Contact: president@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Dieter Farwick
Global Editor-in-Chief
BrigGeneral ret. - Former Director of Germany’s "Federal Armed Forces Intelligence Office"

Dieter Farwick left the German Army as a Brig. General after 39 years of military service with a career from a conscript to DepDivCdr.

He was a close aid to former German Defense Minister Manfred Woerner, the later NATO Secretary General and is author of five books about defense policy.

During this career he experienced the “Cold war” with the construction of the “Berlin wall”, the Cuban crisis, the Warsaw Pact invasion in then Tschechoslowakia and many more critical events.

In the nineties he experienced the demise of the then Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, the reunification of Germany, the integration of former East-German soldiers into the “Bundeswehr” as well as the extension of NATO and EU.

He held interesting and demanding positions as advisor to then Minister of Defence, Dr. Manfred Wörner, later Secretary General of NATO.

He was student of the renowned Royal College of Defence Studies, London.

As Director of Federal Armed Forces Intelligence Office he got insight into the world of Secret Services.

As Assistant Chief of Staff operations at the then NATO-HQ AFCENT in the Netherlands he did a lot of operational planning for collective defence and peace support operations.

During his military career he became author of five books and of numerous publications about security policy and military strategy. In addition, he had several entrances in electronic media.

He is member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London.

He made field studies in The Balkans, Central Asia, China, Israel, Latinamerica, North-Africa, Russia, Turkey and USA.

Contact: dieter@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Dr. Benedikt Franke
Vice President International Forums

Dr. Franke is currently a Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies. He holds a PhD in International Studies from the University of Cambridge as well as a MA in International and Strategic Studies from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

Dr. Franke is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, the Royal United Services Institute as well as the working group Young Foreign Policy Experts of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

Contact: bf@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Frauke John
Vice President Codes of Tolerance Project

German-born Frauke John lived in New York for 2 years. She represented WSN as a Vice-president and was responsible for The Human Codes of Tolerance and Respect Project, Fundraising, and WSN TV.

Now she lives in London to finish her Bachelors degree in "International Business and Management" on the European Business School London. WSN supports her with a scholarship. She has worked as a freelance journalist and writer and hosted events like the "Porsche Gala".

Furthermore she worked in the United Nations where she interviewed ambassadors for an Internet-based TV Chanel to current political topics.

She was honored "Best Female Student" and is concentrating now on the Codes of Tolerance project.

Contact: frauke@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Georg M. Regozini
President Latin America

Living in Lima, Dr. Regozini is now the Representative of the Munich-based Hanns Seidel Foundation in Peru since 1999. Before that, he worked for the same foundation in La Paz, Bolivia (1997-1998) and was the Foundation’s Representative to the European Institutions in Brussels, Belgium (1989-1996) and Representative in Quito, Ecuador (1986-1988). From 1982 to 1983 Mr. Regozini represented the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Bogota, Colombia. He worked as an assistant in the German Parliament from 1978-1981, and holds a PhD in Philosophy and a MA in Sociology from Bonn University.

Contact: georg@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Greta Shelley
Vice President Latin America

Greta Shelley Medina was born in Mexico City in 1972. She graduated from Universidad Iberoamericana in International Relations (1995, with honors) and obtained a Master of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. (2001). She held several positions in the Mexican Foreign Ministry at the Direction General for North American Affairs (1994-1998) and was Special Assistant to the Director of Policy Planning at the Minister´s office (1998-1999). She made an internshipon Capitol Hill at the office of U.S. Congressman Tom Campbell (R-Ca., spring 2000) and was a graduate fellow at the prestigious consulting firm Kissinger McLarty Associates in Washington, D.C.(2000-2001). Being married to a Mexican Ambassador since 2001, she has been actively involved in promotional initiatives of her country in Sweden and Germany. In April 2005 she participated as Young Leader in the Herbert Quandt Stiftung Sinclair House Debates, “Europe and Latin America, Towards a strategic partnership? In April 2005, she joined Michael Storrs Music as Events and PR Manager.

Contact: greta@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Benjamin Welch
Vice President Media

Ben Welch was an undergraduate scholar at Trinity College , Dublin and has also studied at St. John's College , Cambridge and Georgetown University . He has previously worked at The Institute of World Politics in Washington , DC and YouGov in London . He works as a junior consultant at The Company Agency, a strategic communications consultancy based in London.

Contact: benjamin@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Bettina Bahlsen
Vice President United Kingdom

Dr. Bettina Bahlsen, PhD in law; wrote her thesis about corporate law; was chairman of the board of Austin Quality Foods before the company was sold to Keebler in 2000; is living in London; member of the London Committee of Human Rights Watch; supporter of the National Gallery and the Serpentine Gallery in London.

Contact: bettina@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Mark Robinow
Vice President and Director "Codes for Tolerance" and book projects

American born Mark Robinow has been a Public Relations and Marketing Consultant for over 20 years. His work has let him live in Europe and the United States where he has built up a vast network of business relations mostly in media, television and the art world.

Mark also has a track record in setting up charitable organizations for his clients.

After living in New York for five years he has returned to Munich, Germany where he is actively supporting the World Security Network and in particular developing and marketing the �Codes for Tolerance� project.

Contact: mark@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Michael Kueppers
Vice President WSN TV

Dr. Michael Kueppers is an retired German surgeon who left his clinic in 2007. After studies in Marburg and Muenster he worked in several clinics in Germany, attended two times in Birmingham/Alabama to deepen his capabilities in arthroscopic surgery. Dr. Kueppers opened his own unit predominantly doing ambulant surgery. He academically worked about cryosurgery. Additionally he was alderman in his hometown. Since childhood his avocation is photographic.

Contact: michael@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Markus Dietrich
Vice President Social Enterprises and Micro Finance

Markus Dietrich was born near Munich, Germany, in 1968. He graduated 1993 from CASS Business School London in Business Studies, specializing in Marketing, Finance and NGO Management, and obtained a Diplome International de Management from Institute Commercial de Nancy in France. He then pursued a career in Retail Information Technology.

A successful entrepreneur, he set up several start up companies and managed the European activities of a global IT company. At the age of 40 he returned to the topic of his studies and moved into microfinance. He currently takes a Master Degree course in International Community Economic Development in the Philippines.

Contact: markus@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Jeannette Griesel
Editor Codes of Tolerance Project

Jeannette Griesel is working for the Talents Fund, a global equity fund based in Paris. She has obtained her Masters Degree in European Business and her previous work experiences include an international strategic consulting firm and an internship at Focus Magazine.

