Biography
Coordinator of Group of Experts, UN Security Council’s 1540 Committee
Dr. Jonathan Brewer is currently the Coordinator of the Group of Experts that supports the UN Security Council’s 1540 Committee, New York, a Visiting Professor, King’s College London, Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for New American Security, Washington DC, and a Fellow of the Geological Society of London. From 2010 to 2015 he was the financial expert on the UN Panel on Iran created pursuant to resolution 1929 (2010). From 1983-2010 he was a member of HM Diplomatic Service and served in British Embassies in Luanda, Mexico City and Moscow. After receiving a PhD in geophysics from Cornell University (1981) he spent two years at Cambridge University, UK, working on deep seismic reflection profiles recorded in UK waters. He has a BA in Geology from Oxford University, UK (1977).
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