Speaker Profiles Dr. Peter Bradford Adjunct Professor, Vermont Law School and Former US NRC Commissioner, United States Peter Bradford advises and teaches on utility regulation, nuclear power and energy policy in the United States and abroad. He has been a visiting lecturer at Yale University and has taught at Vermont Law School. He recently served on a National Academy of Sciences panel and is also affiliated with the Regulatory Assistance Project, which provides assistance to state and federal energy regulatory commissions regarding economic regulatory policy and environmental protection. He is vice-chair of the Board of the Union of Concerned Scientists. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Mr. Bradford chaired the New York State Public Service Commission and the Maine Public Utilities Commission and helped to resolve New York’s stalemate over the Shoreham nuclear power plant and Maine’s controversial involvement in Seabrook, both on favorable economic terms. He served on the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission from 1977 until 1982. During his term, the NRC undertook major upgrading of its regulatory and enforcement processes in the wake of the Three Mile Island accident. Mr. Bradford is the author of Fragile Structures: A Story of Oil Refineries, National Security and the Coast of Maine. His articles on utility regulation and nuclear power have appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Newsday, and The Electricity Journal. He is a 1964 graduate of Yale University and received his law degree from the Yale Law School in 1968. Vladimír Dlouhý Advisor, Goldman Sachs, Czech Republic Vladimír Dlouhý works for Goldman Sachs as an International Advisor for Central and Eastern Europe. He is currently Chairman of the Advisory Board for Chayton Capital, London, UK, Non-Executive Director of KSK Power Ventur in Hyderabad, India, Chairman of the Advisory Board of Meridiam Infrastructure, Paris, France and an Associate Professor of Macroeconomics and Economic Policy at Charles University in Prague. He is also the author of numerous publications.Mr. Dlouhý studied mathematical economics and econometrics at the School of Economics and at Charles University in Prague, and later received his MBA at Catholic University in Leuven, Belgium. Mr. Dlouhý also served as the Czech Minister of Industry and Trade (1992–1997). Dana Drábová Chief Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection Regulator, Czech Republic In her present position, Ms. Drábová is the chief nuclear safety and radiation protection regulator in the Czech Republic. She was appointed as the Chairperson of the State Office for Nuclear Safety (SÚJB) by the Czech government in 1999. Prior to this appointment she worked in the National Radiation Protection Institute (NRPI) in Prague as health physicist, since 1996 was the director of the NRPI. Ms. Drábová is a graduate from the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University, Department of Dosimetry and Applications of Ionizing Radiation (1980-1985). She has the PhD. in nuclear engineering. Ms. Drábová was the Chair of the Western European Nuclear Regulators Association in 2006 – 2009. She represents the Czech Republic in the European High Level Group on Nuclear Safety and Waste Management (ENSREG). She has participated in several IAEA expert missions in the field of upgrading nuclear safety and radiation protection infrastructure in developing countries (Armenia, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Jordan) and since 2007 has been a member of INSAG appointed by the Director General of the IAEA. Since 2010 she represents Czech Republic in the Board of Governors of the IAEA. Luis Echávarri Director-General, OECD Nuclear Energy Agency, France Mr. Luis Echávarri was appointed Director-General of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) in 1997, a position he holds at the present time. Mr. Echávarri represents the OECD/NEA on the Governing Board of the International Energy Agency (IEA) since 1997 and he became a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency's International Nuclear Safety Advisory Group in 2003. Mr. Echávarri began his career as an engineer in Bilbao and in 1975 joined Westinghouse Electric in Madrid. He went on to become Project Manager of the Lemoniz, Sayago and Almaraz nuclear power plants, for Westinghouse, in Spain. In 1985 Mr. Echávarri became Technical Director of the Spanish Nuclear Safety Council (CSN). He was named Commissioner of the CSN in 1987, a position which requires the approval of the Spanish Parliament. In July 1995, Mr. Echávarri became Director-General of the Spanish Nuclear Industry Forum, a post he held until July 1997. Norman L. Eisen United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic, United States Norman L. Eisen was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to Czech Republic on January 14, 2011 and presented his credentials to the Czech President Vaclav Klaus on January 28, 2011. From January 2009 to January 2011, he served in the White House as Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform. In