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Spokespersons

Our expert spokespersons in the UK and US are available for media comment on a range of subjects relevant to nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation.

Paul Ingram, executive director

Paul Ingram is BASIC’s executive director, developing BASIC’s long-term strategy to help reduce global nuclear dangers through disarmament and collaborative non-proliferation, coordinating operations in London and Washington. In particular, he leads on BASIC’s work as host to the BASIC Trident Commission in London, and BASIC’s NATO programme, looking to reduce the Alliance dependency upon nuclear weapons. He is also involved in BASIC’s work on the diplomacy around Iran’s nuclear programme, and promoting a WMD-free zone in the Middle East. Paul has authored a number of BASIC’s reports and briefings covering a variety of nuclear and non-nuclear issues since 2002.

Paul has an extensive media experience and hosts a weekly peak-time talk show on IRINN (Iranian domestic TV News in Farsi) addressing issues relevant to global security. He also teaches systems approaches on the flagship Top Management Programme at the UK government’s National School of Government.  

Global nuclear disarmament strategies and agendas, US and UK nuclear weapons decisions, NATO’s nuclear posture, Iran’s nuclear programme and diplomatic attempts to control it.
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Anne Penketh, program director

Anne Penketh is BASIC’s program director in Washington. She was a foreign correspondent and diplomatic editor at the Independent before joining BASIC in 2009. Previously, she was posted in Moscow, Paris, and at the United Nations in New York while working for Agence France-Presse news agency, during which time she covered the Gorbachev era and the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the first Gulf War and the international standoff in the 1990s over Iraq’s WMD. She also headed the global agency’s English service in Paris. Anne has reported from all over the world, including the Middle East and North Korea. She spent much of her early career reporting on disarmament issues, and more recently covered the crisis over Iran’s nuclear programme. Anne blogs on foreign policy at: http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog

 

Areas of Expertise: Transatlantic security issues, nuclear non-proliferation treaty, Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, Iran, Middle East nuclear weapons free zone
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