Dr. Hans Blix was born in 1928 in Uppsala, Sweden. He studied at the University of Uppsala, where is received his LLB; he did research at Columbia University and at Cambridge University, where he received his Ph.D. In 1959, he became Doctor of Laws at Stockholm University, and, in 1960, he was appointed Associate Professor in International Law.

From 1963 to 1976, Dr. Blix served as Adviser on International Law in the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1976, he became Under-Secretary of State, in charge of international development cooperation. He was appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs in October 1978.

He served as Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency for four terms, from 1981 till 1997.

Dr. Blix has several honorary doctorates and is a recipient of a number of decorations and awards. He is a member of the Institut de Droit International and an honorary member of the American Society of International Law.

He has written several books on subjects associated with international and constitutional law. He has further written many articles on the need for safe nuclear power and for nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation. He was the leader of the Liberal Campaign Committee in connection with the referendum on the Swedish nuclear energy programme in 1980. He published the book, "Disarming Iraq" in March 2004 and "Why Disarmament Matters" in April 2008.

Dr. Blix was appointed Executive Chairman of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) for Iraq by the UN Secretary-General in January 2000. He took up his duties on 1 March 2000 and left the post at the end of June 2003, with the expiry of his third contract. On his return to Sweden, the Swedish Government asked him to form and chair an independent international commission on weapons of mass destruction (WMDC). In May 2006 the Commission published the report "Weapons of Terror. Freeing the World of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons".

Dr. Blix lives in Stockholm and is married to Eva Kettis, formerly ambassador in charge of Arctic and Antarctic issues in the Swedish Foreign Ministry. They have two sons.

Jacques Bouchard is Special Adviser to the Chairman of the CEA.

Born in 1939, Jacques Bouchard holds an engineering degree from the "Ecole Centrale de Paris", and specialized in reactor physics.

Mr. Bouchard joined the CEA in 1964 and became Head of the Experimental Physics unit in 1973, then head of the Nuclear Engineering Department in 1975. In that capacity, the work he conducted was mainly in support of pressurized water reactor technology, and he also led studies in physics for fuel cycle applications.

In 1982, he became head of the Fast Neutron Reactor Department in Cadarache. In 1990, he was appointed head of the CEA's Nuclear Reactor Division, then, from 1994 to 2000, he became the Director of CEA's military application division.

From 2000 to 2004, he was in charge of the entire nuclear energy sector in CEA.

From 2006 to the end of 2009, he was Chairman of the Generation IV International Forum (GIF). Since 2008 he is the Chairman of the Standing Advisory Group for Nuclear Energy of the IAEA.

Jacques Bouchard was also the President of the French Nuclear Energy Society from 2001 to 2003 and professor at the reknown "Ecole des Mines de Paris". He has serve on the board of directors of several companies working in the nuclear field, and he is member of many advisory committees to national and international nuclear organizations.

Dr. KunMo Chung is an internationally known nuclear energy engineer and science and technology educator. He served twice as Minister of Science and Technology in South Korea, is former chairman and CEO of the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation, and is former President of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology. Internationally, Dr. Chung held posts as President of the General Conference of International Atomic Energy Agency of the United Nations, Vice Chairman of the World Energy Council, and Chairman of the International Nuclear Energy Academy. For these services and contributions, he had received many honors and awards.

As an educator, Dr. Chung has been Professor of Energy Engineering at MIT, Polytechnic Institute of New York (PINY), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Ajou University, and Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL). Dr. Chung is credited with the establishment of KAIST, which has become one of the leading science and engineering universities. He served as KAIST's founding provost.

Dr. Chung is internationally known for his innovations in design of electric power plants and science policy studies. The Korea Power Engineering Company, which he headed in the 1980's, has become one of the leading engineering companies in the world. The Korea Standardized Nuclear Power Plant Design was initiated, developed, and implemented under his leadership. Dr. Chung holds the basic patent of Transportable Barge-Mounted Nuclear Power Plant.

Dr. Chung is currently a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society, a Fellow and Director of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology, a Foreign Member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Applies Science and Engineering, a Foreign Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, and a Member of the International Nuclear Energy Academy. He is a founder of the International Risk Governance Council (IRGC) in Geneva. He served as the founding president of Korea Society of Energy Engineering and Korea Society of Risk Governance.