Contact: jeannette@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Bénédicte  Borel
Editor NATO and EU

Benedicte Borel holds two Masters Degrees in Social Sciences and Political Science/International Relations (both with honors) and is currently undertaking a PhD in International Public Law focused on politico-military relations between the Russian federation and CIS countries. Her areas of expertise are Euro-Atlantic policies, the Balkans, the Russian federation and CIS. French native speaking, she is fluent in English, has a fair knowledge of Russia, Serb-Croat, German and is currently learning Ukrainian and Italian languages. She currently works as consultant in the International Staff of NATO at its Brussels Headquarters from 2003 to 2005 in political affairs and defence reforms issues and takes part regularly in electoral observation missions.

Contact: benedicte@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Phillip E. Cornell
Editor NATO

Research Fellow at the NATO School in Oberammergau/Bavaria. Mr. Cornell worked as a Research Analyst at DFI International Security Consultants in Washington DC, was a Visiting Researcher in the Royal United Services Institute, VC Analyst at Dow Jones and Philip Gould in London from 2002 to 2006, and as a Research Assistant at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University in 2001. He was Editor of the Stanford Journal of International Relations 2002/2003. Education at Stanford University, the London School of Economics, and the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies 2003- 2006.

Contact: phillip@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Mvemba Phezo Dizolele
Editor Africa

Mvemba Phezo Dizolele has worked as the United Press International Africa Columnist; he has also been a William C. and Barbara H. Edwards Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. A native of Congo, Dizolele was abducted by the Mobutu regime’s security police in 1988 and held in political detention for 22 days. He is currently working on a biography of the late dictator, Mobutu: the Rise and Fall of the Leopard King. Dizolele holds a Master of Business Administration in Economics, Strategy and International Business and a Master of Public Policy in International Development from the University of Chicago. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve for six years. Dizolele speaks several languages.

Contact: mvemba@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Patrick Khamadi
Editor Africa

Patrick Khamadi is an International development Advisor, specializing in Policy, leadership and organizational effectiveness. He is serving with Nate-care development as a lead advisor. His has had opportunity to advise bilateral development agencies and nongovernmental organizations working in Africa. His work focuses on effective policy and strategy processes that build on simple, but better use of integrative change management.

Contact: patrick@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Dustin Dehéz
Editor Horn of Africa

Dustin Dehéz was born in 1978 in Bremen, Germany. After military service in the German army, he studied Modern History at the Universities of Freiburg
(Germany) and Durham (United Kingdom). He was an intern at the Institute for African Affairs in Hamburg and the Federal Academy for Security Policy in Berlin. In early 2005 he worked for the spokesmen on Defense of the CDU/CSU in the German parliament, Christian Schmidt. From June 2005 to June
2006 he was Senior Research Fellow at the Düsseldorf Institute for Foreign- and Security Policy (DIAS), since June 2006 he is the Institute's Director for North-East African Studies.

His research focuses on the Horn of Africa, Military in Africa, German Security Policy and Iranian Security Policy.

Contact: dustin@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Steve Mbogo
Editor Kenya

Steve Mbogo is a journalist based in Nairobi Kenya. He currently works for Business Daily, as a business writer. He has extensively written on Africa security, biotechnology and economic issues for national and international media.

Steve has been trained at several journalism training institutions including the International Institute of Journalism (Berlin), Reuters Newsroom (Rhodes University) and the South Africa Institute of International Affairs.

Contact: steve@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Mark Cabana
Editor China

Mark Cabana was born 1979 outside of San Francisco , California , and is a current graduate student at the Johns Hopkins Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies (HNC) in Nanjing , China . At the HNC he studies international economics and international relations from Chinese professors conducted solely in Mandarin Chinese. After graduating from the HNC, he will continue his graduate study at Johns Hopkins University' s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington DC . He will concentrate in China Studies (Prof. David Lampton) and International Economics.

Cabana holds a "cum laude" degree in Political Science and Asian Studies from Furman University in Greenville , South Carolina . After graduating from Furman, he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Gansu , China and also spent time at the National Endowment for Democracy and Peace Corps Headquarters, both located in Washington DC .

His major fields of expertise are U.S.-China relations, Chinese economic and political reform, and East / Southeast Asian economic development

Contact: cabana@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Siddharth Srivastava
Editor India

Siddharth Srivastava has studied economics from Delhi University and holds a post-graduate degree on the same subject from Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Beginning his career in the media in 1993, he has been involved as a journalist with television, radio, print as well as the Internet. He has worked for The Times of India, India's largest circulated English daily, for over 9 years during which he has written and covered foreign affairs, politics, defense, business. He is a keen observer of Indian lifestyle, corporate and cultural changes consequent to India moving on a path of high growth and economic reforms. Currently, he writes for several Indian and international publications, designated as India correspondent/Senior Writer by reputed media forums. His pieces have have appeared in The International Herald Tribune, Khaleej Times, Straits Times, Jakarta Post, Asia Times among others.

Contact: siddharth@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Roderick Latham
Editor U.S.A.

Roderick Latham was born in Nottingham , England and is a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University 's School of Advanced International Studies , where he concentrates in Strategic Studies and International Economics. Prior to this, Mr. Latham studied at the University of Cambridge and worked for an NGO based in Rajasthan , India.

Contact: roderick@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Rafael Biermann
Editor U.S.A. West Coast

Dr. Rafael Biermann will shortly be a guest professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, seconded by the German DoD. He studied Political Science, History and German at Cologne University and at the University of Southern California, L.A. His Ph.D. was on Soviet policy towards German unification, his habilitation on international crisis prevention in Kosovo, both at Bonn University. He has worked as Head of Central Planning in the Policy Planning Staff of the DoD, for the German Chancellory and for the Center for European Integration Studies. His main focus is on International Relations and here on crisis management, European integration, transatlantic relations and South
Eastern Europe.

Contact: rafael@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Florian Theus
Editor U.S.A.

Florian J. Theus grew up in Heidelberg and Berlin in Germany . Florian is a first year graduate student at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies ( SAIS ) of the Johns Hopkins University , Bologna , Italy and Washington DC . At SAIS he concentrates on strategic studies and on international economics.

While being a student at SAIS , Florian has worked recently as a research assistant for the International Security Program's deputy director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) on transatlantic and European security issues in Washington . Before coming to SAIS, he interned with the office of the German Marshall Fund of the US (GMF) in Berlin, where he focused on transatlantic relationships, and in particular on a transatlantic strategy toward Iran. He also worked at the European Parliament in Brussels , at the German Home Office on migration policy, and at the German Foreign Office where he helped preparing for the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg in 2002.

