
2020 HALIFAX INTERNATIONAL SECURITY FORUM
DATE
November 20-22, 2020
LOCATION
Hybrid
PARTICIPANTS
300
AGENDA & SPEAKERS
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, Senior Advisor for Asia, Halifax International Security Forum, Payson J. Treat Fellow in Contemporary Asia, Hoover Institute, Stanford University
Alyssa Ayres, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations
Ian Brodie, Director of Studies, Canadian Global Affairs Institute
Rosa Brooks, Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Policy, Georgetown University Law Center
Leslie Campbell, Senior Associate and Regional Director, Middle East and North Africa Programs, National Democratic Institute
Dean Fealk, Chair, Global Strategy & Innovation, Halifax International Security Forum, Managing Partner, DLA Piper
John Glenn, Policy Director, U.S. Global Leadership Coalition
Jerrold Green, President and Chief Executive Officer, Pacific Council on International Policy
Heather Hurlburt, Director, New Models of Policy Change, New America
Rachel Kleinfeld, Senior Fellow, Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
François Lafond, Special Adviser to the Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs, Republic of North Macedonia
Paz Magat, Director, Peace With Women Fellowship, Halifax International Security Forum
C. Dixon Osburn, Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy Center
Roland Paris, Professor of International Affairs, University of Ottawa
Luis Rubio, Chairman, Mexican Council on Foreign Relations
Chris Sabatini, Senior Fellow for Latin America, Chatham House
Randy Scheunemann, Senior Counselor, Halifax International Security Forum
Robin Shepherd, Vice President, Halifax International Security Forum
Janice Stein, Chair of the Board of Directors, Halifax International Security Forum, Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management, Founding Director, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
Peter Van Praagh, President, Halifax International Security Forum
Kurt Volker, Senior International Advisor, Advisory Board Member, BGR Group
W. Bruce Weinrod, Adjunct Professor, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Carol Abraham, New Zealand
Chief Defence Strategy Management, New Zealand Defence Force

Michael Abramowitz, United States
President, Freedom House

Mohammed Abulahoum, Yemen
Head, Justice and Building Party

Alka Acharya, India
Professor of Chinese Studies, Centre for East Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Takeshi Akahori, Japan
Ambassador (UN Affairs, Cyber Policy)

Hulusi Akar, Turkey
Minister of National Defense, Ministry of National Defense

Fatima Akilu, Nigeria
Executive Director, NEEM Foundation

Izabela Albrycht, Poland
Chair, Kosciuszko Institute

Sergio Alcocer, Mexico
VP; Mexican Council of Foreign Relations COMEXI

Leila Alieva, Azerbaijan
Affiliate Researcher, Russia and East European Studies, Oxford University

John Allen, United States
President, The Brookings Institution

T.S. Allen, United States
Captain, U.S. Army

Raed al-Saleh, Turkey
Co-Founder and Director, Syria Civil Defence

Rajmund Andrzejczak, Poland
Chief of the General Staff, Polish Armed Forces

David Angell, Canada
Canadian Permanent Representative to NATO, Joint Delegation of Canada to NATO

Niels Annen, Germany
Member, Bundestag; Minister of State, Federal Foreign Office

James Appathurai, NATO
Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy, North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Michael Arthur, United Kingdom
President, Boeing International

Thomas Axworthy, Canada
Secretary-General, InterAction Council of Former Heads of State and Government

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

James Baker, United States
Director of the Office of Net Assessment, United States Department of Defense

Falah Mustafa Bakir, Kurdistan Region - Iraq
Senior Foreign Policy Adviser to the President, Kurdistan Regional Government

Katharine Barber, USA
Wing Commander for the Air Force Technical Applications Center, Patrick Air Force Base Florida, US Air Force

Mustafa Barghouti, Palestine
Secretary General and Co-Founder, Palestinian National Initiative

