Joseph Cirincione (left) is the president of Ploughshares Fund. He is author of Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons (Columbia University Press, Spring 2007) and served previously as senior vice president for national security and international policy at the Center for American Progress and as director for nonproliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace for eight years. He worked for nine years in the U.S. House of Representatives as a professional staff member of the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Government Operations, and served as staff director of the bipartisan Military Reform Caucus. He teaches at the Georgetown University Graduate School of Foreign Service and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

His previous books include two editions of Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Threats, (2005 and 2002), and previous reports include Universal Compliance: A Strategy for Nuclear Security (co-author, March 2005) and WMD in Iraq (co-author, January 2004). He is the author of over 200 articles on defense issues, the producer of two DVDs on proliferation, the former publisher of the comprehensive proliferation website, Proliferation News, and is a frequent commentator in the media. In the past two years has delivered over 150 speeches around the world and appeared in the 2006 award-winning documentary, Why We Fight.

Cirincione is an honors graduate of Boston College and holds a Masters of Science from the Georgetown School of Foreign Service.

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Naila Bolus (right), Executive Director, leads all grantmaking, fundraising, public outreach and financial management for the organization. Prior to joining Ploughshares in 1997, Naila was co-director of 20/20 Vision, a national grassroots organization dedicated to revitalizing democracy by encouraging its members to communicate with decisionmakers. She helped found and served as the Political Director for WiLL, the Women Legislators' Lobby, where she successfully recruited one third of all women state legislators to lobby for human services, environmental protection, and peace. She also served as the Legislative Director for Women's Action for New Directions (WAND) and lobbied Congress on a range of security and women's issues. Naila Bolus graduated from Tufts University in 1987 with a degree in International Relations. She spent her junior year in Paris, France, where she earned a Certificate of Political Studies from the Institute d'Etudes Politiques.

Roger Hale (center), Chair, has been member of Ploughshares Fund's Board of Directors since 1995, and board chairman since 2005. A native of Minnesota, Hale was president and CEO of Tennant, an industry-leading manufacturer of industrial and commercial floor maintenance equipment, from 1976 to 1998. He retired in 1999. In addition to Ploughshares, Hale serves on the board of the Minneapolis Neighborhood Employment Network (NET) and Winning Workplaces, and previously on the boards of the Walker Art Center and Public Radio International. He is a graduate of Brown University and Harvard Business School and served as an officer in the U.S. Navy from 1956-1959.