Geoffrey E. Forden
Dr. Geoffrey E. Forden,
a physicist by training, is currently a Senior Research Scientist at MIT’s
Security Studies Program, which he joined in June 2000. Dr. Forden
spent the academic year 2002 to 2003 on leave from MIT serving as the
first Chief of the Multidiscipline Analysis Section for UNMOVIC, the
United Nations Monitoring, Verification, and Inspection Commission – the
agency responsible for verifying and monitoring the dismantlement of
Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. Previously, he was a strategic weapons
analyst in the National Security Division of the Congressional Budget
Office (CBO). Before joining CBO in August 1997, he spent a year as a
Science Fellow at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Arms
Control. Previous to that, he worked in experimental particle physics both
in the US and in Europe.