Florian holds a BA in History and Political Science, summa cum laude , from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia . He graduated with distinction in European History and received several prizes. He also studied at the University of Marburg, Germany, and the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Contact: florian@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Costantino Pischedda
Editor U.S.A.

Costantino Pischedda was born in Ozieri ( Italy ) in 1980 and is currently Research Assistant at the Insititute for International Economics, a think-tank based in Washington DC . He graduated from The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies ( SAIS ) ( Washington , DC and Bologna , Italy ), concentrating in Strategic Studies and International Economics. While at SAIS , he worked as teaching assistant of the International Trade Theory and Trade Policy for Developing Countries courses.

Mr. Pischedda holds a �summa cum laude� degree in Political Science from the University of Florence ( Italy ), where he conducted research on suicide terrorism.

Contact: costantino@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Gregg Bauer
Senior Editor U.S.A.

Gregg Bauer is the Director of Cruiser and Destroyer Programs for the defense firm Advanced Acoustic Concepts in Columbia, Maryland.  He also serves as an Intelligence Officer in the U.S. Navy Reserves and currently holds the rank of Commander.  Previously, he served as Chief of Staff and Chief Human Capital Officer to U.S. Department of Defense Inspector General.

Mr. Bauer holds a Masters Degree from the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.  He is also a member and Young Leader alumnus of the American Council on Germany.  He is a former Editorial Stringer for Navy Times newspaper and has authored numerous articles on national security topics.

Contact: gregg@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Monica Davis
Editor U.S.A.

Monica Davis is from Lexington, Virginia. She received a M.A. in International Relations and Peace Studies from the University of Tuebingen, in Germany. She previously studied in Athens, Greece and in Williamsburg, Virginia at the College of William and Mary. Monica has worked for the U.S. State Department, the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services, and for CECOEDECON (a local NGO in Jaipur, India).

She is currently working at the Institute for Peace Education in Tuebingen, Germany. Special regional interests include Darfur and South Asia.

Contact: monica@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Jonathan Fantini Porter
Editor U.S.A.

Jonathan Fantini Porter is policy director to U.S. Representative Joseph Sestak, a former Admiral and highest-ranking military officer to ever serve in the U.S. House of Representatives or Senate.
Previously, Jonathan held positions with the office of Senator Dianne Feinstein; U.S. Representative Howard L. Berman; Senator Edward Kennedy's Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions; and, the office of the Los Angeles County District Attorney.

Jonathan was elected to serve as the youngest chairman of the Speaker of the California State Assembly's advisory commission. In this role he oversaw four committees that provided legislative advise to the Speaker and was one of forty individuals invited to join nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's "Conference for Tomorrow's Leaders," where he was recipient of a grant by the Elie Wiesel Foundation.

In college, Jonathan and six peers founded the Collegiate Forum- a leadership development organization that brought youth together to strengthen communities through civic engagement- and edited its academic publication, The Podium. Jonathan initiated the Georgetown University Roosevelt Institution and was a member of the Student Investment Fund, the crew team for a period, and wrote for the student newspaper, The Hoya.

Jonathan was also student body president of his Southern California high school where he led a group that raised funds to provide running water and the first primary and secondary school to the rural community of Waslala, Nicaragua.

Jonathan has lived and studied in Brazil, Canada and Germany, and speaks German and Spanish.

Contact: jonathan@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Ryan Mauro
Editor U.S.A.

Ryan Mauro is 20 years old and was hired as a geopolitical analyst at age 16 by Tactical Defense Concepts. He is also a volunteer analyst for the Northeast Intelligence Network, and author of “Death to America: The Unreported Battle of Iraq.� In 2006, he was selected to speak on a panel about Iraq for the Intelligence Summit, and is a frequent guest on radio shows from Al Franken to Dennis Prager. He is currently signed to the William Morris Talent Agency, and the option to his life rights has been purchased by a major production company for a feature film.

Contact: ryan@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Gary H. Rice
Editor Canada

Gary H. Rice, SMStJ., C.D., PCSC. (Colonel, Ret'd) served in the Canadian Army Active, Regular and Reserve Forces, RCCS, RCAMC, and in the Canadian Forces in regimental, training, operations, command, and staff appointments in Canada, Norway and North West Europe, advancing from private to warrant officer to colonel. A citizen of Canada and the United States he is a graduate of the first Canadian Forces Command and Staff College course, the United States Inter-Agency Institute Advanced Training Program, a member of the Association of the United States Army, and a former Deputy Commandant and Chief Instructor CFMS Training Centre, CO 1st Canadian Field Hospital, Senior Administrator National Defence Medical Centre, Director Medical Administration and Resources and Head of Medical Operations and Plans NDHQ.

As a continuing student of foreign affairs and the profession of arms he has since 9/11 independently worked to strengthen Canada's defence structure.
Some of his recent published works being: Securing Our Sovereignty (A Green Paper On Canada's Future Defence Requirements), The Conference of Defence Associations Institute's Vimy Paper 2007, Defence Requirements for Canada's Arctic, Chapter 4 - Intrusion Scenarios, and the Netherlands based pro-EU and pro-Atlantic think tank Cicero Foundation's Lectures On Line:"Is NATO "To Be Or Not to Be."

Contact: gary@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Christian Rieck
Editor Latin America

Christian E. Rieck was born in 1978 in Santiago del Estero, Argentina and currently is a project assistant at Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAF), Berlin, Germany. He studied law and economics in Bayreuth (Germany), Seville (Spain) and at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Further studies and research led him to other universities in Italy (EUI), Switzerland (HSG, Fribourg), China (Fudan), Japan (Todai), Argentina (UBA) and Chile (UC). He interned at the European Parliament in Brussels (Belgium), the German Embassy in Prague (Czech Republic), the German Chamber of Commerce in Montevideo (Uruguay) as well as KAF's country offices in Vietnam and the Philippines. Mr. Rieck was a Carlo Schmid Fellow at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL) in Mexico City.

His research focuses on: supranational federalism, regional integration and the metamorphosis of the nation-state - European integration and member-state foreign policy - Latin America, East- and Southeast Asia.

Contact: christian@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Ian Walker
Editor U.K.

