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Dr. George Moore

From 2007-2012, Dr. Moore was a Senior Analyst in the Office of Nuclear Security at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Austria. At IAEA, he worked with the Illicit Trafficking Database (ITDB) and served as Scientific Secretary for the Director General’s Advisory Group on Nuclear Security (AdSec). He also served as Scientific Secretary for the development of the Agency’s Fundamentals of Nuclear Security document, the top-level document in the Agency’s Nuclear Security Series that will be published in fall 2012.

He is a former Fulbright Scholar (Netherlands) and a former Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Special Fellow.  He is a licensed Professional Engineer (Nuclear) in California and was formerly an AEC-licensed research reactor operator. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and in a number of Federal Circuit and District Courts across the United States.

After graduation from Annapolis, Dr. Moore served as a naval officer until he resigned from the Navy as a lieutenant commander.  He then worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in various assignments in areas relating to nuclear physics, nuclear effects, and radiation detection and measurement.  He left LLNL and served as an in-house counsel at Northern California’s utility company, Pacific Gas & Electric, until he entered private practice with the San Francisco firm of Kenney & Markowitz where he specialized in litigation in the areas of aviation, recreational boating, product liability, intellectual property, and commercial law.  Dr. Moore left Kenney & Markowitz in 2002 to return to LLNL where he worked in the Nuclear Assessment (NAP) program. He left LLNL in mid-2007 to join the IAEA.

Joe Brazda

Joe is a senior level manager who manages the financials for all of CNS as well as carrying numerous organizational responsibilities. Additionally, Joe conducts research in a variety of topics both independently and in partnership with other senior research staff as well as assisting Dr. Bill Potter in his NPT Simulation course. Joe lectures to our visiting fellows on diverse topics such as Iran, the JCPOA and international organizations in the context of nonproliferation. He spent two years as a Graduate Research Assistant conducting research in export controls and illicit procurement networks as well as contributing towards the first online MIIS course in export compliance. Previously, Joe spent over twenty years in the private sector as a senior level manager before deciding to pursue an education and career in nonproliferation.

Nathaniel Taylor

I’m Nathaniel Taylor and I’m a 3rd semester MANPTS student here at MIIS slated to graduate in December of 2017. I specialize in civilian nuclear power and the safeguarding thereof. I am particularly interested in the nexus between the need for civilian nuclear power in the developing world and international climate change obligations pursuant to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, as well as the ensuing Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement. For the last year and a half I have worked at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), primarily studying the weapons of mass destruction delivery systems of the Russian Federation and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. I also produce 3D content for CNS and the Nuclear Threat Initiative; my work has been featured in La Monde and The Washington Post.

Steven Luber

Steven Luber is a first semester graduate student in the Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies program at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. Prior to coming to Middlebury, he completed his undergraduate degree in Intelligence Studies and Russian/Eurasian Area Studies at Mercyhurst University, worked as a Business Intelligence Analyst in the pharmaceutical industry, and served as a student chapter president with the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management. His primary interests are in energy security and WMD nonproliferation, especially across Eurasia and South Asia. A life-long history and language nerd, he speaks Russian conversationally and looks forward to improving his Czech and German over the course of this program.

Anthony Musa

My name is Anthony Musa, I am a student in the Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies program. I am originally from Arizona, prior to attending MIIS I worked for the City of Phoenix and the House of Representatives. I am currently at the United Nations, Office for Disarmament Affairs. I am excited to return to MIIS in the Spring to finish my degree. After graduation, I hope to enter into a public service position.