Business Address
PIR
Center, P.O. Box 17, 117454, Moscow, Russia
Phone: +7+095-335-1955
Fax: +7+503-234-9558
E-mail orlov@pircenter.org
Internet: http://www.pircenter.org
Dr.
Vladimir A. Orlov is the founding Director of the Moscow-based PIR-Center
for Policy Studies (PIR Center).
In addition to carrying out his overall responsibilities as the head of
the Center, Dr. Orlov directs the Center's
Nuclear Nonproliferation & Russia Program, is the Editor-in-Chief of
the Center's journal on international
security, arms control, and nonproliferation, Yaderny Kontrol (Nuclear
Control), and serves as the Chair of the
PIR Arms Control Educational Seminar Series for the Russian Decision-Making
Community and Legislators.
Orlov
is also a professor at the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI).
In addition, Orlov is the Director
of the Editorial Board from the Nuclear Security newsletter of the National
Press Institute, Moscow. In 1994, he
was a visiting scholar and Senior Researcher at the Center for Nonproliferation
Studies, Monterey Institute of
International Studies and is currently a member of the Core Group on Nuclear
Nonproliferation at the institute.
Orlov was the Vice President, a member of the Board of Directors, columnist,
political analyst, and head of
department for Moskovskiye Novosti (Moscow News) from 1990-1996. Orlov
graduated in 1990 from the
Moscow State Institute for International Relations (MGIMO) under the Foreign
Ministry of the USSR. In 1997, he
defended his dissertation in political science at MGIMO as well.
Orlov
writes for The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Nezavisimoye Voyennoye
Obozreniye (Independent
Military Review), Vremya MN daily, Itogi magazine, Yaderny Kontrol (Nuclear
Control), Nonproliferation Review,
Krasnaya Zvezda daily, Pro et Contra quarterly, and other Russian and international
media. He has also edited
several books and written chapters for several books on nonproliferation
published in the West and in Russia.
Dr.
Vladimir A. Orlov, born on October 4, 1968, is the founding Director of
the Moscow-based PIR Center for
Policy Studies in Russia (PIR Center), which was created in April 1994.
In
addition to carrying out his overall responsibilities as the head of the
Center, Dr. Orlov directs the Center's
Nuclear Nonproliferation & Russia Program, is the Editor-in-Chief of
the Center's journal on international
security, arms control, and nonproliferation, which is called Yaderny Kontrol
(Nuclear Control), and serves as
Chair of the PIR Arms Control Educational Seminar Series for the Russian
Decision-Making Community and
Legislators.
Dr. Orlov's current areas of research include
The role of Russia in shaping the future of the international nuclear nonproliferation
regime; Russia's
nonproliferation policies and practices; and the 2000 NPT Review Conference
Export controls in Russia
Evaluation of the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program (CTR) in Russia
and policy
recommendations for the future of the program
The problem of possible unauthorized access to nuclear weapons and fissile
materials in Russia
EXPERIENCE
April
1994 - current. Director, Center for Policy Studies in Russia (PIR Center)
January 1995 - current. Editor-in-Chief, Yaderny Kontrol (Nuclear Control)
journal
November 1995 - December 1996. Vice President, Moskovskiye Novosti Ltd.
March 1994 - June 1996. Member of Board of Directors, Moskovskiye Novosti
Ltd.
August 1990 - December 1996. Columnist, political analyst, head of department,
Moskovskiye Novosti
(Moscow News) weekly
February - May 1994 Visiting Scholar, Senior Researcher, Center for Nonproliferation
Studies, Monterey
Institute of International Studies
EDUCATION
1997.
Defended Ph.D. dissertation in political sciences at the Moscow State Institute
- University of
International Relations (MGIMO). Dissertation title: "Prospects for the
international nuclear nonproliferation
regime for late 90s and the results of the 1995 NPT Review and Extension
Conference"
1985-1990. Moscow State Institute for International Relations (MGIMO) under
the Foreign Ministry of the USSR.
Graduated with honors.
OTHER CURRENT POSITIONS AND HONORS
Member, Russian Chapter, Institute of Nuclear Materials Management
Director of the Editorial Board, Nuclear Security newsletter of the National
Press Institute, Moscow
Professor, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI).
Member, Core Group on Nuclear Nonproliferation of the Monterey Institute
of International Studies.
Member, Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS)
Member, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London
Member, International Board of Vector journal, and member of the Board,
International Institute for
Policy Studies, Minsk
Member, Research Council, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Kyev
PUBLICATIONS
Dr.
Orlov writes for The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Nezavisimoye Voyennoye
Obozreniye (Independent
Military Review), Vremya MN daily, Itogi magazine, Yaderny Kontrol (Nuclear
Control), Nonproliferation Review,
Krasnaya Zvezda daily, Pro et Contra quarterly, and other Russian and international
media. He has also
written chapters for a several books on nonproliferation published in the
West (some of which are listed
below). Among his numerous articles the most recent are:
Yadernoye Nerasprostraneniye. (Nuclear Nonproliferation). A Book for Graduate
Students and Young
Researchers (in Russian). Editor and co-author. Moscow, 2000 (forthcoming)
Export Controls in Russia: Policy and Practices. Editor and co-author of
the book. Moscow, April 2000
(in Russian)
Position of the Russian Federation at the New York Conference: Russia Could
Play a Key Role in
Strengthening Nonproliferation Regime (with Roland Timerbaev). Nezavisimaya
Gazeta, April 20, 2000,
p.12.
