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Lawrence Scheinman

Lawrence Scheinman is currently distinguished professor of international policy of the Monterey Institute of International Studies and adjunct professor at Georgetown University and Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He is the former assistant director (assistant secretary) of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency responsible for Nonproliferation and Regional Arms Control, a post to which he was appointed by the president in 1994 and held through late 1997. He was professor of government (international law and relations) at Cornell University from 1974-1997 and served as director of the Program on Science, Technology and Society as well as director and later associate director of the Peace Studies Program, and as director of the Western Societies Program. Dr. Scheinman previously held tenured posts at the University of Michigan and the University of California, Los Angeles, before coming to Cornell University. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Michigan, a J.D. from New York University School of Law, and a B.A. from Brandeis University. He is admitted to practice before the bar of the State of New York.

Dr. Scheinman has been involved in international nuclear and technology related matters as an academic and as a government and international organization official for several decades. He served as senior policy analyst and head of the Office of International Policy Planning at the Energy Research and Development Administration in the Ford administration (1976); as principal deputy to the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology and senior advisor to the Under Secretary in the Carter administration (1977, 1978), with particular responsibility for dealing with US-Japanese peaceful nuclear relations and as US representative to the International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation responsible for Assurance of Nuclear Supply; as special assistant to the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency for nonproliferation and arms control matters (1986-1988, 1992); as counselor for Nonproliferation at the Department of Energy (late 1993-early 1994); and as assistant director of ACDA (1994-1997). In that capacity he was one of the US delegation heads at the 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference and subsequent PrepCom and US head of delegation to the NPT Depositary Meetings with the Russian Federation and the United Kingdom. In 2004-2005 he served as policy advisor to the IAEA study on Multilateral Nuclear Alternatives to the Nuclear Fuel Cycle.

He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has been a member of the core group of the Programme for the Promotion of Non-Proliferation, of the advisory committee of the Atlantic Council for the United States Non-Proliferation Project, of the Washington Council on Nonproliferation, and of the Executive Committee of the Federation of American Scientists. He was a member of the Department of State Advisory Board on Arms Control and Non-Proliferation from 1998-2001 and from 1981-1987 served on the Department of State's Advisory Committee on Oceans, Environment and International Scientific Affairs. Dr. Scheinman has been the visiting research scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1969-1970) while on leave from the University of Michigan and fellow of the Harvard University Center for International Affairs (1967-1968) on leave from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is included in American Men of Science and Who's Who in the East. In 1997 he received the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency's highest tribute, the Distinguished Honor Award.

Dr. Scheinman has published extensively in the fields of nonproliferation, arms control, and international nuclear and technology cooperation. His books and monographs include Atomic Energy Policy in France Under the Fourth Republic (Princeton University Press, 1965); EURA-TOM: Nuclear Integration in Europe (Carnegie Endowment, 1967); Nuclear Safeguards, The Peaceful Atom and the International Atomic Energy Agency (Carnegie Endowment, 1969); The Non-Proliferation Role of the International Atomic Energy: A Critical Assessment (Resources for the Future, 1985); The IAEA and World Nuclear Order (Resources for the Future, 1987); Non-Proliferation and the IAEA: A US-Soviet Agenda (Atlantic Council of the United States, 1985); and Assuring the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Safeguards System (Atlantic Council of the United States, 1992).

Recent articles and essays include "The US-India Nuclear Deal: Taking Stock" (Fred McGoldrick, Harold Bengelsdorf, and Lawrence Scheinman), Arms Control Today (October 2005); "Disarmament: Have the Five Nuclear Power Done Enough?" Arms Control Today (January-February 2005); "The Nuclear Conundrum: Reconciling Nuclear Energy and Nonproliferation" (Lawrence Scheinman and William Potter), Harvard International Review (winter 2005); "The Nuclear Fuel Cycle: A Challenge for Nonproliferation," Disarmament Diplomacy, Vol. 76 (March-April 2004); "Shadow and Substance: Securing the Future of Atoms for Peace," IAEA Bulletin (December 2003); "Israel, India and Pakistan: Engaging the Non-NPT States in the Non-Proliferation Regime," (with Marvin Miller) Arms Control Today (December 2003); "Transcending Sovereignty in the Management and Control of Nuclear Materials," IAEA Bulletin, (December 2001); and in Journal of Nuclear Materials Management (winter 2002).