Ian Walker holds an MA in International Relations and Economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, specialising in Strategic Studies. Previously, he read Natural Sciences at St John’s College, Cambridge, followed by a year at Cambridge’s Judge Business School. An officer in the Royal Naval Reserve, he currently works as a Project Manager at General Capital Group, a finance firm in Munich. Prior to this he worked at an investment bank in London and a small technology firm in Guildford.

Contact: ian@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Ralph Meyer
Editor U.K.

Ralph Meyer is an executive search consultant that specialises in central government recruitment. He originally grew up in Southern Africa from where he immigrated to the UK. Currently Ralph Meyer is completing his ACCA qualifications and is a Trustee for a community and sports charity. He takes a particular interest in UK and Southern African politics. Ralph is currently involved in supplying the UK government with infrastructure specialists.

Contact: ralph@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Sabrina Schmitt
Editor U.K.

German born Sabrina Schmitt is currently studying towards a Masters of Arts in International Studies at University of London with Gender and International relations being her key subject. In 2007 she completed a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work at Munich University of Applied Sciences with a thesis on the German and British nonprofit sector. Her work experience includes project based work in the Secretary of Humanitarian Aid in Munich and in an international NGO where she implemented a comparative study on access to health care in the European Union among other things.
Her field of expertise are gender politics in the European Union and the role of welfare states in postindustrial societies.

Contact: sabrina@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Delancy Johansson
Editor U.K.

Delancy Johansson holds a Master of Arts (Honours) in International Relations from The University of Edinburgh. Her areas of expertise are on international security and human rights issues. English native speaker, she is near-fluent in Norwegian and speaks good French and Spanish and is currently learning Arabic. She is a skilled speaker having won the Award for Diplomacy at the Harvard World Model UN Conference in 2009.

Contact: delancy@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Elina Koupatsari
Editor Greece

Elina Koupatsari holds a BA in Communication and a minor degree in International Relations. She is in the Board of Directors of commercial and construction company ELIKA S.A in Greece. She worked for the Communications Department of a Greek political party during the pre-electoral period of the Greek 2007 elections. She has a keen interest in geopolitics and especially energy and water resources. She is currently living in London, U.K.

Contact: elina@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Jörg Eschenfelder
Editor South East Asia

Joerg Eschenfelder is a German born political scientist and free lance journalist living in Singapore. After his graduation with distinction from the Ludwigs-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich (Political Science, Public Law and Philosophy) he has been a consultant for strategical communication (Public Relations and Marketing) and editor for a economical-orientated two-weekly newspaper (Cologne, Munich). Since April 2004 he is a free lance journalist with the focus on Asia. From April 2004 until August 2005 he lived in Singapore. After two years in Germany he returned to Singpore in August 2007.

Contact: joerg@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Erik Mobrand
Editor North East Asia

Erik Mobrand is a doctoral candidate in politics at Princeton University. An analyst of Northeast Asian public affairs, he has lived and done research in China and South Korea, and is particularly interested in social policy and the politics of economic development in those societies, as well as in Northeast Asian regional politics. His analyses have appeared in publications such as /Worldpress.org/, /China// Business Review/, and /Asia Times/, as well as in scholarly venues including /Habitat International/ and /Korean Studies/. Erik speaks Chinese and Korean.

Contact: erik@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Prem Singh Basnyat
Editor Nepal

Lt. Col. Dr. Prem Singh Basnyat, a Chevening Scholar of UK has done M.A. in History, M.Sc. in Global Security (Cranfield University, Uk), Ph.D. in Military History and PSC (Passed Army Staff College). He holds the National records of the first Ph.D. from the Nepalese Army (except medical field), first Nepalese in M.Sc. in Global Security (Specialization in security study) from UK and first Nepalese in Defence Diplomacy Scholarship of Foreign and Commonwealth Office, United Kingdom.

He has published Shahi Nepali Sena Ra Padhansenapatiharu (A Military History), Shahi Nepali Senako Bhawanidal Gulma (A Military History), New Paradigm in Global Security, Civil-Military Relation in Nepal and Nepalese Forts and Royal Nepalese Army in FortBattles (Military History). He has done several military trainings including academic study in Disaster Management, the Influence of Law of Strategy and the Conduct of Military Operations and Managing Defense in Democracy from UK. He has served under United Nations as peacekeeper in Lebanon and Croatia too. He is from Para Commando Battalion.

Dr. Basnyat has partially visited India, Tibet (China), Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong (China), Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, Cyprus, United Kingdom Including Northern Ireland and Scotland, Switzerland, Germany, Netherland, Republic Ireland, France, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Hungary and United States of America.

Contact: prem@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Bhumika Ghimire
Editor South Asia

Bhumika Ghimire is a South Asia Analyst. Her articles have been published at NepalNews, Telegraph Nepal, and Himal South Asian. She was a regular contributor for News Front Weekly (Nepal), Nepal Abroad (Washington D.C.) and UPI Asia.

Contact: bhumika@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Maria Botchkova
Editor Russia

Five year student of Moscow State Lomonosov University, the Department of World Politics; specializes in the field of International Security. First Grant of “Gosclub�, the Russian non-governmental organization, aimed at training stuff reserve (2006). Reward during the Russian Opened contest of student scientific studies (2007). Junior researcher of the International Security Research Institute, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow. Has 6 scientific and 7 newspaper articles published.

Contact: maria@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Dmitry Udalov
Editor Russia

Assistant at the Department of Economics of the Institute of the US and Canadian Studies and President of the Students Scientific Society.
Award of the Government of Moscow for research work in history of World War II and First Prize in District Language Contest. First Scholarship 2004 of the Worldsecuritynetwork Foundation.

Contact: dmitry@worldsecuritynetwork.com

W.A.C. (Ian)  Adie
Editor Australia

Senior Research Fellow, Asia Institute, Monash University: Associate, Future Directions International (Australia) and Middle East Consultants International (London) Analytical Group.

Citizen of Australia (resident, Victoria 3930) and European Union (resident, 17310 Charente Maritime). Learnt Japanese on military service 1944-48 (Int. Corps India, Mid-East). Oxford BA Classics, Phil.and Hist. 1951, MA 1953: Then 2nd Secretary UK Foreign Service in Hong Kong, Phnom Penh, Saigon, Vientiane.

From 1960 to now, using competence in major European languages and Chinese, Russian etc. researched and published on Asia-Pacific and international affairs as senior academic at Universities of Oxford, Hong Kong, South Carolina, Australian National and others, with gaps while globetrotting as Ministerial Staff (Directeur de Cabinet) in Australian Government and later as Directing Staff, Australian Administrative Staff College/Melbourne U. Business School, 1981-1991. MA Oxon.

