Andreas Persbo

Andreas Persbo is a Consultant at UNIDIR’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Programme, focused on the provision of support for the Chair of the Group of Governmental Experts to further consider nuclear disarmament verification issues. He is the Research Director at the European Leadership Network. Prior to this, Andreas served as the Executive Director of the Verification Research, Training and Information Centre (2009-2019), where he’d previously served as a research and senior researcher (2004-2009) with a regional focus on Iran and South Asia.

He was one of the founding members of the UK-Norway Initiative on Verified Warhead Dismantlement. After completing district court service in Sweden (2001-2003), Andreas moved to the UK and worked as an analyst at the British American Security Information Council (2003-2004).

His areas of expertise are verification, West-Russia relations, NATO, WMD disarmament, arms control and non-proliferation.