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2015 Halifax International Security Forum

2015 Halifax International Security Forum

Date
November 20-22, 2015
Participants
300

Agenda & Speakers

Friday, November 20
Saturday, November 21
Sunday, November 22

Participants
  • Mohammed Abulahoum
    Head
    Justice and Building Party, Yemen
  • Rinat Akhmetshin
    Director
    International Eurasian Institute
  • John Allen
    Co-Director, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence
    Brookings Institution
  • Gilberto Hernández Andreu
    Official Chief of the Secretariat of National Defense
    Secretary of National Defense, Mexico
  • Niels Annen
    Spokesman on Foreign Affairs
    SPD Parliamentary Group, Bundestag, Germany
  • Luca Bader
    Chief of Office to the Minister of Foreign Affairs
    Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italy
  • Joseph Bahout
    Visiting Scholar
    Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
  • James Baker
    Director of the Office of Net Assessment
    United States Office of the Secretary of Defense
  • Falah Mustafa Bakir
    Minister, Head of the Foreign Relations Department
    Kurdistan Regional Government
  • Christophe Balducchi
    Defence Attaché
    Embassy of France, Ottawa
  • Rafael Barak
    Ambassador of Israel to Canada
    Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Israel
  • Pavlo Barbul
    Director
    UkrOboronProm
  • Rania Barrak
    Assistant Professor in Military Higher Education
    Military Staff College and Institute of Internal Security Forces, Tunisia
  • John Barrasso
    Senator
    United States
  • Paul Baxter
    Senior Vice President, Operations and Chief Operating Officer
    Halifax International Airport Authority
  • Josef Bec̆vá̆r
    Chief of the General Staff
    Armed Forces of the Czech Republic
  • David Bercuson
    Director, Centre for Military and Strategic Studies
    University of Calgary
  • Danae Bezantakou
    Managing Director
    Navigator Shipping Consultants LTD
  • Giorgi Bokeria
    International Secretary
    United National Movement
  • Max Boot
    Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies
    Council on Foreign Relations
  • Kahina Bouagache
    Lawyer, Human Rights and Women’s Rights Activist
    Manaar Legal Consultancy
  • Stephen Bowes
    Commander of the Canadian Joint Operations Command
    Canadian Armed Forces
  • Ralf Brauksiepe
    Parliamentary State Secretary
    Federal Ministry of Defense, Germany
  • Darrell Bricker
    Chief Executive Officer
    Ipsos Public Affairs
  • Laura Bridge
    Director, External Relations
    Halifax International Security Forum
  • Scott Brison
    President
    Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
  • Christian Brose
    Majority Staff Director
    United States Senate Armed Services Committee
  • Kerry Buck
    Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council
    Joint Delegation of Canada to NATO
  • Ahmet Çalik
    President, Founder, and Chairman
    Çalik Holding
  • Leslie Campbell
    Senior Associate and Regional Director, Middle East and North Africa Programs
    National Democratic Institute
  • Cengiz Çandar
    Journalist
    Radikal and Al-Monitor
  • Scott Carpenter
    Director of Free Expression
    Google Ideas
  • Antonio Carpio
    Justice
    Supreme Court of the Philippines
  • Blaise Cathcart
    Judge Advocate General
    Canadian Armed Forces
  • Steven Chase
    Parliamentary Reporter
    The Globe & Mail
  • Rebecca Chavez
    Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Western Hemisphere Affairs
    United States Department of Defense
  • Tom Clark
    Chief Political Correspondent
    Global News
  • Steve Clemons
    Washington Editor-at-Large, The Atlantic
    Editor-in-Chief, AtlanticLIVE & QuartzLIVE
  • Eliot Cohen
    Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies
    Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
  • Ryan Colvert
    Senior Military Advisor, Senator Kaine
    United States Senate
  • Heather Conley
    Senior Vice President, Europe, Eurasia and the Arctic, and Director, Europe Programs
    Center for Strategic and International Studies
  • Gian Lorenzo Cornado
    Ambassador of Italy to Canada
    Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Italian Republic
  • Robert Davidson
    Canadian Military Representative to NATO