Currently, Dr. Chung is leading the establishment of the KEPCO International Nuclear Graduate School, the development of Modular Design of Nuclear Power Plants, and the Risk Governance of Critical Infrastructures. He also serves as a member of the Kenyan National Economic and Social Council and Distinguished Visiting Professor of George Mason University, Virginia, USA. Dr. Chung is widely recognized as one of the global pioneers of 'Nuclear Renaissance'.

Professor Chung has also served as Chairman of the Korean Habitat for Humanity, Chairman of the

Korean Organ Donor Program, Chairman of the Korean National Prayer Breakfast, Founder of the Korean National Reconciliation Prayer Movement, and Chairman of Rise Up Korea Movement.

Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr. is the Executive Chairman of the Board of Lightbridge Corporation, a company which holds patents on a new type of nuclear power fuel based on thorium and which is located in McLean, Virginia. Lightbridge Corporation is a U.S. company, which conducts its research and development work at the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow.

Ambassador Graham is also Chairman of the Board of the Cypress Fund for Peace and Security, which is located in Washington, DC. The Cypress Fund is a charitable foundation established to provide long-term, reliable support to selected arms control, non-proliferation and conflict resolution NGOs, support PhD programs, and to carry out other activities in these fields.

In addition, Ambassador Graham is chairman of the Board of Mexco Energy Corporation of Midland, Texas, a largely domestic oil and gas exploration company listed on the American Stock Exchange and is a Board member of CanAlaska Uranium Ltd. of Vancouver, Canada.

Internationally known as one of the leading authorities in the field of international arms control and non-proliferation agreements designed to limit and to combat the proliferation of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons, Ambassador Graham served as a senior U.S. diplomat involved in the negotiation of every major international arms control and non-proliferation agreement in which the United States was involved during the period 1970-1997. This includes The Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (the Interim Agreement on Strategic Offensive Arms, the Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty and the SALT II Treaty), The Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (the START I Treaty and the START II Treaty), the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty extension (NPT), the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty, and Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

In 1993, Ambassador Graham served as the Acting Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) and for seven months in 1994 served as the Acting Deputy Director. From 1994 through 1997, he served as the Special Representative of the President for Arms Control, Non-Proliferation, and Disarmament, appointed by President Clinton and in this capacity led U.S. government efforts to achieve the permanent extension of the NPT in 1994 and 1995. He also served for 15 years as the general counsel of ACDA.

He additionally served among other assignments as the Legal Advisor to the U.S. SALT II, START I, and START II Delegations, the senior arms control agency representative to the U.S. INF Delegation and the U.S. Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Delegation.

Ambassador Graham worked on the negotiation of The Chemical Weapon Convention and The Biological Weapons Convention. He drafted the implementing legislation for the Biological Weapons Convention and managed the Senate approval of the ratification of the Geneva Protocol banning the use in war of chemical and biological weapons.

Ambassador Graham is also a widely published author in both scholarly journals and major newspapers for example publishing a major article on nuclear weapon proliferation in the National Strategy Forum Review. A comparable article in The Journal of the Howard Baker Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee was published in 2007. In 2008 with Ambassador Max Kampelman, Ambassador Graham published an article on the elimination of nuclear weapons in the Washington Times and an article on the Test Ban in Spectrum, the magazine of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Office. He also published an article with Russell Schweickart on asteroids, NASA and nuclear weapons in the March, 2008 issue of Scientific American. Ambassador Graham has authored five books, Disarmament Sketches: Three Decades of Arms Control and International Law (2002), Cornerstones of Security: Arms Control and International Law in a Nuclear Era (2003) with Damien LaVera, Common Sense on Weapons of Mass Destruction (2004), and Spy Satellites and Other Technologies that Have Changed the Course of History (2007) with Keith Hansen. A second book with Keith Hansen Preventing Catastrophe: The Use and Misuse of Intelligence in Efforts to Halt the Proliferation and Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction was published by Stanford University Press in 2009. He has taught at many prestigious universities, including the University of Virginia School of Law, the Georgetown School of Foreign Service, the Georgetown University Law Center, Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley and the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington.

Ambassador Graham received an A.B. in 1955 from Princeton University and a J.D. in 1961 from Harvard Law School. He is a member of the Kentucky, the District of Columbia and the New York Bars and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He chaired the Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament of the American Bar Association from 1986-1994. Ambassador Graham received the Trainor Award for Distinction in Diplomacy from Georgetown University in 1995. On May 2, 2007 Ambassador Graham received the 2006 World Order Under Law Award of the International Section of the American Bar Association. He twice received the Distinguished Honor Award, twice the Superior Honor Award and once the Meritorious Honor Award from ACDA. He also once received the Meritorious Honor Award from the Department of State.

