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Opening Remarks by Irma Arguello - Nuclear Challenges in the 2015 Global Security Agenda (I)
Irma Arguello is an international security expert from Argentina. She founded and chairs the Nonproliferation for Global Security Foundation- NPSGlobal, a private, non-profit initiative oriented to help reduce risks derived from the proliferation and use of armaments, with a special emphasis on weapons of mass destruction. The organization is also devoted to building up adequate and opportune responses to such threats at all levels, in order to increase global security.
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- Opening Remarks by Irma Arguello Nuclear Challenges in the 2015 Global Security Agenda I
- Education
- Career
- Membership
- References
From a conceptual point of view, she focuses her public action on promoting the idea of a world free of weapons of mass destruction, and in particular, the abolition of nuclear weapons achieved through cooperation while based on fair global rules and equity among nations. In this sense, she was appointed to participate as panelist at the International Conference on Nuclear Disarmament, Oslo, February 26/27, 2008, hosted by the Norwegian Government in cooperation with the Nuclear Threat Initiative and the Hoover Institution, with leaders such as George P. Shultz, Sam Nunn, Mohamed ElBaradei, and a group of scientists and experts on international security from 29 countries. She has been a speaker at several events related to the Nuclear Security Summit political process, such as the Next Generation Nuclear Security: Meeting the Global Challenge, Washington, D.C. in April 2010 or the Conference on 2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit. In this sense, she has performed a research on an optimum design for a Nuclear Security Brand-new Global Architecture and Governance.
Education
Irma pursued Defense and Security Studies (Master level) at the School of National Defense, Argentina. Her education includes a master's degree in Business Administration taken in Buenos Aires at IDEA, with the support from Wharton School of the United States. She has a degree (Bachelor level) in Physics Science from the Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Career
She worked as a scientist specializing in nuclear safety, design, and calculus at the Laboratory of Radiochemical Processes (LPR Project) - National Atomic Energy Commission(CNEA), in a project of design and construction of a reprocessing plant located near Buenos Aires.
Her managerial career has included international positions with a focus on strategic planning, business analysis, communications, education and training, and human resources with ExxonMobil and the Latin American Petrochemical Association.
Since 2000, she has worked as an independent consultant, focused on strategies formulation and implementation, new projects, and management of change as well as a publisher of academic publications.
As part of her academic activities, she is Director of the Regional Postgraduate Course on Global Security, Disarmament, and Nonproliferation, organized by the NPSGlobal Foundation. This course is the first of its kind worldwide, delivered in Spanish/Portuguese.Since it beginning, in 2007, it became a non-governmental voice of strong presence and enormous international prestige.
She is a member and Head of the Secretariat of the Latin American and Caribbean Leadership Network for Nuclear Disarmament and Non-proliferation – LALN – organization that gathers high-level former state persons and leaders in the region to propose measures to reduce nuclear, regional and global risks.