Participant Biographies

Ola Dahlman

Ola Dahlman

Chair, Working Group on Verification, CTBT
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

Dr. Dahlman has been engaged in arms control negotiations for over 30 years. He chaired the Group of Scientific Experts (GSE) before and during the negotiations of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) from 1982 to 1996. He headed the Working Group on verification issues at the Preparatory Commission for the CTBT Organization from 1996 to 2006. Dr. Dahlman spent his entire professional career at the Swedish Research Defense Institute (FOI) in Stockholm, ending in 2000 as the deputy director general.