as at 1 January 2010

Chairman: Dr Philip COLEMAN

Members

1. Professor Mahdi BALALI-MOOD Director of Medical Toxicology Centre, Imam Reza Hospital, University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Islamic Republic of Iran. Chief editor of the Journal of Birjand University of Medical Sciences, founder of the Iranian society of toxicology (and thrice its president), former president of the Asia-Pacific Association of Medical Toxicology, regional secretary of the World Federation of Clinical Toxicology and Poison Control Centres. Areas of expertise: toxicology of chemical warfare agents, chemical safety, ecotoxicology.

2. Professor Djafer BENACHOUR Full time professor at Ferhat ABBAS University Setif, Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Algeria. Director of the research laboratory on “Multiphase Polymeric Materials” since July 2000; Vice-President of the Algerian Chemical Society (1991-2009). Current President of the Scientific Committee of the Department of Chemical Engineering. Areas of expertise: industrial and engineering chemistry.

3. Professor Herbert DE BISSCHOP Department of Chemistry, Royal Military Academy, Belgium. Scientific consultant for chemical and biological disarmament and non-proliferation matters at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Member of steering committee for the destruction of OCWs, member of the Federal Health Council. Areas of expertise: biodegradation and toxic kinetics of nerve agents, destruction of (old) chemical weapons, workers protection.

4. Dr Robin BLACK Detection Department, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), Porton Down, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Areas of expertise: analysis of chemical warfare agents in environment and biological media, risk assessment, synthesis of chemical warfare agents.

5. Dr José Gonzalez CHAVEZ Universidad Nacional Autónoma Mexico, member of the chemistry department. Work in analytical chemistry and verification-related specialization, including inspector training (OPCW, UNMOVIC). Areas of expertise: analytical chemistry.

6. Dr Philip COLEMAN Managing Director of Protechnik Laboratories, Lynnwood Glen, South Africa. Work in chemical defence and synthesis/analysis. Advisor to the National Authority, including on chemical-industry issues, member of the OPCW Protection Network. Areas of expertise: synthesis and structural analysis of organic compounds, Carbon13 nuclear magnetic resonance.

7. Professor Breccia FRATADOCHI Former Director of the United Institute of Chemical, Radiochemical and Metallurgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy. International Scientist of the year, 2002 (International Biographical Centre Cambridge), member of the board of several national committees, member of Bologna Academy of Sciences and New York Academy of Sciences. Areas of expertise: radiochemistry, biochemistry (drugs, metabolism, activation), industrial application of microwave chemistry, waste disposal.

8. Dr Shuzo FUJIWARA Technical Adviser, Research Core for Explosion Safety, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). He joined the National Chemical Laboratory for Industry (NCLI), an industrial R1D institute of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, where his interest was safe handling of hazardous chemicals and utilisation of energetic materials. Since the establishment of AIST in 2001 by reorganising the ministry’s R&D institutes, he had worked as the Director of the Safety and Environmental Protection Department and the Director of the Research Centre for Explosion Safety (RCES) in AIST. Since March 2007, he has been a Technical Adviser of the Research Core for Explosion Safety in AIST and also a Technical Adviser of the Technical Research & Development Institute (TRDI). He is a board member (director) of Japan Explosives Society and Japan Society for Safety Engineering, a member of OECD-IGUS (International Group of Experts on Explosion Risks of Unstable Substances. He is the author of over 300 scientific publications and an inventor of over 90 patents.

9. Dr Michael GEIST Head of Trade Controls at BASF SE, Germany. Responsible for trade control measures of dual-use goods, CWC chemicals, drugs and drug precursors and explosive precursors. In charge of corporate coordination for trade controls within BASF Group. Areas of expertise: chemistry, international trade controls, especially CW precursors.

10. Professor László HALÁSZ Head NBC Defence and Environmental Security Department, Miklós Zrinyi National Defence University, Budapest, Hungary. Work in chemical defence (detection, remote sensing, protection, environmental issues). Areas of expertise: chemical engineering, environmental engineering, polymer technology, chemical defence.

11. Dr Abdool JACKARIA Director of Forensic Science Laboratory, Reduit, Mauritius. Areas of expertise: forensic toxicology, drugs analysis (certified), analysis of chemical-warfare agents.

