EAARP nuclear security webinar

Dmytro Cherkashyn

holds an M.Sc. degree in nuclear energy from the Sevastopol National University of Nuclear Energy and Industry, Ukraine, with a specialization in the physical protection of nuclear facilities, nuclear materials, radioactive wastes, and other radioactive sources. Prior to his current position as nuclear security scientist at the ISS, he was a nuclear safety specialist to the deputy chief of physical protection department at a research reactor and a senior teacher at the nuclear energy facilities department at his university. His experience is mostly bound with technical aspects of International Safeguards and the State Nuclear Security Regime. His area of interest also includes nonproliferation, international cooperation on nuclear safety and security, and IT/cyber security for nuclear facilities. Dmytro participated as a lecturer in the series of IAEA‘s international courses in Obninsk/Russia and Odessa summer schools in Ukraine.

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Professor James Larkin

is the Director, Radiation, and Health Physics Unit (RHPU) at the University of the Witwatersrand. Professor Larkin is also the Chairman of the university’s NIH mandated Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) and is a past chairman of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) International Nuclear Security Education Network (INSEN). 

He still continues to be heavily involved in international nuclear security education, and over the past ten years has been to more than ten different countries to share his nuclear security knowledge and experiences with national, regional, and international audiences. He works closely with both the IAEA’s sections on nuclear security (NSNS) and nuclear knowledge management (NKM)and the EU’s JRC Esarda, Italy on a number of nuclear security and nuclear safeguards projects, most recently on an International Nuclear Safeguards qualification currently under development.  At Witwatersrand University he teaches various courses in nuclear security, radiation protection, and nuclear facility leadership, and acts as the university’s radiation safety officer. Professor Larkin is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, UK (FRSM), a member of the Institute for Nuclear Materials Management, US (INMM), and a founding member of the Southern African Radiation Protection Association (SARPA).

Jointly the RHPU and Esarda have organized a number of successful workshops on Safeguards and Non-proliferation for an African audience, given in South Africa. Along with its role as a support unit for the university’s nuclear and radiological-related research efforts, the RHPU undertakes a number of different research projects itself, including projects in environmental radiation protection and most recently a novel anti-rhino poaching technique that makes use of radioisotopes.

Hubert Foy

Hubert Foy is the director of the African Centre for Science and International Security, headquartered in Accra, Ghana. He has published and spoken widely on nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament, space safety and security, and dual-use science and technology. In 2012 he was a nuclear security fellow at the International School on Nuclear Security in Trieste. 

In 2011, at the Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority, he was technical nonproliferation and disarmament fellow for the UK-Norway Initiative. He holds a master’s degree in space studies from the International Space University in France and a master’s in international policy studies from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey

Rhonda Evans 

Rhonda Evans is the Head of Programme Development at the World Institute for Nuclear Security. She has overall responsibility for the relationship with funders and the development of programmes that will be attractive to funders including new areas of focus such as advanced reactor technology, cybersecurity, transport security and nuclear and other material out of regulatory control. 

Her specific areas of interest are international norms that support nuclear security and regulation. She has over 30 years of international and national experience in the fields of nuclear safety, nuclear security regulatory systems and governance, risk management and assurance. Before joining WINS in August 2017, she served as a senior nuclear security officer at the IAEA in the Division of Nuclear Security with the responsibility for developing nuclear security series guidance and capacity building in all regions of the world. 

She was the Deputy CEO of the Australian Radiation Protection Agency and a delegated decision maker for the Competent Authority for the Transport of Nuclear and other radioactive Material as well as the export and import of radioactive substances. Prior to joining the national regulatory body, she had a significant number of years of experience as a general legal counsel and counsel assisting the tribunal in a number of public authorities. Rhonda is a lawyer specialising in nuclear law and regulation. Her other main interest is gender equality, diversity and inclusion as a key underpinning to strengthen nuclear security.