Senior Fellow for Regional Security Cooperation, IISS-Middle East
Responsibilities: Senior Fellow for Missile Defence, who will lead a team of experts from the US, Russia and Europe in preparing a joint assessment of the missile threat to Europe (including Russia) and potentially North America that may be posed by Iran’s missile development program. The joint threat assessment will be followed by an project to identify how the US and Russia can cooperate in response to Iran’s missile development activities.
Background: Before joining the IISS, Mr. Elleman spent five years at Booz Allen Hamilton, a US consulting firm, where he supported the implementation of Cooperative Threat Reduction programs sponsored by the US Department of Defense and the Department of Energy. He also provided weapons proliferation analyses to the Advanced Systems and Concepts Office (ASCO) at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). Previously, he spent 18 months at the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) as a missile expert for weapons inspection missions in Iraq. Prior to joining the UN, he spent two decades as a scientist as Lockheed Martin’s Research and Development Laboratory, where his activities focused on solid propellants, weapons elimination technologies, nuclear effects and special materials research. From 1995 to 2001, he led a Cooperative Threat Reduction program in Russia, aimed at dismantling obsolete long-range missiles. He is a graduate of physics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Joined IISS: April 2009
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