Members
The Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (APLN) has over one hundred members from eighteen countries across Asia and the Pacific, consisting of former political, diplomatic and military leaders, senior government officials, and scholars and opinion leaders. APLN aims to inform and energize public opinion, especially high-level policymakers, to take seriously the very real threats posed by nuclear weapons, and to do everything possible to achieve a world in which they are contained, diminished and eventually eliminated.
Angela WOODWARD
Deputy Director at the Verification Research, Training and Information Centre
Angela Woodward is Deputy Executive Director of the Verification Research, Training and Information Centre.
Angela Woodward is Deputy Executive Director of the Verification Research, Training and Information Centre.
Angela Woodward has worked in the arms control and disarmament field since 1998, specializing in monitoring, verification, and compliance issues. She joined VERTIC in 1999 and has held various management roles and worked across projects on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, chemical and biological weapons verification, national legislative implementation of CBRN treaties and agreements, and UN sanctions compliance.
She serves on the Board of the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network and is a Council Member of the Disarmament and Security Centre (New Zealand). She is a member of the New Zealand Autonomous Weapons Systems Working Group and previously served on New Zealand’s Public Advisory Committee on Disarmament and Arms Control (PACDAC) (2011-2018). She has taught public international law and international relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of Canterbury, New Zealand respectively.
Angela holds an LLM in Public International Law (Merit) and a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education from the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, a BA (Honours) in Political Science and an LLB from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and a university diploma in international nuclear law (Très Bien) from the University of Montpellier 1/OECD Nuclear Energy Agency, France.