2021 HALIFAX INTERNATIONAL SECURITY FORUM
DATE
November 19-21, 2021
LOCATION
Halifax, Nova Scotia
PARTICIPANTS
300
Your safety is our top priority.
The 2021 Halifax International Security Forum is a fully vaccinated event.
Health and Safety Protocol:
*Proof of Vaccination is required.
*Masks and hand sanitizer will be available throughout the hotel.
*Fresh air will be pumped in to the main hall during all plenary sessions.
*Wearing a mask is mandatory at all times in public places unless actively eating or drinking or speaking during a session.
*Fresh air will be pumped in to the main hall during all plenary sessions.
*On-site testing is available throughout the weekend at our on-site testing facility.
Download Health & Safety Guidelines for the 2021 Forum as PDF
Health and Safety Protocol:
Halifax International Security Forum invites subject experts with significant practical experience to volunteer their time throughout the summer months to discuss and debate ideas to be addressed head-on at Halifax in November. The guidance provided by the Agenda Working Group ensures that Halifax International Security Forum plays its part in shaping the coming year’s global security agenda.
Halifax International Security Forum is proud that the agenda presented to its participants each year is acutely relevant and reflects conversations that are happening in capitals around the world. In the cases where these issues are not yet top-of-mind for decision makers, Halifax International Security Forum is pleased to create those conversations that will gain attention and inspire international action.
Michael Auslin
Senior Advisor for Asia, Halifax International Security Forum, Payson J. Treat Fellow in Contemporary Asia, Hoover Institute, Stanford University
Alyssa Ayres
Dean, Elliott School of International Affairs George Washington University
Johan Bergenas
Senior Vice President, Oceans World Wildlife Fund – US
Ian Brodie
Program Director, Canadian Global Affairs Institute and University of Calgary
Rosa Brooks
Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Policy, Georgetown University Law Center
Leslie Campbell
Senior Associate and Regional Director, Middle East and North Africa Programs, National Democratic Institute
Dean Fealk
Chair, Global Strategy & Innovation, Halifax International Security Forum, Managing Partner, DLA Piper
John Glenn
Policy Director, U.S. Global Leadership Coalition
Jerrold Green
President and Chief Executive Officer, Pacific Council on International Policy
Heather Hurlburt
Director, New Models of Policy Change, New America
Rachel Kleinfeld
Senior Fellow, Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
François Lafond
Special Adviser to the Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs, Republic of North Macedonia
Paz Magat
Director, Peace With Women Fellowship, Halifax International Security Forum
C. Dixon Osburn
Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Roland Paris
Professor of International Affairs, University of Ottawa
Luis Rubio
Member of the Board of Directors, HFX;Chairman, Mexico-Evalua;Former Chairman, Mexican Council on Foreign Relations
Chris Sabatini
Senior Fellow for Latin America, Chatham House
Randy Scheunemann
Strategic Counselor, Halifax International Security Forum
Robin Shepherd
Vice President, Halifax International Security Forum
Janice Stein
Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management and Founding Director, The Munk School, University of Toronto
Peter Van Praagh
President, Halifax International Security Forum
Kurt Volker
Senior International Advisor, Advisory Board Member, BGR Group
W. Bruce Weinrod
Adjunct Professor, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Plenary Sessions
- After the Fall –
- The Next 9/11: From Kabul or From California (or from some lab we haven’t heard of yet)? –
- W.W.J.M.D? (What would John McCain do?)–
- #StandTogetherOnChina
- Post-Pandemic: Heed Expectations, Heal Globalization
- Fires and Landslides and Droughts, Oh My!
- China’s Quantum Leap Backward
- –Keep the Faith
Informal Sessions
- Afghanistan: Why?
