PNND Co-Presidents

Saber Hossain Chowdhury

PNND Co-President
Bangladesh – National Assembly

Saber Chowdhury chairs the Bangladesh Parliament All Party Group on Climate Change and Environment. He is the President of the Inter-Parliamentary and is an active member of the Commonwealth Parliamentarian Association. He has introduced legislation on prohibition of Torture and Custodial/ Extra-judicial killings in Bangladesh, rights of slum dwellers, a code of conduct/ethics for members of parliament, and repeal of Leprosy Act which had promoted segregation. He has introduced resolutions on nuclear disarmament and jointly authored an inquiry of the Bangladesh and UK Parliaments on Climate Change Equity.

Bill Kidd

PNND Co-President
United Kingdom – The Scottish Parliament

Bill Kidd is a member of the Scottish Parliament representing the Scottish Nationalist Party. He serves as co-convenor of the All-Party Group on Nuclear Disarmament. Kidd has introduced a number of motions supporting nuclear disarmament and critical of the British deployment and home-basing of nuclear submarines in Faslane, Scotland. Mr Kidd has also participated in international disarmament initiatives, and has assisted former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond in efforts for Scottish representation in international disarmament forums such as the NPT and United Nations General Assembly. He has hosted a number of nuclear disarmament events in the Scottish Parliament in cooperation with civil society organisations such as Abolition 2000, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the United Nations Association.

Edward Markey

PNND Co-President
United States of America – Senate

Senator Edward J. Markey (D-MA) is a first-term senator. Previously he served in the House of Representatives where served as Chair of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet and Chairman of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. In addition, he co-founded the Bipartisan Caucuses on Nonproliferation. In the senate, Markey has introduced the SANE (Smarter Approach to Nuclear Expenditure) Act which advocates for substantial cuts in the nuclear weapons budget in order to fund climate change prevention, renewable energies, health care, education and employment. Markey was also a co-founder of SANE/FREEZE, the main US anti-nuclear organization in the 1980s.

Sue Miller

PNND Co-President
United Kingdom – House of Lords

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer is the Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Home Affairs, and has also served as spokesperson for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (2001-07), and Agriculture and Rural Affairs (1999-2001). She is a member of several all-party groups, including the Chairperson of the Street Children Group, Vice-chair of the Mexico Group, the Local Environmental Quality Group, Conservation and Wildlife Group and others. She is a member of the LibDem Federal Policy Committee and the Inter-Parliamentary Union.

Christine Muttonen

PNND Co-President
Austria – Nationalrat (1st chamber)

Christine Muttonen has been a Member of the Austrian Parliament since 1999. She is the area spokesperson for the Austrian Social Democratic Parliamentary Group for Foreign and European Politics. She also serves as Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly for the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). She has organized nuclear disarmament events at the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and introduced nuclear disarmament text for resolutions that have been adopted in the OSCE PA annual meetings. She is also active in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.