19 August 2009 : IISS
Foreign Government Official and Experts to Discuss ‘The New Geopolitics’
The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) will bring together over three hundred and fifty senior government officials, leading researchers, and many of the Institute’s influential members from around the world to discuss and address some of the world’s most critical issues at the 7th IISS Global Strategic Review (GSR), to be held in Geneva from 11 to 13 September 2009.
Selected noteworthy speakers include: Zbigniew Brzezinski, former US National Security Adviser; Dan Meridor, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Intelligence and Atomic Energy, Israel; Shashi Tharoor, Minister of State for External Affairs, India; Pierre Morel, EU Special Representative to Central Asia; Dr Riad Malki, Foreign Minister, Palestinian National Authority; General Michael Hayden, Former Director of the CIA; Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, Secretary General, OSCE; Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai,Advisor to President Karzai on Home Security; and Sir David Veness, Former UN Undersecretary General for Safety and Security and Former Assistant Commissioner for Special Operations, London Metropolitan Police.
The 2009 GSR will have six plenary sessions on: The US and the Wider Middle East; Challenges in Afghanistan and Pakistan; Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation; The Economic Crisis and International Order; Evolving Balance of Power in Asia; and Critical Questions: Views from the IISS.The fourteen break-out groups will be held at two successive shifts and are open to observation, but strictly off-the-record.
For instructions on providing press coverage of the GSR please contact gsrpress@iiss.org.
Advance registration for the GSR is highly encouraged, owing to space restrictions. Media must register by the 7September. To register online, kindly contact gsrpress@iiss.org to obtain the necessary URL, username and password.
For more information on delegate participation, the agenda, press policy and the history of the GSR, please reference: http://www.iiss.org/conferences/global-strategic-review
About The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
The IISS is an international membership organisation based in London, and is both a limited company in UK law and a registered charity. It has offices in the US and in Singapore that operate under its name with charitable status in each jurisdiction. Founded in 1958, much of the Institute’s early work focused on nuclear deterrence and arms control, and the Institute was influential in setting the intellectual structures for managing the Cold War. Over the last decade the IISS has become a truly global organisation, with individual and corporate members in over one hundred countries. The Institute’s high-profile publications are universally regarded as providing the best independent, internationally sourced information and commentary on the main strategic events touching on national, regional and global security. The IISS owes no allegiance to any government, or to any political or other organisation. The Institute's conference activities are considered to be at the forefront of public policy development, given that its convening power is such that it can often bring government officials and others together in forum that they could not easily manage for themselves.
