Carol Naughton:
Public Affairs, Public speaking, Events Management and Raising Awareness

Carol Naughton has 30 years experience of political advocacy, lobbying and campaigning. She has a long history of involvement in foreign affairs, peace and security issues and has, for many years, provided insight and analysis for governments, diplomats and NGOs.

Raising Awareness / Education
She helped establish, and now coordinates the UK-based WMD Awareness Programme, founded by the Nobel Peace Laureate, Joseph Rotblat. The Programme aims to facilitate and support a parallel long term shift in mainstream public attitudes to security, and to help ensure such changes are politically realised.

Carol was responsible for developing and implementing education programmes to fit the Citizenship Curriculum on the media, democracy and security for schools across the UK. She also created the arts based national schools competition and awards ceremony for ‘Peace of Art.'

She has lectured young diplomats on the UN Fellowship Programme on Disarmament.

Events management
Carol specialises in managing creative, tailored and high-profile events, often within larger events and with existing audiences, for example, at science and other festivals such as the Guardian Hay, Glastonbury and Edinburgh Festivals. However she is equally experienced in organising and participating in a range of conferences, seminars and private round tables.

Public speaking / Media
Carol is an accomplished speaker and is equally comfortable addressing audiences, and in settings, as varied as the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury to the floor of the UN in New York and Geneva. She is sought after for interviews and discussion programmes on national and international radio and TV on a range of global security issues.

Public Affairs
As Senior Associate of the Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy, with emphasis on European Security, the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty and nuclear nonproliferation regime, Carol was closely engaged in the five year cycle leading up to, and including, the 2010 Review Conference of the NPT in New York. She provided analysis and advocacy for governments and diplomats globally, including the UK parliament.

She serves as director of PeaceRights, which brings together leading academic and practising lawyers to promote peaceful conflict resolution and legislation to reduce armaments. In this capacity, she was responsible for setting up, and publishing the findings of, the 2004 Inquiry into the Legality of Nuclear Weapons.

Formerly a medical practitioner by profession, Carol was Chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) from 2001-03.