- The African Century
- Arctic Allies: Warm Up
- At the Summit of Democracy
- Battlespace: Tech
- Belarus Hijacked
- Caribbean Matters
- Climate, Climate, Blah, Blah, Blah: Dealing with Bad Faith Actors
- Corruption: Corrosive
- Culture Change: Making Militaries Stronger
- Forward Defense: Ameri-can or Ameri-can’t
- France + Aukus = Fracas
- Geopolitics Today: Toward Tech Mate
- The Importance of Indo-Pacom
- NATO’s Winning, Russia’s Whining
- Private Space
- Quad: Join the Q
- Refugees: Lessons from “None is Too Many”
- Supply Chain Solutions: Rare Earth Recycled
- Taiwan Strong
- Taliban’s Survival, Global Jihad’s Revival
- Tracking Hacking: AI, Quantum and Whatever Else Comes Next
- Ukraine: Liberty on the Line
- Without Merkel: Europe and the Future of Transatlantic Relations
- Xinjiang: Genocide 2022
Fatima Akilu
Executive Director, NEEM Foundation, Nigeria
Farea Al Muslimi
Chairman and Co-Founder, Sana'a Center for Strategic Studies, Yemen
Raed al-Saleh
Co-Founder and Director, Syria Civil Defence, Turkey
Fauziya Ali
Founder and President, Women In International Security Kenya; Chair, Sisters without Borders, Kenya
Anita Anand
Minister of National Defence, Department of National Defence, Canada
Antony Anderson
Commissioner of Police, Jamaica Constabulary Force, Jamaica
James Appathurai
Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges, NATO, Canada
John Aquilino
Commander, United States Indo-Pacific Command, United States
Michael Arthur
President, Boeing International, United Kingdom
Michael Auslin
Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow in Contemporary Asia, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, United States
Tariq Shah Bahramee
Former Minister of Defense, Ministry of Defense, Afghanistan, Afghanistan
James Baker
Director, Office of Net Assessment, United States Department of Defense, United States
Falah Bakir
Senior Foreign Policy Adviser to the President, Kurdistan Regional Government, Kurdistan Region - Iraq
Mustafa Barghouti
Secretary General and Co- Founder, Palestinian National Initiative, Palestine
Lale Bartoschek
Chief of Branch Recruitment, Federal Ministry of Defence, German Armed Forces, Germany 2019 Peace With Women Fellow
Rob Bauer
Chair of the Military Committee, NATO, Netherlands
Oscar Becerra
Director, Global Due Diligence Program and Senior Manager, Citi Security and Investigative Services, Member, Colectivo de Análisis de la Seguridad con Democracia, Mexico
Benedetta Berti-Alberti
Head, Policy Planning, Office of the Secretary General, NATO, Italy
Peter Beyer
Coordinator of Transatlantic Cooperation, Federal Foreign Office; Member, Bundestag, Germany
Ajay Bisaria
High Commissioner of India to Canada, High Commission of India to Canada, India
Biljana Blazheska
Colonel, Military Adjutant to the President of the Republic of North Macedonia, North Macedonia 2021 Peace With Women Fellow
Peter Boehm
Senator for Ontario, Senate, Canada
Elanor Boekholt- O'Sullivan
Major General, Netherlands Armed Forces, Netherlands 2019 Peace With Women Fellow
Krista Bouckaert
Colonel, Director, Canadian Forces Grievance Authority, Department of National Defence, Canada 2021 Peace With Women Fellow
Catherine Bourdès
Brigadier General, Deputy Director of French Higher Military Education Directorate for Higher Military Studies, France 2021 Peace With Women Fellow
Darrell Bricker
CEO, Ipsos Public Affairs, Canada
Laura Bridge
Managing Director, HFX, United States
Scott Brison
Vice-Chair of Investment and Corporate Banking, BMO Capital Markets, Canada
Ian Brodie
Program Director, Canadian Global Affairs Institute and University of Calgary, Canada
Katherine Brucker
Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of the United States in Ottawa, United States
Matthew Bryza
Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Din Patriciu Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council, United States
Bettina Cadenbach
Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy, NATO, Germany
Leslie Campbell
