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Anthony McGee
Head of Resilience
Royal United Services Institute, UK
Anthony leads the Institute's Resilience programme examining the UK's capacity for resilience, its approach to risk and the protection of Critical National Infrastructure. He has written widely on national security, risk, resilience and the role of the private sector. He is a politics graduate and before joining RUSI was the Senior Parliamentary Researcher to the Rt. Hon. Bruce George MP, former Chair of the House of Common's Defence Committee. Anthony has also been based at the Security and Resilience Centre, Cranfield, where he conducted work on the future of corporate security. |
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Meshal Bin Hussain
Head of Cyber Security Operations
Telecommunication Regulatory Authority, UAE
Eng Meshal Abdulla Binhussain is the Head of Operations at the UAE National Computer Emergency Response Team (aeCERT) with 10 years of hands-on experience in Information Security. He is leading the cyber-security incident handling across the UAE government as well as all sectors, and is in charge of Cyber Security Operations at the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority. His wide expertise in the information Security field has enabled him to continuously progress and contribute tremendously in this subject matter. Prior to joining the aeCERT, Meshal was the Director of Information Security at the Naturalization & Residency Administration-Dubai (DNRD). In this role, he built and founded the Information Security department and set the policies, procedures and standards, in addition to the laying out complete plans for information security development. He also played a strategic role in major projects in the areas of Border Security and Biometrics. |
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Heli Tiirma-Klaar
Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary of Defence,
Ministry of Defence, Estonia
Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar has led a working group that developed Estonian Cyber Security Strategy in 2008 and has been in charge of coordinating the implementation of the strategy since then. Previously she has held several positions in Estonian MOD such as a Head of NATO Integration Division and a Head of Defence Policy and Analysis Division. She has established an International Studies Department at the Tallinn University and has published several academic articles and books. |
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Chris Krebs
Former Policy Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection
Department of Homeland Security, USA
Chris Krebs serves as Vice President at Dutko Global Risk Management in Washington, DC, where he provides homeland security, critical infrastructure protection, and risk management consulting services to the private and public sectors, both domestically and internationally. Previously, Mr. Krebs served as Senior Policy Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection, US Department of Homeland Security, counseling the Assistant Secretary on all matters related to the protection of US critical infrastructure and key resources, including the implementation of the National Infrastructure Protection Plan. Mr. Krebs was also responsible for the coordination of all Office of Infrastructure Protection international activities. |
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Professor Dr Bernard Haemmerli
Chair of “Critical Infrastructure In The EU” Taskforce,
Centre For European Policy Studies, Belgium
Dr. Bernhard Hämmerli chairs the CIP task force at the centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels. In 2007, he was appointed as seconded national expert on CIP from Switzerland to Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. His main interest in research is information security and critical information infrastructure protection (CIIP) and he is a Professor for Networking and Information Security. He has participated in three EU FP CIIP research programs. The last one is Protection and Trust in Financial Infrastructures www.parsifal-project.eu. He is editor of the European CIIP Newsletter called ECN www.irriis.eu. In associations, he serves as President of the Swiss Informatics Society and as Chair of Scientific and International Affairs in the Swiss Information Security Society ISSS. In consulting, his corporation Acris offers service in the same field. |
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Jennifer Giroux
Research Fellow
Crisis and Risk Network - Centre For Security Studies/ETH, Switzerland
Jennifer Giroux is a Research Fellow for the Crisis & Risk Network (CRN) at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) / ETH Zurich where she heads a research project that examines the contemporary characteristics of violent non-state actors and the strategic targeting of energy infrastructure. For this project, she has performed field research in the Niger Delta (Nigeria). Other research areas include: resilience, critical infrastructure protection, and the role of information technology in emergency/crisis planning and response. In addition to assisting projects in Senegal and Ghana, Jennifer has worked with the UN, Center for Terrorism and Intelligence Studies (CETIS), and Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS). She holds B.A. in Anthropology and M.A. in International Policy with additional training in counter-terrorism studies, conflict resolution, mediation, partnering and evaluation. |
