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Global Security Leaders Gather in Halifax for 4th Annual Security Forum
Leaders and experts will discuss the US presidential election, Syria, China, and more—full conference streamed live HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, November 15, 2012—Leaders from more than 50 countries will gather November 16-18 at the Halifax International Security Forum to discuss pressing security issues, including the impact of the American presidential election on the rest of the world, the turmoil in Syria, the continued rise of China, energy security, cybersecurity and modern warfare. Beginning Friday, November 16, Halifax will welcome Canadian Minister of National Defence Peter MacKay, a congressional delegation led by U.S. Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Mark Udall (D-CO); Alison
2012 Participants
Geneive Abdo
Fellow
Stimson Center
Michael Abramowitz
Director, Committee on Conscience
United States Holocaust Museum
Stéphane Abrial
Former Supreme Allied Commander Transformation
NATO
Sagal Abshir
Independent Consultant
Mohammed Abu Lahoum
Head
Justice and Building Party, Yemen
Prashant Agrawal
Principal
Boston Consulting Group, Mumbai
Mobashar Jawed Akbar
Editorial Director
India Today
Rinat Akhmetshin
Director
IEI
Mohammad Al Abdallah
Executive Director
Syria Justice & Accountability Center
Mohammad Al Ajlouni
Chairman
ABS Network TV
Rafat Al-Akhali
Chairman
Resonate! Yemen
Chris Alexander
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Defence
Department of National Defence
Ali Alfoneh
Resident Fellow
American Enterprise Institute
Antony Anderson
Chief of Defence Staff
Jamaica Defence Force
Dewi Anwar
Deputy Secretary for Political Affairs to the Vice President
State Secretariat, Indonesia
Michael Ashar
President
Irving Oil
Madeleine Ashe
Department of National Defence, Canada
Derrick Ashong
Former Host of The Stream
Ashong Ventures LLC
Carlos Augusto de Sousa
Head of Strategic Affairs, Brazilian Joint Chiefs of Staff
Ministry of Defense, Brazil
Michael Auslin
Resident Scholar, Columnist
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research and the Wall Street Journal
Shlomo Avineri
Professor of Political Science
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Kenneth Baer
Managing Director
The Harbour Group
James Baker
Principal Deputy Director, Joint Staff, Strategic Plans and Policy
United States Department of Defense
Yaprak Baltacıoğlu
Deputy Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities
Transport Canada
Shukria Barakzai
Defence Commission Chief
National Assembly of Afghanistan
Wim Bargerbos
Director of General Policy Affairs
Ministry of Defence, The Netherlands
John Barrasso
Senator
United States
Jennifer Barrett
Office of Senator Mark Udall
Stuart Beare
Commander
Canadian Joint Operations Command
Dawisson Belem Lopes
Associate Professor
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Jean Betermier
Advisor to the President and CEOs
European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company
Adam Blackwell
Secretary for Multidimensional Security
Organization of American States
Lincoln Bloomfield, Jr.
Chairman
Stimson Center
Peter Boehm
Ambassador of Canada to the Federal Republic of Germany
Embassy of Canada
David Bosco
Contributing Writer
Foreign Policy
James Boutilier
Asia-Pacific Advisor
Maritime Forces Pacific Headquarters, Canada
Richard Bradlow
Partner
Penfund
Darrell Bricker
Chief Executive Officer
Ipsos Public Affairs
Laura Bridge
Manager, External Relations
Halifax International Security Forum
Yves Brodeur
Permanent Representative to NATO, Canada
Ian Brodie
Strategic Advisor
Inter-American Development Bank
Pete Brodnitz
Principal
Benenson Strategy Group
Shlomo Brom
Senior Research Fellow and Director, Program on Israel-Palestinian Relations
Institute for National Security Studies
Christian Brose
Foreign Policy and National Security Advisor
Office of Senator John McCain
Nancy Bui-Thompson
President, SMUD Board of Directors
Sacramento Municipal Utility District
Sharon Burke
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Operational Energy Plans and Programs
United States Department of Defense
Mark Cameron
Director, Global Public Policy
Research in Motion Ltd.
