Contributors

Andrew Blakers is Professor of Engineering at The Australian National University (ANU), Canberra. He was a Humboldt Fellow and has held Australian Research Council Queen Elizabeth II and Senior Research Fellowships. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, the Institute of Energy, and the Institute of Physics. He has published approximately 300 papers and patents. His research interests are in the areas of photovoltaic and solar energy systems, particularly advanced thin film silicon solar cell technology and solar concentrator solar cells, components, and systems. He also has an interest in sustainable energy policy, and is engaged in detailed analysis of energy systems with high (50–100 per cent) penetration by wind and photovoltaics.

Email: andrew.blakers@anu.edu.au

Mely Caballero-Anthony is Associate Professor and Head of the Centre for Non-Traditional Security (NTS) Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She previously served as the Director of External Relations at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Secretariat, and currently serves on the UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters and Security. She is also Secretary-General of the Consortium of Non-Traditional Security Studies in Asia (NTS-Asia) and is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Conflict Prevention. Dr Caballero-Anthony’s research interests include regionalism and regional security in the Asia-Pacific, multilateral security cooperation, politics and international relations in ASEAN, conflict prevention and management, as well as human security. She has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals on a broad range of security issues in the Asia-Pacific.

Email: ISMCAnthony@ntu.edu.sg

Mel Gurtov is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Portland State University, Oregon, and Senior Editor of Asian Perspective. He previously served on the staff of the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California (1966–71), and at the University of California, Riverside (1971–86). He has published over 20 books and numerous articles on East Asian affairs, US foreign policy, and global politics from a human interest perspective. His most recent books are Will This Be China’s Century? A Skeptic’s View, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2013; Global Politics in the Human Interest, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007; and Superpower on Crusade: The Bush Doctrine in US Foreign Policy, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006. His blog on foreign affairs, ‘In the Human Interest’, can be found at melgurtov.com.

Email: mgurtov@aol.com

Gloria Kuang-Jung Hsu is Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Taiwan University. She received a Bachelor of Science from National Taiwan University, and a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh in the US. She also holds a Master’s in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Her interests include ozone chemistry and air pollution, and environment and energy policies. She has published articles in Science of the Total Environment, Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry, Tellus, Atmospheric Environment, and Carbon Economy Monthly (in Chinese). Over the years, she has served as Vice Chair and Chair of the Taiwan Environmental Protection Union, and she is now serving as Chair of the newly founded Mom Loves Taiwan Association. She has been a Commissioner of the Environmental Impact Assessment Commission at both the national and local levels, and a Commissioner of the National Sustainable Development Committee. She is currently an advisor to the Executive Yuan.

Email: kjhsu@ntu.edu.tw

Amy King is Senior Lecturer in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at The Australian National University, specialising in Chinese foreign and security policy, China–Japan relations, and the international relations and security of the Asia-Pacific region. She is concurrently an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA)Fellow and a Westpac Research Fellow, and is engaged in a three-year research project examining China’s role in shaping the international economic order. Amy is the author of China–Japan Relations after World War Two: Empire, Industry and War, 1949–1971, Cambridge University Press, 2016. She received her DPhil in International Relations and MPhil in Modern Chinese Studies from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar.

Email: amy.king@anu.edu.au

Doug Koplow is the founder of Earth Track in Cambridge, MA (www.earthtrack.net), focused on making the scope and cost of environmentally harmful subsidies more visible, and identifying reform strategies. His work on natural resource subsidies spans more than 25 years, and has included detailed reviews of commonly employed subsidy valuation approaches. His most recent focus has been on the distortionary effects of subsidies to fossil fuels and nuclear power. Doug has advised a variety of governmental agencies, environmental groups, foundations, and trade associations on resource subsidy measurement and reform, and his work is regularly cited across the political spectrum. He holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a BA in economics from Wesleyan University.

Email: dkoplow@earthtrack.net

Anders P. Møller is an evolutionary biologist employed by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France, working since 1991 on the ecological and evolutionary implications of low-dose radiation. He is a highly cited biologist and has been involved in research concerning the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster since 1991 and the Fukushima disaster since July 2011, with more than 800 peer-reviewed scientific papers (more than 100 related to radiation effects) and more than 60,000 career citations. He co-directs the Chernobyl + Fukushima Research Initiative along with his research partner, Timothy A. Mousseau. His research has been featured in the New York Times, The Economist, CBS TV’s 60 Minutes, Scientific American, the BBC, CNN, PBS, and many other media outlets. He holds a PhD from the University of Århus, Denmark.

Email: anders.moller@u-psud.fr

Timothy A. Mousseau is a Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of South Carolina and the Co-Director of the Chernobyl + Fukushima Research Initiative. Past positions include Dean of the Graduate School and Associate Vice President for Research at the University of South Carolina, and Program Officer for Population Biology at the US National Science Foundation. He is a leading authority concerning the impacts of radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters on natural populations of animals, plants, and microbes. He has written or edited 11 books and published more than 200 scientific papers. His research has been featured in the New York Times, The Economist, CBS TV’s 60 Minutes, Scientific American, the BBC, CNN, PBS, and many other media outlets. He is a member of the International Union of Radioecology, the American Nuclear Society, and the New York Academy of Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Explorers Club, and he has served on US National Academy of Sciences review panels on the risks and hazards of radioactive emissions for nuclear power plants. He holds a PhD from McGill University.

