Ashley Woods, International Organiser (British, 40 yrs old)
Ashley Woods was born in Aldershot, UK and subsequently spent his childhood and teenage years growing up in Asia.

He has 15 years professional experience of working with the international media and advertising industry. He is the founder and Managing Director of AWP, a company specialising in the creation, management and promotion of image based projects and one-time Manager of the celebrated news agency VII Photos representing 7 of the world’s top photojournalists including James Nachtwey, Chris Morris and Alexandra Boulat. He was previously Events Manager with Magnum Photos, Paris, International Relations Manager with Lookat Photos, Zurich and Office Manager of the Singapore based printing company Tien Wah Press.

Gabriel BAURET, Exhibition Curator (French, 55 yrs old)
Gabriel Bauret was born in Paris. Educated at the Paris University, where he was studying litterature, linguistics and semiotics; his thesis on semiotics was under the direction of Roland Barthes.

Founder of Camera International and Photographies Magazine, he writes regularly for numerous international art and photography publishers, including, Assouline, Le Chêne , De la Martinière and Nathan. Since 1994, he has worked as a freelance curator for the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris (Harper’s Bazaar, Alexey Brodovitch); the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles, Paris Mois de la Photo (Paris Month of Photography) November 1996, 2000, 2006 and ‘European Eyes on Japan’. He also contributed to the new circulation of the celebrated exhibition ‘The Family of Man’ and recently curated a touring exhibition of Shoji Ueda’s work for the Musée de l’Élysée, Lausanne.

Dr. Kathleen SULLIVAN, Educational Programmer (American, 40 years old)
Kathleen Sullivan is a freelance consultant for disarmament education.

Working with United Nations' Department for Disarmament Affairs as curriculum developer for the UN’s Cyberschoolbus website, New York and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organisation, Vienna. More recently she produced the film ‘The Last Atomic Bomb’ directed by Robert Richter. Described by Jeannette Catsoulis at the New York Times as "an emotional sledgehammer", the film is about the Nagasaki legacy, Hibakusha and contemporary youth activism for disarmament.

Hélène LENEVEU, Project Coordinator  (French, 28 yrs)
Hélène holds a Master’s degree in Geography (La Sorbonne University, Paris), International Relations (City University of New York) and is now mastering in education sciences (René Descartes University, Paris).

She speaks fluent French, English and Spanish. Based in New York since 2002, she has worked on numerous international peace and disarmament projects in collaboration with the United Nations ; assisting Cora Weiss, President of the Hague Appeal for Peace and the International Peace Bureau (IPB) from 2004 -2007. During this period she also coordinated the Global Campaign for Peace Education (GCPE), launched at the Hague Appeal for Peace Conference in 1999. Through the GCPE network, she has participated in many other campaigns concentrating on peace education, youth empowerment, gender issues and disarmament.