About Us

Nick Cumming-Bruce

Nick Cumming-Bruce is a British journalist currently based in Geneva, Switzerland. He has worked as a correspondent for the Guardian, the Asian Wall Street Journal, and the International Herald Tribune and has undertaken assignments researching mine action in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East for the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining. Cumming-Bruce has worked with Norwegian People’s Aid as a Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor mine action editor since February 2006.

Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Language: English

Mike Kendellen

Mike Kendellen joined Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor in January 2008. He covers mine action in Latin America, Southern Africa, the Horn of Africa, Sudan, and Lebanon, and victim assistance in the United States. Prior to working with Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor, Mike directed development and humanitarian aid programs for NGOs in Indonesia, Croatia, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Malaysia, and Vietnam before working on victim assistance and risk education in mine action with the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation. From 2002–2008 he was with the Survey Action Center and responsible for Landmine Impact Surveys in 10 countries as well as assessments and evaluations.
Kendellen holds an MA in International Administration from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio and a BA in Liberal Arts from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.

Location: Washington, DC
Language: English

Kathryn Millett

Kathryn Millett joined Norwegian People's Aid as Mine Action Coordinator for Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor in 2013 following her role as Monitor Coordinator in 2012. Previously, Kathryn was Director of the BioWeapons Prevention Project (BWPP) based in Geneva working on international efforts to bolster the ban against biological weapons with a focus on universalization, national implementation, biosafety and biosecurity, dual-use education in the life sciences, and awareness-raising. Prior to joining the BWPP, she held a number of Cariplo Fellowships at the Landau Network - Centro Volta (LNCV) where she established a biological weapons nonproliferation research programme as well as worked extensively on chemical, nuclear and radiological weapons counter-terrorism measures, illicit trafficking, sensitive knowledge transfer, and proliferation concerns raised by the former Soviet Union Nuclear Weapons complex. She remains a member of the International Working Group (IWG) for Transition Initiatives that seeks to enhance scientific and technological cooperation among G8 Global Partnership countries for the purpose of global security. Kathryn has also worked with UNICRI, WHO, the UN and other international agencies, and has a Master's Degree in Science Policy from the University of Sussex, a Postgraduate Diploma in Law, and a BSc (Hons) in History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science from University College London.

Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Language: English, French