Inaugural Members

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INAUGURAL MEMBERS

Australia

Gareth Evans ……………………………………………………………………………. PAGE 2

Malcolm Fraser ……………………………………………………………………………. PAGE 2

Robert Hawke ……………………………………………………………………………. PAGE 2

Robert Hill ……………………………………………………………………………. PAGE 3

China

Cui Liru ……………………………………………………………………………. PAGE 3

Li Bin ……………………………………………………………………………. PAGE 3

Ma Zhengang ……………………………………………………………………………. PAGE 4

Pan Zhenqiang ……………………………………………………………………………. PAGE 4

India

Lalit Mansingh ……………………………………………………………………………. PAGE 4

Jaswant Singh ……………………………………………………………………………. PAGE 5

Indonesia

Kusmayanto Kadiman ……………………………………………………………………………. PAGE 5

Nur Hassan Wirajuda …………………………………………………………………………… PAGE 6

Wiryono Sastrohandoyo ……………………………………………………………………………. PAGE 6

Japan

Nobuyasu Abe ……………………………………………………………………………. PAGE 6

Yasuo Fukuda ……………………………………………………………………………. PAGE 7

Yoriko Kawaguchi ……………………………………………………………………………. PAGE 7

Yohei Kono ……………………………………………………………………………. PAGE 7

Malaysia

Tan Sri Hasmy Agam ……………………………………………………………………………. PAGE 8 New Zealand

James Bolger ……………………………………………………………………………. PAGE 8

Geoffrey Palmer ……………………………………………………………………………. PAGE 8

Pakistan

Mushahid Hussain ……………………………………………………………………………. PAGE 9

Jehangir Karamat ……………………………………………………………………………. PAGE 9

Humayan Khan ……………………………………………………………………………. PAGE 9

Philippines

Domingo Siazon ……………………………………………………………………………. PAGE 10

Republic of Korea

Han Sung-Joo ……………………………………………………………………………. PAGE 10

Lee Hong-Koo ……………………………………………………………………………. PAGE 10

Singapore

Kishore Mahbubani ……………………………………………………………………………. PAGE 11

Sri Lanka

Jayantha Dhanapala ……………………………………………………………………………. PAGE 11

Vietnam

Nguyen Tam Chien ……………………………………………………………………………. PAGE 12

Ton Nu Thi Ninh ……………………………………………………………………………. PAGE 12

AUSTRALIA

GARETH EVANS (Convenor)

Foreign Minister of Australia (1988-1996), Leader of the Government in the Senate (1993-1996), previously Attorney General, Minister for Resources & Energy and Transport & Communications. After leaving Parliament, President of the International Crisis Group (2000-2009); Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne since 2009, Chancellor of the Australian National University since 2010. Member, inter alia, of the Blix Commission on Weapons of Mass Destruction (2006), Zedillo Commission on IAEA (2008), UN High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change (2004); Co-Chair of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (2008-2010).

MALCOLM FRASER

Prime Minister of Australia (1975-1983); Minister for Education & Science (1972), and Defence (1969-1971). After parliament, Co-Chairman of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group against Apartheid (1985-1986), Chairman of the United Nations Committee on African Commodity Problems (1990), President of CARE International (1990-1995), and Professorial Fellow, Asia Pacific Centre for Military Lawe (2007). Privy Councillor (1976), Companion of Honour (1977), Companion of Order of Australia (1988). Signatory of Australian ‘Group of Statesmen’ statement on nuclear disarmament, (April 2009).

BOB HAWKE

Prime Minister of Australia (1983-1991); Member of House of Representatives 1980-1992; President, Australian Council of Trade Unions (1969-1980); Adjunct Professor of Pacific Studies and Social Sciences, Australian National University (1992-2005). Current honorary roles include Member of the Advisory Council, The United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney; Member of the Council of Advisers, Boao Forum for Asia; Member of the International Advisory Council of the Australian American Leadership Dialogue; Chairman Hawke Research Institute Advisory Board, University of South Australia.

ROBERT HILL

Defence Minister of Australia (2001-2006), Leader of the Government in the Senate (1996-2006); Minister for the Environment and Heritage (1996-2001). After leaving Parliament, Permanent Representative to the United Nations (2006-2009); Adjunct Professor of Sustainability at the US Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, and head of the Carbon Trust. Chancellor of the University of South Australia from 2010.

