stopped speaking out for the cause of human rights.” Kampelman passed away January 25, 2013.

Dr. Sergei Karaganov

National Security Expert

Russia

Dr. Sergei Karaganov is a Russian political scientist and intellectual currently serving as dean of the School of World Economics and International Relations at the National Research University Higher School of Economics. He is the honorary chairman of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy. Karaganov graduated from Moscow State University and received his doctorate from the Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies. He has written and edited more than 20 books and hundreds of articles on foreign policy and national security issues.

Gen. (ret.) Jehangir Karamat

Military Commander

Pakistan

General Jehangir Karamat is a retired Pakistani military officer and diplomat. He served in combat in the 1965 and 1971 India-Pakistan wars and eventually rose to the position of chairman of the Pakistani Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee before retiring from the armed forces.

Karamat was the Pakistani ambassador to the United States from November 2004 to June 2006. After this ambassadorship, he founded a sociopolitical policy and analysis institute, Spearhead Research, which focuses on social, economic, military and political issues connected to Pakistan and Afghanistan. He also served as a commissioner on the International Commission on Non-Proliferation and Disarmament from 2009 to 2010.

Karamat is a member of the Nuclear Crisis Group, the Global Zero Commission on Nuclear Risk Reduction and the Global Zero Commission.