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William Potter

Director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies

Dr. William Potter is the Director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and the Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar Professor of Nonproliferation Studies. He has served on numerous committees of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and for five years was a member of the UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters. He has been an advisor to the delegation of Kyrgyzstan at every NPT Review Conference and Preparatory Committee meeting since 1995. Dr Potter is the author and editor of over 20 books, the most recent of which are two volumes on Forecasting Nuclear Proliferation in the 21st Century (Stanford University Press, 2010), The Global Politics of Combating Nuclear Terrorism (2010) and Nuclear Politics and the Non-Aligned Movement (2012).

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