Takuya Hattori is President of Japan Atomic Industria l Forum, Inc. (JAIF) and President of JAIF International Cooperation Center. He joined JAIF in June 2006 as Executive Vice Chairman and was appointed to his current position In September 2007.

In March 2009, he also took the office of president of JAIF-ICC. JAIF is the private-sector organization for the nuclear industry to promote peacefuluse of nuclear power.

Prior to joining JAIF, Mr. Hattori served as Executive Vice President of Tokyo Electric Power Co. Inc. (TEPCO). He has 36 years of experience in nuclear power generation at TEPCO.

Mr. Hattori began his career with TEPCO in 1970 as a mechanical engineer at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Construction Office. He had been in charge of design, construction and operation & maintenance of 17 nuclear power plants in 3 nuclear power stations (Fukushima Daiichi, Fukushima Daini and Kashiwazaki-Kariwa).

Mr. Hattori held various general management positions in design, construction, operation & maintenance, general planning at Nuclear Power Division of TEPCO, before he assumed his position as Executive Vice President in 2005, where he was responsible for Research & Development Center, Thermal Power Division, Environmental Division and Construction Division.

He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and M.S. in Engineering in 1968 and 1970 respectively from the University of Tokyo.

Lady Judge, a US-trained lawyer, has an unusually broad, international career as a senior executive, chairman and non-executive director, in both the private and public sectors.

Lady Judge received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and Juris Doctor with honours from New York University Law School. She became a partner in a large New York law firm in 1978 specialising in corporate and financial transactions.

In 1980 she was appointed by the President of the United States, as the youngest ever Commissioner of the US Securities and Exchange Commission and she was a founder of its international division. She also negotiated, on behalf of the US President, the opening of the Tokyo stock exchange to foreign members. In 1983 she moved to Hong Kong as the first woman main board executive director of a London merchant bank, Samuel Montagu & Co, returning to NY in 1987 as Senior Vice President and Group Head of Bankers Trust - International Private Banking Division. In 1993 she moved to the UK as the first woman executive director of News International plc and thereafter led buy-ins of Scotia Haven Food Group and Whitworths Food Group, and was subsequently a founder of Private Equity Investor plc, a London listed fund of private equity funds. She was also deputy chairman of Friends Provident plc from 1994 to 2009.

In 2002, Lady Judge was appointed a non-executive director of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority and chairman of its audit committee. She has been its Chairman since 2004 (having been reappointed in 2007) overseeing the development and sale of its commercial arm, UKAEA Ltd, during a period of major restructuring of the UK nuclear industry. She is also a member of the UK Nuclear Development Forum and Chairman of the Industrial Advisory Board of the newly formed UK National Nuclear Centre for Excellence (NNCE). Previously she was a member of the UK Government's Energy Division of the Department of Trade and Industry and a member of the Programme Board which created the UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.

Lady Judge is Deputy Chairman of Forte Energy NL (Australia) and a non-executive director of NV Bekaert SA (Belgium), Massey Energy Company (US) and Magna international Inc (Canada). Previously she was Deputy Chairman of the UK Financial Reporting Council and she is currently a public member of the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants.

She has been Chairman of the Governing Body of the School of Oriental and African Studies, and is currently Chairman of its London Middle East Institute. She is also a trustee of the Royal Academy of Arts and a Governor of the Ditchley Foundation. In addition she is a Governor of the Lauder Institute of International Management at the Wharton School of Business and a member of the Trilateral Commission.

In December 2009 she was appointed by the Prime Minister as a UK Business Ambassador, with particular responsibility for energy matters. She is also Chairman of the UCL Energy Institute (University College, London)

She has spoken extensively at international fora on the subject of nuclear energy, including decommissioning of nuclear power plants and the need for their continued construction, as well as the related subjects of nuclear proliferation, climate change and clean energy.

Mujid S. Kazimi is Professor of Nuclear and Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whose faculty he joined in 1976.

Founding and current Director of the Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems (CANES), at MIT, since 2000.

Served as Head of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT, 1989 to 1997.

