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Iris Hunger

A biochemist, Hunger heads the biological arms control research group at the University of Hamburg. Her expertise is in biological weapons and arms control. From 1997 to 2001, Hunger worked as assistant to the chairman of the Ad Hoc Group of States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention at the United Nations. In 2007, she contributed to the book, Bioterrorism: Confronting a Complex Threat.