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Nigel West
Intelligence Historian, UK
Nigel is a renowned author and military historian specializing in intelligence, counterintelligence, and security issues. He worked as a researcher for two authors: Ronal Seth, who had been parachuted into Silesia by SOE, and Richard Deacon, formerly the Foreign Editor of The Sunday Times. West later joined BBC TV's General Features department to work on the SPY! and ESCAPE series. West's first book, co-authored with Richard Deacon in 1980 for BBC Publications, was the book of the SPY! series and was followed by many other books which have significantly contributed to the understanding of intelligence and counterintelligence history. His mentor was the famed British CI expert, Arthur Martin of MI5. West continues to write books. His many volumes include, Venona: the Greatest Secret of the Cold War; The Crown Jewels: The British Secrets Exposed by the KGB Archives; The Third Secret: The CIA, Solidarity and the KGB's Plot to Kill the Pope , Triplex, Secrets from the Cambridge Spies. He is the European Editor of the World Intelligence Review, published in Washington DC. He is also the European Editor of the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence. Between June 1987 and May 1997, Rupert Allason (aka pen name Nigel West) was the Conservative Member of Parliament for Torbay and made contributions to two Security Service Bills: the Official Secrets Bill and the Intelligence Services Bill. In 1989 West was voted "The Experts' Expert" by the Observer. The Sunday Times of London said that, "His information is often so precise that many people believe he is the unofficial historian of the secret services. West's sources are undoubtedly excellent. His books are peppered with deliberate clues to potential front-page stories." |
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Ajey Lele
Research Fellow
Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, India
Wing Commander Ajey Lele is working as a ‘Research Fellow’ at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi since 2001. He works on issues related to Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), Non-military Treats and Strategic Technologies. He is a postgraduate in Physics (Pune University) and also in Defence and Strategic Studies from Madras University. He has obtained his doctorate from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. He has published articles in journals, websites and newspapers. He has authored three books. His recent book is titled Strategic Technologies for the Military, Sage Publications, 2009. |
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Mamoun Abdel Hafez
Professor
American University of Sharjah, UAE
Mamoun F. Abdel-Hafez is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the American University of Sharjah. He received his BSc from Jordan University of Science and Technology in 1997, his MSc from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee in 1999, and PhD degree from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2003. He is specialized in the area of Dynamics, Navigation, and Control for Aerospace Applications. In 2004, he assumed a post-doctoral fellow position at UCLA to work on the design of Automated Landing Systems and in 2005 he was senior research engineer at SySense Incorporation. He published more than 30 articles in international journals and conferences. He is a recipient of the 2002 NASA Peer Award, two best presentation awards from the Institute of Navigation, and an honorable mention for the Young Author Price from the 2008 Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). |
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Tim Stear
Country Manager Middle East
Control Risks, UAE
Prior to Dubai Tim was the Country Manager for Afghanistan responsible for projects including managing armed executive close protection teams and guard forces for Ambassadors and embassies. Prior to Afghanistan, Tim was General Manager of Control Risks Andean Region, based in Bogotá, Colombia. Tim also oversaw all investigations and worked on Crisis Management cases most specifically kidnap and extortion planning, management and training for companies throughout the region. Before moving to Colombia, Tim worked for Control Risks as a Senior Security Consultant and Country Manager for Nigeria and as the Security Manager and adviser for a large oil company in Venezuela. Tim is a retired Royal Marines Captain serving in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Sierra Leone. Control Risks is an independent, specialist risk consultancy with 34offices on five continents. |
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Jan Kamphuisen
Political Risk Consultant – Global Risk Analysis
Control Risks, UAE