Contact: wadie@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Mariana Mill
Editor Austria and the Balkans

TV-journalist based in Vienna/Austria.

Studied business and international management at Pace University, New York; BA (Hons) Business New College in Durham UK, master of advanced international studies at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna and University of Vienna.

Contact: mariana@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Andrea Riemer
Editor Austria

Hon. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Andrea K. Riemer, Ph.D., is Director of the Institute for Strategy and Security Policy at the National Defense Academy, Vienna.

Dr. Riemer is also Program Director Vienna of the Ph.D.-Program between the National Defense Academy, Vienna and the Zrínyi Miklós Defense University Budapest (Military Science/Security Studies). Apart from managing the program she has various teaching and mentoring tasks within the program’s framework.

Contact: andrea@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Philipp Hauenstein
Editor Switzerland and Assistant of the Global Editor

Philipp Georg Karl Hauenstein was born 1983 in Nürnberg, Germany.
Since november 2009 Mr. Hauenstein holds a Swiss Licenciate/Master of Arts in Political Science from the University of Zurich. Title of his Master thesis: "The EU and its future perspective on military integration – effectiveness and performance limits of the military ESDP missions in front of the European Headline Goals for 2010 ".

His Licenciate-Studies included military studies at the Military Academy at the ETH Zurich and focused on military psychology, strategic studies, military history, ethnic conflict research, military technology, security issues in the information age and especially intellectual national defence in Switzerland since 1930.
Currently he supervises the Working Group for Security Policy (AG SIPO) of the association of students of political science at the University of Zurich which focuses on private military companies and the denationalization of executive powers in the 21st century.

Mr. Hauenstein was elected Member of the Executive Board and Scientific Advisor of the Association of Swiss Intelligence Officers (SWISSINT) on May 28th 2009 for a period of four years. In Germany he is also member of the working group "Security politics -Bundeswehr" of the bavarian party CSU since 2006.

In December 2009 Mr. Hauenstein got member of the German Associaton of Defense Technology (DWT) and represents one of the Board members for the Bodenseedreieck, an initiative to close the ties between the german, swiss and austrian defense industry.

For the World Security Network Foundation Mr. Hauenstein is point of contact to the International Security Network, too.

Contact: ph@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Bernd Papenkort
Editor South East Europe

30 years military service in German Armed Forces in command and staff functions. Work experiences in International Organisations (NATO, UN) at the political-military interface. Director Multilateral Academy Sarajevo, an non-governmental organisation which is conducting training for senior level leaders in politics, government and business in Bosnia Herzegovina and South East Europe.

Contact: bernd@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Ioannis Michaletos
Editor South East Europe
Coordinator of Southeastern European Office

Ioannis Michaletos has been educated in the UK in the fields of Political Science (BA) and HRM (MSc).

He is occupied as an indepedent journalist-security analyst for Greek & international organizations and media, including Jane's information Group, European Oil & Gas Monitor and European Energy Review.

He is a correspondent analyst for ISRIA a security assessment agency.

He speaks Greek, English, and French and has a passive knowledge of Italian.

Contact: ioannis@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Christopher Deliso
Editor South Balkans

Christopher Deliso is an American journalist and author of The Coming Balkan Caliphate: the Threat of Radical Islam to Europe and the West (Praeger Security International, USA). The work, which draws on numerous first-hand interviews with security and intelligence professionals from Europe and the US, provides a recent history of Islamic inroads in the region, and assesses the emerging threats from foreign-funded radical groups, against both Western interests and countries as well as to Balkan Muslim populations.

Based in Skopje, Macedonia, Mr. Deliso also serves as a field analyst for the Economist Intelligence Unit, London, and is director of one of the leading independent news sources on the region, Balkanalysis.com. He has also written for many newspapers, websites and magazines in the US and Europe on Balkan issues ranging from security, terrorism and politics to tourism, culture and history. He holds a MPhil with Distinction in Byzantine Studies from Oxford University.

Contact: christopher@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Dame Chkatroski
Editor Macedonia and Western Balkans

During the 1990s Dame Chkatroski has worked for Alex Br-NY, Merrill Lynch, on economic analyses for Eastern Europe. He has extensively written on the Balkans for Focus and IR Interfaith Relations, as well as for the Macedonian weekly Forum. Economist by profession, Dame also writes on topics such as foreign affairs, politics, defense in the Balkans, EuroAsia region and NATO enlargement. In 1999 and 2000 he is a winner of several awards of the World Analytic Group on his analyses "Kosovo after Milosevic" , "Russia 2000" and "The dark side of the Eastern privatization". Currently he is a senior analyst at Forum- CSRD. He is honorary member of the WAGG’s Board for the Balkans and Eastern Europe.

Contact: dame@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Tevan Poghosyan
Editor South Caucasus

Mr. Tevan Poghosyan is Executive Director of the International Center for Human Development (ICHD) since its day of establishment on 1999. In 2001 he became the executive of the Armenian Atlantic Association. In 2002 he started lecturing on Conflict Management and Leadership at the Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University. From 1997 to 1999 he served as NKR Public Affairs Office Director in the USA. From 1996 till 1997 he worked at the Central Bank of Armenia in various departments. He graduated from the Political Science Department American University of Armenia in 1996 and from Computer Science Department of Yerevan State Engineering University in 1994..

Contact: tevan@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Fariz Ismailzade
Editor South Caucasus

Fariz Ismailzade is a freelance writer based in Baku. He holds a master's degree from Washington University in St. Louis in Social and Economic development and BA from Western University in Political Science.

In the past, Fariz has worked with the International Republican Institute, Cornell Caspian Consulting and interned at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (USA), Embassy of Azerbaijan in the US. Currently, Fariz works at the Director of Training Programs at the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy and chairs US-educated Azerbaijani Alumni Association.

Contact: fariz@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Vahan Dilanyan
Editor Armenia

Vahan Dilanyan is the Chairman of the Political Developments Research Center NGO since its day of establishment on 2006. From 2007-2009 he lectured World History at Gitelik University of Yeghegnadzor. In 2009 he started lecturing International Relations and Conflict Resolution at European Regional Academy. He is serving as the regular Contributor at Euro-Atlantic Quarterly, and the Analyst on Foreign Politics at Ankakh Weekly.

Vahan holds BA and MA in Political Science from Yerevan State University, and is currently doing a PhD at Public Administration Academy of Republic of Armenia, with a concentration on the problems of Improvement of the Public Administration System of Republic of Armenia.

