FDD Senior Fellow, Professor Orde Kittrie, on FoxNews Channel Discussing Iran's Nuclear Program.

Orde Félix Kittrie is a tenured Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University . During the 2008-9 academic year, Kittrie is also a visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

Nuclear Nonproliferation Law Expert and Scholar

Kittrie is a leading expert on nuclear nonproliferation and especially nuclear nonproliferation legal issues and sanctions. Kittrie currently serves as chair of the Nonproliferation, Arms Control & Disarmament Committee of the American Society of International Law and chair of the Nonproliferation, Arms Control & Disarmament Committee of the American Branch of the International Law Association. Kittrie also currently serves on a National Academies of Science committee created by Congress (in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008) to issue a report, in time for the next Administration, on how to improve current U.S. government programs to prevent the proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. In addition to Professor Kittrie, the dozen members of the committee include a former deputy cabinet secretary, two former Under Secretaries of State, two former directors of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, a former Commander in Chief of the US Strategic Command, and a former Assistant Secretary of Energy.

In July 2008, Professor Kittrie testified before the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Nonproliferation and Terrorism Subcommittee, at a hearing on "Saving the NPT and the Nonproliferation Regime in an Era of Nuclear Renaissance." In April 2008, Professor Kittrie testified before a United States Senate Finance Committee hearing on S. 970, the Iran Counterproliferation Act. In March 2008, Professor Kittrie addressed a special conference in Vienna , Austria on potential solutions to the dispute over Iran 's nuclear program. The conference, organized by the Stockholm International Peace Research Center and the Carnegie Moscow Center, included participation by officials from the United States, Russia, Iran, Sweden, Egypt, Syria, China and the International Atomic Energy Agency. In February 2008, Kittrie wrote a chapter for a report produced by the National Academies of Science, in coordination with the Russian Academy of Sciences, entitled The Future of the Nuclear Security Environment in 2015. Professor Kittrie's chapter describes and analyzes several critical legal issues that must be successfully managed if future U.S.-Russian nuclear security cooperation is to be maximized. In 2005, Kittrie served as one of six members of a special National Academies of Science committee that produced with the Russian Academy of Sciences a joint report entitled Strengthening US-Russian Cooperation on Nuclear Nonproliferation, for which Kittrie wrote the chapter on legal obstacles and opportunities. Kittrie has also testified before the Ohio and Maryland state legislatures, and advised several other state legislatures, regarding proposed legislation that would divest state pension funds from foreign companies doing business with Iran.

Kittrie is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a board member of the Phoenix Committee on Foreign Relations. He has lectured at over a dozen universities including Harvard, Georgetown , Johns Hopkins and the University of Pennsylvania , published op-eds in leading newspapers, and done on-air commentary for numerous television and radio stations. Kittrie has also published scholarly articles in the University of Michigan Law Review , University of Iowa Law Review , University of Michigan Journal of International Law, and Syracuse University Law Review, and has an article forthcoming in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law.

Former State Department Official

Prior to joining the ASU law faculty in 2004, Professor Kittrie served for eleven years at the United States Department of State. Kittrie most recently served as the State Department's Director of International Anti-Crime Programs, overseeing United States policy and technical assistance programs for promoting the rule of law and combating transnational crime worldwide, including corruption, money laundering, intellectual property piracy, cybercrime, and alien smuggling. Key projects he launched in that capacity include an anti-corruption initiative in Iraq and an Arab regional anticorruption initiative in cooperation with the World Bank and the United Nations. Prior to that assignment, Kittrie served as a Senior Attorney and Adviser to the Under Secretary of State for Public Affairs and Public Diplomacy, assisting with efforts to improve America 's image and promote human rights and democracy in the Arab world.

Kittrie earlier served as Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business & Agricultural Affairs. In that capacity, he worked on economic aid for Pakistan following September 11 and assisted with planning for the reconstruction of Afghanistan . Kittrie also worked on U.S.-Mexico border issues, the reform of Jordanian business law, and negotiation of the world's first multilateral agreement to combat computer crime. Prior to that, Kittrie served as the State Department's Senior Attorney for Nuclear Affairs. In that capacity, he negotiated five nuclear non-proliferation agreements between the United States and Russia and served as counsel for the U.S. Government's sanctions and other responses to the 1998 Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests. Earlier in his State Department career, Kittrie specialized in trade controls governing arms and dual-use items, in which capacity he was a principal drafter of U.N. Security Council Resolutions, U.S. Executive Orders, and U.S. regulations imposing and implementing arms embargoes on terrorism-supporting and other outlaw regimes, including Rwanda during the genocide.

Immediately following his graduation from the University of Michigan Law School, Kittrie was a Ford Foundation Fellow in Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Syria. Prior to law school, he served as Press Spokesman and Legislative Assistant to U.S. Congresswoman Connie Morella.