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.
Michiru NISHIDA
Michiru Nishida is a Professor in the School of Global Humanities and Social Sciences and Deputy Director of the Research Center for Global Risk at Nagasaki University.
Michiru Nishida is a Professor at the School of Global Humanities and Social Sciences and Deputy Director of the Research Center for Global Risk at Nagasaki University, as well as a Senior Research Adviser at APLN. He specialises in arms control, disarmament, and non-proliferation. Author of "Nuclear Transparency: Practices of US-USSR/Russia and NPT as well as their Potential Applicability to China" and co-author of "NPT: The Global Governance of Nuclear Weapons.” He has worked for many years in the field of arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation as a diplomat and as a Special Advisor for Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. He holds an M.A. in International Policy Studies with a certificate on nonproliferation from Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, and Ph.D. in Laws from Hitotsubashi University.