    Joint Delegation of Canada to NATO
  • Glenn Davidson
    Former Ambassador of Canada to Afghanistan and Syria
    Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development, Canada
  • Sławomir Dębski
    Director
    The Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding
  • Haki Demolli
    Minister
    Ministry for the Kosovo Security Force
  • Paul Dewar
    Former Member of Parliament, Ottawa Centre, Ontario
    House of Commons, Canada
  • Bob Dickie
    Principal
    The Dickie Group
  • Joseph DiSalvo
    Military Deputy Commander
    United States Southern Command
  • Paula Dobriansky
    Senior Fellow, The Future of Diplomacy Project
    Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University
  • Colin Dodds
    President Emeritus
    Saint Mary’s University
  • Peter Donolo
    Special Advisor on Communications and Intergovernmental Affairs
    Government of Ontario
  • Lyse Doucet
    Chief International Correspondent
    BBC World Service
  • Mehmet Ertuğrul Gürler
    Deputy Chairman
    Çalik Holding
  • Richard Fadden
    National Security Adviser to the Prime Minister
    Privy Council Office
  • Amr Farid
    Chairman’s Assistant for Foreign Affairs, and Chief of the International Relations Committee
    Al-Wasat Party
  • Dean Fealk
    Partner and Group Chair
    DLA Piper
  • Michael Fernandez
    Founder
    Summit Pioneer
  • Andy Fillmore
    Member of Parliament
    House of Commons, Canada
  • Robert Fonberg
    President
    AiREM Strategy Inc
  • Richard Fontaine
    President
    Center for a New American Security
  • John Forster
    Deputy Minister of National Defence
    Department of National Defence, Canada
  • Colin Freeze
    Reporter
    The Globe & Mail
  • Sophie Galarneau
    Director General of Public Affairs and Strategic Planning, Office of the Assistant Deputy Minister for Public Affairs
    Department of National Defence, Canada
  • Brian Gallant
    Premier
    New Brunswick
  • Jai Galliott
    Research Fellow, Indo-Pacific Defense
    University of New South Wales
  • Armando Garcia Rodriguez
    Chief Clerk
    Secretariat of the Navy, Mexico
  • Ulf Gartzke
    Managing Partner and Founder
    Spitzberg Partners LLC
  • Jennifer Gearey
    Former Director of Communications
    Department of National Defence and Department of Justice, Canada
  • Steven Giegerich
    Consul General
    United States Consulate General, Halifax
  • Rob Gillies
    Canada Bureau Chief
    Associated Press
  • Stephen Gilmore
    Head Australian Defence Staff, Washington
    Australian Defence Attache, Embassy of Australia
  • John Glenn
    Policy Director
    US Global Leadership Coalition
  • Diba Nigar Göksel
    Senior Analyst, Turkey and the South Caucasus
    International Crisis Group
  • Bill Gortney
    Commander
    North American Aerospace and Defense Command and United States Northern Command
  • Camille Grand
    Director
    Foundation for Strategic Research
  • Jerrold Green
    President and Chief Executive Officer
    Pacific Council on International Policy
  • Mike Greenley
    Vice President & General Manager
    CAE Inc.
  • Paul Grod
    President, Ukrainian Canadian Congress
    Vice President, Ukrainian World Congress
  • Mark Gwozdecky
    Assistant Deputy Minister, International Security and Political Affairs
    Global Affairs Canada
  • Yalda Hakim
    Presenter, Impact
    Correspondent, BBC World News
  • Joseph Hall
    Vice President
    Halifax International Security Forum
  • Husain Haqqani
    Director, South and Central Asia
    Hudson Institute
  • Fabienne Hara
    Adjunct Professor, Sciences Po Paris
    Special Adviser, Dakar International Forum on Peace and Security in Africa
  • Jane Harman
    Director, President, and Chief Executive Officer
    Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars
  • Harry Harris
    Commander
    United States Pacific Command
  • Michael Harris
    Reporter
    Ipolitics
  • Allison Hart
    Special Advisor, Public Diplomacy
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • Frank Harvey
    Eric Dennis Chair of Government and Politics, Department of Political Science
    Dalhousie University
  • Kent Hehr
    Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence
    Veterans Affairs Canada
  • Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert
    Minister of Defense
    Ministry of Defense, Kingdom of the Netherlands
