PNND Council Members

Rabeeah Aburas

PNND Council Member
Chairperson, Libyan Parliament Committees for Sustainable Development, Migration, Public Liberties and Human Rights. Head of the Libyan Parliament delegation to the Interparliamentary Union.
Libya

Aytuğ ATICI

PNND Council Member
Turkey – Grand National Assembly

Dr. Aytug Atici is a medical doctor and a lawmaker from the Republican People's Party. He has promoted the proposal for a Middle East Zone Free of Nuclear Weapons and other WMD in Turkey, succeeding in securing the endorsement of over 40 parliamentarians for the joint global parliamentary statement on this issue.

Jeremy Corbyn

PNND Council Member
United Kingdom – House of Commons

Jeremy Corbyn is a British Labour Party Member of Parliament for Islington North. He has been in the House of Commons since he won his seat at the 1983 general election. A long-time supporter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, he is one of its three Vice-Chairs. He also serves on the UK delegation to the Inter Parliamentary Union, and has chaired the UK – Mexico Parliamentary Friendship Group. Jeremy is currently leader of the UK Labour Party.

Linda Duncan

PNND Council Member. Co-Chair of PNND Canada
Canada – House of Commons

Linda Duncan serves as a member of the Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities.  Known for taking a strong stance on environamental issue, she has served as National Democratic critic for environment. Prior to this Ms. Duncan worked as an international environmental consultant. She is also a member of the Canadian Delegration to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA), Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association and Canada-Unites States Inter Parliamentary Group.

Hedy Fry

PNND Canada Interim Co-Chair
Canada – House of Commons

The Hon Dr Hedy Fry is the longest serving female member of the Canada House of Commons, representing Vancouver Centre. She is Chair of the House of Commons Committee on Health. Dr Fry also serves as the Head of Canada's delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, and as the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Special Representative on Gender Issues. 

Alain Ficini

PNND Council Member
Monaco – Conseil National

Alain Ficini serves on the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Monaco Parliament. He is also the head of the Monaco Parliament delegation to the Inter Parliamentary Union and to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.

Alena Gajdůšková

PNND Alumni Council Member
Czech Republic – Senate

Alena Gajdůšková has served as the First Vice-President of the Senate of the Czech Republic, and a vice-president of the Czech Social Democratic Party. She is currently an adviser to the Prime Minister. Her work is focused on the issues of science and research, healthcare and human rights. She is a proponent of cooperative security and highlights the key role of the European Union in keeping peace and stability in the region. She was a supporter of the campaign against the deployment of the US National Missile Defence system components in the Czech Republic. She is Vice-President of the Czech Association of Patients, and a member of the Czech Red Cross.

Barbara Gysi

PNND Council Member
Switzerland – National Council

Barbara Gysi is a member of the Swiss National Council. She serves as Vice-President of the Finance Commission. Prior to being elected to the parliament Ms Gysi served in the Wil Canton Council where she was the Head of the Ministry of Social Affairs, Youth and Age. Before this she was a social worker.

Fabian Hamilton


Shadow Minister for Peace and Disarmament
United Kingdom – House of Commons

Fabian Hamilton is Member of Parliament for Leeds North East. He currently serves as Chair of the British Inter-Parliamentary Union Group. Previously in opposition, he served as Shadow Minister for Peace and Disarmament and Shadow Minister for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. 

Ihk Pyo Hong


South Korea – National Assembly

Since 2012, Hon Ihk Pyo  has been member of the National Assembly for Seongdong, Seoul. Before becoming a National Assembly member, Hong was a professor at the University of North Korean Studies and later served as senior policy advisor in the Ministry of Unification from 2007 to 2008. 

Roderich Kiesewetter

PNND Council Member
Germany – Bundestag

Roderich Kiesewetter, (CDU/CSU) is Deputy-Chair of the Bundestag Sub-committee on Disarmament and Arms Control, leader of the German delegation to the Euro Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly and member of the Parliamentarians’ Network on Conflict Prevention. Prior to entering parliament Mr Kiesewetter worked at the German defense ministry, EU Council and NATO headquarters where he was office manager of the chief of staff.

Margaret Kiener Nellen


Switzerland – National Council

Margaret Kiener Nellen is a Swiss attorney, translator and former Swiss politician. She served on the Swiss National Council between 2003 and 2019. During this time she held numerous positions including head of the Swiss delegations to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and the Inter-Parliamentary Union. She serves on the boards of Basel Peace Office and Peace Women Across the Globe. 

Shoichi KONDO

Vice-President PNND Japan, PNND Council Member
Japan – House of Representatives

Shoichi Kondo has been a Member of the House of Representatives in the Diet for the Democratic Party since 1996. A native of Nagoya, Aichi and graduate of Sophia University, he had served as a reporter for the Chunichi Shimbun from 1984 to 1993.He has held the position of Chairman of Committee on Discipline of the House of Representatives. Kondo has also served as Senior Vice-Minister of Environment. He is Vice President of PNND Japan.

Marilou McPhedran


Canada – Senate

Marilou McPhedran is a legally trained advocate and educator who specialized in teaching and developing systemic and sustainable change mechanisms to promote equality and diversity, having co-founded several internationally recognized non-profit Canadian organizations, such as LEAF - the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund, which has conducted constitutional equality test cases and interventions for 30-plus years, METRAC - the Metropolitan Action Committee on Violence Against Women and Children, and the Gerstein Crisis Centre for homeless discharged psychiatric patients. She was appointed to the Senate in 2016. She serves on the Senate Committees on Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights and Social Affairs. 

Christa Markwalder

PNND Council Member
Switzerland – National Council

Christa Markwalder was elected for the Liberal Party (FDP) to the Swiss National Council in 2003. Since then she has been member of the Foreign Policy Commission, which she is currently chairing. She is also member of the Committee for Legal Affairs and the German-language Drafting Committee. Since 2007, Markwalder is part of the delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union. She also chairs the parliamentary group on renewable energies, the parliamentary group Green Cross, the parliamentary group for environmentally conscious management, and is the co-president of the parliamentary group for voluntary work and volunteering. Christa Markwalder holds a law degree and a certificate in ecology.

David Norris

PNND Council Member
Ireland – Senate

David Patrick Bernard Norris is a scholar, independent Senator, and gay and civil rights activist. Norris represents the University of Dublin constituency in the Seanad as an Independent. He was first elected to the Seanad in 1987, and has been re-elected at each election since. He was the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in Ireland. Founder of the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform, he is also a prominent member of the Church of Ireland. He was a candidate for President of Ireland in the October 2011 election.

Nan Orrock

PNND Council Member
United States of America – States Senate

Senator Nan Grogan Orrock is a member of the Georgia State Senate. Senator Orrock’s legislative expertise includes health policy, women's issues, child/family policy, workplace issues, civil liberties, civil rights, and environmental issues.She is a founder of the Georgia Legislative Women's Caucus and President of the Women Legislators' Lobby, a national, non-partisan group of legislators, which works for balanced budgets, increased spending on families, education, health and child care, and a reduction in excessive and wasteful military spending.

Torstein Tvedt Solberg

PNND Council Member. Chair PNND Norway
Norway – Stortinget

Torstein Tvedt Solberg has a master's degree in Culture, Environment and Sustainability at the University of Oslo. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament in 2013. Solberg is a member of the Norwegian Parliament delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

Keisuke Suzuki

Secretary General, PNND Japan
Japan – House of Representatives

Keisuke Suzuki lives in Yokohama where he represents the Kanagawa 7th District as a member of the House of Representatives. He is  a member of the Policy Council and the Japan Forum on International Relations. He has served as the Parliamentary Vice-Minister for the Ministry Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism; and the Cabinet Office from 2014 to 2015 and State Minister for the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2018 to 2020. He was appointed as the ranking member on the Committee on Foreign Affairs in 2013.