Senior Associate and Regional Director, Middle East and North Africa Programs, National Democratic Institute, Canada
Gilles Carbonnier
Vice-President, International Committee of the Red Cross, Switzerland
Scott Carpenter
Director, Policy and International Engagement, Jigsaw, United States
Joyce Carter
President and CEO, Halifax International Airport Authority; Chair, Canadian Airports Council, Canada
Nancy Chahwan
Senior Associate Deputy Minister of National Defence, Department of National Defence, Canada
Steven Chase
Senior Parliamentary Reporter, The Globe and Mail, Canada
Byung-Ho Chung
Professor, Hanyang University, Republic of Korea
Richard Clarke
Commander, United States Special Operations Command, United States
Eliot Cohen
Director, Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, United States
J. Michael Cole
Chief Editor and Research Fellow, The Prospect Foundation, Taiwan
Maia Comeau
Founder, Keeper of the Commons, United States
Hélène Conway-Mouret
Senator, Senate, France
James Coomarasamy
Senior Presenter, BBC Radio and World Service, United Kingdom
Chris Coons
Senator from Delaware, United States Senate, United States
Alexander Dalziel
Director, Geopolitics and National Security Programme, Canada School of Public Service, Canada
Arnaud Danjean
Vice-Chair, Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats), European Parliament, France
Rick Davis
Partner, Stonecourt Capital, United States
Jennifer de Poorter
Colonel, G3 of the Operational Headquarters, Royal Marechaussee, Netherlands 2021 Peace With Women Fellow
Andrew Desiderio
Congressional Reporter, POLITICO, United States
Louise des Jardins
Group Captain, Director Joint Effects / J3E, Royal Australian Air Force, Australia 2021 Peace With Women Fellow
Paula Dobriansky
Senior Fellow, Future of Diplomacy Project, Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, United States
Onno Eichelsheim
Chief of Defence, Netherlands Armed Forces, Netherlands
Mai El-Sadany
Managing Director; Legal and Judicial Director, The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, United States
Erinç Evren Elmas
Colonel, Cost Analysis Commission Leader, Air Logistics Command, Turkish Air Force, Turkey 2021 Peace With Women Fellow
Süleyman Savaş Erdem
CEO, OYAK, Turkey
Joni Ernst
Senator from Iowa, United States Senate, United States
Comfort Ero
Interim Vice President and Program Director, Africa, International Crisis Group, United Kingdom
Norbert Eschborn
Director, Canada Office, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V., Canada
Wayne Eyre
Acting Chief of the Defence Staff, Canadian Armed Forces, Canada
Richard Fadden
Chair of the Strategic Advisory Council, AGDA Group; Senior Advisor, Capital Hill Group; Senior Fellow, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, Canada
Paul Fagan
Director for Human Rights and Democracy Programs, McCain Institute for International Leadership, United States
Renée Filiatrault
Former Director of Communications, Minister of National Defence; Advisory Board, Network for Strategic Analysis on Defence and Security, Canada
Andy Fillmore
Member of Parliament for Halifax, House of Commons, Canada
Andrew Fishbein
Head of Policy Relations, HFX, United States
Richard Florizone
President and CEO, International Institute for Sustainable Development, Canada
Robert Fonberg
Distinguished Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, Canada
Richard Fontaine
CEO, Center for a New American Security, United States
Spencer Forgo
Member, Office of the Chair, ATCO, Canada
Liam Fox
Member of Parliament, House of Commons , United Kingdom
Bruce Friedman
Deputy Director, Office of Brazilian and Southern Cone Affairs, United States Department of State, United States
Matthias Gebauer
Chief Correspondent, Der Spiegel, Germany
Donika Gërvalla- Schwarz
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Government of the Republic of Kosovo, Republic of Kosovo
Rob Gillies
Canada Bureau Chief, Associated Press, Canada
John Glenn