  • Mark Hetfield
    President and Chief Executive Officer
    HIAS
  • Bruce Heyman
    Ambassador of the United States to Canada
    Embassy of the United States, Ottawa
  • Theresa Hitchens
    Senior Research Scholar, Center for International and Security Studies
    University of Maryland School of Public Policy
  • Peter Hogan
    Vice President, Nova Scotia
    Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
  • Ellen Hols
    Chief of Staff
    Office of the National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister
  • Matthew Mark Horn
    Principal
    MMH Global Strategies, LLC
  • Bob Howse
    Editor-in-Chief
    The Chronicle Herald
  • John Hudson
    Senior Reporter, National Security & Diplomacy
    Foreign Policy
  • Heather Hurlburt
    Director, New Models of Policy Advocacy Project
    New America Foundation
  • Nanna Hvidt
    Director
    Danish Institute for International Studies
  • Toshiro Iijima
    Ambassador in charge of Policy Planning and International Security Policy
    Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan
  • Yoko Iwama
    Professor
    National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
  • Annie Jacobsen
    Investigative Journalist and Author
  • Jackson Janes
    President
    American Institute for Contemporary German Studies
  • Cesar Jaramillo
    Executive Director
    Project Ploughshares
  • Said Jawad
    Senior Political and Foreign Policy Advisor
    Office of the Chief Executive of Afghanistan
  • Matthew Johnson
    Corporate Strategist, Aerospace and Defence
    Nova Scotia Department of Business
  • Zoran Jolevski
    Minister of Defence
    Ministry of Defence, Republic of Macedonia
  • Bill Jones
    Senior Associate Deputy Minister
    Department of National Defence, Canada
  • Christian Juneau
    Deputy Commander
    Canadian Army
  • Tim Kaine
    Senator
    United States
  • Matake Kamiya
    Professor of International Relations
    National Defense Academy of Japan
  • John Kavanagh
    Economic Development Manager
    Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
  • Garry Kasparov
    Chairman
    United Civil Front
  • Colin Kenny
    Senator, Province of Ontario
    Senate of Canada
  • Tinatin Khidasheli
    Minister of Defense
    Ministry of Defense, Georgia
  • James Kirchick
    Fellow
    Foreign Policy Initiative
  • Suat Kınıklıoğlu
    Executive Director
    Center for Strategic Communication
  • Kathleen Koch
    Author, Journalist, and Founder
    LeadersLink
  • Mimi Kodheli
    Minister of Defense
    Ministry of Defense, Republic of Albania
  • Akira Kono
    Director General for International Affairs, Bureau of Defense Policy
    Ministry of Defense, Japan
  • David Kramer
    Senior Director for Human Rights and Democracy
    The McCain Institute for International Leadership
  • John Kreul
    Principal Director, Western Hemisphere Affairs
    United States Department of Defense
  • Stephen Kukucha
    Principal
    Wazuku Advisory Group
  • François Lafond
    Executive Director
    EuropaNova
  • Philippe Lafortune
    Chief of Staff, Minister of National Defense
    Department of National Defense, Canada
  • Ellen Laipson
    Distinguished Fellow and President Emeritus
    Stimson Center
  • Isabelle Lasserre
    Associate Editor
    Le Figaro
  • John Lee
    Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
    Adjunct Professor, Australian National University
  • Justin Ling
    Canadian Politics Reporter
    VICE
  • Tzipi Livni
    Co-Leader, Zionist Union Party
    Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, State of Israel
  • Nicolás Lloreda-Ricaurte
    Ambassador of Colombia to Canada
    Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Colombia
  • Gal Luft
    Co-Director
    Institute for the Analysis of Global Security
  • Brian Macdonald
    Member of the Legislative Assembly
    New Brunswick Legislature
  • John MacDonell
    Barrister & Solicitor
    Stewart McKelvey
  • Peter MacKay
    Former Minister of Justice and Attorney General
    Department of Justice, Canada
  • Tim Mak
    Senior Congressional Correspondent
    The Daily Beast
  • Maryna Mavlonova
    Senior Policy Advisor
    Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, 8th Convocation
  • Art Mc Anarney
    Board Member
    Compañía Inversora Corporativa
  • Bill McCaffrey
