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Dr. Alexei Arbatov
Alexei Arbatov is one of Russia's most important scholars and intellectual leaders in the fields of international relations and international security. He is the head of the Center for International Security of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and is also a Scholar-in-Residence and Co-chair of the Nonproliferation Program of the Carnegie Moscow Center.
Dr. Arbatov has also played a leading role in the politics of post-Soviet Russia, as a member of the Russian Parliament (Duma) from 1994 to 2003, and as vice chairman of the liberal YABLOKO Party from 2001 to the present. While in Parliament, he was deputy chairman of the Duma Defense Committee.
The author of numerous books and articles on global security, disarmament and Russian military reform, Dr. Arbatov is the vice-president of the Luxembourg Forum, a member of the Governing Board of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the international advisory board of the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), and the board of the Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute of International Studies.
