Walter Dorn

- Mr. Dorn is an associate professor at the Canadian Forces College and co-chair of the Department of Security Studies. He assisted with the negotiation, ratification, and implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). As CWC program coordinator at Parliamentarians for Global Action (1992-93), he addressed parliamentary committees in nations on several continents to support the ratification and implementation of the treaty. His interests are now broader, covering both international and human security, especially peacekeeping and the United Nations. In 1999, he was a district electoral officer with the United Nations Mission in East Timor. He also served with the United Nations in Ethiopia (UNDP project) and at U.N. headquarters as a Training Adviser with U.N.'s Department of Peacekeeping Operations. He carried out research in conflict areas in Central and South America, Africa and South East Asia. Since 1983, he has served as the U.N. Representative of Science for Peace, a Canadian NGO, and addressed the U.N. General Assembly in 1988 at the Second U.N. Special Session on Disarmament. He was a Senior Research Fellow at Cornell University in 1998; a consultant to Yale University United Nations Studies in 1996 and an adviser to the Federation of American Scientist, Biological Weapons Control expert group in 1990. Mr. Dorn earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Toronto, and his doctoral research was aimed at chemical sensing for arms control.