25th September 2008:Prof.Igor Khripunov,Associate Director in the Center for International Trade and Security at the UGA School of Public and International Affairs,visited the CAS. He gave a speech which is called "IAEA and the Challenges of Nonproliferation".The lecture was hosted by Prof. Shen Dingli,the director of Fudan University's Center for American Studies.

Prof. Khripunov served for six years as an international civil servant at the U.N. Secretariat in New York and, in 1977, joined the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1983, he received a Ph.D. in international relations from the Moscow-based Diplomatic Academy and resumed his diplomatic career as an arms control expert. In 1987, he was posted as a first secretary of the political and military section at the Soviet and later Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C. Dr. Khripunov has taken part in a number of arms control fora and talks, including INF, START and the Soviet-American Standing Consultative Commission.