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BASIC is a progressive and independent analysis and advocacy organization which researches and provides a critical examination of global security issues, including nuclear policies, military strategies, armaments and disarmament.  BASIC assists in the development of global security policies, policymaking and the assessment of policy priorities, and promotes public awareness and understanding of these policies and of policymaking in Europe and the United States. 

With governing directors and offices on both sides of the Atlantic, BASIC facilitates the exchange of information and analysis on these global security issues in order to foster informed debate.

Amb. Robert L. Barry

Ambassador Barry is currently a senior associate with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, and has had a long career with the US government on European affairs and arms control.  Ambassador Barry headed the OSCE Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina from January 1998 to June 2001.  He also served as ambassador to Bulgaria and Indonesia. Ambassador Barry helped establish and coordinate US assistance programs for Eastern and Central Europe and the former Soviet Union, promoting market economies and democracy.  He also served as Deputy Director of the Voice of America and ambassador to the Stockholm Conference on Disarmament in Europe.

Andrew Cottey  

Dr. Andrew Cottey is Jean Monnet Chair in European Political Integration, Department of Government, University of College Cork. He has previously worked at the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, the EastWest Institute, Saferworld and BASIC. He has been a NATO Research Fellow, a Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and a Visiting Researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). He is author of various publications on European and international security.

Peter Crampton

Peter Crampton was a (United Kingdom) Member of European Parliament from 1989-1999 and Vice President of the Foreign Affairs Committee. He was previously chair of the European Nuclear Disarmament Campaign and chair of the International Committee of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. 

Malcolm Dando

Susan M. Kincade  

Ms. Kincade is a financial and management consultant in Washington, DC with a special interest in nonprofit organizations. Previously she held management positions with the Henry L. Stimson Center, the Committee for National Security, and the Institutes for Behavior Resources.

Amb. James Leonard

Ambassador Leonard is Executive director of the Washington Council on Non-Proliferation. During a distinguished career as a diplomat, arms control negotiator and foreign affairs expert he served as US adviser to Cyrus Vance for the Olof Palme Commission on Disarmament and Security; Deputy Special Negotiator for the Middle East Peace Negotiations from 1979-81, and Assistant Director of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. 

Kenneth Luongo

Kenneth Luongo is currently the Executive Director of the Russian-American Nuclear Security Advisory Council. He also has an appointment as a Visiting Research Collaborator at the Princeton University Program on Science and Global Security. He has also served as the Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Energy for Nonproliferation Policy and the Director of the Office of Arms Control and Nonproliferation at the US Department of Energy.

James O’Connell

James O'Connell retired as Head of the Department of Peace Studies at Bradford University during 1993. He continues to play an active role in the department. 

Jennifer O'Connor

Jennifer O'Connor is Counsel at Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering. She received her bachelors degree from Harvard University in 1987, her Masters in Public Administration from Columbia University in 1993, and her JD degree from Georgetown University in 1997. She previously served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy of the US Department of Labor and as Special Assistant to the President during the Clinton Administration. 

Sima Osdoby

Sima Osdoby has focused over the past several years on the development of democratic institutions and civil society in newly emerging democracies and post-conflict countries, especially in Central and Eastern Europe and Asia. She is currently Deputy Director of the Democratization Department in the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina. She has served on the staff of a number of international election observation missions, and was Senior Advisor for Civic Programs at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs and as Acting Executive Director of Peerless Rockville Historic Preservation. Her arms control experience includes serving as Director of Policy and Program for Women’s Action for New Directions and as Director of the Leveraged Outreach Project, which addressed the conventional arms trade. She serves on a number of boards and advisory boards and in 1996 chaired the international task force of the Coalition for Women’s Appointments. 

Paul Rogers

Paul Rogers is Professor of Peace Studies at Bradford University.  He previously lectured at Imperial College, London and worked for the Overseas Development Ministry. He has published 17 books and over 100 papers, writes occasionally for The Guardian and The Observer and is the international security correspondent for www.opendemocracy.net.