Cansu Çamlibel
Senior Diplomatic Correspondent
Hürriyet Daily
Leslie Campbell
Senior Associate and Regional Director, Middle East and North Africa Programs
The National Democratic Institute
Cengiz Çandar
Journalist
Radikal Daily
João Castro Neves
Latin America Analyst
Eurasia Group
Blaise Cathcart
Judge Advocate General
Canadian Armed Forces
Nick Childs
Defense and Security Correspondent
BBC World Service
Fotini Christia
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Security Studies Program
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Campbell Clark
Ottawa Reporter
The Globe and Mail
Tom Clark
Chief Political Correspondent
Global National News
Steve Clemons
Editor-at-Large, The Atlantic
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman
W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow
Hoover Institution
Eliot Cohen
Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies
Johns Hopkins University
David Collenette
Senior Counsellor – Public Affairs
Nusret Cömert
Advanced Leadership Fellow
Harvard University
Heather Conley
Director and Senior Fellow
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Irwin Cotler
MP
Mount Royal
Ronald Covais
President, Advanced Technology Group
Détente Group
Michael Day
Director General, International Security Policy
Department of National Defence, Canada
Antonio Jorge da Rocha
Professor of International Relations
University of Brasilia
Arnaud Danjean
Chair, Subcommittee on Security and Defence
European Parliament
Rup Narayan Das
Senior Fellow, Cluster Coordinator (China and East Asia)
Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses
Premvir Das
Executive Council
Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses
Glenn Davidson
Ambassador of Canada to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Embassy of Canada in Afghanistan
Francis Delon
Secretary General for Defence and National Security
Office of the Prime Minister, France
Neelam Deo
Director
Gateway House, Indian Council on Global Relations
Raghida Dergham
Columnist and Senior Diplomatic Correspondent
Al Hayat
Peter John Devlin
Chief of the Land Staff
Canadian Armed Forces
David Dewitt
Vice President of Programs
Centre for International Governance Innovation
Robbie Diamond
Founder, President and CEO
Securing America’s Future Energy
Yoram Dinstein
Professor Emeritus of International Law
Tel Aviv University
Safeen Dizayee
Kurdistan Democratic Party Leadership Member
Kurdistan Democratic Party – KDP
Paula Dobriansky
Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Harvard University
Gary Doer
Ambassador of Canada to the United States of America
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
Marcela Donadio
Executive Secretary
The Security and Defense Network of Latin America
Richard Downie
Director, Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies
National Defense University
Michael Dubie
Deputy Commander
United States Northern Command
Dan Dugas
Director General, Communications and Marketing
Transport Canada
David Ellis
Rabbi at Large
The Atlantic Jewish Council
Mieke Eoyang
National Security Director
Third Way
Jacques Fauteux
Chief of Staff to the Associate Minister of National Defence
Department of National Defence and Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
Dean Fealk
Partner and Group Chair
DLA Piper
Marian Fernet
Department of National Defence, Canada
Eamonn Fingleton
Author
The American Conservative
Helga Flores Trejo
Principal External Relations Advisor
Inter-American Development Bank
Jamie Fly
Executive Director
The Foreign Policy Initiative
Stephen Flynn
Professor, Founding Co-Director
George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security
Northeastern University
Robert Fonberg
Deputy Minister of National Defence
Department of National Defence, Canada
Johanna Mendelson Forman
Senior Associate
Center for Strategic & International Studies
John Forster
Chief
Communications Security Establishment
Joshua Foust
Fellow
American Security Project
Liam Fox
MP
British Parliament
Lisa Friedman
Deputy Editor
ClimateWire
Dave Gardam
Commander
Maritime Forces Atlantic/Joint Task Force Atlantic
Ulf Gartzke
Director, Washington Office
Hanns-Seidel-Foundation
John Gastright
Vice President, Government Relations
DynCorp International
John Gaventa
Director
The Coady Institute, St. Francis Xavier University
Jennifer Gearey
Department of National Defence, Canada
François Géré
Director
