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Global Strategic Review 2006 - Confirmed Speakers

 

Confirmed speakers for the fourth IISS Global Strategic Review in Geneva on 8-10 September in Geneva include the following: (a pdf version of this list is available in the related documents section)

 

  • Professor Sir Michael Howard, IISS President Emeritus

  • His Excellency Jaswant Singh, Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha (House of State), New Delhi, India

  • Dr John Hillen, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs

  • Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, Vice-Principal (Research) and Professor of War Studies, King’s College, London

  • Dr Michael Schäfer, Political Director, German Federal Foreign Office

  •  Vice Admiral Madanjit Singh, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Naval Command of the Indian Navy

  • Dr Nikolay Spassky, Deputy Director, Security Council, Russian Federation

  • Ambassador Sung-joo Han, Professor and Director of the Ilmin International Relations Institute, Korea University, Seoul

  • Dr Rohan Gunaratna, Head, International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research, Singapore

  • Dr Mamoun Fandy, IISS Senior Fellow for Gulf Security and the Middle East

  • Dr Patrick M. Cronin, IISS Director of Studies

  • Dr Mitchell B. Reiss, Vice Provost for International Affairs, The College of William and Mary

  • Dr Liru Cui, President, China Institute for Contemporary International Relations, Beijing

  • H.E. Sheik Dr Ahmed al-Tayyib, Rector, Al-Azar University, Cairo, Egypt

  • H.E. Dr Marwan Muasher, Former Deputy Prime Minister and Former Foreign Minister, Amman, Jordan

  • Dr Farish Ahmad-Noor, Institute for Strategic and International Studies, Malaysia

  • Ambassador Yukio Satoh, President, Japan Institute for International Affairs, Tokyo

  • Professor Eliot A. Cohen, Director, Center for Strategic Studies, The Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies

  • Professor François Heisbourg, Chairman of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, (Special Adivsor, Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique, Paris)

  • General the Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank, former Chief of the British Defence Staff

  • Dr David Kilcullen, Australian Army and Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism

  • Professor Bassam Tibi, University of Göttingen, Germany

  • Admiral Dennis C. Blair, US Navy (Retired), President, Institute for Defense Analyses

  • Sir Michael Quinlan, Former Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence and IISS Consulting Senior Fellow

  • Dr Shahram Chubin, Director of Studies, Geneva Centre for Security Policy

  • Lieutenant General V.G. Pantankar (Retired), Former Corps Commander (15 Corps), Indian Army

  • The Honorable Walter B. Slocombe, Former Senior Advisor for Security Sector and Defence Affairs, Coalition, Provisional Authority, Iraq, and former U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Policy

  • Dr Alexei Arbatov, Scholar-in-Residence, Carnegie Moscow Center

  • Dr Narushige Michishita, Senior Research Fellow, National Institute for Defence Studies, Tokyo

  • Dr Ariel Levite, Deputy Director General (Policy), Israeli Atomic Energy Commission

  • Mr Mark Fitzpatrick, Director, IISS Non-Proliferation Programme and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Non-Proliferation, US State Department

  • Dr John Chipman, Director-General and Chief Executive of the IISS

  • Sir Hilary Synnott, Former British High Commissioner to Pakistan and IISS Consulting Senior Fellow

  • Mr Gareth Evans, President and CEO, International Crisis Group, Belgium

  • Mr Yukio Okamoto, former Special Advisor to the Prime Minister for foreign affairs, President and Founder Okamoto Associates Inc.

  • Professor Andrew Natsios, Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy and Advisor on International Development, Georgetown University

  • Professor Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, Professor of Mathematical Physics, University of Milan

  • Dr Carl Bildt, former Prime Minister of Sweden, former UN Secretary General Special Envoy for the Balkans, and currently Chairman, Kreab Group, Stockholm 

  • Dr Rita Hauser, President, The Hauser Foundation and Member of the U.S. President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and the President's Intelligence Oversight Board

  • Professor Sir Adam Roberts, Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford

  • Lieutenant General (Retd) VR Raghavan, Director, Delhi Policy Group and Member, IISS Council

  • Lieutenant General Karl Eikenberry, U.S. Army, Commander, Combined Forces Command, Afghanistan

  • Ambassador Zukang Sha,Permanent Representative to Disarmament Conference, People’s Republic of China

  • Mr Neil Crompton,Head of Iran Coordination Group, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

  • Dr Newton Howard, Center for Advanced Defense Studies

  • General (Retd) Siphiwe ‘Ghebuzza’ Nyanda,Former Commander, South African National Defence Force

  • Admiral (Retd) Alexander Tavra,Former Secretary General of the Chilean Navy

  • Vice Admiral Patrick M. Walsh, Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, Commander, U.S. 5th Fleet, and Commander, Combined Maritime Forces

  • Rear Admiral Shahid Iqbal, Pakistan Navy and current Commander CTF-150

  • Dr Jiemian Yang, Vice President, Shanghai Institute for International Relations
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