2020 ‘VIRTUAL’ GLOBAL SECURITY FORUM
NOVEMBER 16-19, 2020

Established in 2018, the Global Security Forum is an annual international gathering bringing together a multi-disciplinary network of experts, practitioners, and policy-makers from government, security, academia, media, entertainment, international organizations, the humanitarian sector, the private sector and beyond to come together to discuss the world’s most pressing topics. This global event provides a unique platform for international stakeholders to convene and offer solutions that address the international community’s leading security challenges.

This year’s Forum will explore, through a series of fireside chats and panel discussions, the evolution of global security challenges posed by complex geopolitical realities that have been exacerbated by the global COVID-19 pandemic, including disinformation, extremism, and governance and legitimacy. In 2019, the Global Security Forum on ‘Security Challenges in the Era of Modern Disinformation’ explored the proliferation of modern disinformation and the serious implications on an increasingly interconnected world. The inaugural 2018 Global Security Forum on ‘Returning Foreign Fighters: Policies and Actions to Address the Threat and Protect Vulnerable Communities’ addressed the global challenge of returning foreign fighters.

KEY SPEAKERS

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Michèle Coninsx

Executive Director Of Counter-Terrorism
Executive Directorate
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Ambassador Bilahari Kausikan

Former Permanent Secretary of the
Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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Gilles de Kerchove

EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator
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Director Christopher C. Krebs

Director of CISA
Department of Homeland Security
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Ambassador Robert C. O’Brien

United States National Security Advisor
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Congressman Max Rose

U.S. Representative for New York’s
11th Congressional District
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Ambassador Nathan A. Sales

Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator
for Counterterrorism at the State Department

PARTICIPANTS
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KEVIN BARON

Executive Editor
Defense One

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Peter Bergen

CNN National Security Analyst and
Vice President Global Studies & Fellows
New America

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Jason M. Blazakis

Professor of Practice Director
Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism
Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey

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Colin P. Clarke

Senior Research Fellow
The Soufan Center

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STEVE CLEMONS

Editor-at-Large
The Hill

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Kimberly Dozier

TIME Contributor and
CNN Global Affairs Analyst

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Joseph Donnelly Sr

Chairman of The Board
The Soufan Center

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Joshua Geltzer

Former NSC Senior Director
for Counterterrorism

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BOBBY GHOSH

Journalist
Bloomberg

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Alex Gibney

Award-Winning
Director

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Karen J. Greenberg

Director
The Center on National Security
Fordham Law

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Rami G. Khouri

American University of Beirut Director of Global Engagement,
and Harvard Kennedy School nonresident senior fellow

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Adrienne LaFrance

Executive Editor
The Atlantic

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Fionnuala Ní Aoláin

United Nations Special Rapporteur on
the Promotion and Protection of Human
Rights while Countering Terrorism

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Nicholas J. Rasmussen

Executive Director
Global Internet Forum to
Counter Terrorism (GIFCT)

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Bret Schafer

Media and Digital Disinformation Fellow
Alliance for Securing Democracy

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David Scharia

Chief of Branch
Counter-Terrorism Committee
Executive Directive (CTED)

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Ali Soufan

Founder
The Soufan Center

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Maria J. Stephan

Co-author, Why Civil Resistance Works:
The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict;
co-editor, Is Authoritarianism Staging a Comeback

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Meredith Stricker

Senior Fellow
The Soufan Center

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Charles Spencer

Assistant Director
FBI

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ALI VELSHI

MSNBC Anchor and Correspondent
for NBC News and MSNBC

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Rebecca Ulam Weiner

Assistant Commissioner
NYPD Intelligence Bureau

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Lawrence Wright

Staff Writer
The New Yorker

ORGANIZER

PARTNERS

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