Concerted Effort Needed on Nonproliferation (with Roland Timerbaev). Moscow
Times. April 19, 2000,
p.9
Russia's Political Players (with Dmitry Evstafiev). Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists, March/April 2000,
p.57-62
Nuclear Weapons: The Russian Public Speaks (with Ivan Safranchuk). ). Bulletin
of the Atomic
Scientists, January/February 2000, p.16-18
The 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference: Peculiarities, Results, and
Lessons. Moscow, 1999,
56 pp.
Export Controls and Nuclear Smuggling in Russia, chapter in: Dangerous
Weapons, Desperate
States. Russia, Belarus, Kazakstan, and Ukraine, eds. Gary K. Bertsch and
William C. Potter,
Routledge, 1999, 285pp.
The Mystery of the Sunken Gyros (with William Potter), The Bulletin of
the Atomic Scientists,
November-December 1998
O Nekotorykh Osobennostyakh Politiki Izrailya v Voprosakh Nerasprostraneniya
(On Some Specifics of
the Israeli Nonproliferation Policy), Yaderny Kontrol, November - December,
1998
Russia, Iran, Iraq, and Export Controls: Facts and Conclusions, The Monitor,
Spring - Summer, 1998
Natsionalnaya Bezopansost Rossii i Diplomatiya (Russia's National Security
and Diplomacy),
Krasnaya Zvezda, May 7, 1998)
Nuclear Terrorism: The Case of Russia. Disarmament Diplomacy. November
1997
Chto Vygodno Minatomu (What is in Minatom's Interests...), Pro et Contra,
Summer 1997
Perspectives of Russian Decision-makers and Problems of Implementation.
Chapter in: Dismantling
the Cold War. U.S. and NIS Perspectives on the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat
Reduction Program. J.
Shields and W. Potter, editors (MIT Press, 1997)
CONFERENCES AND LECTURES
Dr. Orlov has attended and spoken at many of conferences including, most recently:
Review Conference of the Treaty on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons
(NPT), U. N. Headquarters,
New York, April - May 2000.
Conference and Policy Briefings on New Approaches to Russian Security under
President Putin,
Washington, May 2000.
Tactical Nuclear Weapons (sponsored by UNIDIR). Geneva, March 2000.
International Carnegie Nonproliferation Conference. Washington, March 2000
(presentation "Future of
the CTR Program").
Assessment of the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program. Monterey, December
1999
Shaping Nonproliferation Agenda for the Coming Decade. Moscow, October
1999
Nonproliferation Challenges: a Seminar for the Journalists of Central Asia
and Caucuses. Almaty
(Kazakhstan), July 1999
Russia: International Security and Nonproliferation Policy (co-sponsored
by the CISAC, Stanford
University). Moscow, June 1999
Russian Domestic Challenges and International Security (sponsored by the
Naval Postgraduate
School). Monterey, CA, April 1999
Image and Reality of Russia and Eastern Europe (presentation "Image and
Reality of Russia"),
University of Georgia, Athens, GA, February 1999
Pugwash meeting nonproliferation and security in the Pacific (presentation
"Russia's nonproliferation
policy towards East Asian nuclear challenges"), Hilo, HI, January 1999
Carnegie Annual Nonproliferation Conference, Washington, DC, January 1999
NIS core group annual nonproliferation conference sponsored by the Center
for Nonproliferation
Studies (presentation "Russia, Iran, U.S., and export controls"), Almaty,
Kazakhstan, November 1998
PRIF European Nonproliferation Meeting (presentation "Russia's decision-making
process on nuclear
arms control"), Bremen, Germany, September 1998
INMM Annual Meeting (presentation "CTR in Russia: what should be done next
in the MPC&A area"),
Naples, FL, July 1998
The Jaffee Center conference on Security Problems in the Middle East (presentation
"Russian-Iranian
nuclear- and missile-related contacts"), Herzliya, Israel, June 1998
The European Series conference, Madrid-Brussels-London, June 1998
Environmental Policy and Security (presentation "Accounting, control, and
physical protection of fissile
material and nuclear weapons in Russia: potential threats to global security"),
Berlin, Germany, March
1998.
Dr.
Orlov is often invited to give lectures on nonproliferation and arms control
as well as on the Russian
domestic/security policy-making process. His most recent lectures have
been at:
Moscow State Institute (University) of International Relations (MGIMO),
December 1999
the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, September - December
1999
the Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies of the Monterey Institute of
International Studies,
Monterey, CA, October 1999
The George Marshall Center for International security Studies, G?rmisch-Partenkirchen,
Germany, July
1999
the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford
University, April 1999
the Institute for the Defense Analyses, Bonn, September 1998
the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters, Vienna, Austria,
July 1998