French Institute for Strategic Analysis
Rob Gillies
Canada Bureau Chief
Associated Press
John Glenn
Policy Director
U.S. Global Leadership Coalition
Misha Glenny
Broadcaster and Author
Jean-Franćois Godbout
Major
Royal Canadian Air Force
Diba Nigar Göksel
Editor-in-Chief
Turkish Quarterly
Blake Goldring
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
AGF Management Limited
Joanisval Gonçalves
Senior Counselor on Foreign Affairs and Defense
Senate of Brazil
Maggie Goodlander
Advisor, National Security and Foreign Affairs
Office of Senator Joseph Lieberman
Marc Goodman
Founder, Future Crimes Institute
Chair for Policy & Law, Singularity University
David Gough
Chair, Atlantic Chapter
American Chamber of Commerce in Canada
Heather Grabbe
Director, EU Affairs
Open Society Foundations
Sebastian Gräfe
Program Director for Foreign & Security Policy and Transatlantic Issues
Heinrich Böll Foundation
Bill Graham
Chairman
The Atlantic Council of Canada
Camille Grand
Executive Director
The Foundation for Strategic Research
Jerrold Green
President and Chief Executive Officer
Pacific Council on International Policy
Mike Greenley
Vice President
General Dynamics Canada Limited
Maryscott Greenwood
Executive Director
Canadian American Business Council
François Guimont
Deputy Minister
Public Safety Canada
Joseph Hall
Vice President
Halifax International Security Forum
Philip Hammond
Secretary of State for Defence
Ministry of Defence, United Kingdom
Louise Hand
Australian High Commissioner to Canada
Andrew House
Chief of Staff
Public Safety Canada
Husain Haqqani
Senior Fellow and Director for South and Central Asia
Hudson Institute
Allison Hart
Information Officer, US & Canada
Public Diplomacy Division, NATO
Doug Hattaway
President
Hattaway Communications
Jan Havranek
Deputy Director for Defence Policy
Ministry of Defence, Czech Republic
Kerry Healey
President
Friends of the Public-Private Partnership for Justice Reform in Afghanistan
Joshua Hersh
Reporter, Foreign Policy and State Department
The Huffington Post
Peter Hogan
Vice President
Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, Nova Scotia
Matthew Mark Horn
Government Relations Advisor
Nadim Houry
Deputy Director of the Middle East and North Africa Division
Human Rights Watch
Peter Hughes
Executive Director
The Potsdam Foundation
Rex Hughes
Visiting Fellow, Cyber Security
Wolfson College, University of Cambridge
Heather Hurlburt
Executive Director
National Security Network
Ravic Huso
Policy Advisor to Supreme Allied Commander Transformation
NATO
Karl Inderfurth
Senior Adviser and Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Wolfgang Ischinger
Global Head, Government Relations
Allianz SE
Farahnaz Ispahani
Media Adviser to the PPP Co-Chairman
Pakistan Peoples Party
Jeremy Issacharoff
Deputy Director General for Strategic Affairs
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Israel
Bruce Jackson
Founder and President
Project on Transitional Democracies
David Jacobson
United States Ambassador to Canada
Embassy of the United States, Ottawa
Jackson Janes
President
American Institute for Contemporary German Studies
Tom Jarmyn
Counsellor to the Minister
Public Safety Canada
Barbara Jensen
Director of International Affairs and Policy Development
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Said Jawad
Chief Executive Officer
Capitalize LLC
Peter Jennings
Executive Director
Australian Strategic Policy Institute
Josef Joffe
Publisher-Editor
Die Zeit
Matthew Kaminski
Member, Editorial Board
The Wall Street Journal
Athena Katsoulos
Director, Press and Policy Outreach – European and Eurasian Public Affairs
U.S. Department of State
Jonathan Kay
Columnist
National Post
John Kelly III
Founder and Chief Scientist
Morningside Analytics
Kai Michael Kenkel
Assistant Professor, Institute of International Relations
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Madonna Kent
Director, Industrial Benefits
Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
David Keyes
Executive Director
Advancing Human Rights
Persis Khambatta
Fellow, Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies
Center for Strategic and International Studies
James Kitfield
Senior Correspondent
National Journal
Suat Kınıklıoğlu
Director
Center for Strategic Communications
Martin Klingst
Washington Bureau Chief
Die Zeit
Kathleen Koch
Author, Journalist
Richard Koo
Chief Economist
Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.
