Ian Stewart Email & Phone Number

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Leading the Washington DC Office of the James Martin Center for Non-proliferation Studies. Focusing on non-proliferation and policy impact. Working to fill international governance gaps and developing new tools and approaches. Training and informing practitioners. Building partnerships and impactful relationships.

Global

The EU P2P program on Dual-use goods (2015-2017): Ian is currently the elearning advisor and member of the Project Management Team for a consortium lead by Expertise France to run this program for the EU. In this role, Ian is responsible for the training delivered by the consortium in more than 70 partner countries. He was previously training advisor and scientific advisor for this program. Ian has overseen the development of a comprehensive training curriculum on export controls, which is now hosted on the EU export control portal website. (https://export-control.jrc.ec.europa.eu) and which has more recently been transformed into a comprehensive suite of elearning materials. Ian is also involved in organising and delivery of the EU Summer University on Non-Proliferation and Export Controls which ran for the first time in 2015.

The Strand Campus

Research Interests: Ian’s principle area of research relates to export controls and illicit trade. His research focuses on implementation and enforcement of export controls as well as evasion of these measures. Secondary research interests relate to open source intelligence and nuclear history. Alpha-POST: A current side interest of Ian’s is open source information fusion. Having spent many years using antiquated government IT infrastructure, Ian is keen to explore what novel tools and solutions can be leveraged for non-proliferation purposes. The Project Alpha website contains several visualisations through which he has sought to make proliferation-relevant information more usable and more understandable. Additionally, at present, Ian is currently working to create a semi-automated capability that can systematically collect and collate open source information related to non-proliferation.

London, United Kingdom

Project Alpha: Ian was seconded from the British Ministry of Defence in 2011 to establish Project Alpha at King’s College London. Originally envisioned as a mechanism for engaging the private sector in preventing proliferation, the early years of Project Alpha focused on outreach to industry in the UK, as well as characterising the nature of Iranian proliferation-related trade. Alpha has grown to have three strands; understanding illicit trade, building capacity to counter illicit trade, and strengthening the international non-proliferation regime to counter illicit trade. Project Alpha also provides support to various parts of the European Union in relation to the implementation of export controls. (www.projectalpha.eu)

Managing the Atom and International Security Program Research Fellow

Responsible for advising on licence applications for all dual-use exports from the EU from a technical and end use perspective. This involved incorporating technical and intelligence information in order to reach decisions on around 10,000 licences. This was a very specialist role that was originally created following the Scott Report into the arms to Iraq scandal. At the time, there were only two individuals responsible for assessing dual-use goods in this way. Incumbents of these positions were called upon to provide their insights into all issues concerning strategic trade and sanctions, including with regards to the development of UN and EU sanctions on Iran.

Starting as an apprentice at Rosyth Dockyard in 2000, I held a number of engineering roles with the UK Ministry of Defence. In the period 2003-2007, I was associated with a military unit at Newcastle University, where I undertook an MOD-sponsored undergraduate masters degree. Positions with UKMOD continued during this period, including with DG Scrutiny and Analysis in London and at with the Naval Base Design Authority at Faslane. From 2007-2009, it involved a number of responsibilities in support of the UK Strategic Weapons System, including a spell in the British Embassy in Washington DC in the office that looks after the 1958 mutual defence agreement (the agreement under which nuclear weapons cooperation between the UK and US takes place).

Phd, War Studies

Msc, Nuclear Science And Technology

Meng, Electrical And Electronic Engineering