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Peter Hayes

Executive Director, Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability

Phone: 510-717-4439
E-mail: phayes@nautilus.org

Professor Peter Hayes has been an environment, energy and security consultant working for international and American government agencies in more than twenty countries since 1975. Hayes creates and applies near-term solutions to the nexus of global security, environment and energy policy problems, with an emphasis on innovative cooperative engagement strategies in North Korea, East Asia, Australia, and South Asia. He covers scientific, technical, institutional, and geopolitical aspects of energy security, global nuclear insecurity (including risks of nuclear proliferation and nuclear next-use), and inter-city collaboration for urban climate change adaptation. He has visited North Korea seven times.

Available for comments regarding: North Korean environmental, energy and security issues; North Korean nuclear weapons; North Korean nuclear power; climate change adaptation.

Fluent in: English.

Video:

• Peter Hayes speaking at the China - US Climate Change Forum, 23 May 2006.
• Peter Hayes discussing political activism, NGOs and globalisation, Conversations with History, 18 April 2003.

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Scott Thomas Bruce

Director, Nautilus San Francisco, USA

Phone: 510-206-1936
E-mail: scott@nautilus.org

Scott Bruce is the Director of the Nautilus Institute's US operations, located at the University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim. He is the co-editor of NAPSNet, Program Officer for the Institute's Global Disclosure Program, and serves as Chief Financial Officer for the Institute's global operations.

Scott was trained as a historian at both Queens University in Belfast and at the University of California, Berkeley. Scott also has a Masters Degree in Asia Pacific Studies and another in Business Administration from the University of San Francisco.

Available for comment regarding: US foreign policy, politics in East Asia, North Korea.

Fluent in: English.

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Kiho Yi

Director, Nautilus ARI, Republic of Korea

Phone: +82 (0)70-7504-9122
E-mail: yikiho21@gmail.com

Kiho Yi is an expert on Korean political change and civil society peace networks.  He worked as Secretary General of Korea Peace Forum from 2003 - 2006. From 1999 - 2002 he studied in Waseda University in Japan, looking at the local civil movement and its links to peace in East Asia. Before 1999 he worked for ten years in the Korea Christian Academy, where he focused on Korean political change and global peace networks. In 1997 he completed his PhD dissertation titled 'Social Movement Network in the democratization process of Korea' at Yonsei University.

In addition to his role as Director, Nautilus ARI, he holds a professorial position at Hanshin University, South Korea. He has taught about political change and social movements, civil society and NGOs. 

Available for comment regarding: Political change, global peace networks, social movements, civil society and NGOs in East Asia.

Fluent in: Korean and English.

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David Von Hippel

Senior Associate, Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability

Phone: 415-422-5523
E-mail: dvonhip@igc.org

David's diverse career in energy development and environmental sciences complements and contributes extensively to the Institute's work on East Asia Energy Futures, Northeast Asia Electricity Grid project, alternative energy, and energy security and environmental impact analysis. David's Ph.D. and M.S. from the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley builds on undergraduate and master's work in biology and general science.

Available for comment regarding: DPRK energy sector, energy/environmental analysis and modeling, energy security, energy efficiency/demand-side management, greenhouse gas emissions reduction.

Fluent in: English.

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