Gareth Williams Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands

Leading a team to support States Parties respond effectively to incidents involving toxic chemicals, with an overall ambition of reducing risk by improving outcomes and reducing impact through better response capabilities and deterring use by improved investigative and law-enforcement capacity.I led the implementation of an ambitious capacity-building.

The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands

The Technical Requirements Team is comprised of OPCW experts who will be the users of the Centre for Chemistry & Technology (CCT). The TRT is responsible for providing the Project Board and Project Management Team with technical requirements of the CCT to ensure that the design of the CCT delivers required capabilities.

The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands

Appointed by the Director-General on the nomination of the OPCW Joint Advisory Board; the Joint Disciplinary Committee, established under Staff Regulation 10.1, advises the Director-General on disciplinary matters.

The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands

I led a large (27) multi-disciplinary and geographically diverse team of scientific, technical and medical experts to deliver the OPCW core mission, and also to ensure that key capacity and capabilities, for which I am responsible, were available to the organisation.As a member of the Divisional Management Team, I lead on strategic planning – developing.

The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands

• Support executive management to ensure the financial sustainability of the programme and delivery of desired results, ensuring compliance with organisational strategies, rules, regulations and standards of performance.
• Manage and oversee the preparation and review of the Inspections Programme and Budget and other programme related documents (including strategy documents, non-papers, policy briefs and performance reports) in line with.
• Monitor and supervise the timely and cost-effective implementation of the programme according toOPCW goals and partner expectations.
• Manage programme resources in accordance with OPCW standards of ethics, integrity and accountability framework and financial sustainability.

The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands

Chaired by the Deputy Director-General, the Provident Fund Management Board is entrusted with the management of the OPCW Provident Fund on behalf of its participants.I also chaired two Sub-Boards: Market Conditions and Interest Rates & Investment OptionsAn important part of the role played by the PFMB is to prepare, and submit for approval of participants.

Lviv, Ukraine

Providing expert advice and guidance to the United Nations Designated Official for Security and the United Nations Security Management Team in Ukraine on planning and preparing for the event of an incident involving Chemical Warfare Agents or Toxic Industrial Chemicals.

• Technical leadership of scientific programmes related to national and international security.
• Leading large and complex multi-disciplinary project team delivering scientific programmes.
• Representing the organisation at various international fora: international research collaborations, advisory boards, task forces and scientific conferences.

Dstl Porton Down

• Leading a large team of chemists working across a diverse range of projects.
• Provide technical leadership for a number of key projects.
• Performance management of a large and diverse team.
• Responsible for managing safety in a number of high-hazard labs and complex facilities.

London, United Kingdom

• Building networks and communities of expertise across Government to tackle specific security challenges identified by political leadership.
• Building international collaborations to be force-multipliers to further Government foreign policy goals in the area of counter-proliferation.

Porton Down, England, United Kingdom

• Workplace supervisor for high-hazard chemistry laboratories.
• Technical lead for four projects which formed part of a large international research and development programme to develop capabilities specialist customers in Government.
• Safety and training lead for the high-hazard synthesis programme.
• Supporting the UK response to an incident involving toxic chemicals as an operational responder and latterly in an advisory capacity.

• Lead a small analytical team working from a field laboratory in Baghdad to analyse chemical samples during the conflict in Iraq.
• Capacity building for military personnel and defence civilians with little or no knowledge of chemical weapons.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Organophosphorus Chemistry

Synthesis and applications of novel fluorinated organophosphorus compounds.

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