CHINA

CUI LIRU

Currently President of the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations [CICIR] (2005-); Director General and Research Professor at the Institute of World Information at the State Information Center in Beijing (1996-2004); Counselor for China’s Representation to the United Nations, New York (1992-1994); Director and Associate Research Professor of the Division of International Exchanges (1990-1991).

LI BIN [photo]

Currently Professor of International Relations and Director of the Arms Control Program, Tsinghua University (2000-). Founder of the Institute of Science and Public Affairs (1999); Director of the Arms Control Division and Executive Deputy Director of Program for Science and National Security Studies at the Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing (1996-1999); Post-Doctoral Fellow at the MacArthur Foundation (1994- 1996).

MA ZHENGANG

President of China Arms Control and Disarmament Association. President of the China Institute of International Studies (2004-09).Ambassador to the United Kingdom (1997-2002), Vice-Minister of the Foreign Office of the State Council (1995-1996), and Director-General of the Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1985-1990).

PAN ZHENQIANG

Major General (Retired). Research fellow, deputy director, and director, Institute of Strategic Studies, National Defense University (1986-2001). Research fellow at U.S. National Defense University (1987), Stanford University (1988-1989), and Harvard University (1999, 2000). Current positions include Senior Adviser to China Reform Forum (CRF) and Member of the Executive Committee of the Council of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.

INDIA

LALIT MANSINGH

Foreign Secretary (1999-2001). Ambassador to the United States (2001-2004) and UAE; High Commissioner toUK (1998-1999) and Nigeria; also served in Geneva, Kabul and Brussels.. Currently on Board of Trustees of International Crisis Group, Executive Committee of the Institute of Peace and Conflict, and Professor Emeritus at the Foreign Service Institute of India.

JASWANT SINGH

Minister of External Affairs (1998-2004), Minister of Defence (2001), Minister of Finance (2002-2004). Previously Leader of the Opposition; currently MP for Bharatiya Janata Party in the Rajya Sabha (Upper House).

INDONESIA

KUSMAYANTO KADIMAN

State Minister for Research and Technology (2004-2009). Previously Director of the Bandung Institute (2001-2004), and corporate director in science, engineering, and technology areas. He is a prominent expert on Indonesia’s proposed nuclear energy programmes, and active in BATAN, Indonesia’s atomic energy agency.

NUR HASSAN WIRAJUDA

Minister for Foreign Affairs (2001-2009). Previously Director-General of Political Affairs (2000-2001), Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva (1998-2000), and widely published on nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament.

WIRYONO SASTROHANDOYO

Indonesia’s Ambassador to Australia (1996-1999), France (1993-1996), Director General for Political Affairs (1990-1993). Permanent Representative to the UN in Vienna (1988-1989). Member of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament.

JAPAN

NOBUYASU ABE

UN Under-Secretary for Disarmament Affairs (2003-2006); Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (2001-2003), Vienna (1999-2001) and Switzerland (2006-2008). Previously Director-General for Arms Control and Science Affairs (1997-1999).

YASUO FUKUDA

Prime Minister of Japan (2007-2008), Chief Cabinet Secretary (2000-2004). Elected to the Diet in 1996, and remains an incumbent member. In 2008, co-initiated with Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (ICNND).

YORIKO KAWAGUCHI

Minister for Foreign Affairs (2002-2004), Minister for the Environment (2000- 2002). Special adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs (2004-05), and since 2005 Member of the House of Councillors for the Liberal Democratic Party. Previously, senior positions at Suntory Ltd, Ministry of International Trade and Industry, and World Bank. Co-chair of the International Commission on Nuclear Non Proliferation and Disarmament.

YOHEI KONO

Minister for Foreign Affairs (1994-1996) and (1999-2001), Speaker of the House (2003-2009). Previously President of the Liberal Democratic Party (1993-1995), Chief Cabinet Secretary (1991-1992), and Secretary of the Science and Technology Agency 1985.

MALAYSIA

TAN SRI HASMY AGAM

Ambassador to the United Nations (1998-2003), serving as President of the Security Council in 1999 and 2000. Previously served as Ambassador to France, Portugal, Libya and Malta. Currently Chairman of SUHAKAM, the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia.