    President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
    MEG Energy Corporation
  • Cindy McCain
    Co-Chair of the Arizona Task Force on Human Trafficking
    The McCain Institute for International Leadership
  • Kevin McCoy
    President
    Irving Shipbuilding Inc.
  • Cameron McKenzie
    Vice President, Business Development and Sales
    Canadian Commercial Corporation
  • Audrey McLaughlin
    Former Member of Parliament and former Leader of the New Democratic Party
    Canada
  • Stephen McNeil
    Premier
    Nova Scotia
  • Al Meinzinger
    Deputy Commander
    Royal Canadian Air Force
  • Gerson Menandro Garcia De Freitas
    Chief of Strategic Affairs of the Joint Staff
    Ministry of Defense, Federative Republic of Brazil
  • Murat Mercan
    Chair, 2016 World Energy Congress Organizing Committee
    World Energy Council
  • Mauricio Meschoulam
    Professor, Researcher, and International Analyst
    Universidad Iberoamericana
  • Jeanne Meserve
    Senior Fellow, Homeland Security Policy Institute
    George Washington University
  • Ayman Mhanna
    Executive Director
    Samir Kassir Foundation
  • Fred Midgette
    Special Flag Assistant to the Vice Commandant
    United States Coast Guard
  • Don Moe
    Senior Vice President, Supply and Marketing
    MEG Energy Corporation
  • Susmita Mohanty
    Founder and Chief Executive Officer
    Earth2Orbit
  • Saad Mohseni
    Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
    Moby Group
  • Bessma Momani
    Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
    University of Waterloo
  • Duane Monea
    Vice President, Public Relations
    MEG Energy Corporation
  • Mouaz Moustafa
    Executive Director
    Syrian Emergency Task Force
  • Yusuf Müftüoğlu
    Senior Advisor, Macro Advisory Partners
    Chief Executive Officer, Turkcell
  • Jeff Mullen
    Director of Enterprise Development
    Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
  • Yousef Munayyer
    Executive Director
    US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
  • Alaa Murabit
    Founder and President
    The Voice of Libyan Women
  • Christopher Murphy
    Senator
    United States
  • Boniface Mwangi
    Activist
    PAWA254
  • Walter Natynczyk
    Deputy Minister of Veteran Affairs
    Veterans Affairs Canada
  • Pauline Neville-Jones
    Chairman, Cyber Security Advisory Panel
    Bank of England
  • John Newton
    Commander, Maritime Forces Atlantic and Joint Task Force Atlantic
    Royal Canadian Navy
  • Masashi Nishihara
    President
    Research Institute for Peace and Security
  • Mark Norman
    Commander
    Royal Canadian Navy
  • Natalie Nougayrède
    Editorial Board Member and Columnist
    The Guardian
  • Jacqueline O’Neill
    Director
    The Institute for Inclusive Security
  • Tolu Ogunlesi
    West Africa Editor
    The Africa Report
  • Juozas Olekas
    Minister of National Defense
    Ministry of National Defense, Lithuania
  • John Ommanney
    Chief of Staff to the Deputy Minister
    Department of National Defence, Canada
  • Japheth Omojuwa
    Editor
    AfricanLiberty.org
  • Dixon Osburn
    Executive Director
    Center for Justice and Accountability
  • Paul Owens
    Manager, Special Initiatives
    Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
  • Ersin Özkan
    Military Attaché, Embassy of Turkey to Canada
    Ministry of Defense, Republic of Turkey
  • Cheolkyun Park
    Deputy Director for International Policy Bureau
    Ministry of National Defense, Republic of Korea
  • Petr Pavel
    Chairman of the Military Committee
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • Milica Pejanovic-Djurisic
    Minister of Defense
    Ministry of Defense, Montenegro
  • David Perkins
    Commanding General
    United States Army Training and Doctrine Command
  • Smadar Perry
    Middle East Senior Editor
    Yediot Ahronot
  • Ilya Ponomarev
    Deputy, Novosibirsk
    State Duma, Russian Federation
  • Nicole Porreca
    Senior Foreign Policy Advisor
    Senator Tim Kaine
  • Vadym Prystaiko
    Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chief of Staff of the Ministry
    Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
  • Stephen Puddicombe
    Journalist, CBC
    Adjunct Professor, University of King’s
  • Ahmed Rashid
    Author, Journalist
  • Jean-François Ratelle
    Assistant Professor
    University of Ottawa
  • Celina Realuyo
