Atlantic Storm was
organized by:

The Center for Biosecurity of UPMC

The Center for Transatlantic Relations of Johns Hopkins University

The Transatlantic Biosecurity Network

Atlantic Storm was
sponsored by:

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

The German Marshall Fund of the United States

The Nuclear Threat Initiative

Scenario Players

Eric Chevallier
As the Executive Secretary of the Summit

Eric Chevallier is a medical doctor and graduated in political science and public policy from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. His main fields of expertise and experience are crisis management, post-conflict reconstruction, human security, and public health.

Dr. Chevallier was a member of the creating team of UNAIDS, the joint UN program on AIDS, and executive director of AMI, an international medical NGO, before joining the French Ministry of Health in 1999. He was for four years an adviser and then special adviser to Health Minister Bernard Kouchner, and he was in charge of setting up the French plan against bioterrorism, Biotox. He was also special adviser to Dr. Kouchner as head of the UN mission in Kosovo.

Eric Chevallier is currently coordinating a team within the French administration working on interministerial monitoring of international crisis and conflicts. He is also vice-chair of NATO Joint Medical Committee and a lecturer on crisis management and post-conflict reconstruction in various European universities and institutions.

Dr. Chevallier contributes to Atlantic Storm only in his own personal capacity.