R. E. (Ted) Turner, Co-Chairman
A philanthropist and supporter of a number of humanitarian causes, Mr. Turner is founder of CNN, the world's first live, in-depth, around-the-clock news television network. He directs most of his philanthropic activities through the Turner Foundation, the United Nations Foundation and NTI.
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Sam Nunn, Co-Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Senator Nunn represented Georgia for 24 years (1972-1996) in the U.S. Senate, where he served as Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and on the Intelligence and Small Business Committees. 
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Charles B. Curtis, President & Chief Operating Officer
Charles B. Curtis is the President and Chief Operating Officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative.  Before joining NTI, Mr. Curtis served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the United Nations Foundation (UNF) and was a partner in Hogan & Hartson, a Washington based law firm with domestic and international offices.
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Dr. Alexei Arbatov, Head, Center for International Security at Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences
Alexei Arbatov is one of Russia's most important scholars and intellectual leaders in the fields of international relations and international security. He is the head of the Center for International Security of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and is also a Scholar-in-Residence and Co-chair of the Nonproliferation Program of the Carnegie Moscow Center.
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Pete V. Domenici, Senior Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center
Senator Domenici has been a strong proponent for creating and sustaining programs focused on reducing the threats from weapons of mass destruction. While serving in the U.S. Senate, he consistently promoted legislation to bolster the U.S. efforts to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons and components to build such weapons.
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Susan Eisenhower, President of the Eisenhower Group, Inc.
Ms. Eisenhower is President of the Eisenhower Group, Inc. and is best known for her work on U.S.-Russian relations and international security issues.  In 2000, she served on a U.S. Department of Energy blue ribbon task force, the Baker-Cutler Commission, to evaluate U.S.-funded nonproliferation programs in Russia, and since that time she has also served as an Advisor to another U.S. Energy Department study.
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Ambassador Rolf Ekeus, Chairman of the Board, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Ambassador Ekeus has spent the last two decades working on international nonproliferation issues. He has filled a number of diplomatic posts, including Swedish Ambassador to the United States and Executive Chairman of the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq from 1991-1997, where he was responsible for work to eliminate the Iraqi infrastructure for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programs.
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General Eugene E. Habiger USAF (Ret.), former Commander in Chief of the U.S. Strategic Command
General Habiger has more that 35 years of experience in national security and nuclear operations. In his role as commander in chief of the U.S. Strategic Command, General Habiger was responsible for all U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy strategic nuclear forces. During his tenure, General Habiger established an unprecedented military-to-military relationship with his Russian counterparts and brings a unique, in-depth understanding of nuclear operations and nuclear policy to NTI.
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HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan
His Royal Highness has initiated, founded and is actively involved in a number of Jordanian and international institutes and committees.  He co-chaired the Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issues (ICIHI), 1983 and is currently President and Patron of the Arab Thought Forum, President of the Club of Rome and President Emeritus of the World Conference on Religion and Peace. In April, 2002, His Royal Highness joined the Board of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI).
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Pierre Lellouche
Mr. Lellouche has been a member of the French National Assembly since 1993. He is the National Secretary of his party (in charge of Defense), the Union Mouvement Populaire (UMP), and a practicing attorney with Clyde and Co., Paris.
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U.S. Senator Richard G. Lugar (R-Indiana)
Senator Lugar is Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a well-known leader in international security issues. He co-sponsored, along with former Senator Sam Nunn, the 1991 Cooperative Threat Reduction Act, which provides assistance to Russia and the New Independent States in securing and destroying their excess nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
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Dr. Jessica T. Mathews, President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
As President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Dr. Mathews oversees an international research organization with offices in Washington and Moscow. Dr. Mathews, who holds a Ph.D. in molecular biology, has held positions in the executive and legislative branches, in management and research in the nonprofit arena and in journalism.
