About the Moderator

Jack Segal, former senior U.S. diplomat and IAF co-chair, has had a long career in arms control and nonproliferation. He served at the National Security Council as Director for Nonproliferation and Export Controls from 1999-2000. Prior to that, in Moscow, he was responsible for implementing a variety of arms control agreements. From 1986-87, he served as a State Department representative to the strategic weapons talks of the START negotiations with the USSR in Geneva. While there, he drafted the Agreement on Nuclear Risk Reduction with the USSR which was signed in 1987 and which continues to be honored by the U.S. and Russia today despite the current state of the relationship (June 2023).