Espen Barth Eide, Norway
Member of Parliament, Labour Party, The Storting

Rania Barrak, Tunisia
Professor in Military Higher Education, Military Staff College and Superior War College

Emma Barrasso, United States
Strategy and Growth Lead, Owens Corning

John Barrasso, United States
Senator from Wyoming, United States Senate

Rob Bauer, Netherlands
Chief of Defence, Netherlands Armed Forces

François Bausch, Luxembourg
Minister of Defence, Ministry of Defence, Luxembourg

Monik Beauregard, Canada
Associate Deputy Minister, Public Safety Canada

Oscar Becerra, Mexico
Director, Due Diligence América Latina, Citi Security & Investigative Services; Member, Colectivo de Análisis de la Seguridad con Democracia

Mónica Beltràn, Canada
Deputy Head of Mission, Chargé d'Affaires, Embassy of Colombia in Canada

Fatou Bensouda
Chief Prosecutor, International Criminal Court

Ryan Berg, United States
Research Fellow in Latin America Studies, American Enterprise Institute

Peter Beyer, Germany
Member, Bundestag; Coordinator of Transatlantic Cooperation, Federal Foreign Office

Jack Bianchi, United States
Research Fellow, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments

Lincoln Bloomfield, United States
Chairman Emeritus, Stimson Center

Jason Bordoff, United States
Founding Director, Center on Global Energy Policy, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

Peter Boehm, Canada
Senator from Ontario, Canada

Kenneth Braithwaite, United States
Secretary, United States Navy

Darrell Bricker, Canada
CEO, IPSOS Public Affairs

Laura Bridge, United States
Managing Director, Halifax International Security Forum

Ian Brodie, Canada
Associate Professor, University of Calgary; Fellow, Canadian Global Affairs Institute

Shelly Bruce, Canada
Chief, Communications Security Establishment

Matthew Bryza, United States
Associate Professor, University of Calgary; Fellow, Canadian Global Affairs Institute

Ahmet Çalik, Turkey
Chairman, Çalik Holding

Angus Campbell, Australia
Chief of the Defence Force, Australian Defence Force

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

Joyce Carter, Canada
President and CEO, Halifax International Airport Authority

Figo Chan, Hong Kong
Vice Convenor, Civil Human Rights Front

Tasos Chatzivasileiou, Greece
Member of the Greek Parliament, Secretary Gen. of the Standing Committee on National Defence and Foreign Affairs

Jessica Chen Weiss, United States
Associate Professor of Government, Cornell University

Jim Chilton, United States
Senior Vice President, Space and Launch, Boeing Defense, Space & Security

Tom Clark, Canada
Chair, Public Affairs and Communications, Global Public Affairs

Steve Clemons, United States
Editor-at-Large, The Hill

Andrew Clinton, Canada
Director of the Organizational Resilience and Security Division, Asian Development Bank

Eliot Cohen, United States
Dean, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

J. Michael Cole, Taiwan
Senior Fellow, Global Taiwan Institute/Macdonald-Laurier Institute

James Coomarasamy, United Kingdom
Senior Presenter, BBC Radio and World Service

Chris Coons, United States
Senator from Delaware, United States Senate

Marie-Thérèse Corbani, Lebanon
Researcher, Siren Associates

Philip Davidson, United States
Commander, United States Indo-Pacific Command

Eli Diamond, United States
Program Manager, Private Foundation

Harris Diamond, United States
Chairman and CEO, McCann Worldgroup

Paula Dobriansky, United States
Senior Fellow, The Future of Diplomacy Project, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University

Andrew Duncan, United States
CEO, IGX LLC

Rachel Durbin, Australia
Director, Future Force Lifecycle Engineering, Navy Capability Division, Royal Australian Navy

Elizabeth Economy, United States
C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Rejanne Eimers-van Nes, Netherlands
Commander, Personnel Logistics, Royal Netherlands Army

Melissa Emmett, United Kingdom
Corps Colonel, Intelligence Corps, British Army

Süleyman Savaş Erdem, Turkey
CEO, OYAK

Comfort Ero, United Kingdom
Program Director, Africa; International Crisis Group

Norbert Eschborn, Germany
Director, Canada Office, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V.