Mr. Dilanyan is the author of over 43 articles published both in Domestic and Foreign Newspapers and Journals. He held over 7 Press-Conferences in Yerevan, and was interviewed with Public Television of Armenia, Public Radio of Armenia, A1+ Agency, Taregir Daily, Aravot Newspaper and Novosti-Armenia International Information Agency.

Contact: vahan@worldsecuritynetwork.com

René Denzer
Editor Germany

René Denzer was born in 1978 in Cagliari, Italy. In 1998, after he graduated from secondary school, René joined the German Air Force. In 1999, upon completion of his military service, he was honored with the "Bestpreis" for extraordinary services to the German Air Force. After his military service, he studied political science, ancient history, medieval and modern history and media science.

Contact: rene@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Carsten Michels
Editor Germany

After graduating from the University of Bonn in July 2006, Carsten has been working for the Bertelsmann Foundation in Gütersloh. Since May 2008, he is doing a PhD in Political Science about the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in Pakistan at the University of Kiel.

Contact: carsten@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Jobst Graf von Wintzingerode
Editor Germany (Berlin)

Jobst Graf von Wintzingerode M.A. graduated in January 2006 after studying history and politcal science at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University Bonn/Germany and the Humboldt University Berlin/Germany. Since then, he is writing his doctoral thesis in Berlin. Since July 2006 he is also head of campaign of the Zivile Koalition Deutschland (www.zivilekoalition.de). Graf von Wintzingerode is reserve officer in the German Army (field intelligence). From 2002 to 2006 he was the Consulaire�s assistant at the german part of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament.

Contact: jobst@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Christian Fischer
Editor Germany (Munich)

A graduate of the Munich School of Political Science, Christian Fischer has worked as a research fellow at the Hanns Seidel Foundation's Academy for Politics and Current Affairs since 2004 and has been a member of several study groups on foreign and security policy since 2005. He has published book reviews, conference reports as well as a number of articles on topics ranging from the conflicts in the Middle-East, energy supply as a challenge for security policy and the US-German relations following the end of the Cold War. He is currently studying for his Ph.D. in Political Science at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich.

Contact: cfischer@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Herbert Maier
Editor Germany

Lecturer, Institute of Political Science, University of Regensburg, Germany

Herbert Maier holds a master in political science and studied at the University of Regensburg, Germany and American University, Washington, D.C. He worked from 2001 to 2006 at the Center of International Politics and Transatlantic Relations in Regensburg and received his Ph.D. from the University of Regensburg. He is doing research on American foreign policy, international security policy, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and theory of international relations and foreign policy analysis.

He is the author of “Massenvernichtungswaffen und Weltordnung. Die Nichtverbreitungspolitik der USA seit dem Ende des Ost-West-Konflikts“, 2007 and co-author of „The Rift: Explaining Europe’s Divergent Iraq Policies in the Run-up of the American-led War on Iraq“, 2006 (Foreign Policy Analysis, 2:3, pp. 223-244).

Contact: herbert@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Philipp Brix
Editor Germany

Born in Hannover/Germany in April 1989

In summer 2008 Philipp graduated from the prestigious German boarding school Schule Schloss Salem. At Salem Philipp received a scholarship for exceptional political and social engagement. During his scholar education he held positions as head boy and prefect and participated in international Model United Nations conferences several times. Since 2008 Philipp has been reading Corporate Management & Economics at Zeppelin University. He holds a scholarship of the Roland Berger Foundation.

Contact: pb@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Maciej Tysnicki
Editor Poland

Born in 1979 Polish journalist, editor and editorial consultant. Worked as a journalist in Gazeta Wyborcza daily and Przekroj weekly. For 4 years is running a small editorial consultancy company in Poland. For that time has worked for the most of Polish publishing houses as well as for few in Russia and Ukraine. His political engagement consisted of working for liberal political organizations as well as being part of federalist movement in Europe.

Contact: maciej@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Fabio S. Spada
Editor Italy

Editor of the IPD news agency (Defence Info of the Italian Parliament).
Adviser Foreign Affairs Committe, Chamber of Deputies, Rom.
Researcher and Contributor to Italian Defence Institutes and Magazines Produces TV Documentaries and News reports.

Contact: fabio@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Fabrizio Bozzato
Editor Italy

Fabrizio Bozzato is a Researcher Assistant at the Centre for International and Regional Affairs of the University of Fiji (Fiji Islands). Fabrizio holds a MA degree in International Politics and a Graduate Diploma with High Distinction in International Politics from the University of Tasmania (Australia). His MA thesis, entitled "Heavenly Powers: Holy See Diplomacy toward China", investigates the difficult and strained relations between the Apostolic See and Beijing. Fabrizio also attained a Masters cum laude in Political Science from Milan State University (Italy). His Masters dissertation on Italian migration to Australia was awarded the 2007 Centro Altreitalie/Giovanni Agnelli Foundation prize for the best thesis on Italian migrations. In August 2007, Fabrizio attended the first China-Pacific Island Countries Relations Workshop, held in Beijing at the China Institute of International Studies. He participated as a member of the delegation of diplomats, academics and representatives of economic organizations of the Pacific Island states. He has lectured at international conferences and gathered significant fieldwork research experience.

His areas of interest are small state development through regional integration, Chinese foreign and religious policies, Cross-Straits relations, Holy See politics, Italian politics, migration studies and risk management. His geographical areas of interest include Italy and the Vatican, the South Pacific, the People's Republic of China and Taiwan, East Asia and India.

Fabrizio is currently enrolled in the "Risk and Uncertainty" course at the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance.

Contact: fabrizio@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Nadine Al Bedair
Editor Saudi Arabia

TV journalist of Al Hurra TV Network (www.alhurra.com) of the Middle East Broadcast Networks, Inc. in Dubai, UAE. Nadine is promoting a fresh new approach to women and human rights rights in her country including articles in Saudi newspapers.

Christian Koch
Editor Gulf States

Dr. Christian Koch is the Director of International Studies at the Gulf Research Center located in Dubai, UAE. Prior to his appointment, he worked as Head of the Strategic Studies Section at the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, Abu Dhabi. Dr. Koch received his Ph.D. from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany with a thesis on the role of voluntary association in the political development of Kuwait. He also studied at the American University in Washington, D.C. and the University of South Carolina. Dr. Koch has published on various issues related to Middle East political development and Gulf strategic issues and is a regular contributor to regional newspapers and media. He is the co-editor of Gulf Security in the Twenty-First Century (Abu Dhabi: ECSSR, 1997) and a contributor to Elections in Asia: A Data Handbook (Oxford University Press, 2001) and Der Irak: Ein Land zwischen Krieg und Frieden (Palmyra, 2003). Dr. Koch has also served a contributor to Jane’s Sentinel Publications on Gulf issues. He is a member of the advisory board of the German Orient Foundation since January 2007.