    Professor of Practice of National Security Affairs, William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies
    National Defense University
  • Sheila Riordon
    Minister of Political Affairs
    Embassy of Canada, Washington
  • Colin Robertson
    Vice President
    Canadian Global Affairs Institute
  • Nicolas Roche
    Director for Strategy and Policy, Military Applications Division
    French Atomic Energy Commission
  • Antonio Rodiles
    Director
    State of SATS
  • Heather Roff
    Research Scientist, Global Security Initiative
    Arizona State University
  • Michael Rogers
    Commander, United States Cyber Command
    Director, National Security Agency/Chief, Central Security Service
  • Joshua Rogin
    Columnist
    Bloomberg View
  • Gideon Rose
    Editor
    Foreign Affairs
  • Todd Rosenblum
    Senior Executive for Worldwide Business Development
    IBM
  • Mirosław Różański
    Commander General of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Poland
    Polish Armed Forces
  • Luis Rubio
    Chairman
    Center of Research for Development
  • Daniel Runde
    Director, Project on Prosperity and Development
    Center for Strategic and International Studies
  • Laurent Ruseckas
    Senior Advisor, Eurasian Gas
    IHS Energy
  • Christopher Sabatini
    Founder and Editor, Global Americans
    Adjunct Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
  • Harjit Singh Sajjan
    Minister of National Defence
    Department of National Defence, Canada
  • Paul Salem
    Vice President for Policy and Research
    Middle East Institute
  • Richard Sanders
    Deputy Chief of Mission
    Embassy of the United States, Ottawa
  • Lobsang Sangay
    Sikyong
    Central Tibetan Administration
  • Andrei Sannikov
    Chairman
    European Belarus Foundation
  • Friba Sabrina Saqeb
    Co-Founder, Technical Advisor
    Research Institute for Women, Peace and Security
  • Mike Savage
    Mayor
    City of Halifax
  • Nadia Schadlow
    Senior Program Officer
    Smith Richardson Foundation
  • Randy Scheunemann
    President
    Orion Strategies
  • Guillaume Schlumberger
    Assistant Secretary for Defense Strategy, Counter-Proliferation & Strategic Foresight
    Directorate General for International Relations and Strategy
  • Peter Semneby
    Former Ambassador of Sweden to Afghanistan
    Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sweden
  • Richard Sendall
    Senior Vice President, Strategy and Government Relations
    MEG Energy Corporation
  • Vance Serchuk
    Director
    KKR Global Institute
  • Robin Shepherd
    Publisher
    The Commentator
  • Charles Shin
    Strategic Planner
    Department of Defense
  • Kevin Short
    Vice Chief of Defence Force
    New Zealand Defence Force
  • Vasil Sikharulidze
    Chairman
    Atlantic Council of Georgia
  • Peter Siklosi
    Deputy State Secretary for Defence Policy and Planning
    Ministry of Defence, Hungary
  • Alfonso Silva Navarro
    Ambassador of Chile to Canada
    Embassy of Chile, Ottawa
  • Donald Sinclair
    Former Director General, International Security Bureau
    Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada
  • Jill Sinclair
    Executive Director, External Engagement and Partnerships, Canadian Defence Academy
    Department of National Defence, Canada
  • Lina Sinjab
    Middle East Correspondent
    BBC News
  • Elissa Slotkin
    Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
    United States Department of Defense
  • Nancy Southern
    Chair, President, & Chief Executive Officer, ATCO Ltd.
    Chair & Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Utilities Limited
  • Matt Spence
    Senior Fellow, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University
    Managing Director, Guggenheim Partners
  • Pierre St-Amand
    Deputy Commander
    North American Aerospace Defense Command
  • Janice Gross Stein
    Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management and Founding Director, Munk School of Global Affairs
    University of Toronto
  • Gerald Steinberg
    Professor of Political Studies, Bar Ilan University
    President and Founder, NGO Monitor
  • Constanze Stelzenmüller
    Robert Bosch Senior Fellow
    Brookings Institution
  • Karen Stewart
    Political Advisor
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • Edison Stewart
    Assistant Deputy Minister, Public Affairs
