Senior Program Manager
for Education and Training
[email protected]
Monterey, CA
831.647.6575
Jean du Preez manages the CNS International Visiting Fellows Program and various other nonproliferation education and outreach activities, including internships at international nonproliferation organizations and regional short courses for diplomats and women in STEM. He is also a member of the International Panel of Fissile Material (IPFM). His research interest included the NPT, future of the CTBT, a future FMCT, and the role of the Non-Aligned Movement in nonproliferation, arms control and disarmament.
Background
Jean du Preez has more than 30 years’ experience in diplomacy, international security, arms control, nonproliferation and disarmament. After a long diplomatic career in the South African Foreign Service, he joined CNS in 2002 where he led the International Organization and Nonproliferation program, and served as Nonproliferation Professor on the MIIS faculty. In 2009 he was recruited by the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization in Vienna where he led the external relations and international cooperation section until August 2016. Upon his return from Vienna, he worked as an independent consultant specializing in public diplomacy, and multilateral nonproliferation, arms control and disarmament before rejoining CNS in 2019.
He participated in negotiations on several nonproliferation, disarmament and arms control agreements and conferences, including in the context of the NPT, BWC, CWC, CTBT, small arms and light weapons, and the General Assembly First Committee on Disarmament.
He has specialized knowledge on counter-proliferation mechanisms and nonproliferation export controls, and served on the South African Council for the Non-proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction.
He has published numerous scholarly articles, book chapters, conference papers and web-based reports related to nonproliferation, arms control and disarmament. He taught and continue to teach courses on the role of the United Nations and other international organizations in nonproliferation, the NPT, arms control simulations, negotiation strategies, etc.
CNS Work
- UNODA and CNS host webinar on the Southeast Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone
The recorded event opened with UNODA High Representative Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu, and included a discussion amongst experts and a Q&A session. - Advancing the Process to Negotiate a Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty
Results from a series of regional workshops and expert meetings by the fissile material cut off treaty (FMCT) expert preparatory group. - Leading by Example
Online Nonproliferation and Disarmament Summer School for Latin American and Caribbean Diplomats. - COVID-19 Update and Implications for the Future
WEBINAR: with CNS expert Dr. Richard Pilch, BCW Nonproliferation Director. - 34 Years after the Chernobyl Disaster
WEBINAR: Examining the challenges and prospects for the exclusion zone. - US Claims of Russian Noncompliance with Nuclear-Test Ban Raise Questions
CNS experts on fact-checking, background, and implications of the accusations. - Inaugural Intensive Course on Nuclear Nonproliferation and Security for Women in STEM
More than 30 women with a wide variety of technical backgrounds, representing 16 African countries, actively engaged throughout the course. - CNS Summer Nonproliferation Program Attracts Top-Level Undergraduates
Top-level undergraduate interns work and study at CNS this summer, focusing on current challenges to the nonproliferation regime. - 2016-17 Critical Issues Forum Focuses on CTBT
This year’s participants will study nuclear weapon-testing history, the CTBT negotiations, the treaty’s current status, challenges, and prospects. - North Korea’s Withdrawal From the NPT: A Reality Check
April 8, 2003 Jean du Preez and William Potter April 10 marks a significant event in the history of the 32-year-old nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Since its entry into force in 1970, the NPT has grown to 188 members and become the most widely subscribed to international treaty in history. That number will decline by one when ...