Senior Director, International Forum for Democratic Studies, National Endowment for Democracy, United States
Mark Goldberg
Editor-in-Chief, UN Dispatch, United States
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović
4th President, Government of the Republic of Croatia, Republic of Croatia
Katherine Graef
Colonel (retired), United States Special Operations Command, United States 2018 Peace With Women Fellow
Michael Grant
Assistant Deputy Minister for the Americas, Global Affairs Canada, Canada
Jerrold Green
President and CEO, Pacific Council on International Policy, United States
Mike Greenley
CEO, MDA, Canada
Gordan Grlić-Radman
Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Government of the Republic of Croatia, Republic of Croatia
Jean-Marie Guéhenno
Arnold Saltzman Professor of Practice, School of International and Public Affairs; Director, Kent Program on Conflict Resolution, Columbia University, France
Yalda Hakim
Presenter, Impact, BBC World News, Afghanistan
Patrick Hamilton
Head of Regional Delegation for the United States and Canada, International Committee of the Red Cross, United States
Sharon Hardie
Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
Jürgen Hardt
Foreign Policy Spokesman, CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group, Bundestag, Germany
Jane Harman
Former Director; Distinguished Fellow and President Emerita, Wilson Center, United States
Jan Havránek
Deputy Minister for Defence Policy and Strategy, Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces, Czech Republic
Paul Hayes
Acting Manager for Advanced Manufacturing and Business Services, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, Canada
France Hébert
Vice-President and General Manager, CAE Defence and Security Canada, Canada
Chris Henderson
Deputy Commissioner, Operations, Canadian Coast Guard, Canada
Victoria Hermann
White House Fellow, United States Coast Guard, United States
Mark Hetfield
President and CEO, HIAS, United States
Kirsten Hillman
Ambassador of Canada to the United States, Embassy of Canada in the United States, Canada
Joseph Hockey
President and Founder, Bondi Partners; 25th Ambassador of Australia to United States, Australia
Sarí Houston
Event Manager, HFX, United States
Tim Houston
Premier, Nova Scotia, Canada
Szu-chien Hsu
Deputy Secretary-General, National Security Council, Taiwan
Heather Hurlburt
Director, New Models of Policy Change, New America, United States
Iko Ibanga
Founder and CEO, Pro-Health International, Nigeria
Dolkun Isa
President, World Uyghur Congress, Germany
Kimihiro Ishikane
Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations, United Nations, Japan
Josef Joffe
Publisher and Editor, Die Zeit; Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Germany
Tim Kaine
Senator from Virginia, United States Senate, United States
W. Robert Kang
CEO, Blue Whale Materials, United States
Lisa Kaplan
Founder and CEO, Alethea Group, United States
Vladimir Kara-Murza
Vice President, Free Russia Foundation, Russia
Valery Kavaleuski
Chief of the Cabinet and Representative on Foreign Affairs, Office of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Belarus
Yasuhisa Kawamura
Ambassador of Japan to Canada, Embassy of Japan in Ottawa, Japan
Jānis Kažociņš
National Security Adviser to the President of Latvia; Secretary, National Security Council, Latvia
Laurie-Anne Kempton
Assistant Deputy Minister, Public Affairs, Department of National Defence, Canada
Roderich Kiesewetter
Member, Bundestag, Germany
James Kirchick
Visiting Fellow, The Brookings Institution, United States
Suat Kınıklıoğlu
Senior Fellow, Center for Applied Turkey Studies, Turkey
Mary Kolars
Female Tactical Platoon Lead Advisor, United States Army, United States
Courtney Kube
Correspondent, National Security and the Pentagon, NBC News, United States
Batu Kutelia
Board Member, Atlantic Council of Georgia; Next Generation Leader Fellow, The McCain Institute for International Leadership, Georgia
François Lafond
