2011 Halifax International Security Forum

Participants

Zaffar Abbas
Editor-in-Chief, Dawn
Stéphane Abrial
Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, NATO
Said Abu-Ali
Minister of the Interior, Palestinian National Authority
Mohammed Abu Lahoum
Head, Justice and Building Party, Yemen
Nazanin Afshin-Jam
President and Co-Founder, Stop Child Executions
Ho-Young Ahn
Ambassador at Large for G20 and Deputy Minister of Trade, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Mobashar Jawed Akbar
Editorial Director, India Today
Payam Akhavan
Associate Professor, McGill University
Rinat Akhmetshin
Director, International Eurasian Institute for Economic and Political Research
Mohammad Al Abdallah
Founder, Committee for Families of Political Prisoners
Rafat Al-Akhali
Co-Founder & Executive Director, Resonate! Yemen
Hakan Altinay
Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Antony Anderson
Chief of Defence Staff, Jamaica Defence Force
James Appathurai
Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy, NATO
Benjamin Armbruster
National Security Editor, ThinkProgress.org
Scott Armstrong
Member of Parliament, Parliament of Canada
Neyla Arnas
Senior Research Fellow, National Defense University
Shlomo Avineri
Professor of Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Yusuf Azim
Client Services Director, Capitalize LLC
Kenneth Baer
Senior Advisor & Associate Director for Communications and Strategic Planning, White House Office of Management and Budget
Ehud Barak
Minister of Defense and Deputy Prime Minister, Israel
Jennifer Barrett
Office of Senator Mark Udall
Brook Barrington
Deputy Secretary of Defence (Policy and Planning), New Zealand
Daniela Bassan
Partner and Board Member, Stewart McKelvey
David Bercuson
Senior Research Fellow, Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute, University of Calgary
Jean Betermier
Advisor to the President and CEOs, European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS)
Scott Blackburn
Director LCS and Program Development, General Dynamic Bath Iron Works
Shella Blackburn
Peter Boehm
Ambassador, Embassy of Canada
Ray Boisvert
Assistant Director, Intelligence, Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS)
Luvsanvandan Bold
Minister of Defense, Ministry of Defense, Mongolia
Charles Bouchard
Combined Joint Task Force Commander, Operation Unified Protector, NATO
Darrell Bricker
Chief Executive Officer, Ipsos Public Affairs
Yves Brodeur
Permanent Representative to NATO, Canada
Ian Brodie
Strategic Advisor, Inter-American Development Bank
Peter Brodnitz
Principal, Benenson Strategy Group
Christian Brose
Foreign Policy and National Security Advisor, Office of Senator John McCain
George Brown
Head of North America & Asia Pacific Department, International Relations Division, Office of the Undersecretary of Defence
Shari Bryan
Vice President, The National Democratic Institute
Joshua Busby
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin
Munkhjargal Byamba
Chief, Office of the Minister of Defense, Mongolia
Mark Cameron
Director, Global Public Policy, Research in Motion Ltd.
Leslie Campbell
Senior Associate and Regional Director, Middle East and North Africa Programs, The National Democratic Institute
Gordon Campbell
High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Canadian High Commission
Francisco Carlos Modesto
Deputy of Strategic Intelligence Department, Ministry of Defense, Brazil
Scott Carpenter
Principal, Google Ideas
Blaise Cathcart
Judge Advocate General, Canadian Armed Forces
Stephen Chan
Professor of International Relations, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Edward Chow
Senior Fellow, Energy Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Tom Clark
Chief Political Correspondent, Global National News
Steve Clemons
Senior Fellow, American Strategy Program, New America Foundation
Robert Cléroux
Chief Warrant Officer, Canadian Armed Forces
David Collenette
Senior Counsellor-Public Affairs, Hill & Knowlton
J.C. Collin
Deputy Commander, Canada Command
Nusret Cömert
Chairman of the Board, PETFORM
Paul Cornish
Professor of International Security, University of Bath
Ronald Covais
Senior Partner, Détente Group
Steve Covington
International Affairs Advisor to the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, NATO
P.S. Das
Executive Council, Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses
Gregory David
CEO, GRI Capital
Pieter De Crem
Minister of Defense, Ministry of Defense, Belgium
Francis Delon
Secretary General for National Defense, Office of the Prime Minister, France
