Program Director for Education and Training
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Monterey, CA
831.647.6575
Jean du Preez has more than 35 years’ experience in diplomacy, multilateral arms control and disarmament diplomacy ranging from weapons of mass destructions to small arms and light weapons. In his current position as CNS Program Director for Education and Training he oversees education and training activities at CNS in Monterey, including the Center’s long standing Visiting Fellows program, regional courses for diplomats, and internships at international nonproliferation organizations.
He joined CNS in 2002 following a long diplomatic career in the South African Foreign Service. In 2009 he was recruited by the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization in Vienna as a senior official in charge external relations and international cooperation where he played a leading role in promoting entry into force and universalization of the Treaty. Upon his return from Vienna in late 2016, he first worked as an independent consultant, and later rejoined CNS.
He participated in negotiations on several nonproliferation, disarmament and arms control agreements and conferences, including at the 1995, 2000, 2005 and 2010 Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty review conferences, conferences of parties to the Biological Weapons Convention, the Chemical Weapons Convention, and the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, as well as the General Assembly First Committee on Disarmament and the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR). He was one of the original members of the statutory South African Council for the Non-proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction where he gained practical experience in counter-proliferation, non-proliferation export controls and national implementation of international treaty obligations.
He has significant graduate level teaching experience, including short and semester long simulation courses, as well as courses on the United Nations and other international organizations and negotiation strategies and tactics. He published numerous scholarly articles, book chapters, conference papers and web-based reports related to the NPT, the CTBT, a future Fissile Material Treaty, Iran, North Korea, South Africa, etc. He is also a member of the International Panel of Fissile Material (IPFM).
CNS Work
- Setting the Tone for the 10th NPT Review Conference: A Working Lunch in New York
CNS organized, in consultation with the President-designate of the 10th Review Conference and the Office of Disarmament Affairs, a high-level consultative working lunch. - 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.
