Terence Taylor

Mr. Taylor is the Vice-President, Global Health and Security at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI). The Global Health and Security Initiative at NTI supports and runs projects aimed at enhancing biological safety and security including developing and enhancing regional epidemiological surveillance systems for infectious disease in various parts of the world. He is also President of the International Council for the Life Sciences (ICLS), Washington, DC. The ICLS is an independent organization with a global reach and designed to promote best practices and codes of conduct for safety and security in relation to biological risks.

Prior to his current appointments Mr. Taylor was Assistant Director at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London and was President and Executive Director of IISS-US. At IISS, in addition to his overall program responsibilities, he led the Institute’s work on life sciences and security.

He has substantial experience in international security policy matters as a UK government official (both military and diplomatic) and for the United Nations both in the field and at UN Headquarters. He was a Commissioner and one of the Chief Inspectors with the UN Special Commission on Iraq with particular responsibilities for biological issues. His government experience is related to both military field operations and to the development and implementation of policies in relation to arms control and non-proliferation treaties and agreements for both conventional and weapons of mass destruction and law of armed conflict aspects of International Humanitarian Law. He has also conducted consulting work on political risk assessment and studies of the private biotechnology industry. He was a Science Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. He was an officer in the British Army with experience in many parts of the world including UN peacekeeping, counter-insurgency and counterterrorism operations.

He is co-editor of the book Natural Security recently published by University of California Press.

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