Zenon Kosiniak-Kamysz
Ambassador of Poland to Canada
Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Canada
David Kramer
President
Freedom House
Irina Krasovskaya
President
We Remember Foundation
Chad Kreikemeier
Defense and Foreign Policy Advisor
Senator Jeanne Shaheen
Hilary Krieger
Washington Bureau Chief
Jerusalem Post
Ján Kubiš
Special Representative for Afghanistan
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
David Kurtz
Managing Editor and Washington Bureau Chief
Talking Points Memo
Daniel Kurtz-Phelan
Senior Fellow Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Adam Kushner
Deputy Editor
National Journal
Ron L’Esperance
Principal
CFN Consultants
Elise Labott
Foreign Affairs Reporter
CNN
Francois Lafond
Executive Director
Aspen Institute France
Miroslav Lajčák
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Slovak Republic
F. Stephen Larrabee
Distinguished Chair in European Security
RAND Corporation
Amer Latif
Visiting Fellow, Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Michel Lavigne
Military Assistant to the Minister of National Defence
Office of the Minister of National Defence, Canada
Peter Lavoy
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs
United States Department of Defense
Thomas Lawson
Chief of Defence Staff
Canadian Armed Forces
Paul LeBlanc
President
Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
Ariel Levite
Nonresident Senior Associate, Nuclear Policy Program
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Leonard Lidov
President, Co-Founder and CEO
Morningside Analytics
Klaus Linsenmeier
Executive Director
Heinrich Böll Foundation North America
Graham Lintott
Defence, Naval, and Air Attaché
Embassy of New Zealand in Washington
Shalom Lipner
Special Coordinator for Public Diplomacy
Office of the Prime Minister, Israel
Gal Luft
Co-Director
Institute for the Analysis of Global Security
Brian Macdonald
Legislative Secretary
Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick
John MacDonell
Chief of Staff to the Minister of National Defence
Department of National Defence, Canada
César Mac-Namera
Deputy Chief of Defense Staff
Chilean Armed Forces
Geoffrey Machum
Chair, Board of Directors
Halifax Port Authority
Macha MacKay
Member
Pugwash Peace Exchange
Peter MacKay
Minister of National Defence
Department of National Defence, Canada
George MacLean
Associate Dean of Graduate Studies
University of Manitoba
Paul Maddison
Commander
Royal Canadian Navy
Ashok Malik
Columnist
Deccan Chronicle
Ilgar Mammadov
Chairman
Republicanist Alternative (REAL) Movement, Azerbaijan
John Manley
President and CEO
Canadian Council of Chief Executives
Sergio Mantilla
Commander of the Army
Military Forces of Colombia
Bruno Marescaux
Advisor for International and Strategic Affairs
Office of the Secretary General for National Defense, France
Elisa Massimino
President and Chief Executive Officer
Human Rights First
Djerdj Matkovic
Foreign Policy Advisor to the First Deputy Prime Minister
Republic of Serbia
Bill McCaffrey
President and CEO
MEG Energy Corporation
John McCain
Senator
United States
Jon McKenzie
Chief Financial Officer
Irving Oil
Alan Mendoza
Co-Founder and Executive Director
Henry Jackson Society
Jeanne Meserve
Homeland Security Correspondent
CNN
Ayman Mhanna
Executive Director
Samir Kassir Foundation
Leo Michel
Distinguished Research Fellow
Institute for National Strategic Studies
National Defense University
Fred Midgette
Military Advisor to the Secretary
US Department of Homeland Security
Barbara Mikulski
Senator
United States
James Miller
Undersecretary of Defense for Policy
United States Department of Defense
Wess Mitchell
President
Center for European Policy Analysis
Saad Mohseni
Director
MOBY Group
Duane Monea
Vice President, Public Relations
MEG Energy Corporation
Yusuf Muftuoglü
Advisor to the President
Republic of Turkey
Jeff Mullen
Director of Enterprise Development
Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
Vago Muradian
Host
Defense News
Felipe Nasser
Second Secretary
Embassy of Brazil
Walter Natynczyk
Former Chief of Defence Staff
Canadian Forces
Pauline Neville-Jones
Patron to Cyber Security Challenge and Special Government Representative to Business on Cyber Security
