UNIDIR, in collaboration with the Biological Weapons Convention Implementation Support Unit (BWC-ISU) at the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), organized a series of online technical briefs on emerging technologies and the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC).
This session was organized as part of UNIDIR’s “Science and Technology Watchtower” project, aimed at identifying science and technology (S&T) developments and analysing their risks and opportunities for disarmament and international security. It featured a short presentation of the main findings of UNIDIR’s new paper Cyberbiosecurity: A Matter of International Peace and Security?. The session then featured a conversation-style panel with experts to explore the implications of cyberbiosecurity for bioscience governance, verification and national implementation of the BWC, followed by a question-and-answer session with the audience.
Event recording
Speakers
- Louison Mazeaud, Associate Political Officer, UNODA
- Dr Zia Ashraf, Assistant Professor (Medical Sciences) at the Government College University, Faisalabad
- Julius Trajano, Research Fellow with the Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies (NTS Centre) at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
- Ryan Teo, Computational Biology PhD Student at the University of Birmingham
When and where
Thursday, 4 December 2025, 13:15 – 14:45 CET, online via Zoom.
Further information
For any questions, please contact Clarisse Bertherat at clarisse.bertherat@un.org and Federico Mantellassi at federico.mantellassi@un.org.
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