Dr James Revill attends EU Regional Workshop on the Eighth Review Conference of the BWC

​Astana, Kazakhstan - On 15 June Dr James Revill participated in a two-day EU Eastern European regional workshop on the Eighth Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention. At the workshop, he gave a presentation on the topic of compliance and transparency, an ongoing area of research within the Harvard Sussex Program.

The workshop is part of a series of measures intended to enable a comprehensive dialogue on issues to be considered at the Eighth Review Conference. Dr Revill was one of two academics invited by the European Union, the Government of Kazakhstan, and the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) to the workshop, which was attended by the President-designate of the Eighth Biological Weapons Convention Review Conference, Ambassador György Molnár of Hungary, and other foreign affairs government officials from Eastern Europe.