House of Lords, United Kingdom
Kevin Newman
Anchor, Question Period
CTV News
Natalie Nougayréde
Diplomatic Correspondent
Le Monde
Jamie O’Gilvie
Staff Officer, Strategy and Planning
Jamaica Defence Force
Jacqueline O’Neill
Director
The Institute for Inclusive Security
Charles Dixon Osburn
Director, Law and Security Program
Human Rights First
Russell Page
Australian Defence Adviser to Canada
High Commission of Australia to Canada
Timothy Page
President
Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries
Ana Palacio
Senior Fellow
Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale
Jean-Paul Paloméros
Supreme Allied Commander Transformation
NATO
Roland Paris
University Research Chair in International Security and Governance
University of Ottawa
Jay Paxton
Director of Communications for the Minister of National Defence
Department of National Defence, Canada
Tom Perriello
President and Chief Executive Officer
Center for American Progress Action Fund
Smadar Perry
Middle East Senior Editor
Yediot Aharonot Daily
Ted Piccone
Senior Fellow, Deputy Director for Foreign Policy
The Brookings Institution
Livia Plaks
President
Project on Ethnic Relations
Dana Priest
Reporter
The Washington Post
Margaret Purdy
Research Associate, Center for International Relations
The University of British Columbia
Jibril Rajoub
Director
Palestinian Center for Security Studies
Albert Ramdin
Assistant Secretary General
Organization of American States
Ahmed Rashid
Journalist and Author
Alison Redford
Premier
Alberta, Canada
Stephen Rigby
National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister
Privy Council Office, Canada
Richard Riley
Consul General
US Consulate General, Halifax
Sheila Riordon
Minister (Political)
Embassy of Canada in Washington
Carla Robbins
Adjunct Senior Fellow
Council on Foreign Relations
Colin Robertson
Vice President
Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute
Corin Robertson
Deputy High Commissioner
British High Commission, Ottawa
Joshua Rogin
Staff Writer
Foreign Policy Magazine
Rafal Rohozinski
Principal and Chief Executive Officer
The SecDev Group
Gideon Rose
Editor
Foreign Affairs
Morris Rosenberg
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
Henri Rothschild
President and Chief Executive Officer
International Science and Technology Partnerships Canada Inc.
Craig Rowsell
Senior Associate
Hill and Knowlton Canada
Luis Rubio
Chairman
Center of Research for Development
Daniel Runde
Director, Project on Prosperity and Development
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Tom Ruth
President and Chief Executive Officer
Halifax International Airport Authority
Oussama Safa
Strategic Consultant
Independent
Sven Sakkov
Undersecretary for Defence Policy
Ministry of Defence, Republic of Estonia
Amrullah Saleh
Former Intelligence Chief
Afghanistan
David Sanger
Chief Washington Correspondent
New York Times
Samir Saran
Senior Fellow & Vice President
Observer Research Foundation
Jo-Anne Scharf
Regional Director
Nova Scotia Public Safety
Randy Scheunemann
Foreign Policy and National Security Policy Analyst
Christian Schmidt
Parliamentary State Secretary
Federal Ministry of Defense, Germany
Christian Schmidt
Military Aide to the Parliamentary State Secretary
Federal Ministry of Defense, Germany
Andrew Schwartz
Senior Vice President, External Relations
Center for Strategic & International Studies
Peter Semneby
Senior Fellow
The German Marshall Fund of the United States
Richard Sendall
Senior Vice President, Strategy and Government Relations
MEG Energy Corporation
Vance Serchuck
Senior Advisor for National Security and Foreign Affairs
Office of Senator Joseph Lieberman
Robin Shepherd
Director, International Affairs
Henry Jackson Society
Mohammed Shtayyeh
Minister
Palestinian Economic Council for Development and Reconstruction
Vasil Sikharulidze
Chairman
Atlantic Council of Georgia
Péter Siklósi
Deputy State Secretary for Defence Policy and Planning
Ministry of Defence, Hungary
Jill Sinclair
Assistant Deputy Minister, Policy
Department of National Defence, Canada
Lokman Slim
Director
Hayya Bina
Julianne Smith
Deputy National Security Advisor
Office of the Vice President of the United States of America
