John Erath is Deputy Director of the US State Department Office of Conventional Arms Threat Reduction. He will give a talk to the Centre for Global Securoty and Governance "Conventional Arms Control in the 21st Century: A Perspective from the U.S. State Department" on Wednesday, 2pm, February 13th, in the Old Senate Room (King's College).
John Erath is Deputy Director of the State Department’s Office of Conventional Arms Threat Reduction.
His talk is entitled:
"Conventional Arms Control in the 21st Century: A Perspective from the U.S. State Department"
Wednesday, 2pm, February 13th,
Old Senate Room (King's College)
Mr Erath has been a career Foreign Service Officer since 1990. He has served in diplomatic posts in Brasilia, Belgrade, Bombay, Sarajevo, Tallinn (with the OSCE) and Kosovo. During Washington assignments, he has been responsible for regional nonproliferation in Asia and conventional arms control. From 1998 to 2001, he was on the staff of the US Mission to NATO, where he covered NATO-EU relations, NATO enlargement, civil-emergency planning and NATO’s outreach to Southeast Europe. Mr Erath served as U.S. negotiator for the Southeast Europe Common Assessment Paper on Regional Security Challenges and Opportunities (SEECAP) at the 2001 NATO Ministerial in Budapest. From 2001 until the summer of 2003, Mr Erath participated in the State-Defense exchange program, through which he was assigned to the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Between 2003 and 2005 he was the Deputy Director for Defense Trade Policy, during which time he helped promote trans-Atlantic cooperation, particularly in export controls. From 2010-2011, he was on the staff of Under Secretary of State Ellen Tauscher, serving as advisor for non-proliferation and regional issues.