Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission

The Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (WMDC) "is established on an initiative by the late Foreign Minister of Sweden, Anna Lindh, acting on a proposal by then United Nations Under-Secretary-General Jayantha Dhanapala. The Swedish Government invited Dr. Hans Blix to set up and chair the Commission. He presented the composition of the Commission to the public on 16 December, 2003 and explained what he saw were major tasks for it."


 * Henrik Salander - Secretary-General
 * Randy Rydell - Senior Counsellor and Report Director (based in Washington)

Funding
Accessed October 2007:


 * Arms Control Association, Washington, D.C.
 * Austrian Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs
 * Canadian Ministry of External Relations and Foreign Trade
 * Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs
 * Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs
 * Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Germany
 * New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
 * Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
 * Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
 * Simons Foundation, Vancouver, Canada
 * Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs
 * Government of Switzerland

Commissioner
Accessed October 2007:


 * Hans Blix
 * Dewi Fortuna Anwar
 * Alexei G. Arbatov
 * Marcos de Azambuja
 * Alyson Bailes
 * Jayantha Dhanapala
 * Gareth Evans
 * Patricia Lewis
 * Masashi Nishihara
 * William J. Perry
 * Vasantha Raghavan
 * Cheikh Sylla
 * Prince El Hassan bin Talal
 * Pan Zhenqiang