Email: MOUSSEAU@mailbox.sc.edu

M. V. Ramana is the Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security with the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. The research for his chapter was conducted when he was affiliated with the Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University, where he worked until 2016. He is the author of The Power of Promise: Examining Nuclear Energy in India, Penguin Books, 2012, and co-editor of Prisoners of the Nuclear Dream, Orient Longman, 2003. He is a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials, the Global Council of Abolition 2000, and the National Coordinating Committee of India’s Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Leo Szilard Award from the American Physical Society, and has been selected as a Distinguished Lecturer by Sigma Xi for 2016–17.

Email: m.v.ramana@ubc.ca

Lauren Richardson is Teaching Fellow in Japanese–Korean Relations and Politics at the University of Edinburgh, and incoming Lecturer and Director of Studies at the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy at The Australian National University (ANU). Her research is focused on the role of non-state actors in shaping policy and diplomatic transitions in Northeast Asia. Lauren is currently completing a book manuscript entitled, ‘Reshaping Japan–Korea Relations: Transnational Advocacy Networks and the Politics of Redress’. She holds a PhD from ANU and Master’s degrees from Keio and Monash Universities.

Email: lauren.richardson@ed.ac.uk

Kalman A. Robertson is a Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow in the International Security Program and the Project on Managing the Atom at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs of Harvard University. His research focuses on nuclear safeguards and nuclear cooperation agreements. He holds a PhD in International, Political, and Strategic Studies from the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre of The Australian National University (ANU), where he also received the University Medal for Physics and First Class Honours in Law. Prior to his arrival in Cambridge, he worked as a lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at the ANU, where he convened the course ‘Politics of Nuclear Weapons’. He was Australia’s representative to the Nuclear Energy Experts Group of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific from 2012 to 2016.

Email: kalman.robertson@anu.edu.au

Tilman A. Ruff, AM, is a public health and infectious diseases physician, Associate Professor in the Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne, and medical advisor to the International Program of Australian Red Cross. Since 2012, he has served as the first Australian Co-President of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (Nobel Peace Prize 1985). He was founding Australian and international Chair of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. He teaches on the public health dimensions of nuclear technology in the University of Melbourne’s graduate medicine program, five Master’s subjects and two undergraduate breadth subjects. He is past national president of the Medical Association for Prevention of War (Australia). In 2008, he was the first civil society representative on an Australian government Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty conference delegation, and one of two civil society advisors to the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament. In 2012, Tilman was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia ‘for service to the promotion of peace as an advocate for the abolition of nuclear weapons, and to public health through the promotion of immunisation programs in the South-East Asia-Pacific region’.

Email: tar@unimelb.edu.au

Christina Stuart is an energy-climate expert at Carbone4, a leading energy consulting firm specialising in low-carbon strategies, based in Paris. She is a Physics graduate from the Sorbonne University Pierre-et-Marie-Curie in Paris and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the Paris School of International Affairs at Sciences Po Paris. Her Master’s degree from both institutions is in Environmental Sciences and Policy, specialising in sustainable energy. Christina’s academic and research focus resides in the energy‒climate nexus. Her latest publication is ‘Energy and Climate Adaptation in Developing Countries’, German Corporation for International Cooperation, 2017. Since 2014, she has been a member of the European Union’s Climate‒Knowledge Innovation Community. Previously, Christina worked in environmental consulting at Ernst & Young and in renewable energy development at the Australian Renewable Energy Agency.

Email: christina.stuart@sciencespo.fr

Tatsujiro Suzuki is Director and Professor of the Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition (RECNA), Nagasaki University, Japan. Before joining RECNA, he was a Vice Chairman of the Japan Atomic Energy Commission of the Cabinet office from January 2010 to April 2014. Before that he was an Associate Vice President of the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry in Japan (1996–2009); a Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Tokyo (2005–09); an Associate Director of MIT’s International Program on Enhanced Nuclear Power Safety (1988–93); and a Research Associate at MIT’s Center for International Studies (1993–95), where he co-authored a report on Japan’s plutonium program. He is also a Council Member of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (2007–09, and 2014– ). Dr Suzuki has a PhD in nuclear engineering from Tokyo University (1988).

Email: suzukitatsu@nagasaki-u.ac.jp

Julius Cesar I. Trajano is Associate Research Fellow with the Centre for Non-Traditional Security (NTS) Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is a member-participant of the Nuclear Energy Experts Group and the Energy Security Study Group of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP). He has published journal articles, reports, and op-ed commentaries on nuclear energy governance in the Asia-Pacific, regional energy security, South China Sea disputes, and humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. His current research focuses on regional cooperation on nuclear safety and security in Asia.

Email: isjtrajano@ntu.edu.sg

Peter Van Ness is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of International Relations at The Australian National University (ANU), and has served as convener for this project on nuclear power in East Asia. He is a specialist on Chinese foreign policy and the international relations of the Asia-Pacific. He has published books on Chinese support for revolution during the Maoist period, market reforms in socialist societies, the human rights debate in Asia, and Asian responses to the Bush Doctrine. His articles have been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, and The Nation, as well as in academic journals. For many years a member of the faculty at the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, he has won grants from the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies, and two Fulbright fellowships to Japan. He has taught at four Japanese universities, including Keio University and the University of Tokyo, and has been a research fellow at ANU, the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, and the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies in Taipei. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

Email: peter.van-ness@anu.edu.au