The 2008 Global Strategic Review will be held on 12-14 September in Geneva, Switzerland. If you have any queries regarding the Global Strategic Review, please contact the GSR team.
A number of international officials from diverse backgrounds headlined the 2007 Global Strategic Review, including: Jakob Gijsbert ‘Jaap’ de Hoop Scheffer, NATO Secretary General; and His Excellency Pascal Lamy, Director General, World Trade Organisation.
A variety of heads of leading research institutes around the world were invited, including Professor Joseph Nye, Harvard; former UN weapons inspector Rolf Ekeus; Professor Mary Kaldor, Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics; Dr Rose Gottemeoller, Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center; C. Raja Mohan; Ambassador Barry Desker, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Professor Hew Strachan, Director of the Changing Character of War Programme at the University of Oxford; Mr. Muhammad Amir Rana, Director, Pak Institute for Peace Studies; Professor Alan Dupont, Director of the Centre for International Security Studies at the University of Sydney in Australia; Professor François Heisbourg, Chairman of the International Institute for Strategic Studies; Dr Keith Krause, Director of the Programme in Strategic and International Security Studies, Geneva; Peter Ackerman, Founding Chair of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict; Dr Pan Guang, Director for Shanghai Cooperation Organization Studies, China; Linda Jakobson, Director of the China Programme at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs; Ambassador Wali-ur Rehman, Director, Bangladesh Institute of Law and International Affairs; Dr Pierre Cailleteau, Chief International Economic and Financial Policy Analyst, Moody’s Investors Services Limited; Professor Hugh White, Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University and Visiting Fellow at the Lowy Institute; and Dr John Chipman, Director-General, IISS.
Other leading scholars and practitioners, included Dr James Shinn; Dr Martin Van Creveld; former Undersecretary of State Thomas Pickering, Jr.; Professor Mahmoud Amin El-Gamal; Dr Farhad Kazemi; Dr Akiko Fukushima; Dr Audrey Kurth Cronin; Sir Michael Quinlan; Dr Bruno Tertrais; Dr. Thomas Mahnken; Dr. Antulio J. Echevarria II; Dr. H.R. McMaster; Ms. Oksana Antonenko; Dr Robert Muggah; Ms. Nomi Bar-Yaacov; Dr Yuri Fedorov; Dr Murat Laumulin; Mr Nigel Inkster; Dr John Hillen; Dr Mamoun Fandy; Professor Uzi Arad; Mr Mark Fitzpatrick; Ambassador Theodor Winkler; Field Marshal The Rt. Hon Lord Inge; Sir Hilary Synnott; Mr. Robert Whalley; Dame Pauline Neville-Jones, Shadow Security Minister and National Security Adviser to the Leader of the Opposition; and Professor Chester A. Crocker.
If you would like to discuss any aspect of the 2007 Global Strategic Review or the 2008 Global Strategic Review which is to be held on 12-14 September 2008, please contact the GSR team.
Events take place at:
The InterContinental Hotel
7-9 Chemin Du Petit-Saconnex, Geneva 1211