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Khalil is the director of the Arab Institute for Security Studies (ACSIS), a Jordanian organization pursuing research on WMD proliferation, cooperative security mechanisms, and foreign policy.
Ehud Eiran is an assistant professor in the School of Political Science at Haifa University in Israel. He is a former associate and research fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and a former lecturer in the department of political science at MIT.
Sinclaire is based in California and has a degree in film and television from Cal State Northridge. Sinclaire worked in both commercial and industrial television before moving into the political arena, where she managed media campaigns for organizations such as Planned Parenthood.
Crowder joined the Bulletin as senior editor in January 2012, primarily taking responsibility for the Development and Disarmament Roundtable series. Before then, he served as associate editor of Current History, a monthly journal of contemporary international affairs.
Bricker has been the editor of the Bulletin since May 2010. Before joining the Bulletin, she was with World Affairs, where she launched the publication's website and managed more than a dozen blogs written by top foreign policy experts.
Before the Bulletin, Mecklin was editor-in-chief of Miller-McCune (since renamed Pacific Standard), an award-winning national magazine that focused on research based solutions to major policy problems.
Before joining the Bulletin as columns editor in 2013, Eaves was a columnist at the now-defunct tablet newspaper The Daily, where she also launched and edited the opinions page.
Gladish joined the Bulletin in July 2006. She combines more than 30 years as an award-winning writer, editor, and fundraiser with strong experience in academic publishing.
Ben-Meir graduated from UC Santa Barbara in 2009 with a degree in Global and International Studies. Before joining the Bulletin in 2011, she spent a year in Israel as a research assistant at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya.
Veliko joined the Bulletin in July 2011. She also serves as program coordinator for the Energy Policy Institute at Chicago, a research institute at the University of Chicago affiliated with the Bulletin. She lives with her husband in Chicago.
Malin is the executive director of the Project on Managing the Atom at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
By many measures, Indonesia is making significant economic progress. According to the World Bank, 17.8 percent of Indonesians lived below the poverty line in 2006, but this number has now decreased to 12 percent.
On the road that leads to the controversial nuclear energy facility at Kudankulam in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu, an unexpected sight greets the visitor -- mile after mile of giant windmills spinning indolently.
In his second Roundtable essay, Jamal Khaer Ibrahim argued that professionals in industries associated with the nuclear supply chain might embrace societal verification out of a desire to "protect their professional reputations and avoid criminal or civil penalties associated with wrongdoing." B
I argued in my first Roundtable essay that any societal verification effort perceived as too closely aligned with government would have limited chances of success in the developing world. In my view, this would hold true for diplomacy as well.