Jan is responsible for the management and delivery of bespoke political, operational and security risk consultancy work. He has a leading role in managing projects involving clients based, or investing, in the GCC region, with experience covering areas such as examining the political, regulatory, security and integrity challenges and developing risk strategies. Prior to joining Control Risks, Jan worked in the field of law, first with the European Space Agency and later as a lawyer in Egypt and the United Arab Emirates. He has comprehensively advised clients on business operations throughout the Middle East, including challenging jurisdictions such as Iraq, Libya, Yemen and Saudi Arabia. Jan Kamphuisen holds a Master’s degree in European and International Law, and a degree in Arabic Language and Cultures from Leiden University, Netherlands. He also studied International Relations at the University of Poitiers, France. Jan is a native Dutch speaker and also speaks English, French, German, Arabic and Spanish. |
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Bob Holmwood
Head of Consultancy – Solutions Division
Olive Group, UAE
Bob Holmwood currently heads our Worldwide Security Consultancy Division, providing a comprehensive and focused security approach to our projects. With over 21 years of personal experience in risk management, counter sabotage, counter terrorism, security design and business continuity, Bob brings considerable knowledge and experience to our clients projects. Previously, Bob was a member of the Directorate of Security and Integrated Contingency Planning Counter Sabotage Survey Team responsible for surveying and subsequently designing security systems and physical security measures for the defence of critical national infrastructure in the UK and its interests abroad. Sites included nuclear, communications, government, oil and gas and military facilities. Bob was also a senior lecturer on the UK Counter Sabotage Course. |
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Yaser Dajani
Senior Consultant – Corporate Investigations
Control Risks, UAE
Yaser is a Senior Consultant in Control Risks’ Corporate Investigations practice. Yaser manages complex business intelligence and due diligence projects for corporate clients operating in the MENA region.
Prior to joining the company, he worked Adam Smith International, Palestine, serving as policy advisor to the Palestinian government. Yaser also served as Planning Officer in the Palestinian Ministry of Interior in the West Bank and has also advised a wide range of governments and multinational organizations on security and development issues in the Middle East. Yaser lived in Palestine, Jordan and Syria, and traveled extensively throughout the Middle East and North Africa. Yaser completed a MA in international law from King’s College, London and BA in Political Science George Mason University, United States of America. He also received advanced training in conflict management from the University of Maryland. He is a native Arabic speaker. |
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Chris Kinsville-Heyne
Managing Director
C3i Strategic Solutions, UAE
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Ilja Bonsen
Managing Director
IB Consultancy, Netherlands
Ilja M. Bonsen acts as managing consultant at IB Consultancy, assuming overall responsibility for all IB Consultancy business, with a clear focus on business management, business & concept development and professional networking. Specialising in International Relations, he obtained a Master’s in Political Science at Leiden University in 2005. In the same year he attended the Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem, as part of the CEMS (Global Alliance of Management Education, formerly known as the Community of European Management Schools), a cooperation of multinational enterprises and leading business schools and universities. Ilja’s academic education also includes Strategic Management at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Following a ten year career as an IT specialist, Ilja worked for several years in the Dutch Defence Research Industry, where he developed a special interest in CBRNe projects. In 2009 Ilja established IB Consultancy. He is a much sought after guest speaker and moderator at international CBRNe and counterterrorism conferences and events. |
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Simon Stringer
CEO
Becatech, UK
Simon is an experienced senior executive and Managing Director with strong leadership skills and experience in the Security, Intelligence and Defence environments. He is adept in leading cultural and operational change, developing businesses, troubleshooting and re structuring. He is a recognised specialist in the development and application of security and counter terrorism technologies and the assessment of vulnerability and risk for domestic and international clients. Simon’s specialties include the intelligent application of procedures, protocols and technology in security, intelligence, counter terrorism and defence environments. |
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Paul Kurtz
Former Advisor, National Security Council
The White House, UAE
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Eric Jankel
Managing Director MENA
Hatch Water
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Greg Wiseman
Regional Director
ICx Technologies, USA
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