Institute for applied science

NATO:
The workshop is organized under the auspices of the Security Through Science Program run by NATO’s Public Diplomacy Division. In 2004 NATO changed the direction of its civil science program, renaming it the NATO Program for Security Through Science in order to focus on addressing post 9/11 security concerns identified by NATO, Partner and Mediterranean Dialogue Countries. The new priorities of the program are: (1) Defense against Terrorism; (2) Countering Other Threats to Security; and (3) Partner Country Priorities. Previously, the science program had a more general public diplomacy goal of fostering international cooperation through partnerships between NATO and Partner countries.

The new priorities of the Security Through Science Program reflect NATO’s overall transformation in response to the security challenges it faces in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. At the Prague Summit, November 21-23, 2002, NATO issued invitations to seven new states – Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia -- thereby expanding the alliance to 26 Member states. NATO made it clear that adding seven new countries to the alliance is only a part of a much broader transformation strategy which views enlargement of the alliance as a means to create a common security space capable of responding to the international security challenges posed by terrorism and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. NATO’s 2002 Prague Declaration introduced a variety of reforms and new initiatives to combat terrorism and underlined the commitment of the Partner Countries to work with NATO to combat terrorism through mechanisms such as the Partnership Action Plan on Terrorism.

For information on the NATO Security Through Science Program see: http://www.nato.int/science/index.html
For the full text of the 2002 NATO Prague Summit Declaration see: http://www.nato.int/docu/pr/2002/p02-127e.htm
For the Partnership Action Plan Against Terrorism see: http://www.nato.int/docu/basictxt/b021122e.htm

Workshop Co-Directors:

NATO Advanced Research Workshops have two co-directors: one from a NATO member country, and one from a NATO partner country.

Dr. Evgeny P. Velikhov, President and Director of The Russian Research Centre, Kurchatov Institute, Russian Federation.
Founder and the First Academician-Secretary of Department of Information Science, Computer Facilities and Automation of USSR Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Sciences. A major scientist in the field of physics of plasma and controlled thermonuclear fusion - proposed and experimentally realized a new type of impetus magnetic-hydrodynamic generator of high-power. Pioneer of a number of large projects in the conversion of high technologies in the defensive branches of Russian Industry.

Other positions include: Chairman International Approaches to Nuclear and Radiological Security Conference 2002. Member of Rosshelf Director's Council; Scientific Chief of Studies on controlled thermonuclear fusion in USSR; Representative of Russia in International Council on controlled thermonuclear synthesizing at IAAE; Chairman of Board of International Program (Russia, U.S.A., United Europe and Japan) on creation of thermonuclear experimental reactor (ITER); Founding Director of the Institute for Applied Science; Scientific Chief of the Program for Development and Implementation of Technological Lasers; Professor of Moscow State University; Honorary Doctor of Universities: Notre Dame (USA), Tufts (USA), London (UK), Dresden (Germany) etc. Twice elected Vice-president of the USSR Academy of Sciences; Headed Faculty of Physics in Lomonosov Moscow State University; Honorary Member of Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences; President of Rosshelf from 1992-2001, a Russian joint stock company which combines underwater shipbuilding enterprises from the defense complex with enterprises of the oil and gas complex to develop offshore hydrocarbon fields on the Russian Shelf. Recipient of numerous prizes and awards including: Hero of Socialist Labor; Courage Order (other state awards 1971, 1977, 1981, 1984, 1985, 2000); Scilliard Prize winner, USA; Science of World Prize, World Federation of Scientists, Switzerland etc.

For more information about the Kurchatov Institute see: http://www.kiae.ru/eng/wel/all/dp1.htm

John W. Wood, Chairman, Trilateral Group, UK.
John Wood is Chairman of the Trilateral Group – an international group of thoughtware companies specializing in such areas as political & economic consulting, economic development and commercialization, science and technology policy and communications. Mr Wood served with Dr. Velikhov as Co-Chairman of the International Nuclear and Radiological Security Conference initiative jointly hosted by the US Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration, the Russian Federation’s Ministry of Atomic Energy and the Russian Research Center, Kurchatov Institute. - He also served as Chairman of the Board of Visitors of the US Nuclear Material Protection and Accounting Program. Other positions include: Chairman of the Institute for Applied Science, an independent, non-profit Russian-American collaboration to facilitate nonproliferation through the commercial application of science and technology developed in the leading Russian institutes for peaceful purposes; Chairman Segal Quince Wicksteed Ltd.; Director MEC International Ltd.; Director Oxford Analytica Ltd. Director Santa Fe Science and Technology Inc.; Former Chairman, St. Petersburg Development Corporation. Member of Senior Advisory Board and Honorary Fellow, Center for Strategic Studies; Director Association of Management Consulting Firms; Chairman Emeritus of Republicans Abroad - the international arm of the US Republican Party; Member of the Board of Junior Achievement, Russian Federation; Chairman of the Advisory Council, Institute of United States Studies London University; Founding Fellow of the Atlantic Council.

For information about Trilateral Group see: http://trilat.secureias.com/trilateral.php
For information about Segal Quince Wicksteed see: http://www.sqw.co.uk/
For information about MEC International & its January 2004 NATO Windsor Energy Security Workshop, see: http://www.iapscience.com/etess_en.php
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http://www.meconsult.co.uk/mecindex.htm

For further information contact:
Merelina Vyner-Brooks
The Trilateral Group
Granville House, 132-135 Sloane Street, London SW1X 9AX, United Kingdom.
Tel: (44) 207 591 4800 Fax: 0207 591 4801
E-mail: Mail@trilat.com