This session will focus on the key advocacy plans for this first TPNW Review Conference, including participation, universalisation, setting up the next intersessional process, mandates and more.
Céline Nahory
Céline Nahory is ICAN’s Director of Government Relations and Advocacy responsible for promoting the universalisation and implementation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. She has been involved with the Campaign since 2014 in different capacities and joined the team in 2019. She has worked for over fifteen years with NGOs in the US, Japan and India, carrying out research and running advocacy campaigns on issues of peace, security, disarmament and sustainable development through her work with ICAN, Peace Boat, URBZ and Global Policy Forum.
Tim Wright
Tim Wright is Treaty Coordinator of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017 "for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons". He helped establish ICAN in 2006 and has served the campaign in various capacities since then. His current role involves coordinating efforts to secure signatures and ratifications for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which 122 countries voted to adopt at the United Nations in 2017. Tim previously worked for an Australian civil liberties organisation and for the parliamentary leader of an Australian political party. He studied law and arts, with a major in international relations, at the University of Melbourne.
Seth Shelden
Seth Shelden is General Counsel and United Nations Liaison for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize-winning coalition working to prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons. As General Counsel, he leads ICAN’s internal legal affairs and provides guidance on a wide range of legal matters. As United Nations Liaison, he represents ICAN in promoting universalization and implementation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) and he assists governments in signing and ratifying the treaty.