Angela KANE is a Former Senior United Nations Diplomat with over 35 years of deep experience in political affairs. She served in New York, as well as in field missions in Ethiopia-Eritrea, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Indonesia and Thailand. She is Professor at Schwarzman/Tsinghua University in Beijing and the Paris School of International Affairs (Sciences Po). Until August 2024, she worked as a Senior Adviser to the Nuclear Threat Initiative in Washington, focusing on catastrophic global risks. She is Vice President of the International Institute for Peace in Vienna and Senior Fellow at the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation. In 2022, she was appointed by Prime Minister Kishida of Japan as a Member of the International Group of Eminent Persons for a World without Nuclear Weapons. Additional functions include Senior Network Member of the European Leadership Network, and Director of the Board of the Partnership on AI. She sits on a number of non-profit boards in Europe, the United States and Asia, focusing inter alia on geopolitical developments, arms control, and the effects of technology, especially artificial intelligence.