Editing Adam Daniel Rotfeld (section)

==Professional activities==

From 1961, Rotfeld worked as a researcher at the [[Polish Institute of International Affairs]] (PISM, the acronym formed from the Polish name). He was a member of the UN Secretary General Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters from 2006 to 2011, and its chair in 2008; member of the NATO Expert Group on the New Strategic Concept of Alliance (2009–2010), and since 2010 Commissioner of the Euro-Atlantic Security Commission, member of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).

After 1989, he has served as leader of the Project on Building a Co–operative Security System in and for Europe at the [[Stockholm International Peace Research Institute]] (SIPRI). He was appointed as Director of SIPRI from 1 July 1991 and re–elected in 1996 for a second term, lasting until June 2002. He is a member of many consultative bodies and scientific councils, including the Institute of Political Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is co-chairman of [[Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matters]].

He has participated in many multilateral negotiations and conferences on security and arms control.