Mailing address
One Brattle Square 501
79 John F. Kennedy Street
Mailbox 134
Cambridge, MA, 02138
Trevor Findlay
Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program
Contact:
Telephone: 617-384-8061
Fax: 617-496-0606
Email: trevor_findlay@hks.harvard.edu
Experience
Trevor Findlay is a professor and Director of the Canadian Centre for Treaty Compliance at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, where he holds the William and Jeanie Barton Chair in International Affairs. A former Australian diplomat, he has a doctorate in international affairs from the Australian National University. He is currently also a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) in Waterloo, Canada. From 2006–2010, he directed a joint CIGI/CCTC research project on the future of nuclear energy and global governance and is currently directing a follow-on joint project on strengthening and reform of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Dr Findlay's most recent book is Nuclear Energy and Global Governance: Ensuring Safety, Security and Nonproliferation (London: Routledge, 2011).
Professor Findlay has been invited to become a member of the United Nations Secretary General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters. His term is January 2013–December 2016.
March 13, 2013
"The Evolution of the IAEA: Using Nuclear Crises as Windows of Opportunity (or Not)"
Presentation
By Trevor Findlay, Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program
This seminar considered how the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has reacted to nuclear crises. The IAEA often appears not just to have weathered such crises, but to have successfully leaped through windows of opportunity presented by them. This has resulted in periodic expansions of its mandate, capabilities, and resources. The 2011 Fukushima disaster appears to be a puzzling exception, raising the question of what concatenation of factors needs to be present for the IAEA to take advantage of nuclear crises.
June 2012
Unleashing the Nuclear Watchdog: Strengthening and Reform of the IAEA
Report
By Trevor Findlay, Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program
This report marks the culmination of a two-year research project that examined all aspects of the mandate and operations of the International Atomic Energy Agency, from major programs on safeguards, safety, security, and the peaceful uses of nuclear energy to governance, management, and finance.
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June 2012
"Unleashing the Nuclear Watchdog: Strengthening and Reform of the IAEA"
Policy Brief
By Trevor Findlay, Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program
Published along with the report Unleashing the Nuclear Watchdog: Strengthening and Reform of the IAEA — the result of more than two years of research and examining all aspects of the Agency's mandate and operations — this policy brief summarizes the report's key findings and policy recommendations for strengthening and reforming the IAEA.
March 2012
Nuclear Energy and Global Governance: Ensuring Safety, Security and Non-proliferation
Book
By Trevor Findlay, Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program
This timely book examines comprehensively the drivers of and constraints on a prospective nuclear revival and its likely nature and scope. Of special interest are developing countries which aspire to have nuclear energy and which currently lack the infrastructure, experience, and regulatory structures to successfully manage such a major industrial enterprise. The Fukushima disaster has made such considerations even more pertinent: if a technologically sophisticated country like Japan has difficulties dealing with nuclear safety and security how much harder would it be for a newcomer to the technology.
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March 29, 2012
"The IAEA and Fukushima: Best Laid Plans, Reality Checks, and Doing It Better Next Time"
Presentation
By Trevor Findlay, Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program
Professor Findlay analyzed the response of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to the March 2011 nuclear reactor disaster at Fukushima, Japan. He compared the expectations that the Agency, its member states, and other nuclear stakeholders had of the IAEA's role in such a situation with the harsh reality. Drawing on these insights, he suggested possibilities for strengthening the Agency's capacities for handling the next Fukushima.
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October 25, 2011
"Unleashing the Nuclear Watchdog: Strengthening and Reform of the International Atomic Energy Agency"
Presentation
By Trevor Findlay, Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program
Professor Findlay presented preliminary findings of his research on how the paramount global governance body in the nuclear field is fulfilling its mandate and how it might be strengthened and reformed. While addressing the confounding political and structural constraints under which the International Atomic Energy Agency operates, the main focus of the talk was on steps that the Agency itself can take to improve its performance.
October 18, 2011
"Designing Nuclear Disarmament: The Verification and Compliance Challenges"
Presentation
By Trevor Findlay, Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program
Professor Trevor Findlay spoke at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory on the verification and compliance challenges of nuclear disarmament on October 18, 2011.
