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Youngah Lee has been elected as a board member of IPB in 2025.

Youngah Lee works at People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD) as Manager of the Center for Peace and Disarmament and is also working at the secretariat of the Korea Peace Action Campaign. She has worked on peace, disarmament, international conflict and human rights issues since 2010.

Quique Sánchez Ochoa was elected as an IPB board member in 2025.

Quique holds a bachelor in Political Science and a master’s degree in International Peace, Conflict and Development Studies. His career, activism and research are dedicated to peacebuilding and social and environmental justice. He works as a project manager at Centre Delàs of Peace Studies and is part of the coordination team of the Global Campaign on Military Spending (GCOMS). 

Reiner Braun was a board member of IPB from 2006 to 2013, then Co-President until 2019 and subsequently Executive Director from 2019 to 2022. Following a break from 2022 to 2025, he was elected a board member in 2025 for the upcoming term (2025-2028).

Reiner studied German literature, history and journalism. He was actively involved in the ‘Krefeld Appeal’ and the actions of the peace movement in the 1980s. Reiner is on the board of the ‘NaturwissenschaftlerInnen-Initiative – Verantwortung für Frieden und Zukunftsfähigkeit’, he is a founder and long-standing managing director of INES (International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility) and was managing director of IALANA (International Lawyers against Nuclear Weapons) and the VDW (Federation of German Scientists, German Pugwash group). 

Francis Daehon Lee has been elected as a board member of IPB in 2025.

Francis Daehoon Lee has been a professor for peace studies at SungKongHoe University, Ritsumeikan University and the International University of Japan.  He served as legal advisor to the Special Rapporteur of the UN Human Rights Sub-commission in 2005 and worked with the Center for Peace Museum in Korea. He is the former executive director of ARENA (Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives, Asia-wide) and the director of the Center for Peace and Disarmament in Korea. He has coordinated CENA (the Civil Society Education Network in Asia), a collaborating network of universities committed to peace, human rights, and democracy studies. Francis has been actively involved in facilitating UNESCO and APCEIU teacher training workshops since 2006. In 2012, he joined the Peace Education Project MOMO  (PeaceMOMO) to provide school teachers and peace activists in Korea with peace education training that is based on new, learner-oriented pedagogical principles. He is also the director of the Trans-Education for Peace Institute (TEPI).

Francesco Vignarca has been elected as a board member in 2025.

Francesco has been working in the field of peace and disarmament for over twenty years and has been the Coordinator of the Italian Peace and Disarmament Network Campaigns since 2020. He was previously the National Coordinator of the Italian Disarmament Network (2004-2020).

He works on the issues of military expenditures, private defence companies, military procurement, trade and arms export control, industrial reconversion,
arms race and proliferation, paths towards disarmament and nonviolence, holding both research and coordination duties in many campaigns promoted by the Italian peace movement.

Anuradha Chenoy is a former collaborator of IPB and has been elected as a board member in 2025. Anuradha is an academic committed to peace. She is a writer who seeks to unravel geopolitics and show peace-related alternatives.

Anuradha is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Jindal School of International Affairs, Jindal Global University in India. She is also an honorary Associate Fellow at the Transnational Institute and part of the Asia Europe Peoples Forum. She is a former Professor and Dean at the School of International Studies in Jawaharlal Nehru University.

She actively contributes to peace and women’s movements. Her teaching and writing centre on International Relations; Common Security, Russian and Central Asian Studies; Security Issues, Human Security, Militarization, Foreign Policy, Peace and Conflict Studies, Gender issues.

Binalakshmi Nepram is the current Vice President of IPB and a former Board member. She is a Harvard University Fellow at the Asia Centre as well as a writer, humanitarian and civil rights activist spearheading work on making women-led peace, security and disarmament a movement and an issue that is meaningful to people’s lives.

Dragana Zivancevic is currently Vice-President of IPB and a member of the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network Inc. (IPAN). IPAN represents over 50 organisational and 200 individual members. It is a national body comprised of peace organisations, faith organisations, trade unions and environmental and anti-nuclear groups.

Owen Tudor is IPB’s current Vice-President. He is also the Secretary of the Commonwealth Trade Union Group, which brings together 70 million workers in 46 Commonwealth countries and a member of the Executive Board of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative UK and the international board of CHRI. He was Deputy General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) from 2018 to 2024 and worked for TUC in Great Britain from 1984 to 2018, latterly as Head of the EU and International Relations Department. He has worked on worker safety, peace and tax, human resources and finances,  as well as international solidarity, trade and migration policy, global supply chains and Brexit and Commonwealth issues.

Joseph Gerson Co-President of the International Peace Bureau, president of the Campaign for Peace Disarmament and Common Security, and was a founding member of the No to War/No to NATO Network. 

He works closely with Asian and European peace and nuclear disarmament movements, was co-chair of the working group that produced Common Security in the Indo-Pacific Region Report, and is a frequent keynote speaker at the World Conference against A- & H- Bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and other international and U.S. forums.

A Vietnam War era anti-war organizer and draft resister, following the war he served on the staff of the War Resisters’ International in London and Brussels. In Europe, he collaborated with the International Confederation for Disarmament and Peace, including with the PLO representative to Britain and Israeli pacifists within the WRI. In 1976 he joined the staff of the American Friends Service Committee’s New England Regional Office as a Middle East educator/organizer and went on to help to launch the Nuclear Weapons Freeze movement. He was a leading figure in opposition to the United States’ wars with Iraq. In 2017, he launched the organization of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security.

Having worked with Japanese and other A- and H-Bomb survivors for four decades, he was a member of Nihon Hidankyo’s Nobel Peace Prize delegation in December 2024. He helped to launch the nuclear weapons freeze movement of the 1980s, led the successful opposition to construction of naval nuclear weapons bases in Boston, Rhode Island and New York, and was the lead organizer of international conferences and mass mobilizations on the eves of the 2010 and 2015 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Conference. He has organized numerous conferences as well as side events at the United Nations related to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty

Dr. Gerson’s PhD is in Politics & International Security Studies. His books include Empire and the Bomb: How the US Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World; With Hiroshima Eyes: Atomic War, Nuclear Extortion and Moral Imagination and The Sun Never Sets…Confronting the Network of Foreign U.S. Military Bases. His articles have appeared in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, The Nation, Peace Review, Common Dreams and many other publications He edited the English language editions of The Day the Sun Rose in the West: Bikini, the Lucky Dragon, and I by Oishi Matashichi and The Atomic Bomb on My Back: A Life Story of Survival and Activism by Taniguchi Sumiteru.