Eugeniusz Smolar
Senior Fellow
Polish Institute of International Affairs
Carsten Søndergaard
Permanent Ambassador of Denmark to NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Frits Stam
Defence Attaché
Embassy of the Netherlands in Canada
Barbara Stegemann
Founder
The 7 Virtues Communications Group
Janice Stein
Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
Mercedes Stephenson
Reporter
CTV News
Yasushi Sukegawa
Senior Fellow, Government and Law Studies Division
The National Institute for Defense Studies
Michael Svetlik
Vice President, Programs
IFES
Jane Taber
Senior Political Writer
The Globe and Mail
Andrew Tabler
Senior Fellow
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Nobushige Takamizawa
President
National Institute for Defence Studies
Nobuo Tanaka
Global Associate for Energy Security and Sustainability
Institute of Energy Economics, Japan
Andris Teikmanis
State Secretary
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Latvia
Jonathan Tepperman
Managing Editor
Foreign Affairs
Ishaan Tharoor
Writer and Editor
Time Magazine/Global Spin
Guy Thibault
Chairman
Inter-American Defense Board
Eirik Thorshaug
State Secretary
Ministry of Defence, Norway
Eneken Tikk-Ringas
Post Doctoral Fellow
Munk School of Global Affairs
Vic Toews
Minister of Public Safety
Public Safety Canada
Russel Trood
Adjunct Professor
University of Sydney
Mark Udall
Senator
United States
Tomas Valasek
Director of Foreign Policy and Defence
Centre for European Reform
Bernard Valcourt
Associate Minister of National Defence and Minister of State
Department of National Defence and Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
Jonathan Vance
Director of Staff
Strategic Joint Staff, Canada
Peter Van Praagh
President
Halifax International Security Forum
Joseph Varner
Director of Policy
Department of National Defence, Canada
Robert Vass
Secretary General
Slovak Atlantic Commission
Julian Ventura
Undersecretary for North American Affairs
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mexico
Rogerio Verissimo
Air and Defence Attaché to Canada
Brazilian Air Force
John Vinocur
Columnist
International Herald Tribune
Kurt Volker
Executive Director
McCain Institute
Aleksandar Vučić
First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence
Ministry of Defense, Republic of Serbia
Alexandre Vulic
Minister Counsellor
Embassy of France in Canada
Abdul Hai Waheed
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Bruce Wallace
Editor, Policy Options Magazine
Institute for Research on Public Policy
Pamela Wallin
Chair
National Security and Defence Committee
Abdul Rahim Wardak
Senior Defense Advisor and Former Minister of Defense
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
W. Bruce Weinrod
Senior Advisor
Global Impact, Inc.
Jonathan Weisstub
Executive Vice President, Corporate Development, Infrastructure Ontario, and
Chairman of the Board, Halifax International Security Forum
Margaret Wente
Columnist
The Globe and Mail
Christian Wernicke
U.S. Correspondent
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Michael Werz
Senior Fellow
Center for American Progress
Kathryn White
Executive Director
United Nations Association in Canada
Joseph Whited
Congressional Liaison
United States Department of Defense
Marc Whittingham
President and CEO
Canadian Commercial Corporation
Alexis Wichowski
Media Analyst, United States Mission to the United Nations
United States Department of State
Andi Widjajanto
Head of Undergraduate Programme, International Relations
University of Indonesia
Taylor Wilson
Student and Nuclear Physicist
University of Nevada, Reno
Bogusław Winid
Deputy Foreign Minister
Republic of Poland
Joseph Wood
Senior Resident Fellow
German Marshall Fund of the United States
Mona Yacoubian
Senior Advisor, Middle East
The Stimson Center
Kazuyuki Yamazaki
Ambassador for Policy Planning and International Security Policy
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan
Chris Yonke
Owner
International Options and Trade
Dov Zakheim
Senior Advisor and Senior Fellow
Center for Strategic and International Studies and CNA’s Center for Naval Analyses
Markus Ziener
Editorial Page Editor
Handelsblatt

