Visiting Senior Research Fellow: Mr Ian R Kenyon.
It is with great sadness that we announce that Ian Kenyon died on Thursday, 7th August. Angela Murphy and John Simpson visited him at home on 23rd July, and at that time he was clearly very ill, but remained engaged with the future work of MCIS and suggested strongly that we focus any paper we wrote for the HoC Foreign Affairs Committee in September on the positive contribution the NPT and other multilateral treaties had made to nuclear non-proliferation.

John first came into contact with him in the early 1980s, and remained in contact from that time onwards. In his periods with the UK mission to the CD in Geneva he was very helpful in assisting our developing work on nuclear non-proliferation, and when he retired from the OPCW, he became MCIS's first Senior Visiting Fellow, providing us with a unique source of expertise on chemical weapons and their international control. Subsequently, he was instrumental in generating the strategic vision for the research work of the Centre, including being the inspriation for our work on missile controls in the early 2000s, led by Mark Smith, moving us into the area of Biological Weapons, led by Jez Littlewood, and co-editing the book we published on deterrence in the 20th Century in 2006. When John fractured his spine in 2004, he very ably deputised for him in a number of important meetings around the world, with great success.

Without him, the work of MCIS over the last decade would have been much narrower in its scope and much poorer in its content. MCIS will miss his council and ideas greatly, and be much poorer now that he is no longer with us.

At Ian's funeral, on Monday 18th August, a Eulogy was given by Darryl Howlett, Research Associate of MCIS.

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Ian Kenyon has been a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Mountbatten Centre since 1997.  In addition to his work at the Mountbatten Centre, Ian Kenyon is a Visiting Research Fellow at SPRU, University of Sussex, where he works on Chemical and Biological Weapons related issues.

He served in the Diplomatic Service from 1974-95. He held various positions including First Secretary, UK Disarmament Delegation, Geneva (1976-78); Assistant Head (1982-83) and then Head of Nuclear Energy Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (1983-85); Inspector with the Diplomatic Service Overseas Inspectorate (1986-87); Deputy Leader of the UK Disarmament Delegation, Geneva (1988-92); Leader of UK Delegation in New York for the UNDC (1989-92); First Committee, UNGA44 and 46; and the Partial Test Ban Treaty Amendment Conference (1991). In 1989 he represented the UK on the Chemical Weapons ad-hoc committee working group on administrative and legal issues, and in 1993 took leave from the UK Diplomatic Service to serve as Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the Organisation of the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in the Hague (1993-7).