Associates

Elahe Mohtasham

Elahe Mohtasham is an Iranian born British academic and fluent in Persian. She is currently preparing a PhD thesis on the history of procurement of nuclear weapons, having qualified with a B.A. from the University of Warwick and a M.Sc. (Master in Social Sciences) in International Studies from the University of Southampton. She has worked for the Centre for Defence Studies at King's College, University of London, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and with the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom to develop a project. As a representative of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, Elahe Mohtasham visited the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran and the Centre for Strategic Studies attached to the former President Khatami¹s office in September 2004. She has been the first western academic granted access to talk to the Iranian scientists and visit Iranian nuclear facilities. She has written three articles in the Oxford University Press publication of the Encyclopaedia of Global Peace, Conflict and Transformation on the topics of 'Arms Control and Disarmament: Theory', 'Arms Control and Disarmament: Negotiations', and 'Unilateral Nuclear Weapons Disarmament: Policy'. In the last three years, she has presented academic papers at the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Preparatory Committees and at the 2005 NPT Review Conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York and Geneva.