Hussain Alhowaidi (Saudi Arabia) recently completed an internship at the United Nations Implementation Support Unit of the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC) in Geneva, Switzerland. One of his main tasks was preparing for the first session of the Preparatory Committee for the 8th BWC Review Conference in Geneva that took place April 26-27, 2016. He is currently working on a project to  translate English daily summary reports of BWC meetings, produced by Mr. Richard Guthrie of CBW Events, into Arabic. The first of such translations can be found here and on the MENACS website. In the past, he has also participated as a speaker on the refugee crisis in Europe and worked on a research project assessing the biological threat of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Hussain has a BA degree in political science and a background in scientific studies. He will graduate in August 2016 with an MA in Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.