Hanne Fugl Eskjær, Denmark
Ambassador of Denmark to Canada, Denmark

Emily Estelle, United States
Research Manager, Critical Threats Project, American Enterprise Institute

Nino Evgenidze, Georgia
Executive Director, Economic Policy Research Center

Richard Fadden, Canada
Senior Advisor, Capitol Hill Group

Dean Fealk, United States
Managing Partner; DLA Piper

Neil Ferguson, United Kingdom
Director, MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, School of Public Health, Imperial College London

Bob Fife, Canada
Ottawa Bureau Chief, Globe and Mail

Renée Filiatrault, Canada
Advisory Board, Network for Strategic Analysis on Defence and Security

Andy Fillmore, Canada
Member of Parliament for Halifax; House of Commons, Canada

Brian Finlay, Canada
President and CEO; Stimson Center

Darren Fisher, Canada
Member of Parliament for Dartmouth-Cole Harbour; House of Commons, Canada

Ann Fitz-Gerald, Canada
Professor, Director, Balsillie School of International Affairs

Robert Fonberg, Canada
Distinguished Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto

Christian Forstner, Germany
Executive Director; Hanns Seidel Foundation

Liam Fox, United Kingdom
Member of Parliament; House of Commons

Serena Frechter, United States
Special Assistant to the CEO; Development Finance Corporation

King-wa Fu, Hong Kong
Associate Professor; Journalism and Media Studies Centre, University of Hong Kong

Bishop Garrison, United States
Co-Founder and President, Rainey Center, Director, National Security Outreach, Human Rights First

Ulf Gartzke, Germany
Managing Partner, Spitzberg Partners LLC

Matthias Gebauer, Germany
Chief Correspondent; Der Spiegel

Rob Gillies, Canada
Canada Bureau Chief; Associated Press

Chaitanya Giri, India
Fellow, Space and Ocean Studies; Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations

Fellow, Space and Ocean Studies; Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations
Policy Director; U.S. Global Leadership Coalition

Dore Gold, Israel
President; Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs

Katherine Graef, United States
Colonel; United States Special Operations Command

Jerrold Green, United States
President and Chief Executive Officer; President and Chief Executive Officer

Mark Green, United States
Executive Director, McCain Institute for International Leadership

Robert Greenhill, Canada
Executive Chairman, Global Canada

Maryscott Greenwood, United States
CEO, Canadian American Business Council; Managing Director, Crestview Strategy

Jean-Marie Guéhenno, France
Member, High-Level Advisory Board on Mediation, United Nations; Senior Advisor, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue

Ivana Gutzelnig, Slovak Republic
Director, Military Centre of Aviation Medicine, Ministry of Defence

Peter Hammerschmidt, Canada
Assistant Deputy Minister, Department of National Defence

Ibrahim Hamidi, Syria
Senior Diplomatic Editor, Asharq Al-Awsat

Husain Haqqani, Pakistan
Director and Senior Fellow, South and Central Asia, Hudson Institute

Meliza Haradinaj, Republic of Kosovo
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Republic of Kosovo

Jürgen Hardt, Germany
Foreign Policy Spokesman, CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group, Bundestag,

Tammy Harris, Canada
Former Deputy Commander, Royal Canadian Air Force, Canadian Armed Forces

Jane Harman, United States
Director, President, and Chief Executive Officer, Wilson Center

France Hébert, Canada
Vice President and General Manager, CAE Defence & Security

Mark Hetfield, United States
President and CEO, HIAS

Richard Javad Heydarian, Philippines
Research Fellow, Stratbase-ADR Institute; Columnist, Philippine Daily Inquirer