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Dr. Oliver Meier
Researcher


Research Fields
Arms Control & Disarmament, Nonproliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction, European Security, U.S. Foreign and Security Policy.

Curriculum vitae
Dr Oliver Meier holds PhD in political science from the Free University of Berlin. He has studied international relations at the Department of Political Science at the Free University of Berlin and also was a fellow at the Center for Arms Control and International Security at Stanford University. He was Senior Analyst with the Berlin Information Centre for Transatlantic Security (BITS) in Berlin and Geneva and (Senior) Arms Control and Disarmament Researcher with the Verification Research, Training and Information Centre (VERTIC) in London, and a consultant to several non-governmental organisations. He has worked on the staff of Uta Zapf, who is a member of the Foreign Relations Committee and chairperson of the subcommittee on disarmament, arms control and non-proliferation in the German Bundestag.

Since May 1995 Dr Oliver Meier is a researcher with the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg. He currently works on a project funded by the German Found for Peace Research, looking at the impact of technology transfers on the legitimacy of non-proliferation regimes. He is also the International Representative and Correspondent of the U.S. Arms Control Association (ACA), based in Berlin. As part of a joint project run by ACA, the British American Security Information Council and IFSH and funded by the Hewlett Foundation he is analysing options to reduce the role of tactical nuclear weapons in European security.

Languages
German, English, French

Current projects

  • Control or Cooperation? Technology transfers and efforts to control the spread of weapons of mass destruction


  • Reducing the role of tactical nuclear weapons in Europe
  • Publications
    » selected publications

    Contact
    Kiefholzstr. 12
    D-12435 Berlin
    Phone: +49-30-4372 3970
    Fax: +49-30-4372 3972