    Department of National Defence, Canada
  • Michael Svetlik
    Vice President, Programs
    International Foundation for Electoral Systems
  • Andrew Tabler
    Martin J. Gross Fellow
    Washington Institute for Near East Policy
  • Ahmet Taçyildiz
    Chairman
    Gap Insaat
  • Yasmin Tadjdeh
    Staff Writer
    National Defense Magazine
  • Jonathan Tepperman
    Managing Editor
    Foreign Affairs
  • Sue Mi Terry
    Managing Director
    BowerGroupAsia
  • Ishaan Tharoor
    Foreign Affairs Writer
    Washington Post
  • Eka Tkeshelashvili
    President
    Georgian Institute for Strategic Studies
  • Hideshi Tokuchi
    Former Vice Minister of Defense
    Ministry of Defense, Japan
  • Russell Trood
    Professor of International Relations and Director of the Griffith Asia Institute
    Griffith University
  • Simon Tucker
    High Commissioner of New Zealand to Canada
    Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, New Zealand
  • Carl Turenne
    Commander, 5th Canadian Division
    Canadian Army
  • Daniel Twining
    Senior Fellow for Asia
    German Marshall Fund of the United States
  • Hiroaki Uchikura
    Major General, Joint Staff
    Japan Self-Defense Forces
  • Selçuk Ünal
    Ambassador of Turkey to Canada
    Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Turkey
  • Tomáš Valášek
    Permanent Representative of the Slovak Republic to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
    Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Slovak Republic
  • Peter Van Praagh
    President
    Halifax International Security Forum
  • Jonathan Vance
    Chief of the Defence Staff
    Canadian Armed Forces
  • Róbert Vass
    Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer
    Central European Strategy Council
  • Gordon Venner
    Assistant Deputy Minister, Policy
    Department of National Defence, Canada
  • Tom Venner
    Assistant Director, Policy & Strategic Partnerships
    Canadian Security Intelligence Service
  • Nirmal Verma
    Chief of Naval Operations Distinguished International Fellow
    United States Naval War College
  • Luis Carlos Villegas Echeverri
    Minister of Defense
    Ministry of Defense, Colombia
  • Kurt Volker
    Executive Director
    The McCain Institute for International Leadership
  • Caroline Wadhams
    Senior Advisor, Office of the Special Envoy for the Great Lakes of the Africa
    United States Department of State
  • Bruce Weinrod
    Senior Counsel
    Global Impact
  • Jonathan Weisstub
    Founding Partner, Common Wealth
    Chairman of the Board, Halifax International Security Forum
    Senior Resident, Massey College, University of Toronto
  • Teresa Welsh
    Foreign Affairs Reporter
    US News and World Report
  • Alexis Wichowski
    Director of Research and Communication
    Harmony Institute
  • Taylor Wilson
    Nuclear Physicist
    University of Nevada, Reno
  • Peter Wittig
    Ambassador of Germany to the United States
    Federal Foreign Office, Germany
  • Werner Wnendt
    Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Canada
    Federal Foreign Office, Germany
  • Robert Work
    Deputy Secretary of Defense
    United States Department of Defense
  • Peter Wright
    Development Officer, Aerospace and Defence
    Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
  • Paul Wynnyk
    Commander, Canadian Forces Intelligence Command
    Chief of Defence Intelligence
  • Arbana Xharra
    Editor-in-Chief
    Zeri
  • Amos Yadlin
    Director
    Institute for National Security Studies
  • Amira Yahyaoui
    Founder and Executive Director
    Center 247
  • Murat Yetkın
    Editor-in-Chief
    Hurriyet Daily News
  • Chris Yonke
    President
    International Options & Trade
  • Richard Young
    President and CEO
    Teranga Gold Corporation
  • Martin Zablocki
    President and Chief Executive Officer
    Canadian Commercial Corporation
  • Dov Zakheim
    Senior Advisor, Center for Strategic and International Studies
    Senior Fellow, CNA
  • Lamberto Zannier
    Secretary General
    Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe
Partners & Sponsors
Halifax Canada Club
Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
Department of National Defence
NATO
Foreign Affairs
CAE
Canadian Commercial Corporation
Compañía Inversora Corporativa
DLA Piper
Ipsos
Irving Shipbuilding
Northrop Grumman
Agenda Working Group