Joanna Spear

Dr. Joanna Spear is the Director of the United States Foreign Policy Institute at George Washington University. Between 1996 and 2003, she was a Senior Lecturer and Director of the Graduate Research Program in the Department of War Studies, King's College London. She previously taught at the Universities of Sheffield, York and Birmingham. She was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University (1993-5) and a Visiting Scholar at the Brookings Institution (1999). She completed her ESRC-funded PhD at the University of Southampton and a BA from Staffordshire. An expert on US arms sales policies, US counter-proliferation policies and transatlantic relations, Dr. Spear is author of Carter and Arms Sales and The Changing Political Economy of the Defense Trade (forthcoming), and has written numerous chapters in books and articles.  Her research interests also include the global defense trade and post-conflict reconstruction. 

Nicola Butler
Website consultant

Nicola Butler is a consultant to BASIC responsible for BASIC's website. She has an MA in Peace Studies from the University of Bradford. Previously, she has worked as Senior Analyst for the Acronym Institute, Nuclear Analyst in BASIC's Washington office, and as Campaigns Coordinator for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Nicola is based in London and writes extensively on nuclear arms control and disarmament issues.

Nigel Chamberlain
Analyst/Press Officer

Before joining BASIC in October 2002, Nigel worked for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament for 3 years as their Press Officer and for 6 years before that as CND Regional Development Worker in Cumbria and North Lancashire. He has written extensively for CND on nuclear, European security and missile defence issues. Formerly a school teacher, Nigel has an MA in Sociology from the University of Alberta in Canada.

Ian Davis
Director

Ian received both his Ph.D. and B.A. in Peace Studies from the University of Bradford. Before joining BASIC in October 2001 Ian worked as Programme Manager in the Arms and Security Programme at BASIC’s colleague organization, Saferworld. He has developed and directed a wide-ranging project involving governments and non-governmental organizations from countries within the European Union, Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus, and in Asia.

Paul Ingram
Senior Analyst/Coordinator for Financial Management

Paul joined BASIC’s London office in September 2002 as a part-time consultant.  He has 12 years experience working as a researcher and project leader at Oxford Research Group, and has published articles on European security, non-proliferation and international arms trade issues.  He studied International Studies at Warwick University and gained his BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University.

David Isenberg
Senior Analyst

David joined BASIC's Washington office in November 2002.  He has a wide background in arms control and national security issues, and brings with him close to 20 years experience in this field, including three years as a member of DynMeridian's Arms Control & Threat Reduction Division, and nine years as Senior Analyst at the Center for Defense Information.

Chris Lindborg
Analyst

Chris addresses European security and weapons trade issues in her work. Prior to joining BASIC's Washington office in May 2001, she worked at the Overseas Development Council. She also served as a Herbert Scoville, Jr. Peace Fellow at the Federation of American Scientists.  She has an MA in Political Science from the University of South Carolina and a BA in International Relations and Political Science from the University of Minnesota.

Lorna Richardson
Clerk to the All-Party Group on Global Security and Non-Proliferation

Robert Aldridge

Aldridge, a former nuclear weapons engineer, is the founder of the Pacific Life Research Center and the author of books on nuclear weapons activities and alternatives.

Amb. Jonathan Dean

Ambassador Dean, now Adviser on International Security Issues to the Union of Concerned Scientists, was US Representative to the Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction Talks from 1978-1981.

Nancy Donaldson

Donaldson is Legislative Director of the Service Employees International Union and was formerly Legislative Director for Women’s Action on Nuclear Disarmament.

Michael Ferber

Feber is Professor of English Literature at the University of New Hampshire and a former senior staff member of the Coalition for a New Foreign Policy.

Randall Forsberg

Forsberg is Director of the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies in Cambridge, MA. She is a leading analyst and proponent of non-offensive defense, nuclear and conventional arms reduction, and co-operative security.