Special Adviser, Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self-Government, Republic of Serbia, France
Maria Laine
Vice President, International Business Development, Boeing, United States
Eli Lake
President, ATCO Frontec, Canada
Nico Lange
Chief of Executive Staff, Federal Ministry of Defence, Germany
John Lee
Adjunct Professor, University of Sydney; Senior Fellow (non-resident), United States Studies Centre, Hudson Institute, Australia
Katherine Lee
Colonel, Assistant Chief of Army (Delivery), New Zealand Defence Force, New Zealand 2021 Peace With Women Fellow
Eric Levesque
COO and Co-Founder, Strider, United States
Greg Levesque
CEO and Co-Founder, Strider, United States
Chen-wei Lin
CEO, Institute for National Defense and Security Research, Taiwan
Justin Ling
Freelance Journalist, Canada
Mark Lippert
Head of Government Affairs and Public Policy, YouTube Asia Pacific; Senior Advisor (Non-resident) and Korea Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies, United States
Bořek Lizec
Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Canada, Embassy of the Czech Republic in Ottawa, Czech Republic
Debra Lovette
Brigadier General, Director, Integrated Resilience Headquarters United States Air Force United States 2019 Peace With Women Fellow
Jawed Ludin
Co-founder and President, Heart of Asia Society, Afghanistan
Kendra MacDonald
CEO, Ocean’s Supercluster, Canada
Kent MacDonald
President and CEO, Northwood University, Canada
John MacDonell
Partner, Spiteri & Ursulak LLP, Canada
Peter MacKay
Senior Advisor, Deloitte Canada, Canada
Aaron MacLean
Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, United States
Ram Madhav
National General Secretary, Bharatiya Janata Party; Member of the Governing Board, India Foundation, India
Paz Magat
Director, Peace With Women Fellowship, HFX, United States
Chuck Maillet
Vice-President, Nova Scotia, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, Canada
Michael Manazir
Vice President, Boeing Global Services Business Development, United States
Solange Márquez
Vice President, Mexican Council on Foreign Relations; Professor of Law, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
Lysane Martel
Colonel, Director, RCAF Professional Development, 2nd Canadian Air Division, Royal Canadian Air Force, Canada 2019 Peace With Women Fellow
Roman Mashovets
Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine
Steve Matier
President and CEO, Maritime Launch Services Ltd., Canada
Liam Maxwell
Director, Government Transformation, Amazon Web Services, United Kingdom
Stephan Mayer
Parliamentary State Secretary for the Interior, Building, and Community, Bundestag, Germany
Bill McCaffrey
President, McCaffrey Enterprises, Canada
Cindy McCain
Ambassador, United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture, United States
Michelle McGuinness
Deputy Director for Commonwealth Integration, Defence Intelligence Agency, Australia
Sarah McLean
Vice President, Communication and Corporate Affairs, Maritime Launch Services Ltd., Canada
Walter Russell Mead
Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship, Hudson Institute, United States
Rocky Meade
Chief of Defence Staff, Jamaica Defence Force, Jamaica
Armend Mehaj
Minister of Defense, Government of the Republic of Kosovo, Republic of Kosovo
Jonathan Meretsky
Managing Director, Merit House, Canada
Monika Mertinaitė
Lieutenant Colonel, Senior Advisor, Defense Policy Group, Ministry of National Defense, Lithuania 2021 Peace With Women Fellow
Mauricio Meschoulam
Founder and Director, Mexico Research Center for Peace, Mexico
Jeanne Meserve
Security Analyst, Canada's CTV News; Member, Homeland Security Experts Group; Transatlantic Commission on Election Integrity, United States
Ia Meurmishvili
Senior Editor, Voice of America, Georgia, United States
Ayman Mhanna
Executive Director, Samir Kassir Foundation, Lebanon
Suneeta Millington
Director General, International Security Policy, Government of Canada, Canada
Manuel Molano
Economist, Libertres, Mexico
Duane Monea
Senator, University of Calgary, Canada