Contact: ckoch@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Rooh ul Amin
Editor Pakistan

Rooh ul Amin received a Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Peshawar in 1999 and has a Master of Arts degree in Islamic Studies. He is currently working on a Master of Law (LLM) degree at the Center for Studies in Law and Democracy. He began his professional career as a junior clerk at the University of Peshawar in 1992 and is currently working as an office assistant in the Area Studies Center (Russia, China and Central Asia), University of Peshawar.

His main areas of interest include reading books and writing articles on different socio-political, socio-economic, cultural, human rights and religious issues in the world, with an emphasis on Pakistan and Peshawar in particular.

As an imaginative person and believer of the philosophy of humanism, Rooh ul Amin would like to see the world fully harmonized and free from all socio-political, socio-economic, religious, cultural and civilizational conflicts. Being a pacifist, he is a devoted follower and advocate of the philosophy of nonviolence and the movement of Mahatma Gandhi and Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (commonly known as Bacha Khan).

Contact: roohul@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Sahabzada Abdus-Samad Khan
Editor Pakistan

Born in Pakistan, he worked in the UNICEF Pakistan Country Office, Office of the Senior Emergency Coordinator in Islamabad, Pakistan in 2005 and 2006 as special assistant to Senior Emergency Coordinator for the earthquake relief effort (emergency field support). (HR) plans and follow up on issuance of supply requisitions, Purchase Orders and HR contracts.

Consultant in the M.E.F.T. Pakistan (private) Limited in Islamabad, Pakistan in 2004/2005 a leading solar and wind energy company in Pakistan.

Deputy Manager, Emergency Operations Center (OPSCEN) in UNICEF, New York 2002-2004.

Assist UNICEF Deputy Security Coordinator/OPSCEN Manager in managing daily (24/7) operations. Supervise six Geo-Political Watch Officers and two Admin. staff.

Project Officer/Consultant, Emergency Operations Center (OPSCEN) UNICEF 2001-2002 supporting field operations in emergency offices/countries through continuous monitoring of their communications between NYHQ and other emergency offices for rapid, proactive, follow up and co-ordination on all actions requested and directed, with a specific focus on the Afghanistan crisis.

Analyst officer, United Nations, Office of the Iraq Programme & Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs 1997-2000 for donor-funded UN/NGO IDP (Internally Displaced Persons) and other humanitarian projects in Iraq. In consultation with the UN Office of the Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq and the Section Chief, approved agreements and disbursement of funds. Backstopped Oil for Food (SCR-986) programmes implemented by UN agencies (e.g., FAO, UNESCO, HABITAT) and monitored the security situation in the three northern governorates of Iraq.

Field delegate, United Nations, Department of Humanitarian Affairs, Northern Iraq

Office of the Humanitarian Coordination for Iraq (UNOHCI) 1994-1997 in the governorates of Suleimaniyah, Dohuk and Erbil (Iraqi Kurdistan).

Contact: samad@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Owais Ehsan
Editor Pakistan

Student at the Bradford University, UK, School of Management, MSC Finance since 2007; before National University of Science & Technology in Rwalpindi (Pakistan) BBA in 2004 in Finance and Investment and Cadet College Kohat, in Pakistan, FSC passed with 1st Division.

Contact: owais@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Antonia Dimou
Editor Jordan

Antonia Dimou is a Fellow at the Center for Strategic Studies, University of Jordan. She was Special Advisor to the Greek Ministers of National Defence on Middle East issues from 2004 to 2006. She was also Resident Specialist at the Defence Analyses Institute, Greek Ministry of Defence from 2000 to 2003, Middle East Studies Coordinator at the Research Institute for European and American Studies from 2002 to 2006, Researcher at the Institute of International Relations from 2000 to 2001, and an Analyst at the Centre for Analysis and Planning, Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2001.
Her research interests lie in the Middle East peace process, regional security architectures, Political Islam and Iranian domestic as well as foreign policy issues. She speaks English and Arabic and has a working knowledge of Iranian.

Contact: antonia@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Dan Rabkin
Editor Iran

Dan Rabkin is a Middle Eastern affairs and national security analyst based in Toronto, Canada. He was Canada's 2005 Governor General's Medalist.

Contact: dan@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Hichem Karoui
Editor France

Journalist, writer and researcher in social sciences, Hichem Karoui has worked extensively on the Middle-East, Europe and the US Foreign policy, publishing numerous essays, reports and analyse articles in the press and the specialized magazines. He published three books on Arab policy and international issues:

* In French in 2005 : L'après-Saddam en Irak, les plans, les hommes et les problèmes ( Post Saddam Irak, Plans, Men and Problems) : L'Harmattan. Paris . France .

* International Balance, From The Cold War to The Detente. Essay: Tunis . 1985.

* Prolegomena For a Critic of the Arab political Reality. Tunis 1988.

His research fields focus currently on U.S. Foreign policy in connection with the Middle East , new trends of thought and political activism in the Muslim world and the West.

His daily diplomatic column � Trends' has been published since 1993 on the Panarab London-based Al Arab newspaper.

Based in Paris since 1998, Hichem is living as an author and journalist. He holds three Masters from the Sorbonne University : in Arab studies, in English studies, and in Middle-East Mediterranean studies.

Contact: hichem@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Hisane Masaki
Senior Editor Japan

Hisane Masaki is a Tokyo-based journalist, commentator and scholar on Japanese and international political and economic affairs. He worked for the Japan Times, Japan's biggest English daily, for nearly 20 years (Apr.1985-Dec. 2004), and got numerous international scoops. Masaki served as the Japan Times' national news editor ( Oct.2000-Oct.2002) and then as its foreign news editor ( Oct.2002-Dec.2004) . After leaving the Japan Times, Masaki served as Director of Research at the Japan Forum on International Relations (JFIR), a leading Japanese think tank in Tokyo specializing in international affairs, (Dec.2004-Feb.2005) and concurrently served as a Steering Committee Member and Executive Secretary at the Council on East Asian Community (CEAC), another leading think tank in Tokyo . JFIR is chaired by Takashi Imai, former chairman of the Japan Business Federation , and CEAC is chaired by former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone. Now Masaki writes analyses and columns regularly for Asia Times and other publications. He also serves as an Intellectual Member of the JFIR's Policy Council. Masaki graduated from Waseda University in Mar.1985. He is professor of international politics and economics at IOND University, from which he received Honorary Ph.D. in international political economics in Apr. 2005.

