IPB Board Members

Joseph Gerson is the co-president of International Peace Bureau and President of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security. His books include With Hiroshima Eyes: Atomic War, Nuclear Extortion and Moral Imagination and Empire and the Bomb: How the U.S. Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World.

Sharon Dolev was elected as a board member in 2025 and is a former IPB council member (2022-2025).

She is a peace and human rights activist with a focus on eradicating nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction from the Middle East through innovative policy, education, advocacy and activism. She is the founder and director of the Israeli Disarmament Movement (IDM), the Middle East Treaty Organization (METO) and Israeli representative of the 2017 Noble Peace Prize laureate International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).

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Corazon Valdez Fabros, is currently the Co-President of International Peace Bureau (ipb.org) and a core member of thematic circle on Peace and Security at Asia-Europe Peoples Forum (aepf.info). She is a member of the Steering Committee of Dismantle Military Industrial Complex Network (www.dismantlethemic.org/). Continue reading “Corazon Valdez Fabros – Co-President”

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).

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Steven Staples is  IPB’s Treasurer and former Vice-President.

He is currently the National Director of Policy and Advocacy of the Canadian Health Coalition, an accomplished policy and research strategist, published author, and award-winning peace and social justice advocate with over 25 years of experience in community organisations and the labour movement.
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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.

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. 

Kate Hudson was elected a board member in 2022 and has been re-elected for a second term in 2025.

Kate is currently General Secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). She have held that post since 2010 and prior to that she was Chair of CND from 2003 to 2010. Before employment with CND, she was Head of Social and Policy Studies at London South Bank University. By profession, she is a historian and has a PhD from the University of London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies.

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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