Mark Fitzpatrick is Director of the Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and author of The Iranian Nuclear Crisis: Avoiding worst-case outcomes. Mr Fitzpatrick is a founding member of the EU Non-Proliferation Consortium. He is also a member of: the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons; the International Advisory Board of the Canberra-based Centre for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament; and the Policy Advisory Group of the United Nations Association of the UK.