that capacity, he helped lead the Obama Administration’s historic initiatives on government ethics, lobbying regulation and open government. His portfolio also included financial regulatory reform, campaign finance law, whistleblower protection and other reform issues. Prior to that, he was the Deputy General Counsel to the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition. Ambassador Eisen received his J.D. in 1991 from Harvard Law School and his B.A. from Brown University in 1985, both with honors. Mark Fitzpatrick Director, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme, IISS, United Kingdom Mark Fitzpatrick is Director of the Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London. His program focuses on nuclear and missile challenges posed by Iran, North Korea and other outlier states, and on nuclear security and nuclear disarmament issues. He is the author of The Iranian Nuclear Crisis: Avoiding worst-case outcomes (2008) and the editor of IISS Strategic Dossiers on countries and regions of proliferation concern, most recently on North Korea (July 2011) and Iran (February 2011). He has lectured throughout the world and is a frequent media commentator on proliferation topics. He joined IISS in October 2005 after a 26-year career in the US Department of State, including as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Non-Proliferation (acting). His diplomatic postings also included Vienna, in charge of liaison with the International Atomic Energy Agency, as well as postings in Seoul, Tokyo (twice) and Wellington. Denis Flory Deputy Director General for Nuclear Safety and Security, IAEA, Austria Denis Flory is the Deputy Director General of the Department of Nuclear Safety and Security at the IAEA. He was born in 1953 and graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique in 1975 and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées in 1978 in nuclear engineering. He started his career in 1978 with the Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission (CEA), where he was employed as a thermal hydraulics engineer for fast neutron reactors. In 1984, he was appointed to the French Embassy in the USSR for three years, as Scientific Attaché. After spending four years as an engineer in Great Britain at the Joint European Torus, he returned to France to take up the position of Technical Advisor to the High Commissioner for Atomic Energy for three years. From 1994 to 2004, Denis Flory was appointed Deputy, and subsequently Head, of the Department for the Security of Radioactive Materials at the Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN). In 2005, he joined the French Embassy in Russia as Nuclear Advisor, before returning to the IRSN, where he was appointed Director of International Relations in September 2009. While holding this position, he contributed to the development of ETSON, the European Technical Safety Organizations Network, and the setting up of ENSTTI, the European Nuclear Safety Training and Tutoring Institute. Ichiro Fujisaki Japanese Ambassador to the United States, Japan Ichiro Fujisaki became Ambassador of Japan to the United States on June 4, 2008. He has served as the political minister of the Embassy of Japan in Washington, DC, from 1995-99. As a diplomat, he has also served in Jakarta, Paris (OECD), and London. Prior to his current post, he served as Ambassador to the UN and to the WTO in Geneva. While there, he served as the Chairman of the Executive Committee of UNHCR (UN High Commissioner for Refugees). In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tokyo, he has held such posts as Deputy Director-General for Asian Affairs and Director-General for North American Affairs before being appointed as the Deputy Foreign Minister. He has also served as the Sherpa, or the personal representative, of the Prime Minister to G8 Summit meetings. Fujisaki was a research associate at IISS (International Institute for Strategic Studies) in London from 1987-88. He taught as a lecturer of International Relations at Sophia University in Tokyo from 1991-95. Since his arrival, he has spoken at Harvard, Columbia, Georgetown, SAIS, Stanford, Yale, and Brigham Young University as well as at several think-tanks in Washington, DC, such as the Brookings Institution, AEI, Carnegie Endowment, CSIS, and Stimson Center. He also studied one year each at Brown University and Stanford University Graduate School in the early 1970’s. Elliot Gerson Executive Vice President for Policy and Public Programs, International Partners, The Aspen Institute, United States Elliot Gerson is responsible for the Aspen Institute’s Policy Programs, its Public Programs and its relations with its international partners. The Institute’s Policy Programs focus on many of the most important issues in domestic and international affairs, as well as in topics in art, culture and science. The Institute’s Public Programs open the Institute’s doors to a broader audience of influential citizens. Aspen has international partners in France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan and Romania.