Extensive experience in design and safety analysis of nuclear fission reactors, fusion technology devices, and high-level radioactive waste storage facilities.

Background and Education

Born in Jerusalem, Palestine in 1947.

Finished secondary education at Bir Zeit College, then in the West Bank of Jordan, in 1964.

B.Eng., Nuclear Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt, 1969

M.S., Nuclear Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1971

Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1973

US Citizen since 1980.

Select Professional Activities

• Co-Director, MIT Summer Course on Nuclear Systems Safety, 1990-present.
• Chairman, MIT Research Reactor Safety Committee, 1997-2009.
• Chairman, High-Level Waste Tank Advisory Panel, U.S. DOE 1990-1995 and DOE-Richland, 1998-2000.
• Member, Panel on Partition and Transmutation of Nuclear Waste, National Research Council, 1991-1995.
• Member, Board of Trustees, Al-Quds University, Jerusalem, 1998- present.
• Member, International Experts Panel on Accelerator Transmutation of Waste (ATW), U.S. DOE, 1999-2000.
• Member, Review of Nuclear Energy Research Program, CEIMAT, Spain, 2002.
• Member, Committee on Alternatives and Strategies for Future Hydrogen Production and Use, National Research Council, 2002-2003.
• Member, Steering Committee of International Congress on Advanced Power Plants (ICAPP), American Nuclear Society, 2002- present.
• Member, Board of Managers, Battelle Energy Alliance, 2005-2009. Chair of the Board Committee on Science and Technology, 2007- 2009
• Member, Science Review Panel for Thermal Hydraulics, Paul Scherer Institute, Switzerland, 2006 – present.
• Member, Advisory Committee to Center for Research on Innovative Nuclear Systems (CRINES), Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, 2006 - present
• Member, Committee on National R&D Program for Nuclear Energy, National Academy of Engineering, 2006-2007
• Member, Blue Ribbon Committee on Rejuvenation of Scientific Research in Kuwait, 2007.
• Member, Visiting Committee, Division of Energy, Environment and Security, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 2007- 2009.
• Member, Honors and Awards Committee, American Nuclear Society, 2008 -2009
• Member, Publications Steering Committee, American Nuclear Society, 2008 – present
• Chair, Advisory Committee to the Institute of Nuclear Energy Science and Technology, Center for Advanced Energy Studies, Idaho, 2009- present

Honors and Awards

• Graduation with Distinction and First Class Honor, University of Alexandria, Egypt, 1969.
• Yahya AlMashad Award for Special Contributions In Science and Technology, Association of Arab-American University Graduates, 1987.
• Who's Who in America, 1995 - present.
• Fellow, American Nuclear Society, 1995.
• Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) Professorship in Nuclear Engineering, MIT, 2000 - present
• New Citizens Award, International Institute of Boston, 2000.
• Best Technical Paper Award (co-author), ICONE 8, 2000.
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2006.
• Best Paper Award (co-author), Thermal Hydraulic Division, Am. Nuclear Society, 2009
• Technical Achievement Award, Thermal Hydraulic Division, Am. Nuclear Society, 2009

Publications

Two-volume textbook Nuclear Systems on thermal hydraulic design of nuclear reactors.

More than two hundred and fifty papers in journals and conference proceedings.

Jukka Laaksonen graduated from Helsinki Technical University in 1972, MSc in Nuclear Engineering. He joined the Finnish nuclear regulatory body STUK in 1974 and was in lead role when nuclear regulatory system was developed in Finland. From 1997 to 2012 he was Director General of STUK. He was visiting expert at USNRC in 1981-82 and senior officer at the IAEA in 1987-89. Since 2012 he works for Rosatom supporting licensing of VVER type nuclear power plants. He has chaired OECD/NEA Committee for Nuclear Regulatory Activities and the Western European Nuclear Regulators’ Association, as well as several working groups and safety review teams of the IAEA.

Sir John Rose joined Rolls-Royce plc in 1984 and was appointed to its Board of Directors in January 1992, becoming Chief Executive on 1 May 1996.

Sir John is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

He is a member of the JP Morgan International Council, the CBI International Advisory Board, the Englefield Advisory Board and is a Trustee of the Eden Project.

Sir John was knighted in 2003, became a Commandeur de la Legion d'Honneur in 2008 and was awarded the Singapore Public Service Star in the same year.

Born in Blantyre, Malawi, John earned his MA degree in Psychology from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

Sir John is married with three children.