NEW ZEALAND

JIM BOLGER

Prime Minister of New Zealand (1990-1997); Ambassador to the United States (1998-2001). Chairman of Ian Axford Fellowship in Public Policy; Chairman International Board of World Agricultural Forum; Chancellor of University of Waikato; Distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Directors and Chair of various Boards. Privy Councillor (1991) , Order of New Zealand.(1998)

GEOFFREY PALMER

Prime Minister of New Zealand (1989-1990), Deputy Prime-Minister (1984- 1989). Professor of Law at Victoria, and Iowa Universities, co-founder of Chen Palmer & Partners, and current barrister for Harbour Chambers law firm. In 2010 appointed head of the United Nations Panel investigating the Israeli Flotilla Incident.

PAKISTAN

MUSHAHID HUSSAIN

Minister for Information (1997-1999).Current Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee in the Pakistani Senate. Previously editor of “The Muslim” newspaper; lectured at the State Department’s Foreign Service Institute, Harvard University, MIT, the Middle East Institute, the Stimson Centre, Oxford University and Georgetown University’s Centre for Christian- Muslim Understanding.

JEHANGIR KARAMAT

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Chief of Army Staff (1995-1998); Ambassador to the United States (2004-06). Visiting Fellow at Stanford 1999 and Brookings Institution 2000. Currently Director of Spearhead Research. Member of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament.

HUMAYUN KHAN

Foreign Secretary (1988-1989). Previously Ambassador to India (1984-1988), High Commissioner to UK (1990-1992), Head of the Commonwealth Foundation in London, (1993-2000).Also served in Bangladesh, Moscow and at UN in Geneva.

PHILIPPINES

DOMINGO SIAZON

Secretary of Foreign Affairs (1995-2001); Director General, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (1985-1993); Ambassador to Japan (2001-2010), Austria (1980-1995); President,IAEA General Conference (1982), Co-Chairman of Working

Group III Assurances of Supply (1979-1981), International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation (INFCE). Currently Senior Advisor to Metrobank .

REPUBLIC OF KOREA

HAN SUNG-JOO

Ambassador to the United States (2003-2005), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1993-1994). UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Cyprus (1996- 1997), and member of the UN Inquiry Commission on the 1994 Rwanda Genocide 1999. Former academic: PhD University of California Berkeley, professor at City University of New York (1970-1979), Columbia (1986-1987) and Stanford (1992 & 1995), and Korea University (1995-2002). Signatory of Korean ‘Group of Statesmen’ statement on nuclear disarmament, June 2010.

LEE HONG-KOO

Prime Minister (1994-1995); Deputy Prime Minister for Reunification (1988- 1991), Ambassador to the United States (1998-2000), and United Kingdom (1991-1993). Former academic: PhD Yale and professor at Seoul National University serving as president of the Korean Political Science Association, and member of the Executive Committee of the International Political Science Association. Member of the Commission on Global Governance, 1995. Signatory of Korean ‘Group of Statesmen’ statement on nuclear disarmament, June 2010.

SINGAPORE

KISHORE MAHBUBANI

Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. Permanent Representative to UN, serving as President of Security Council (January 2001 and May 2002), Permanent Secretary at the Foreign Ministry (1993-1998). Previously served in Cambodia, Malaysia, and the

United States.

SRI LANKA

JAYANTHA DHANAPALA

United Nations Under-Secretary General for Disarmament (1998-2003); Ambassador to the United States (1995-1997), and UN, Geneva (1984-1987). President of the 1995 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review and Extension Conference; Director of the UN Institute for Disarmament Research (1987-1992). Member of Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons (1996), and Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (2006). Currently, President of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.Member, inter alia, of boards of Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies.

VIETNAM

NGUYEN TAM CHIEN

Ambassador to the United States (2001-2003). Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs (1997), Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs (1996-1997), Ambassador to Japan 1992-1996, and Director General of Policy Planning (1984-1992).

TON NU THI NINH

Ambassador to European Union (2000-2003); Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs (1996-2000), Director General for International Organizations (1993-1996). Vice-Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, 11th National Assembly of Viet Nam (2002-2007). Currently President of Tri Viet International University, due to open 2013.