C. Paul Robinson serves as President of Sandia Corporation and Laboratory Director of Sandia National Laboratories with principal sites at Albuquerque, New Me3dco and Livermore, California. Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin company, operates Sandia Laboratories, one of the nation's premier science and engineering laboratories, for the U. S- Department of Energy. Sandia works in partnership with universities and industry to meet national needs in nuclear weapons and related defense systems, energy security, and environmental integrity, and to address emerging national challenges for both government and industry. Joining Sandia in October 1990, Dr. Robinson served as a Director and as a Vice President prior to becoming President in August 1995. He had led the laboratories' programs in industrial partnerships and initiated new efforts to create national industrial alliances between the laboratories and major sectors of US industry-

From February 1988 to October 1990, Ambassador Robinson served as the Chief Negotiator and Head of the US Delegation to the Nuclear Testing Talks between the US and the USSR in Geneva, Switzerland He was appointed by President Ronald Reagan, confirmed by the US Senate, and subsequently reappointed by President George Bush. These negotiations produced two major agreements- protocols to the Threshold Test Ban Treaty and the Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty. These agreements and the treaties were ratified unanimously by the US Senate and remain in force today between the US and the CIS.

From December 1985 to February 1988, Dr. Robinson served as Senior Vice President and Principal Scientist of Ebasco Services, Inc., a major engineering and construction firm headquartered in New York. He was a member of Ebasco's Board of Directors. He was responsible for the Advanced Technology sector of the company with major contracts in nuclear power, advanced power systems for defense and commercial energy needs, and support activities for major US and international research projects.

Dr. Robinson spent most of his early career (1967-1985) as a physicist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He began the laboratory's efforts in laser-induced chemistry and isotope separation Dr. Robinson led the Laboratory’s defense programs, having responsibility for nuclear weapons research and development, strategic defense initiatives, inertial fusion, nuclear materials and safeguards, advanced conventional weapons, as well as arms control, and verification activities.

Dr. Robinson earned a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Christian Brothers College in 1963 and a Ph.D. in Physics from Florida State University in 1967. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Christian Brothers University in 1989. In 1998 he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.