Raghida Dergham
Columnist and Senior Diplomatic Correspondent, Al Hayat
André Deschamps
Chief of the Air Staff, Royal Canadian Air Force
Karen DeYoung
Associate Editor, Washington Post
Allen Dillon
Executive VP, Defence and Aerospace, Bluedrop
Paula Dobriansky
Senior Vice President and Global Head of Government & Regulatory Affairs, Thomson Reuters
Gary Doer
Ambassador of Canada to the United States,
Dan Dugas
Director General, Communications and Marketing, Transport Canada
Paul Eaton
Senior Advisor, National Security Network
David Ellis
Regional Chaplain, The Atlantic Jewish Council
Charles Emmerson
Senior Research Fellow, Energy, Environment and Development Programme, Chatham House
Mieke Eoyang
National Security Director, Third Way
Robert Evershed
Principal, Prospectus Associates
Julian Fantino
Associate Minister of National Defence, Department of National Defence, Canada
Dean Fealk
Partner and Group Chair, DLA Piper
Mary Fetchet
Founding Director, Voices of September 11th
Helga Flores Trejo
Foreign Policy Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Robert Fonberg
Deputy Minister of National Defence, Department of National Defence, Canada
Johannha Mendelson Forman
Senior Associate, Center for Strategic & International Studies
Liam Fox
Member of Parliament, British Parliament
Ulf Gartzke
Director, Washington Office, Hanns-Seidel-Foundation
Jennifer Gearey
Director of Communications, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
Mike Geiger
Chief Operating Officer, CEO
Francois Géré
Director, French Institute for Strategic Analysis
Amos Gilad
Director, Policy and Political Military Affairs, Ministry of Defense, Israel
Scott Gilmore
Founder and Executive Director, Peace Dividend Trust
John Glenn
Policy Director, U.S. Global Leadership Coalition
Jean-François Godbout
Major, Canadian Army
Diba Nigar Göksel
Editor-in-Chief, Turkish Policy Quarterly
Thomas Gomart
Director for Strategic Development, Institut Français des Relations Internationales
Joanisval Gonçalves
Senior Counselor on Foreign Affairs and Defense, Senate of Brazil
Marc Goodman
Senior Fellow, Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
David Gough
Chair, Atlantic Chapter, American Chamber of Commerce in Canada
Ladislav Graber
Defense Attaché, Ministry of Defense, Republic of Slovenia
Bill Graham
Chairman, The Atlantic Council of Canada
Camille Grand
Executive Director, The Foundation for Strategic Research
Mike Greenley
Vice President, General Dynamics Canada Limited
Maryscott Greenwood
Executive Director, Canadian American Business Council
Ken Gude
Managing Director of the National Security and International Policy Program, Center for American Progress
Kristin Haffert
Principal, Haffert Global
Joe Hall
Vice President, Halifax International Security Forum
Allison Hart
Information Officer, US & Canada, Public Diplomacy Division, NATO
Michael Hastings
Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone
Doug Hattaway
President, Hattaway Communications
Laurie Hawn
MP, Edmonton-Centre, Parliament of Canada
Kerry Healey
President, Friends of the Public-Private Partnership for Justice Reform in Afghanistan
Kevron Henry
Major, Jamaica Defense Force
Peter Hogan
Vice President, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, Nova Scotia
James Hoge
Chairman, Human Rights Watch
Thomas Homberg
Corporate Vice-President, Head of Strategic Coordination, EADS
Matthew Mark Horn
Co-Executive Director, American Jewish Congress
Nadim Houry
Deputy Director of the Middle East and North Africa Division, Human Rights Watch
Andrew House
Chief of Staff, Public Safety Canada
Gerald Howarth
Minister for International Security Strategy, Ministry of Defence, United Kingdom
Sotiraq Hroni
Executive Director, Institute for Democracy and Mediation
Peter Hughes
Executive Director, The Potsdam Foundation
Rex Hughes
Visiting Fellow, Cyber Security, Wolfson College, Cambridge University
Swanee Hunt
Chair, Institute for Inclusive Security
Heather Hurlburt
Executive Director, National Security Network
Ravic Huso
Political Advisor, Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, NATO
Masafumi Ishii
Ambassador of Policy Planning and International Security Policy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan
Oscar Izurieta
Undersecretary of Defense, Ministry of National Defense, Chile
Bruce Jackson
Founder and President, Project on Transitional Democracies
David Jacobson
United States Ambassador to Canada, Embassy of the United States of America, Canada
Charles Jacoby, Jr.
Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command and United States Northern Command
Ramin Jahanbegloo
Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto
Jackson Janes
Executive Director, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies
Tom Jarmyn
Director of Parliamentary Affairs, Public Safety Canada
Said Jawad
Chief Executive Officer, Capitalize LLC
Ljubica Jelušič
Minister of Defense, Ministry of Defense, Slovenia
Brian Jenkins
Senior Advisor, RAND Corporation
Peter Jennings
Deputy Secretary for Strategy, Australian Department of Defence
Markus Kaim
Head of International Security Program, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik
Brian Katulis
Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Jonathan Kay
Columnist, National Post
Patrick Keller
Coordinator, Foreign and Security Policy, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
Ariel Kenet
Kai Michael Kenkel
Assistant Professor, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Persis Khambatta
Fellow, Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Matthew King
Associate Deputy Minister of Defence, Department of National Defence, Canada
Suat Kınıklıoğlu
AK Party Central Executive Board Member, Justice and Development Party, Turkey
Martin Klingst
Bureau Chief Washington DC, Die Zeit
Hans-Ulrich Klose
Deputy Chairperson of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany
Kathleen Koch
Author, Journalist
David Kramer
President, Freedom House
Chad Kreikemeier
Defense and Foreign Policy Advisor, Senator Jeanne Shaheen
Ján Kubiš
Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
David Kurtz
Managing Editor and Washington Bureau Chief, Talking Points Memo
Ron L’Esperance
Associate Consultant, CFN Consultants
Francois Lafond
Member of the Scientific Committee, Institute of European Democrats
Amer Latif
Visiting Fellow, Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Gérard Latulippe
President, Rights and Democracy
Paul LeBlanc
President, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
Peter Lichtenbaum
Partner, Covington & Burling LLP
Edward Lieberman
Kadri Liik
Director, International Centre for Defence Studies
David Luxton
Chairman, Allen-Vanguard Corporation
Brian Macdonald
Legislative Secretary, Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick
John MacDonell
Chief of Staff, Department of National Defence, Canada
Peter MacKay
Minister of National Defence, Department of National Defence, Canada
Victoria Mackay
Business Development Manager, Middle East Fellow, The Henry Jackson Society
George MacLean
Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, University of Manitoba
Paul Maddison
Commander Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Canadian Navy
Dan Mader
Chief of Staff, Associate Minister of National Defence, Canada
Ilgar Mammadov
Chairman, Republicanist Alternative (REAL) Movement, Azerbaijan
Bruno Marescaux
Advisor for International and Strategic Affairs, Office of the Secretary General for National Defense, France
John McCain
Senator, United States
Richard McGregor
Washington Bureau Chief, Financial Times
Jamie McIntyre
Newscaster, NPR
Alan Mendoza
Co-Founder and Executive Director, Henry Jackson Society
Jeanne Meserve
Homeland Security Correspondent, CNN
Leo Michel
Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute for National Strategic Studies-National Defense University
James Miley
Director, Government Relations, Cameco Corporation
Song Min-Soon
Member, National Assembly, South Korea
Michel Miraillet
Director for Strategic Affairs, Ministry of Defense, France
Esteves Modesto
György Molnár
Director General for Security Policy and NonProliferation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Hungary
Roger Mombourquette
Senior Vice President, Special Missions Operations & Training Division, Provincial Aerospace
Oliver Moore
Atlantic Bureau Chief, The Globe and Mail
Jeff Mullen
Director of Enterprise Development, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
Vago Muradian
Host, Defense News
Alireza Nader
International Policy Analyst, Rand Corporation
Filipe Nasser
Political Affairs Officer, Embassy of Brazil
Walter Natynczyk
Chief of the Defence Staff, Department of National Defence, Canada
Andrew Needs
New Zealand High Commissioner to Canada, New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Eric Nonacs
Vice President for Alliances and Partnerships, Skoll Global Threats Fund
Natalie Nougayrède
Diplomatic Correspondent, Le Monde
Kevin O’Shea
Minister, Political, Canadian Embassy, United States
Bernard O’Rourke
Senior Vice President, General Counsel, I.M.P. Group International Inc.
Dixon Osburn
Director, Law and Security Program, Human Rights First
Leon Panetta
Secretary of Defense, United States
Jay Paxton
Director of Communications, Department of National Defence, Canada
Anne Penketh
Program Director, British American Security Information Council (BASIC)
Tom Perriello
Former Representative, United States Congress
Smadar Perry
Middle East Senior Editor, Yediot Aharonot Daily
Carole Piovesan
Associate, McCarthy Tetrault
Yonca Poyraz Doğan
Diplomatic News Editor, Today’s Zaman Newspaper
Nili Priell
Arben Qirezi
Executive Director, Institute for Policy Support Research Analysis and Training (IMPAKT)
Ross Reid
Deputy Minister, Voluntary and Non-Profit Secretariat, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador
Stephen Rigby
National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, Privy Council Office, Canada
Colin Robertson
Vice President, Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute
John Rogers
Chief Executive Officer, Stewart McKelvey
