Areas of Research

Angela Kane is a well-known expert in political relations and negotiations, peace operations and disarmament, operating in a complex multilateral environment.

Background

Angela Kane joined the VCDNP as a Senior Fellow in October 2015. Since then, she has also been active in other organizations, serving as Vice President, International Institute for Peace, Vienna; Visiting Professor, Paris School of International Affairs, SciencesPo; Visiting Professor, Tsinghua University Schwarzman Scholars, Beijing.  She is also a Professorial Lecturer at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna.

From 2021 to 2022, she was appointed the Sam Nunn Distinguished Fellow at the Nuclear Threat Initiative in Washington and continues as a Senior Adviser to the NTI | Bio team. She is working on Global Catastrophic Biological Risks (GCBR) and a Joint Assessment Mechanism to determine pandemic origins.

Kane has been working with the World Economic Forum, serving as the Chair of the Council on Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Co-Chair of the Global Future Council on the Korean Peninsula. She served for six years on the Council of the United Nations University, as Member and then Chair (until 2022). She is a Member of the International Group of Eminent Persons for a World without Nuclear Weapons Disarmament, appointed by Prime Minister Kishida of Japan in 2022; Senior Member, European Leadership Network; Reserve Member, High-Level Group on Artificial Intelligence of the European AI Alliance; Director of the Board, Dialogue Advisory Group, Amsterdam; Member, United Europe; Member, Global Alliance of Leaders, Astana Club. She also sits on numerous Boards of NGOs in Europe, United States, and Asia.

Education and Honours

Ms. Kane studied at the University of München and holds degrees from Bryn Mawr College and the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. She received an Honorary Doctorate from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California.

She was awarded the Dag Hammarskjöld Medal of Honour, awarded by Foreign Minister Steinmeier, November 2016. Austria bestowed on her Das Grosse Goldene Ehrenzeichen mit dem Stern, awarded by President Fischer, May 2016 (Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold with Star for Services to the Republic of Austria). From Germany Ms. Kane received Das Grosse Verdienstkreuz des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, awarded by President Gauck, June 2015 (Order of Merit of Germany, second-highest level).

Selected Publications and Appearances

• "A Better Way to Detect the Origins of a Pandemic", published with Jaime Yassif, Arms Control Today, July-August 2022.
• "OK, but where will the next pandemic come from?", published with Jaime Yassif, OpEd in The Hill, 17 March 2023.
• “The Ukraine War, European Peace, and Implications for the Korean Peninsula”, Korea on Point by the Sejong Institute, 3 November 2022.
• “The TPNW and the NPT,” published with Lina-Marieke Hilgert and Anastasia Malygina by the Deep Cuts Commission, 20 January 2021.
• “The Future of Nuclear Arms Control: Time for an Update“, published by Stiftung Entwicklung und Frieden, 22 June 2020.
• Interviewed by Euronews on extending New START on the sidelines of US-Russian negotiations in Vienna, 22 June 2020.
• “Between aspiration and reality: Treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons, peace and security“, published with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung’s New York Office, 2019.
• The Kyoto Appeal at the 2019 meeting of the Preparatory Committee for the 2020 NPT Review Conference.
• Spoke in a panel discussion on “International Law in Tomorrow’s Wars” as part of the biennial Humanitarian Congress Vienna, 29 March 2019.

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