Berkley Center

Alexey Arbatov is the head of the Center for International Security at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations. Arbatov is a former scholar in residence and the chair of the Carnegie Moscow Center’s nuclear non-proliferation program. Arbatov is also a member of the governing board of theNuclear Threat Initiative and of the Monterey Institute Center for Nonproliferation Studies. He is one of the founders and leaders of the Russian-based Luxemburg Forum on the Prevention of Global Catastrophe.

Rev. Andrew (Drew) Christiansen, S.J., was Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Human Development in Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service and a senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs from 2013 until his death in April 2022. His areas of research included nuclear disarmament, nonviolence and just peacemaking, Catholic social teaching, and ecumenical public advocacy. He was a frequent consultant to the Holy See and a member of the steering committee of the Catholic Peacebuilding Network. He also served on the Atlantic Council's Middle East Task Force and on the Holy See delegation that participated in the negotiation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons during summer 2017.

Kelsey Davenport is the director for nonproliferation policy at the Arms Control Association and a board member at the Kroc Institute at the University of Notre Dame. Prior to this, Davenport worked at the Israel Palestine Center for Research and Information, where she researched regional security issues and diplomacy among non-state actors. She regularly provides commentary for CNN, BBC, Fox News, MSNBC, NPR, and Al Jazeera. 

Jeremy Faust is a 2020 Presidential Management Fellowship Finalist and member of the CTBTO Youth Group. He recently completed the dual degree master’s program in non-proliferation studies at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations and the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. He previously served as a graduate research assistant at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and as an intern at the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations in New York.

Beatrice Fihn is the executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize-winning campaign coalition that works to prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons. Previously, she managed the disarmament program at the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and the Reaching Critical Will project, as well as worked with the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. She has delivered keynote lectures on weapons law, humanitarian law, civil society engagement in diplomacy and multilateral institutions, as well as the gender perspective on disarmament work.

Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher is the secretary for relations with states and head of the Second Section of the Holy See’s Secretariat of State. Throughout his life of service to the Roman Catholic Church he has held diplomatic positions in Tanzania, Uruguay, the Philippines, Guatemala, and at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France. In 2012 he was named papal nuncio to Australia, serving until Pope Francis appointed him to his current position in 2014.

Rose Gottemoeller is the Frank E. and Arthur W. Payne Distinguished Lecturer at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and its Center for International Security and Cooperation. Before joining Stanford, Gottemoeller was the deputy secretary general of NATO from 2016 to 2019. Prior to NATO, she served for nearly five years as the under secretary for arms control and international security at the U.S. Department of State, advising the secretary of state on arms control, nonproliferation, and political-military affairs.

Marek Misak is a policy advisor at the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) and is member of the executive committee of the Conference of European Justice & Peace Commissions. He also contributes to the work of the Security Taskforce of the Vatican COVID-19 Commission. He has studied in Austria and the United Kingdom, holding academic degrees in law and international law.