Contact: hisane@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Norman Levine
Editor Asia/Australia

Prof. Levine specializes in 19th, and 20th Cent. European history. He is the author of six books, and 35 scholarly articles on European studies. He is the recipient of 20 research grants, including Fulbright Senior Research Fellowships in 1984 and 1988 to Berlin, West Germany. His academic teaching career spanned 30 years, mostly at the University of Maryland, and he is now the Executive Director of the Institute for International Policy.

Contact: norman@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Balaji Chandramohan
Editor Asia

Balaji Chandramohan handles the Asia Pacific Bureau of World News Forecast, a United States based news website for the past three years. He is a member of think tanks such as Institute of Defense Studies and Analyses, United Service Institute, Australian Institute of International Studies, Australian Institute, Australian Strategic Policy Institute and New Zealand Institute of International Studies. He has also advised the Labour Party in New Zealand in 2008 and the Bharatiya Janata Party in India in 2009 in their election campaigns.

Contact: balaji@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Nikolai Yotov
Editor Bulgaria

Currently based in Bucharest, Romania, Nikolai Yotov is a correspondent for the Bulgarian-based regional financial and economy SeeNews Agency and political analyst to the Bulgarian Post online edition.

Interested in politics since the fall of the socialistic government in 1997 in Bulgaria, Nikolai Yotov has worked for the largest independent Bulgarian news agency Focus and have submitted and collaborated to a number of online and paper editions in Bulgaria and Romania.

Visits to Central and East Europe, participations in numerous seminars, conferences and trainings and paying a special attention to the Balkans, helped him develop an analytical knowledge about his home region and the conflicts on political and geopolitical level.

Contact: nikolai@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Taylan Özgür Kaya
Editor Turkey

Taylan Özgür Kaya was born in 1978 in Antalya, Turkey. He has been a research assistant at Department of International Relations of Middle East Technical University (Turkey) since 2002. He took his degree of B.A. in Political Science and International Relations from Marmara University in 2001, and his degree of M.Sc. in International Relations from Middle East Technical University in 2004. He is currently a PhD. student at Department of International Relations of Middle East Technical University. He is specializing on European security, especially on the EU's foreign, security and defence policy and international identity of the EU.

Contact: taylan@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Fiona Rotberg
Editor Environmental Security Issues

Director Environmental Security in Asia Project, Silk Road Studies Program, Uppsala University

Dr. Rotberg is a Research Fellow at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program and the Director of the Environmental Security in Asia project. Dr. Rotberg’s research focuses on natural resource scarcity and state failure. She specializes in the roles that rule of law, community members, and cultural issues play in managing environmental conflicts.

She holds a Ph.D. in International Natural Resources Policy and Negotiation and Mediation from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Harvard University. Dr. Rotberg also earned a M.A. in International Land Use Management from Tufts University, a certificate degree from the Political Theory and Policy Analysis Institute at Indiana University, and a B.A. in Political Science and Russian Studies from Oberlin College.

Contact: fiona@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Nathalie Isabelle Vogel
Editor Eastern Europe

German political scientist born to a French father and a Russian mother. Graduated from the Institute of Political Sciences of the University of Innsbruck in Austria. Until 2005, she taught international relations at the University of Bonn, Germany. She served as project officer and consultant for youth and civil society at the NATO Office in Moscow. (2005/06)
She is Political Editor of TEME, EUFOR monthly publication and is a reserve officer with the German Armed Forces.
In 2007 Nathalie Vogel joined a Prague based consulting firm.

Contact: nathalie@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Haytham Mouzahem
Correspondent Broader Middle East

Mr Haytham Ahmad Mouzahem , Analyst and Researcher- WorldSecurityNetwork Correspondent for Broader Middle East. Mouzahem is a columnist, writes Op-Eds and analysis on Middle East affairs, conducts interviews, and covers international conferences.

He also researches and writes articles and book reviews for academic journals. His book The Israeli Labor Party (1968-1999) was published in the United Arab Emirates in 2001, and he has published several articles on the Islamic movements, especially the Lebanese Hizbullah, and the Israeli and Iranian affairs as well as the US policy in the Middle East.

Contact: haytham@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Manuela Paraipan
Editor Broader Middle East

Manuela Paraipan is a Bucharest based independent foreign policy analyst. She has been published in The Washington Times, World Press, Yemen Times, Global Politician, Lebanon Wire and other publications.

She has also been invited as a speaker at multiple political conferences.

Contact: manuela@worldsecuritynetwork.com

James M.B. Keyser
Correspondent to UN

James M.B. Keyser is a native of Philadelphia. After graduating from Haverford College and spending some time living and working in France and Italy he returned to the USA to earn his Ph.D. in anthropology at Harvard University. During his career he has worked extensively in Africa, the Middle East, South America, Central and South Asia, and Southeast Asia on projects in education, agriculture, community development, health, and small business. He has worked for many private and governmental clients, especially United Nations agencies. Having been in the field for over thirty years, he has a wide and extensive knowledge of development and international affairs and has written extensively for scientific and foreign policy journals.

Tillmann Dietrich
Schools and Junior Network Editor

Born in 1990, Tillmann Dietrich represents the youngest generation of pupils interested in foreign and defense affairs. He has attended the Lyceum Alpinum boarding school in Zuoz (Switzerland), St. Clare's College in Oxford (UK) and is presently at the famous Salem International School, Lake Constance (Germany). When not at school, he lives in Coburg, northern Bavaria.

Contact: tillmann@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Members of the WSN Junior Network

Constantin Tosch
Marc Brun�en
Oliver Henning

Nando Hoffmann
Editor Web 2.0

Nando Hoffmann (20) is Editor Web 2.0 in WSN and studying international Business Administration at the bilingual Erasmus University Rotterdam (Rotterdam School of Management).Moreover, he worked as an intern in the office of Lower Saxony in Berlin and participated in exchange programs to London, Florence and New York.

Contact: nando@worldsecuritynetwork.com

Philip J. Schmitz
Chief Technology Officer

Mr. Schmitz is Founder and CEO of Bethesda Hosting (Formerly Millennium Technology Group) in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, a web consulting and web hosting company in the U.S.

Contact: philip@bethesdahosting.com