Dr. Jean Pascal Zanders

Dr Jean Pascal Zanders (Belgium) is since April 2003 Director of the BioWeapons Prevention Project (BWPP). He was Project Leader of the Chemical and Biological Warfare Project at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) from October 1996 until August 2003. Previously he was Research Associate at the Centre for Peace and Security Studies at the Free University of Brussels.

He has published extensively on chemical and biological weapon issues in English, Dutch and French since 1986 and has edited two books Chemical Weapons Proliferation (1991 - with Eric Remacle) and The 2nd Gulf War and the CBW Threat (1995). He has contributed to the SIPRI Yearbooks between 1997 and 2003, to the SIPRI volume The Challenge of Old Chemical Munitions and Toxic Armament Wastes (1997) and the SIPRI Fact Sheets on the Chemical Weapons Convention (1997), the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq (1998), Biotechnology and the future of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (2001) and Maintaining the Effectiveness of the Chemical Weapons Convention (2002). In the SIPRI Yearbook 2000 he co-wrote with researchers at the Swedish National Defence Research Establishment (FOA) a study on the "Risk assessment of terrorism with chemical and biological weapons".

He is also the principal author of the Internet-based educational module on Chemical and Biological Weapons Non-proliferation (http://cbw.sipri.se).