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Judge Hisashi Owada, International Court of Justice
Judge Hisashi Owada was appointed to the International Court of Justice in The Hague in early 2003. Before being appointed to this post, he served as President of the Japan Institute of International Affairs. One of his country's most respected diplomats, he previously served as Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs and in various foreign service posts.
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Dr. William Perry, former U.S. Secretary of Defense
Dr. Perry is the Michael and Barbara Berberian Professor at Stanford University, with a joint appointment in the School of Engineering and the Institute for International Studies. He is also co-director of the Preventive Defense Project. Dr. Perry served as U.S. Secretary of Defense from February 1994 to January 1997.
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Dr. Nafis Sadik, Special Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General
A national of Pakistan born in Jaunpur, India, Dr. Sadik has consistently called attention to the importance of addressing the needs of women directly in making and carrying out development policy. From April 1987 to December 2000, Dr. Sadik served as Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund, with the rank of Under Secretary General. Dr. Sadik received her doctor of medicine degree from Dow Medical College in Karachi, Pakistan.
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Professor Amartya Sen, Lamont University Professor at Harvard University
Professor Sen, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics, is a world-renowned economist, scholar, philosopher and author.  Born in India, Professor Sen studied at Presidency College in Calcutta, India and Trinity College, Cambridge. He is also Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University.
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Rt. Hon. Shirley Williams, House of Lords, United Kingdom
Baroness Williams is a Member of the House of Lords and is heavily involved in the debate over how to reform the upper house. Earlier in her career, she was a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons and served as a Labour Cabinet Minister of Education and Science. From 1988-2000, she served as Public Service Professor of Elective Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
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Professor Fujia Yang, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Dr. Yang is an internationally renowned nuclear physicist who currently serves as the sixth Chancellor of the University of Nottingham.  He is also Vice Chairman of the Chinese Association for Science & Technology and is a former Director of the Shanghai Institute of Nuclear Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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Warren E. Buffett
Warren E. Buffett, who has been concerned about the threats from weapons of mass destruction for four decades, serves as an Advisor to NTI's Board of Directors. Mr. Buffett is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., a holding company owning subsidiaries engaged in a number of diverse business activities and controlled by him since 1965.
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Dr. David A. Hamburg
David Hamburg is President Emeritus of Carnegie Corporation of New York, after having been President from 1983-97. He received his A.B. (1944) and his M.D. (1947) degrees from Indiana University. He was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences from 1961-72 and Reed-Hodgson professor of Human Biology at Stanford University from 1972-76; President of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, 1975-80; Director of the Division of Health Policy Research and Education and John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy at Harvard University, 1980-83. He served as President then Chairman of the Board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1984-86).
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Siegfried S. Hecker
Siegfried S. Hecker is Director Emeritus of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he was Director from 1986 to 1997, and is currently Visiting Professor at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation. He served as Chairman of the Center for Materials Science and Division Leader of the Materials Science and Technology Division before becoming Director. From 1970 to 1973 he was a Senior Research Metallurgist with the General Motors Research Laboratories.
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Frederick Iseman
Frederick Iseman is the Chairman and Managing Partner of Caxton-Iseman Capital Inc., which he founded in 1993 in partnership with Caxton Associates. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of investment firm STAR Capital in London and  a Board member of the International Rescue Committee and the Academy for Educational Development, as well as a member of the International Council of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University) and the Advisory Board of the Nuclear Threat Initiative.  Mr. Iseman is a major supporter of the Yale Center for Genocide Studies and Stanford University's Preventive Defense Fund.  He is also a Harold Pratt Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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George F. Russell, Jr.
George F. Russell, Jr. has been a worldwide leader in promoting the critical importance of globalization to reduce poverty and disease throughout the world. Mr. Russell built the Frank Russell Company into one of the world's leading investment advisory firms, serving as Chairman from 1958 until the firm was sold to Northwestern Mutual Life in 1999. Today, the company guides 1,100 clients in 35 countries with assets exceeding $1.8 trillion, and manages $130 billion in funds.
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