Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr. served at the Arms Control Agency from 1970-1997 in many capacities. During this period he served in a major role in every significant arms control and non-proliferation negotiation in which the United States took part including: the Salt I, Salt II and Start negotiations as well as the test ban, conventional armed forces in Europe, chemical weapons, biological weapons and Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty extension negotiations.

Ambassador Graham served for nearly three decades at the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, including a decade and a half as general counsel as well as Acting Director of the agency for most of 1993. In 1993 he led the effort to establish a long-term moratorium on the conduct of nuclear weapons tests. From 1994 to 1996, he was a principal figure in the worldwide effort to successfully support the conclusion of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty negotiations.

In 1994 President Clinton appointed Thomas Graham Jr. as his special representative for arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament, with the rank of Ambassador.  From 1993 to 1995 Ambassador Graham led the successful U.S. government effort to indefinitely extend the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

From 2009 to 2016, Ambassador Graham served on the International Advisory Board of the Nuclear Program of the United Arab Emirates.  The mission of the Board was to help maintain the highest standards of safety, security, non-proliferation, transparency, and sustainability in the development of the Program.

Ambassador Graham has taught at—among others—Stanford University, University of Virginia, Georgetown University, University of Washington, and Oregon State University. He has authored 10 books, written articles, and given legislative testimony.  Among his books are: Disarmament Sketches, 2002;  Unending Crisis, 2012; and Seeing the Light, the Case for Nuclear Power in the 21st Century, 2017.  He received an A.B. in 1955 from Princeton University and a J.D. in 1961 from Harvard Law School. He is a member of the Kentucky, the District of Columbia, and the New York Bars. 

In 1995 Ambassador Graham received the Trainor Award for Distinction in Diplomacy from Georgetown University and in 2006 the World Order under Law from the American Bar Association.  He received the Distinguished Honor Award twice, the Superior Honor Award twice, and the Meritorious Honor Award once from the Arms Control Agency.  He also received the Meritorious Honor Award from the Department of State.

In May 2019 Ambassador Graham was selected as Co-Chairman of the Nuclear Energy and National Security Coalition based at the Atlantic Council.

Mr. Jon Johnson is the Senior Nuclear Regulatory Consultant to Lightbridge and is serving as the Acting Quality Assurance Manager. He served as Senior Vice President, Nuclear Regulatory Expert, at Lightbridge from 2008-2020. He is a former senior executive with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, is one of the foremost authorities on the licensing, safety, and regulation of nuclear power plants; he has been with Lightbridge Corporation since 2008. Regulatory agencies around the world have looked to Mr. Johnson for advice on reactor safety design, operation, and oversight matters, including the United Arab Emirates’ Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, and the Japanese Nuclear Safety Institute.

As deputy director of the NRC’s Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, Mr. Johnson helped manage several departments, including inspection, licensing, assessment, new reactors, and event response at all 104 commercial and 26 research nuclear reactor facilities in the United States. Earlier in his career, Mr. Johnson was a deputy regional administrator, branch chief, and senior inspector for the NRC. He was the NRC’s principal liaison to other countries’ nuclear regulatory agencies and was past chair of the NRC’s License Renewal Steering Committee; he also has performed nuclear safety assessments at several Department of Energy facilities in the United States. Mr. Johnson has been a featured speaker at IAEA workshops in Europe on topics including regulatory strategy and technical support, to the OECD on regulatory practices, and he has provided consulting to senior U.S. utility executives regarding reactor safety and performance. Mr. Johnson joined the NRC after serving nearly ten years in the U.S. Navy, where he was a nuclear-trained officer who directed dual-reactor plant operations at sea.

Mr. Johnson earned a bachelor’s degree, with distinction, in physics from the U.S. Naval Academy and a master’s degree in nuclear engineering from the University of Virginia.

Dr. James Malone is the Senior Nuclear Fuel Consultant to Lightbridge. He served as Senior Vice President and Chief Nuclear Fuel Development Officer of Lightbridge from 2010-2020. He has more than five decades of high-level experience in the nuclear industry, including extensive experience in all aspects of fuel procurement and management. In late 2009, Mr. Malone retired after a decade with Exelon Generation Company, where as vice president of Nuclear Fuels he provided strategic direction and tactical guidance for Exelon’s nuclear fuel cycle activities. He was responsible for procurement (uranium, conversion, enrichment, and fuel fabrication) for seventeen operating nuclear reactors—PWRs and BWRs—and his expertise guided the management of used fuel. Dr. Malone’s responsibilities also included special nuclear material accounting and safeguards, economics, and fuel cycle costs. Under Mr. Malone’s supervision, the Nuclear Fuels department provided reload bundle and core design, safety analysis, and plant technical support, including fuel reliability, component procurement strategy, and decommissioning strategy.

Before joining Exelon, Dr. Malone served for ten years as vice president and senior consultant at NAC International, where he consulted on fuel reliability and the front and back ends of the nuclear fuel cycle, among other issues. One of his last projects at NAC was the international safeguards system for the Rokkasho Mura reprocessing plant in Japan. Dr. Malone also worked for many years at SWUCO, Inc., first as a nuclear fuel broker, then as manager of technical services, and finally as vice president. Prior to SWUCO, Dr. Malone was manager of economic analysis at Yankee Atomic, where his work led to important decisions on fuel type and design. Dr. Malone began his career in nuclear power in 1968 as an engineer in the utility reactor core analysis section of the Nuclear Engineering Department of United Nuclear Corporation, where his duties included bundle and core design for the Dresden 1 and Yankee Rowe reactors.