Diana Morais
Lieutenant Colonel, Senior Advisor to the Minister of National Defense, Ministry of National Defense, Portugal 2021 Peace With Women Fellow
Mouaz Moustafa
Executive Director, Syrian Emergency Task Force, United States
Jeff Mullen
Director, Enterprise Development, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, Canada
Vago Muradian
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Defense & Aerospace Report, United States
Pauline Neville-Jones
Member, House of Lords; Patron, Cyber Security Challenge, United Kingdom
Yasushi Noguchi
Director General for International Affairs, Defense Policy Bureau, Ministry of Defense, Japan
Jacqueline O'Neill
Ambassador for Women, Peace, and Security, Government of Canada, Canada
Tolu Ogunlesi
Special Assistant to the President of Nigeria on Digital and New Media, Government of Nigeria, Nigeria
Nancy Okail
Visiting Scholar, Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Stanford University, United States
Japheth Omojuwa
Founder, Alpha Reach; Author, Digital: The New Code of Wealth, Nigeria
Vjosa Osmani-Sadriu
President, Republic of Kosovo
Paul Owens
Manager, Special Initiatives, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, Canada
Anatolii Petrenko
Deputy Minister of Defence of Ukraine for European Integration
Roland Paris
Professor of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa; Associate Fellow, Chatham House, Canada
Smadar Perry
Senior Editor for Middle East Affairs, Yediot Ahronot, Israel
J. Peter Pham
Distinguished Fellow, Africa Center, Africa Atlantic Council; Former Special Envoy for the Sahel Region of Africa, US Department of State, United States
MaryLee Pollitt
Senior Government Affairs Manager, General Atomics - Aeronautical Systems, United States
President Petro Poroshenko
5th President of Ukraine
Robert Quinn
Director, Customer Mission Executive, MDA, Canada
Ben Renda
Director of Trust and Safety, Google, United States
Jason Rezaian
Global Opinions Writer, The Washington Post, United States
Peter Ricketts
President and Vice-Chancellor, Acadia University, Canada
Thomas Riisom
Partner, National Leader, Defence, Deloitte, Canada
Jim Risch
Senator from Idaho, United States Senate, United States
Colin Robertson
Vice President and Fellow, Canadian Global Affairs Institute, Canada
Sean Roche
Director, National Security, Amazon Web Services, United States
Mike Rogers
CEO, The MSRogers Group LLC, United States
Josh Rogin
Columnist, The Washington Post, United States
Rafal Rohozinski
Co-Founder and Principal, The SecDev Group, Canada
Luis Rubio
Chairman, Mexico-Evalua; Former Chairman, Mexican Council on Foreign Relations Mexico
Christopher Sabatini
Senior Fellow for Latin America, Chatham House, United States
Lobsang Sangay
Former President, Central Tibetan Administration, Tibet
Andrei Sannikov
Chairman, European Belarus Foundation, Belarus
Brian Santarpia
Commander, Joint Task Force Atlantic, Canadian Armed Forces, Canada
Friba Sabrina Saqeb
Co-Founder, Technical Advisor, Research Institute for Women, Peace and Security, Afghanistan
Luiza Savage
Executive Director, Editorial Initiatives, POLITICO, United States
Mike Savage
Mayor, City of Halifax, Canada
Randy Scheunemann
Strategic Counselor, HFX; Vice Chairman, International Republican Institute, United States
Nick Schifrin
Foreign Affairs and Defense Correspondent, PBS NewsHour, United States
Hans-Jakob Schindler
Senior Director, Counter Extremism Project, Germany
Christian Schmidt
Member, Bundestag, Germany
Gary Schmitt
Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute, United States
Karl Schultz
Commandant, United States Coast Guard, United States
Nick Sealy-Thompson
Director, Disaster and Emergency Management, ATCO Frontec, Canada
Daouda Sembene
Non-Resident Fellow, Center for Global Development, Senegal
Peter Semneby
Special Envoy of Foreign Ministry of the Kingdom of Sweden for Yemen and Libya, Embassy of Sweden, Sweden
Vance Serchuk
Executive Director and Managing Director, KKR Global Institute, United States
