Alain Rouy has been re-elected Vice President of IPB in 2025 after is first term (2022-2025) and formerly being a board member (2019-2022).
Peace activist, representative of French Appel des Cent against nuclear weapons and currently National Secretary of Mouvement de la Paix, Executive Secretary of International Association of Educators for Peace and IAEP-delegate at UNESCO, co-chair French Teachers for Peace (Enseignants pour la Paix).
Steven Staples is IPB’s Treasurer and former Vice-President.
Steven Staples is an accomplished policy advocate, strategist, communicator, and author, with 30 years of experience in non-profit, labour, and research organizations.
As a communications and policy advocate, he has worked with a wide range of leaders including Nobel Laureate Jody Williams, former U.S. Senator Tom Hayden, Senator Roméo Dallaire, Council of Canadians Chairperson Maude Barlow, Unifor President Jerry Dias, and Ontario Federation of Labour President Sid Ryan.
He is the founder of the Rideau Institute, a non-profit, independent research, advocacy and consulting group based in Ottawa. It specializes in defence and foreign affairs policy. It’s public engagement and advocacy arm is Ceasefire.ca.
Steven Staples is a Board Member of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Peace Bureau, the world’s oldest and largest peace network. In 2018, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Council of Canadians, the country’s largest social justice organization.
Missile Defence: Round One: https://lorimer.ca/adults/product/missile-defence-round-one/
PeaceQuest Substack: www.peacequest.ca
Canadian centre for Policy Alternatives: https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/author/steven-staples/
Yayoi Tsuchida was elected a board member in 2022 and has been re-elected for a second term in 2025.
She has worked at the Japan Council against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs (Gensuikyo) for more than 30 years in different positions. Since 2006, she has served as the Assistant General Secretary of Gensuikyo. Before that, she had been working at the League of Arab States Tokyo Office, the South Yemen Embassy, as well as the Japan Press Service.
Sooyoung Hwang was elected as board member of IPB in October 2022.
Sooyoung has worked in the field of peace and disarmament for many years. She is currently the Secretary General of the Korea Peace Appeal, a peace campaign to end the Korean war. Furthermore she is the Manager of the Center for Peace and Disarmament and Center for International Solidarity of the People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD). She has previously worked as Coordinator for Imagination for International Solidarity (IFIS).
Kitwe Mulunda Guy has been elected as IPB board member in October 2022.
He holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Social Work and has worked on many scientific publications on social, psychological and historical aspects of human rights violations. He is a Senior Lecturer (Professor) in Humanities and Social Sciences at the CPU, South Africa and DRC since 2013 and has served as EXCOM/Council member of IRCT from 2008 to 2012. Since 2015 he is the Executive Director of SAVE CONGO.
Raza Shah Khan was elected a board member in 2022 and has been re-elected for a second term in 2025.
He has more than 25 years of experience in the field of peace and disarmament. Raza has a master’s degree in Peacebuilding from Coventry University in the UK and has worked on several humanitarian disarmament campaigns, e.g. the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, the Cluster Munition Coalition, the International Action Network on Small Arms, and the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots since then. Furthermore, he is currently the Chief Executive of the Sustainable Peace and Development Organization (SPADO), which aims to promote a peaceful environment for all people.
Oleg V. Bodrov was elected a board member in 2022 and has been re-elected for a second term in 2025. Prior to that, he was a member of the IPB Council.
He is an engineer-physicist, environmentalist and chairman of the Public Council of the South Coast of the Gulf of Finland, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Dr. Lisa Linda Natividad has been elected as IPB board member in October 2022.
She is a Professor of Social Work at the University of Guam. Lisa is also the primary convener of the Guahan Coalition for Peace and Justice and a founding member of I Hagan Famalao’an Guahan. She is an indigenous CHamoru who has championed the exposure of the human rights violations against her people and homeland Guahan, which is a military colony of the United States. She has spoken globally on the topics of demilitarization, decolonization, and the critical role women play in the creation of safe and thriving communities. Dr. Natividad has presented interventions on the halting of the massive military build-up on Guahan before the United Nations Fourth Committee, Decolonization Committee, and the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. She is a former member of the Guam Decolonization Commission and has spoken on these issues in Japan, the Philippines, the Untied States, Norway, Ecuador, Fiji, and other countries. Dr. Natividad joined the IPB Council in March 2021.
Kate Hudson was elected a board member in 2022 and has been re-elected for a second term in 2025.
Kate Hudson is Vice-President of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and a peace and anti-war campaigner nationally and internationally. She previously served as its Chair and then General Secretary. By training a historian, she was awarded a doctorate by the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, and worked in the field of eastern Europe and post-communist politics. She was Head of Social and Policy Studies at London South Bank University from 2003 to 2010 when she took up a post at CND.
She is the author of a number of books, including European Communism Since 1989 (Palgrave Macmillan), Breaking the South Slav Dream: The Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia (Pluto Press), CND – Now More Than Ever: The Story of a Peace Movement (Vision Paperbacks), The New European Left: a socialism for the twenty-first century? (Palgrave Macmillan), CND at 60: Britain’s most enduring mass movement (Public Reading Rooms).
Widely published in the media and with frequent radio and television appearances, she is also an editorial board member of Transform – a journal of the radical left (Public Reading Rooms), and the Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe (Routledge). She is currently serving as a Board member of Declassified UK, Britain’s pre-eminent investigative journalism team.
Emily Rubino was elected a board member in 2022 and has been re-elected for a second term in 2025. She has been involved with Peace Action New York State in various capacities for the past few years and is currently the Executive Director.
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