Dr. Malone is a member of the American Nuclear Society and past chairman of its Fuel Cycle Waste Management Division. He is also a member of the member of the World Nuclear Association’s Fuel Cycle Members’ Forum. Dr. Malone holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering (nuclear) from Manhattan College, an MBA from Iona College, where he was awarded the Graduate School of Business Award for Academic Excellence, and DBA from the University of Phoenix.

Mr. Simon Murray is an entrepreneur and banker. He serves as director, chairman, and advisor of major multinational companies. He has longstanding business relationships throughout Asia and Europe, and has been a Senior Advisor to Lightbridge Corporation since 2006. Mr. Murray moved to Hong Kong in 1966 and began working for Jardine Matheson. He later set up his own company, Davenham Investments, which was involved in project advisory work, in which N.M. Rothschild took a 50% interest. In 1984, he sold Davenham to Li Ka-Shing and became the Group Managing Director of Hutchison Whampoa, where he stayed for the next 10 years. During this period, Hutchison acquired control of Hong Kong Electric (at the time the largest corporate acquisition ever made in Hong Kong). He negotiated Hutchison’s entry into the oil business through the acquisition of Husky Oil (the largest fully integrated independent oil company in Canada). Hutchison began the enormous expansion of its container terminal operations, Hong Kong International Terminals (H.I.T.), during this period, including the acquisition of the Shanghai Container Port in China and the port of Felixstowe, the largest container port in the UK. H.I.T. remains the largest container port operator in the world today, controlling over 25% of the world’s container ports. Under the Chairmanship of Mr. Li, Mr. Murray led Hutchison’s entry into the mobile telephone business – pioneering cellular phones in Hong Kong and developing the world’s first nationwide P.C.N. system in the UK. – known as “Orange”. He was instrumental in the launching of AsiaSat, China’s first international launching of a satellite, and served as Chairman of its Board in its early years.

After 10 years at Hutchison Mr. Murray became the Executive Chairman Asia/Pacific, of the Deutsche Bank Group. Deutsche Bank Group had a major presence in Asia/Pacific, operating more than 60 entities in 17 countries ranging from Pakistan to Japan and Australia. He left Deutsche Bank in 1998 and subsequently founded Simon Murray & Associates, with Deutsche Bank as a 40% partner at that time.

In 1998, Mr. Murray established GEMS, as the investment arm of SMA, a private equity group, to make investments in Asia. His investors and partners have included major corporations such as AIG, Hutchison Whampoa, GE Capital, Richemont, Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Development Bank of Japan, and a number of privately-owned family companies. He was Chairman of Sheraton and Hilton Hotels, and served on the boards of a number of Hong Kong public companies from the South China Morning Post to the Cross Harbour Tunnel Company – from the Hong Kong Aircraft & Engineering Corporation, to Hong Kong Electric where he was Chairman for ten years.

Mr. Murray is also a director of a number of public companies, which include Cheung Kong Property Holdings Ltd., Orient Overseas (International) Ltd., Wing Tai Properties Ltd., Richemont SA, Greenheart Group Limited, IRC Limited, Spring Asset Management Limited, and the China LNG Group. He has in the past served on boards and held advisory positions with a number of companies such as Vodafone, Tommy Hilfiger Corporation, Vivendi Universal, Usinor SA, Hermes, General Electric (USA), China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), Macquarie Bank, N.M. Rothschild, Bain, and was until March 2015 the Chairman of Gulf Keystone Petroleum; and until May 2013 the Chairman of Glencore International. He stepped down as Vice Chairman of Essar Energy plc in May 2014. In addition to Lightbridge Corporation, he is currently on the advisory board of SouthWest Energy (BVI) Ltd., and is a Senior Advisor on the International Advisory Board of Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., PRC. Mr. Murray was awarded the Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by H.M. The Queen, and the Order of Merit of the French Republic and is a “Chevalier de La Legion d’Honneur.” In 2005 Mr. Murray became the oldest person to trek to the South Pole unsupported.

Mr. Murray attended England’s Bedford School and joined the French Foreign Legion in 1960, serving for five years in the Foreign Parachute Regiment. He wrote about that experience in “Legionnaire,” a best-selling book. Mr. Murray also attended the Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Program.

Dr. Aaron Totemeier serves as a Senior Nuclear Fuel Consultant to Lightbridge. He is an expert in nuclear fuel technologies, radiation damage, and the nuclear fuel cycle. Dr. Totemeier provides strategic advice on nuclear power projects for Lightbridge and its partners, including technology evaluation, development, and regulatory compliance. Before becoming a senior consultant to Lightbridge in November 2022, Dr. Totemeier spent 14 years at Lightbridge where he started out as a nuclear engineer in 2008 and later became Vice President of Fuel Cycle Technology & Fuel Fabrication.

Dr. Totemeier was involved in many aspects of Lightbridge’s thorium seed and blanket fuel technology development and evaluating its deployment in the existing light water reactor infrastructure. In 2010 Dr. Totemeier became the Director of Fuel Cycle Technology & Fuel Fabrication for Lightbridge, leading the technology development for Lightbridge’s advanced metallic fuel for power uprates and cycle length extension. In that role, Dr. Totemeier provided technical oversight and direction for Lightbridge’s research and development activities including coordination with partner entities and management of technical consultants. Dr. Totemeier was appointed to the Small Modular Reactors Working Group of the U.S. Department of Commerce International Trade Administration in 2022.

Prior to joining Lightbridge, Dr. Totemeier was a laboratory manager at the Fuel Cycle & Materials Laboratory at Texas A&M University, a leading nuclear fuel cycle experimental facility. While there, Dr. Totemeier worked with many nuclear fuel cycle research projects including the development of fabrication technologies for advanced metallic nuclear fuels via extrusion.

Dr. Totemeier earned bachelor of science and master of science degrees in nuclear engineering at Purdue University and earned a Ph.D. degree in nuclear engineering at Texas A&M University.