12. Mr William KANE, United States of America. Areas of expertise: implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention, chemical production practices, scale-up/start-up of new chemical processes, extensive plant experience (technical and managerial).

13. Dr Valery KUKHAR Head of Laboratory for Fine Organic Synthesis, Institute of Bio-Organic Chemistry and Petrochemistry, Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine. Former President of the Ukraine chemical society, member of the Chernobyl Commission of the Academy of Sciences and other committees. Areas of expertise: bio-organic chemistry (F and P analogues of natural compounds), chemical and technological aspects of environmental protection.

14. Dr Bob MATHEWS Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Defence Centre, Melbourne, Australia. Manager of the NBC counter-proliferation arms control programme. Associate Professor at the Asia Pacific Centre for military law. Areas of expertise: analytical chemistry, chemical defence, research into the proliferation of chemical weapons, the Convention, and industry consultations.

15. Mr Stefan MOGL Head of Chemistry, Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports, Federal Office for Civil Protection, SPIEZ LABORATORY. Areas of expertise: analytical chemistry, chemical disarmament, industrial hygiene.

16. Dr Godwin OGBADU Professor of biochemistry and Director of the Advanced Biotechnology Laboratory, Sheda science and technology complex, Abuja. Member, New York Academy of Sciences and serves on several national and international committees. Areas of expertise: industrial biotechnology, fungal toxins, irradiation and food chemistry.

17. Professor Titos QUIBUYEN Director, Institute of Chemistry, College of Science, University of the Philippines, Quezon City. Professor of organic chemistry. Former Head of the Environmental Science Programme and of the Materials Science and Engineering Programme at the University of the Philippines. Areas of expertise: organic and environmental chemistry, synthesis, natural products, toxic-waste management, risk assessment.

18. Professor Igor Vladimirovich RYBALCHENKO is a scientific director of the chemical analytical OPCW designated laboratory at the Military Science Centre of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation. He is a member of the Research Council on Analytical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences and chairman of the Russian Academy of Sciences Research Council Commission for the detection and identification of explosive, narcotic and toxic chemicals. He is also a member of the editorial staff for the Russian Academy of Sciences Analytical Chemistry Journal.

19. Dr Danko ŠKARE Rudjer Boškoviæ Institute, Zagreb, Croatia. Department of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Secretary of the National Authority for the Implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention. Areas of expertise: organic chemicals, organic synthesis, chemical-warfare agents, and chemistry of energetic materials.

20. Professor Alejandra Graciela Suárez Professor at the Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina. Member of the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). Areas of expertise: organic and organo-metallic chemistry, green chemistry.

21. Professor Jean-Claude TABET Professor at the Laboratory of Structural Organic Chemistry and Biology, University of Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France. Areas of expertise: chemical analysis, mass spectrometry, organic/biochemistry.

22. Dr R. VIJAYARAGHAVAN Head of the Pharmacology and Toxicology Division of the Defence Research and Development Establishment (DRDE), Gwalior, India. Work in pharmacology, toxicology, and antidote development. Areas of expertise: drug development, safety evaluation, antidotes to chemical-warfare agents, computer-based toxicity evaluation.

23. Professor Slavica VUCINIC MD PhD, Head of the Clinic of Emergency and Clinical Toxicology at the National Poison Control Center, Military Medical Academy, Belgrade, Serbia. Professor of clinical toxicology. Member of the Commission for genetically modified organisms within the Serbian Ministry of Agriculture. Secretary General of Serbian Society of Toxicologists. Areas of expertise: clinical toxicology, acute poisoning by organophosphorus substances, including chemical warfare agents.

24. Professor Zhiqiang XIA Director of Information Research Centre, Research Institute of Chemical Defence (RICD), Beijing, China. Senior member of the Chinese Society for environmental sciences. Areas of expertise: environmental sciences, risk assessment, scientific information, investigation of abandoned chemical weapons.

25. Dr. Muhammad Zafar-Uz-Zaman Director, Special Materials, National Engineering and Scientific Commission (NESCOM), Islamabad, Pakistan. Member Technical Committee, Advanced Materials Chapter; International Bhurban Conference on Sciences and Technology (IBCAST). Member CWC Implementation Committee NESCOM. Areas of expertise: synthetic polymer chemistry, polymer degradation, bio-compatible polymers, analytical chemistry, plastic matrix composites and advanced materials.

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