David Krieger, Founder of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.

David Krieger is a founder of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and has served as president of the Foundation since 1982. For more than three decades he has been a leader in the global movement to abolish nuclear weapons and build a more peaceful world. Under Dr. Krieger’s leadership the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation has initiated many innovative and important projects for building peace, strengthening international law, abolishing nuclear weapons and empowering new peace leaders. He has lectured throughout the United States, Europe and Asia on issues of peace, security, international law, and the abolition of nuclear weapons. He has received many awards for his work for a more peaceful and nuclear weapons-free world. He has been interviewed on CNN, MSNBC, BBC and many other national and international television and radio shows.

He is a member of the Club of Rome and is a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. He served as chair of the Executive Committee of the International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility from 2007 to 2015. He also served as vice-chair of the Middle Powers Initiative and as chair of its Executive Committee from 2010 to 2015. He is a longtime member of the Committee of 100 for Tibet. Dr. Krieger served as Panel Chair of the Citizens’ Hearing on the Legality of U.S. Actions in Iraq, held in Tacoma, Washington in 2007, and as a member of the Jury of Conscience of the World Tribunal on Iraq, held in Istanbul in 2005. Dr. Krieger is the author or editor of many studies of peace in the Nuclear Age. He has written or edited 25 books and hundreds of articles and book chapters. Dr. Krieger has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize on several occasions. Among many others, he is the recipient of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences Award for Saving Life on Earth (2012); the Citizens for Peaceful Resolutions’ Earth Charter Award for Democracy, Nonviolence and Peace (2011); OMNI Center for Peace, Justice and Ecology Peace Writing Award for Poetry (2010); and the Golden Dove Award (2009).

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Lourdes Casanova, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Emerging Markets Institute, Johnson School of Management, Cornell University.

Formerly at INSEAD, specializes in international business with focus on emerging markets multinationals. Faculty Fellow at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future. Fulbright Scholar with Masters degree from University of Southern California and a PhD from University of Barcelona. Visiting professor, Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley: Judge Business School, University of Cambridge and at atin American Centre, University of Oxford; University of Zurich, and Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona and consultant of Inter-American Development Bank. Taught, directed executive programs at INSEAD for senior managers from multinationals including Telefónica, BBVA and Cemex and Brazilian Confederation of Industries.

Co-author with A. Miroux: Emerging Market Multinationals Report: The China Surge. Co-author with J. Kassum: The Political Economy of an Emerging Global Power: In Search of the Brazil Dream, Palgrave Macmillan 2014, author ‘Global Latinas: Latin America’s emerging multinationals’ Palgrave Macmillan 2009, co-author of Innovalatino, Fostering Innovation in Latin America, Ariel 2011 and articles in journals including Beijing Business Review, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Business and Politics and Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica.

Member of Latin America Global Agenda Council and the Competitiveness in Latin America taskforce of World Economic Forum, Advisory Committee European Union/Brazil, B20 Task Force on ICT and Innovation in G20 summit, Los Cabos (2012), responsible at INSEAD of Goldman Sachs 10,000 women initiative. Board member of the Boyce Tompson Institute, the start-up Documenta, founding Board Member of the Societé des Amis du Chateau de Fontainebleau and member of the Advisory Council of the Tompkins Public Library. Founding board member Emerging Multinationals Research Network.

The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation has been doing excellent work by advocating for peace and a world free of nuclear weapons. We are proud to highlight the Foundation’s outstanding contribution and active engagement in the creation of a peaceful world in which conflicts are settled equitably and without violence; security is based on meeting human needs, preserving the environment and ensuring the rights of future generations; human dignity is respected and human rights are universally upheld and advanced; and international, national and local institutions and legal structures support these aims.

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Irakli Alasania, Ambassador.

Irakli Alasania is a Georgian politician. He served as Minister of Defence of Georgia in 2012-2014. Under his leadership as a Defence Minister of Georgia, the Georgian Armed Forces were recognised as one of the most interoperable forces with NATO and participated in EU-led operation in Central African Republic for the first time. At the NATO Wales Summit in 2014, Georgia achieved remarkable success and a step forward in NATO membership process by receiving a NATO-Georgia Substantial Package. Irakli is also the chairman and founder of the Free Democrats, a pro-west, economically liberal political party.

Before joining the Cabinet in 2012, Irakli’s political party, the Free Democrats, together with other political organisations established the Georgian Dream Coalition and swept the 2012 Parliamentary elections in Georgia. Irakli Alasania

Prior to 2012, as the Permanent Representative of Georgia to the UN, Ambassador Alasania was Georgia’s key negotiator there. In that capacity, he achieved remarkable success by putting conflicts in Georgia on to the agenda of the United Nations General Assembly, followed by adoption of first UN Resolution N 62/249, recognizing the right of all refugees and internally displaced persons and their descendants, regardless of ethnicity, to return to Abkhazia, Georgia.

Before his assignment at the UN, Irakli was Georgian President’s Special Envoy for the Georgian-Abkhaz Peace Talks, which he successfully re-initiated in 2005. Alasania has effectively served in various other governmental positions as well. In 2004, he was appointed as the first Deputy Minister of Defence and Deputy Secretary of the National Security Council, and later named to head the Abkhazian Government-in-Exile. Prior to that, Alasania served at the Ministry of State Security, rising in the rank of the First Deputy Minister, where his prime responsibility was to plan, coordinate and implement anti-terror operations from 2002-2003. In that role, he led the successful effort to clear the Pankisi Gorge, Georgia of foreign extremist militants.

Irakli holds B.A. in International Law from Tbilisi State University (1990-1995) and is Graduate of Georgian Academy of Security (1994-1996);
He completed Army Intelligence officer course at the U.S. Army Intelligence Center and School, Fort Huachuca, USA (1997);
Irakli Alasania went through Stanford Executive Program at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, USA (2015);
Irakli was born on December 21, 1973 in Batumi, Georgia. He is married to Natia Panjikidze. They have two children and one grandchild.