Dr. Igor Khripunov is the Center’s Interim Director as of July 1, 2009 and is Adjunct Professor at the UGA School of Public and International Affairs. He also leads the Center's security culture and nuclear terrorism research projects. Previously, Dr. Khripunov served for six years as an international civil servant at the U.N. Secretariat in New York and, in 1977, joined the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1983, he received a Ph.D. in international relations from the Moscow-based Diplomatic Academy and resumed his diplomatic career as an arms control expert. In 1987, he was posted as a first secretary of the political and military section at the Soviet and later Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C. Dr. Khripunov has taken part in a number of arms control fora and talks, including INF, START and the Soviet-American Standing Consultative Commission.

 

He joined the Center in 1992 and participated in numerous research and outreach projects. Dr. Khripunov is a consultant to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). His areas of expertise include nuclear security and security culture, terrorism, export control and nonproliferation, defense conversion, chemical and biological weapons, and arms control compliance and verification. He has contributed to numerous books on international security and his articles have appeared in Washington Quarterly, Arms Control Today, Nonproliferation Review, Comparative Strategy, IAEA Bulletin, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and other publications.

 

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