Rafal Rohozinski
Principal, The SecDev Group
Leah Romero
Senior Manager, Chief Executives Organization
Gideon Rose
Editor, Foreign Affairs
Simone Roworth
Staff Officer, Australian Deputy Secretary Strategy
Craig Rowsell
Hill and Knowlton Canada
Daniel Runde
Director, Project on Prosperity and Development, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Tomoyuki Saito
Foreign Service Officer, Public Diplomacy Planning Division, Public Diplomacy Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
Paul Salem
Director, Carnegie Middle East Center, Lebanon
Konstantin Samofalov
Member of Parliament, National Assembly, Serbia
Jo-Anne Scharf
Regional Director, Nova Scotia, Public Safety
Randall Scheunemann
Owner and President, Orion Strategies
Ulrich Schlie
Director of Policy Planning and Advisory Staff, Federal Ministry of Defense, Germany
Daniela Schwarzer
Head of Research Division EU Integration, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik
Peter Semneby
EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus, Council of the European Union
Jeanne Shaheen
Senator, United States
Robin Shepherd
Director, International Affairs, Henry Jackson Society
Greg Sheridan
Foreign Editor, The Australian, The Weekend Australian
Mohammed Shtayyeh
Minister, Palestinian Economic Council for Development and Reconstruction
Vasil Sikharulidze
Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Democratic Republic of Georgia
Jill Sinclair
Assistant Deputy Minister of Defence, Department of National Defence, Canada
Donald Sinclair
Director General, Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada
Anne-Marie Slaughter
Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
Anton Smith
U.S. Consul General, U.S. Consulate General—Halifax
Milan Solar
Deputy Secretary General, Slovak Atlantic Commission
James Soligan
Director, Deloitte
John Spratt
Co-Chair, United States-Canada Permanent Joint Board on Defence
Elena Stefoi
Ambassador to Canada, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Romania
Barbara Stegemann
Founder, 7 Virtues Communications Group
Janice Stein
Director, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
Ray Sturgeon
Managing Senior Partner, CFN Consultants
Kazuo Sunaga
Director General for International Affairs, Ministry of Defense, Japan
Dragan Šutanovac
Minister of Defense, Ministry of Defense, The Republic of Serbia
Michael Svetlik
Vice President, Programs, IFES
Andrew Tabler
Next Generation Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Tadae Takubo
Vice President, Japanese Institute of National Fundamentals
Piragibe Tarrago
Brazilian Ambassador to Canada, Brazilian Embassy, Canada
Jeff Tasseron
Chief of Transformation organization, National Defence Headquarters
Chris Taylor
Chief Executive Officer, Mission Essential Personnel
Jonathan Tepperman
Managing Editor, Foreign Affairs
Marcia Terezinha
Ishaan Tharoor
Writer/Editor, Time Magazine/Global Spin
Eneken Tikk-Ringas
Legal Advisor and Scientist, NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence
Victor Toews
Minister of Public Safety, Public Safety Canada
Mark Udall
Senator, United States
Ludwig Van Der Veken
Secretary-General & Chief of the Cabinet, Ministry of Defense, Belgium
Peter Van Praagh
President, Halifax International Security Forum
Robert Vass
Secretary General, Slovak Atlantic Commission
Mauricio Velasquez
Defence Attaché, Ministry of Defense, Chile
Julian Ventura
Undersecretary for North American Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mexico
Erik Vilstrup Lorenzen
Ambassador, Royal Danish Embassy
John Vinocur
Columnist, International Herald Tribune
Kurt Volker
Managing Director, International, BGR Group
Paul von Maltzahn
Executive Vice-President, German Council on Foreign Relations
Christoph von Marschall
US Correspondent, Washington Bureau Chief, Tagesspiegel
Alexandr Vondra
Minister of Defense, Ministry of Defence, Czech Republic
Alexandre Vulic
Foreign Affairs Adviser, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France
Caroline Wadhams
Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
W. Bruce Weinrod
Distinguished Research Fellow, National Defense University
Jonathan Weisstub
Head of New Partnerships, Infrastructure Ontario
Michael Werz
Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Jon Western
Five Colleges Associate Professor of International Relations, Mount Holyoke and the Five Colleges, Inc.
Kathryn White
Executive-Director, United Nations Association in Canada
Joseph Whited
Congressional Liaison, United States Department of Defense
Alexis Wichowski
Media Analyst, US Mission to the United Nations, US Department of State
Joseph Wood
Senior Resident Fellow, The German Marshall Fund of the United States
Noboru Yamaguchi
Speical Adviser to the Cabinet, Professor of Strategy and Military History, National Defense Academy
Michael Yardley
Assistant Chief of Defence Staff, New Zealand Defence Force
Angelic Young
Manager of Policy Initiatives, The Institute for Inclusive Security
Nancy Youssef
Chief Pentagon Correspondent, McClatchy Newspapers
İslam Yusufi
Founder, Board Member, Analytica
Marcin Zaborowski
President, Polish Institute of International Affairs
Dov Zakheim
Senior Advisor and Senior Fellow, CSIS and CNA
Radwan Ziadeh
Co-Founder and Executive Director, Syrian Center for Political and Strategic Studies
Markus Ziener
Correspondent, Handelsblatt
Miriam Ziv
Ambassador of Israel to Canada, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Israel
Karl-Theodor Freiherr zu Guttenberg
Distinguished Statesman, Center for Strategic and International Studies

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