International Institute for Strategic Studies - IISS

(United Kingdom)

The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), founded in 1958, is an independent centre for research, information and debate on the problems of conflict, however caused, that have, or potentially have, an important military content. It aims to provide, through publications and discussion forums, the best possible analysis on strategic trends, and to facilitate contacts that would lead to the development of better public policy in the fields of international relations and international security. Based in London, the IISS has offices in the US, Singapore and Bahrain. The IISS Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Program seeks to provide objective assessments of proliferation threats, to support international efforts to strengthen nuclear security and the non-proliferation regime and to encourage a stronger congruence of non-proliferation and arms control policies.

Contact information

London office:
Arundel House
13–15 Arundel Street, Temple Place
London WC2R 3DX

Tel : +44 (0) 20 7379 7676
Fax : +44 (0) 20 7836 3108
Website: http://www.iiss.org
Mail: Fitzpatrick@iiss.org

Contacts	Resume	Speciality
Dina a Esfandiary Research Analyst and Project Coordinator Esfandiary@iiss.org	Dina Esfandiary (Switzerland/Iran) manages paradiplomatic conferences on Iran and Nuclear Proliferation, and writes on matters involving Iran’s nuclear programme. She joined the IISS in October 2009, prior to which she worked at a Geneva Call, a disarmament NGO.	Non-proliferation Iranian nuclear issues
Michael Elleman Senior Fellow Elleman@iiss.org	Michael Elleman (USA) was the lead author of the IISS Strategic dossier on Iran’s Ballistic Missile Capabilities (2010). In 2011 he moved from the IISS-US office to the Middle East office in Bahrain, where he focuses on Regional Security Cooperation and US-Russia missile defence cooperation. Before joining the IISS in April 2009, he spent five years at Booz Allen Hamilton, where he provided weapons proliferation analyses to the Advanced Systems and Concepts Office (ASCO) at the Defence Threat Reduction Agency. He has also worked as a UN missile expert for weapons inspection missions in Iraq and as a scientist as Lockheed Martin’s Research and Development Laboratory.	Regional Security cooperation Missile defence United States –Russia security cooperation Missile proliferation Regional Security (Middle East, Persian Gulf, Trans-Atlantic)
Mark Fitzpatrick Director Fitzpatrick@iiss.org	Mark Fitzpatrick (USA) came to IISS in October 2005 after a 26-year career in the US Department of State, where for the previous ten years he focused on non-proliferation issues, including as Deputy Assistant Secretary (acting) and in Vienna in charge of liaison with the IAEA. He is the author of The Iranian Nuclear Crisis: Avoiding worst-case outcomes (2008) and the editor of several IISS Strategic Dossiers on proliferation and the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. He has lectured throughout the world and is a frequent media commentator on nuclear-related subjects.	Non-proliferation and disarmament Northeast Asia, Iran and South Asia IAEA, nuclear energy US foreign policy
Jenny Nielsen Research Analyst nielsen@iiss.org	Jenny Nielsen (Denmark) joined IISS in February 2013. As part of the IISS Non-proliferation and Disarmament Programme, she is project managing the second EU Non-proliferation and Disarmament Conference on behalf of the EU Consortium as well as supporting research on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament. Prior to joining IISS, she was a Programme Manager for the Defence & Security Programme at Wilton Park and a Research Assistant for the Mountbattten Centre for International Studies (MCIS) at the University of Southampton.	NPT review process Nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament
Dr Tanya Ogilvie-White Consulting Fellow Ogilvie-White@iiss.org	Tanya Ogilvie-White (UK/New Zealand) joined IISS in June 2010 on a one-year research fellowship, funded by the Stanton Nuclear Security Program. As part of the IISS Non-proliferation and Disarmament group, she is leading the Michael Quinlan Project, editing a book of Sir Michael’s correspondence on nuclear deterrence. She is on temporary leave from her position as Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.	Nuclear proliferation, disarmament dynamics Nuclear and radiological security The expansion of nuclear energy Southeast Asia
Jasper Pandza Research Analyst Pandza@iiss.org	Jasper Pandza (Germany) joined the IISS in September 2010 under the Stanton Nuclear Security Fellowship program. His research focuses on strengthening consequence mitigation in international efforts to counter nuclear and radiological terrorism. He is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Science and Security Studies, King’s College London.	Nuclear and radiological security issues