Jonathan Granoff, President of the Global Security Institute, is also Senior Advisor of the American Bar Association's Committee on Arms Control and National Security. He is Vice President of the NGO Committee on Disarmament at the UN, and serves on numerous governing and advisory boards including the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, the Lawyers Alliance for World Security, the Jane Goodall Institute, the Bipartisan Security Group, and the Middle Powers Initiative. Mr. Granoff has lectured worldwide emphasizing the legal, ethical and spiritual dimensions of human development and security, with a specific focus on the threats posed by nuclear weapons. He is an award-winning screenwriter, and has been featured in more than 30 publications. He has practiced law in Philadelphia as an individual practitioner, in several medium sized firms, and as in-house counsel in a public company.
He chaired the special session on Terrorism and Threats to Humanity at the Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Rome in 2004 where he represented the International Peace Bureau, a Nobel Peace Laureate organization.
Ambassador Robert T. Grey, Jr., former U.S. Representative to the Conference on Disarmament, was also Leader of the State Department UN Reform Team. Ambassador Grey was a Senior Fellow on the Council on Foreign Relations and Counselor for Political Affairs of the United States Mission to the United Nations in New York. Ambassador Grey also served as Acting Deputy Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency as well as Counselor for Political Affairs, U.S. Mission to NATO in Brussels.
Dr. Craig Eisendrath is a former U.S. Foreign Service Officer with expertise in nuclear and outer space issues. He is a co-founder of the National Constitution Center as well as an award-winning diplomat. His articles and commentary regarding foreign affairs have appeared in such publications as the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Baltimore Sun to name a few. Eisendrath is the editor of National Insecurity: U.S. Intelligence After the Cold War (2000) and the co-author of Bush League Diplomacy: How the Neoconservatives Are Putting the World at Risk (2004).
James O'Ahern
Accountant
James O'Ahern is a Certified Public Accountant with more than 30 years experience in small business and non-profit administration, accounting and consulting. He has consulted and provided financial management services for GSI since 1999.
Adam Nester is the Assistant to the President of the Global Security Institute. Adam holds an M.S. in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University’s Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, and a B.S. in Psychology from Saint Joseph’s University. Adam has previously worked as a Program Officer for the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy and a researcher for the 2006 George Mason University Stakeholder Survey of the International Criminal Court. Adam has given presentations at American University and George Mason University on international justice mechanisms, victims, reconciliation and trauma healing issues in connection with his prior work.
Rhianna Tyson is a Program Officer for the Global Security Institute. Before coming to GSI, Rhianna was the Project Manager of
the Reaching Critical Will project of the Women's International League
for Peace and Freedom, United Nations Office, where she coordinated
civil society efforts at disarmament fora of the United Nations.
Her writings have been published in Disarmament Forum, the quarterly publication of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), The IAEA Bulletin,
the flagship publication of the International Atomic Energy Agency and
others. Previously, Rhianna was an intern with the Arms Control
Association in Washington, D.C., and with the Society for International
Development in Rome. Rhianna holds an MSc with distinction in
Global Politics from the London School of Economics, and a BA in
Gender and International Relations from Hampshire College, Amherst,
Massachusetts.
Alyn Ware Global Coordinator, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament alyn@pnnd.org
Alyn Ware is the Global Coordinator of the Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament ( PNND ), a program of the Global Security Institute. Previously, he served as Executive Director of the Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy and the UN Coordinator for the World Court Project, which led the effort to achieve a ruling from the International Court of Justice on the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons. In addition to his numerous leadership positions within the peace and security field, he is co-author with Merav Datan of "Security and Survival: The Case for a Nuclear Weapons Convention", and with Annie Doherty of "Our Planet in Every Classroom", and has written numerous articles.
Matthew Werner is a Program Officer for the Global Security Institute. Matt holds a B.S. in Economics from Villanova University, cum laude. Previously he worked for Mathematica Policy Research in Princeton, NJ, as a Program Associate where he worked on projects for the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment & Training Agency.
Sarah is the Office Manager and Program Associate for Global Security Institute. She received her B.A. from Rowan University, magna cum laude. After graduation, Sarah spent four years as a physical science teacher. She came to GSI from interState Net Bank where she served as Board and Corporate Secretary as well as Assistant to the President for three years.
James Wurst is the program director of the Middle Powers Initiative. Previously he was a reporter for the UN Wire and the Inter Press Service, focusing on international security issues. He has a long-standing relationship with MPI, serving as its United Nations representative for several years after its founding, and playing a major role in several of MPI's strategy consultations at The Carter Center.
