Chen Zak
Israel

Chen Zak is a fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, focusing on arms control and nuclear non-proliferation. She was a researcher at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC, and a research fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. A former lieutenant in Israel's defense force, Ms. Zak was the deputy for policy to the Director of External Affairs for Israel's Atomic Energy Commission. Her monograph, Iran's Nuclear Policy and the IAEA: An Evaluation of Program 93+2, details the records of Iranian relations with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and explores the possibility that the state could develop a nuclear weapon without being detected under the new IAEA safeguards agreement. Ms. Zak is currently a doctoral candidate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She holds an MA in law and diplomacy from the same institution, where she studied international security, public international law, and negotiation and conflict resolution.

Ms. Zak's peace-building activities include:

• preparing talking papers for the Israeli delegation to international events, such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Preparatory Committee and Review Conference;
• representing the Israeli position in negotiations on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in Geneva and Vienna;
• participating as an active member and preparing talking points for the Israeli delegation to the United Nations General Assembly and First Committee for Disarmament and International Security;
• serving on a joint atomic energy commission to explore creating a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East, as well as working on nuclear non-proliferation through political tools;
• serving on several Israeli decision-making teams and think tanks on various nuclear- and arms-control issues;
• preparing written and oral assessments of worldwide nuclear developments affecting national security for senior Israeli policymakers; and
• establishing and participating in dialogues between Arabs and Israelis, as well as between Muslims and Jews, and making presentations on the conflict at universities and in local communities.
  

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