Participant Biographies

Chaim Braun

Chaim Braun

Consulting Professor, Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Stanford
Fissile Material; Japan`s Nuclear Disaster and the U.S.-Japan Alliance; Nuclear Safeguards System

Mr. Braun has thirty-three years of management and consulting experience in the electric and nuclear power industry. He is now a consulting professor at CISAC where he conducts studies related to international nuclear energy and fuel cycle developments, and the related possible spread of nuclear proliferation. He has coined the term ‘Proliferation Rings’ to denote states synergistically supporting each other in enhancing their WMD proliferation potential. He received his education in chemical and nuclear engineering, nuclear chemistry and in operations research in the Technion and in the Weizmann Institute in Israel, and in Cornell University.