Daniel Feakes

Daniel is a Research Fellow with the Harvard Sussex Program at SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research where he has been since September 2000. He previously spent three years working as the HSP researcher at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague. Daniel's research interests fall into three main areas:

1) European Union action against chemical and biological weapons.

2) The role of civil society in opposing chemical and biological warfare.

3) Treaty implementation and enforcement.

Daniel is currently working on three specific research projects. In the first, he is studying the role of civil society in preventing the use of chemical and biological weapons under the UK Economic and Social Research Council's Non-Governmental Public Action programme. In the second, he is collaborating with Caitríona McLeish and Julian Perry Robinson to study the impact of non-traditional actors (i.e. civil society, international organizations, industry etc) on the globalization of dual-use CBW technologies. This is a two-year project under the ESRC's New Security Challenges programme. Thirdly, Daniel is working on a project with Ian Kenyon and Julian Perry Robinson to write a case study on the creation of the OPCW.

In addition to his research work, Daniel co-organized the ESRC research seminar series on "New Approaches to WMD Proliferation", during 2005-2007. He is convenor of the HSP 'Sussex Days' seminars, and vice-chair of the Geneva-based BioWeapons Prevention Project. Daniel graduated from the University of Sussex in 1996 with an MA in Contemporary European Studies and a BA in History with German.

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