The 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, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, and Columnist, Wall Street Journal

Alyssa Ayres, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations

Ian Brodie, Research Director, School of Public Policy, University of Calgary

Rosa Brooks, Senior Fellow, New America Foundation and Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

Leslie Campbell, Senior Associate and Regional Director for Middle East and North Africa Programs, National Democratic Institute

Helga Flores Trejo, Principal External Relations Advisor, Inter-American Development Bank

John K. Glenn, Policy Director, US Global Leadership Coalition

Camille Grand, Director, Foundation for Strategic Research

Jerrold Green, President and Chief Executive Officer, Pacific Council on International Policy

Joseph Hall, Vice President, Halifax International Security Forum

Heather Hurlburt, Director, New Models of Policy Advocacy Project, New America

Rachel Kleinfeld, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

David J. Kramer, Senior Director for Human Rights and Democracy, The McCain Institute for International Leadership

Francois Lafond, Executive Director, EuropaNova

Jacqueline O’Neill, Director, The Institute for Inclusive Security

Luis Rubio, Chairman, Center of Research for Development

Paul Salem, Vice President for Policy and Research, Middle East Institute

Randy Scheunemann, President, Orion Strategies

Robin Shepherd, Publisher, The Commentator

Janice Gross Stein, Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management and Founding Director, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto

Jonathan Tepperman, Managing Editor, Foreign Affairs

Peter Van Praagh, President, Halifax International Security Forum

Kurt Volker, Executive Director, The McCain Institute for International Leadership

W. Bruce Weinrod, Senior Counsel, Global Impact

Halifax Papers
Cooperate, Contain, or Conquer: Prioritizing Strategy 70 Years On
Sir Lawrence Freedman
Breaking Rules: Discipline and Disorder in the Global Playground
Janice Gross Stein
Breaking Tradition: Modern Muslims Advance
Abdullah Gül
Broken China: Handle with Care
Michael Auslin
The American Fix: Best Dosage for Optimal Results
Tsuyoshi Sunohara
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