Mr. Sico van der Meer

Guest speakers per committee: Oudemanhuispoort, Saturday 9th

First Committee

10.00 – 11.15 am  – Reviewing the Nuclear Non-ProliferationTreaty
Mr. Sico van der Meer
After graduating in History at the University of Nijmegen in 1999, Sico van der Meer worked as a journalist and as a Fellow of a think tank on civil-military relations. In 2006 he became a Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations “Clingendael”. Started as a researcher on Dutch defence policy, he soon also became involved in research on non-proliferation issues. In 2009 the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction became his core research theme, especially focusing on the political dynamics of proliferation. In October 2009 he also started a part time PhD research project on nuclear non-proliferation at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam.