Education
A dual national of Ireland and the United Kingdom, Doctor Lewis holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Manchester and a Doctor of Philosophy in Nuclear Structure Physics from the University of Birmingham.
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She is also currently Company-Director of the Global Commission on Internet Governance. She was previously the Senior Scientist-in-Residence and Deputy Director at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS). Before her time at MIIS Patricia was the Director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) and the Director of VERTIC. Doctor Lewis publishes widely on all aspects of arms control and disarmament issues and is frequently invited to speak at international conferences.
In 1982, she was a special assistant in the Rehabilitation Centres for Children in Calcutta, India, and from 1983-1986, she lectured in physics at the University of Auckland,in New Zealand, from where she also carried out research at the Australian National University in Canberra, and as a visiting lecturer at Imperial College London.
From 1986-1989, Lewis was Information Officer of the London-based Verification Technology Information Centre, and its director from 1989–1997. She was the Director or the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Geneva 1997–2008.
She was Deputy Director at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, California from 2008–2012. VERTIC specialises in the verification of arms control and disarmament agreements (see arms control enforcement), and during her time at VERTIC Doctor Lewis became a highly regarded expert on the subject.
During the 1988-1990 negotiations on the Federal Electricity Commission treaty, Lewis was a consultant to the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office on the verification of conventional force reductions in Europe.
In 1989-1990 Doctor Lewis was appointed British government expert to the United Nations study on the Role of the United Nations in Verification. From 1990-1992 she was a visiting Lecturer at Imperial College London and was the 1992-1993 Elizabeth Poppleton Fellow at the Australian National University. She was Chair of the United Kingdom Gulf Syndrome Study Group.
From 2004 to 2006, Doctor Lewis was a Commissioner on the Weapons of Mass Destructions Commission, chaired by Doctor Hans Blix.
Currently Doctor Lewis is an Advisor to the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (ICNND). Doctor Lewis recently served on the American Physical Society"s Panel on Public Affairs (POPA) study on Technical Steps to Support Nuclear Arsenal Downsizing"
Doctor Lewis is the recipient of the American Physical Society’s 2009 Joseph A. Burton Forum Award recognising "outstanding contributions to the public understanding or resolution of issues involving the interface of physics and society.".
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She is a recipient of the Australian Psychological Society Joseph A. Burton Forum Award for "outstanding contributions to the public understanding or resolution of issues involving the interface of physics and society." Doctor Lewis was a Commissioner on the Weapons of Mass Destruction (Blix) Commission, an Advisor to the Evans-Kawaguchi International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (ICNND) and a member of the Ekeus Advisory Panel on Future Priorities of the OPCW. She was also an external reviewer for the Canberra Commission Report on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, and a member of the Tokyo Forum for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Nuclear Disarmament 1998-1999. Lewis is a Fellow of the British-American Project and a member of Scientists for Global Responsibility.
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