Meet our Experts

ROB ACHESON

Rob Acheson has served as an Expert Witness to the House of Commons on matters concerning nuclear security and policy. 

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Expertise: Prohibition of nuclear weapons

SORPONG PEOU

Sorpong Peou is Professor of Politics and Administration at Ryerson University. 

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Expertise: Asia-Pacific human security, UN governance, intervention and change in Cambodia

DEREK PAUL

Derek Lever Paul is Professor Emertius of Physics at the University of Toronto and is the author of A Leap to an Ecological Economy. 

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Expertise: Ecological economies and sustainability, reducing industrial CO2 emissions

RICHARD SANDBROOK

Richard Sandbrook is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Toronto, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Richard is Chair of our Nonviolent Resistance Working Group.

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Expertise: Nonviolence and civil societies, the Global South, Democracy, the Neoliberal Global Order, and Globalization

Arnd Jurgensen

Arnd Jurgensen is a Faculty Member in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto and Chair of the Nuclear Weapons Working Group at Science for Peace.

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Expertise: Nuclear weapons, regime change, democratization in Latin America, and U.S. foreign policy