Jeanne Shaheen
Senator from New Hampshire, United States Senate, United States
Fiona Shepherd
Captain, Assistant Head, Defence Logistic Operations and Plans, Defence Support Operations, British Royal Navy, United Kingdom 2019 Peace With Women Fellow
Robin Shepherd
Vice President, HFX, United Kingdom
Kamila Sidiqi
CEO and Founder, Kaweyan Group of Companies, Afghanistan
Vasil Sikharulidze
Chairman, Atlantic Council of Georgia , Georgia
Bright Simons
President, mPedigree, Ghana
Anna Siverstig
Colonel, Head of Division CIMIC and Arms Control (ACOS J9), Joint Forces Command, HQ, Stockholm, Sweden 2021 Peace With Women Fellow
Milan Solár
First Vice-President, GLOBSEC, Slovak Republic
Nancy Southern
Chair and CEO, ATCO Ltd. and Canadian Utilities Limited, Canada
Sabine Sparwasser
Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Canada, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Ottawa, Germany
Henning Speck
National Security Advisor, CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group, Germany
Janice Stein
Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management and Founding Director, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, Canada
Gerald Steinberg
President and Founder, Institute for NGO Research; Professor, Political Studies, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Constanze Stelzenmüller
Fritz Stern Chair and Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution, Germany
Robert Summerby- Murray
President, Saint Mary's University, Canada
Yun Sun
Director, China Program; Senior Fellow and Co-Director, East Asia Program, Stimson Center, China
Michael Svetlik
Vice President, Programs, International Foundation for Electoral Systems, United States
Nicolas Tenzer
Chairman, Center for the Study and Research on Political Decision; Editor, Le Banquet, France
Judith Terry
Commodore, Deputy Director People, British Royal Navy, United Kingdom 2021 Peace With Women Fellow
Jody Thomas
Deputy Minister of National Defence, Department of National Defence, Canada
David Thompson
Vice Chief of Space Operations, United States Space Force, United States
Emre Timurkan
CEO, Almatis GmbH, Germany, Turkey
Hideshi Tokuchi
President, Research Institute for Peace and Security; Visiting Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan
Patrick Tucker
Technology Correspondent, Defense One, United States
Malcolm Turnbull
Global Senior Advisor, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Australia
Daniel Twining
President, International Republican Institute, United States
Peter Van Praagh
President, HFX, United States
Ella Vanderzyl
Government Affairs Manager, General Atomics - Aeronautical Systems, United States
Róbert Vass
President, GLOBSEC, Slovak Republic
Carlos Vecchio
Ambassador of Venezuela to United States, National Assembly, Venezuela
Gordon Venner
Member of the Board of Directors, Conference of Defence Associations Institute, Canada
Kurt Volker
Distinguished Fellow, CEPA; Senior International Advisor, BGR Group, United States
Alex Ward
National Security Reporter, POLITICO, United States
Annika Weikinnis
Project Manager, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Canada Office, Germany
W. Bruce Weinrod
Adjunct Professor, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, United States
Kenneth Weinstein
Walter P. Stern Distinguished Fellow, Hudson Institute, United States
Roger Wicker
Senator from Mississippi, United States Senate, United States
Danielle Willis
Colonel, Commander, 93d Air Ground Operations Wing, United States 2021 Peace With Women Fellow
Taylor Wilson
Nuclear Physicist, University of Nevada, Reno, United States
Peter Wright
Development Officer, Aerospace and Defence, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, Canada
Dov Zakheim
Senior Adviser, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Senior Fellow, CNA Corporation, United States
Isadora Zubillaga
Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Interim Government of Venezuela, Venezuela