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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

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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