Dr. Potter is the Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar Professor of Nonproliferation Studies and founding director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Dr. Potter has served on numerous committees of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and for five years was a member of the UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters. He has been an advisor to the delegation of Kyrgyzstan at every NPT Review Conference and Preparatory Committee meeting since 1995. He is the author or editor of over 20 books, the most recent of which are Nuclear Politics of the Non-Aligned Movement (2012), two volumes on Forecasting Nuclear Proliferation in the 21st Century (2010), and The Global Politics of Combating Nuclear Terrorism (2010).