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Jonathan Brewer

Dr Jonathan Brewer

Visiting Professor

Biography

Dr Jonathan Brewer has been a Visiting Professor since 2010.

He is former Acting Coordinator of the UN Panel of Experts on Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Coordinator of the UN 1540 Group of Experts and financial expert of the UN Panel on Iran.

As a member of HM Diplomatic Service (1983–2010) he served in British Embassies in Luanda, Mexico City and Moscow, as Secretary to the Joint Intelligence Committee (2003–2004) and as Head of Counter-Proliferation (2005–2010).

He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of London and holds a PhD from Cornell University, New York, USA on deep crustal reflection profiling (1981) and a BA in Geology from the University of Oxford (1977).

He was appointed OBE in the New Year Honours List 2025.

Research

Based in New York, Dr Brewer conducts research into:

  • UN Security Council and unilateral sanctions requirements, their implementation and circumvention.
  • Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) proliferation programmes.
  • Financing of WMD proliferation, including Financial Action Task Force (FATF) requirements.

Publications

News

Final report: typologies of proliferation finance

Disrupting the financing of proliferation (FoP) is potentially a key tool to combat state-sponsored WMD programs. However, detecting FoP is difficult. The...

finance

Trade finance and proliferation finance - mitigating the risks

Disrupting the financing of proliferation (FoP) is potentially a key tool to combat state-sponsored WMD programs. However, detecting FoP is difficult. The...

Finance

News

Final report: typologies of proliferation finance

Disrupting the financing of proliferation (FoP) is potentially a key tool to combat state-sponsored WMD programs. However, detecting FoP is difficult. The...

finance

Trade finance and proliferation finance - mitigating the risks

Disrupting the financing of proliferation (FoP) is potentially a key tool to combat state-sponsored WMD programs. However, detecting FoP is difficult. The...

Finance