MS. JIVKA PETKOVA Jivka Petkova is currently Adviser to the Director on Human Rights and Democracy in the European External Action Service (EEAS) and the EEAS Senior Gender Adviser. She is a member of the EEAS Task Force on post-2015 development agenda. Since 2012 she is the Co-Chair of the EU Task Force on UNSCR 1325 Women, Peace and Security. She coordinates the EU participation in the UN General Assembly and the preparations of the negotiation mandate for the UN Commission for the Status of Women. She followed the implementation of the EU Strategic Framework and Action Plan on Emerging Security Challenges Division Human Rights and Democracy. In the period 2010 – 2012, as a Member of Cabinet of the EU High Representative and Vice President Baroness Catherine Ashton, she was working on Human rights, development cooperation, Afghanistan, India and Pakistan. She was Member and Deputy Head of What’s missing? Cabinet of the first Bulgarian Commissioner Meglena Kuneva. For six years (2001 – 2007) she was 15 years of gender Integration in the Armed Forces Head of Unit European Integration in the Council of Ministers of Bulgaria coordinating the EU accession negotiation process. She was posted in the Bulgarian Embassy in Finland as a special envoy covering the Finnish Presidency of the EU in 1999. Findings and Recommendation of the SPS Project DR. SARI KOUVO Sari Kouvo works as an adviser on human rights and gender within the crisis management structures of UNSCR 1325 Reload the European External Action Service. Her previous engagements include co-director and co-founder of 1 June, 2015 the Afghanistan Analysts Network, head of program at the International Centre for Transitional Justice (2007-2011), researcher at Amnesty International (2007), Human Rights and Rule of Law Adviser to the EU Special Representative for Afghanistan (2004-2006) and lecturer at Gothenburg University SESSION I – Welcome Address ‘15 Years of Gender Integration in the Armed Forces’ (1999-2004).She is an international lawyer with a focus on human rights, transitional justice, rule of law, justice reform and gender. Sari holds an associate professor degree and a doctorate in International AMBASSADOR SORIN DUCARU Law from Gothenburg University (Sweden). She has held visiting fellowships at the NATO Defense College (Italy), Kent University (UK), Abo Academy (Finland) and the Australian National University. Ambassador Sorin Ducaru took over the post of Assistant Secretary General for the Emerging Sari has published extensively on Afghanistan, international law and gender-related subjects. Security Challenges Division in September 2013. He is responsible for providing support to the North-Atlantic Council and for advising the Secretary General on the evolution of emerging security challenges and their potential impact on NATO’s security. Prior to his appointment as Moderator ASG, Ambassador Ducaru served as Romania’s Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic MS. SHADA ISLAM Council, from September 2006 to September 2013. From November 2011, Ambassador Ducaru Shada Islam is responsible for policy oversight of Friends of Europe’s initiatives, activities and was the Dean of the North Atlantic Council. He holds a MPhil Degree in International Relations publications. She has special responsibility for the Asia Programme and for the Development Policy from the University of Amsterdam (1993) and a PhD degree in International Economics from the Forum. Shada is the former Europe correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review and has Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest (2005). previously worked on Asian issues at the European Policy Centre. She is closely involved with initiatives AMBASSADOR MARRIËT SCHUURMAN to promote Asia-Europe exchanges including within the context of ASEM (Asia Europe Meetings). As a journalist, Shada also worked extensively on development questions including relations between Ambassador Marriët Schuurman was appointed the NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative the EU and African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states as well as on world trade, including the Doha for Women, Peace and Security in October 2014. She is the high-level focal point on all aspects of Round. Shada continues to write on EU foreign and security policy, EU-Asia relations and trade and NATO’s contributions to the Women, Peace and Security agenda, with the aim to facilitate coordination development issues for leading Asian, European and international publications. and consistency in NATO’s policies and activities and to take forward the implementation of the NATO/ EAPC Policy and Action Plan on the Implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 and related Resolutions. Ambassador Schuurman is a career diplomat who has served in Closing Remarks many different countries and regions and in a variety of priority policy areas of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Prior to her nomination as Special Representative, Ambassador Schuurman was the COL LINDA K. SHEIMO representative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Col. Linda K. Sheimo has been the Chair of the NATO Committee on Gender Perspectives since 2013. She has served in the military since April 1977 when she enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserves Moderator as a Private First Class. She was commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant in May 1983 and served as the MR. MICHAEL GAUL Commander, 936thAG Det Postal. Following her graduation from California State University, Since 2011 Mr. Michael Gaul has assumed the role of Senior Advisor Projects and Strategy, in Fresno, she entered active duty in February 1985. She has served in various assignments of increasing NATO’s Emerging Security Challenges Division. His responsibilities focus on the development, responsibility in the Human Resources community in Texas, Germany, Illinois, the Military District modernization, planning and implementation of the Alliance’s largest civil cooperation programme of Washington, NY and Virginia. From June 2003 to August 2005 she was appointed as Assistant with partner countries. Prior to this, Mr. Gaul was Head of the Defence and Security Economics Chief of Staff, G-1/AG, in the 10th Mountain Division. Until July 2007 she was the Chief of the Directorate in the Political Affairs and Security Policy Division since 2007. He chaired in this capacity Distribution/Readiness Office of the DCA, G-1 in HQDA. From June 2008 to November 2010 the NATO Economic Committee and was responsible for economic and energy security issues, and she was appointed Adjutant General in the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command. From partner cooperation. In 2004, Mr. Gaul became Chairman of the NATO Budget Committees and December 2010 to the end of 2011 she was Secretary of the joint Staff in the U.S. Force in Iraq. From January 2012 she is the provided advice to the North Atlantic Council on budgetary and managerial matters. Until 2004, Chief, Command Policies and Programs, Army Staff, Pentagon and her staff is developing and executing policy supporting the Mr. Gaul was the Deputy Head of Section at the Permanent Delegation of the Federal Republic of expansion of opportunities for women in the Army. Germany to NATO, where he dealt with NATO-wide financial policy, economic and management issues since 1998. Mr. Gaul graduated with a degree in Law Studies from the University in Mainz, Germany, where he obtained his Second State (Bar) Examination in Law and started his career as a public prosecutor and Judge. SESSION II – Keynote ‘The Role of Leadership in Changing Military Culture’ LIEUTENANT COLONEL JESUS IGNACIO GIL RUIZ Jesus Ignacio Gil Ruiz, Spanish Army, has been the Chief of the IMS Office of the Gender LIEUTENANT GENERAL DAVID MORRISON Adviser since September 2012. He is a co-director of the Science for Peace and Security Project: Lieutenant General David Morrison served as Chief of the Australian Army from June 2011 until UNSCR 1325 Reload. He joined the Spanish Armed Forces in 1980 and was posted to the his retirement in May 2015. He joined the Army in 1979, after completing a Bachelor of Arts at the 21st Artillery Regiment as a young Army First Lieutenant in 1985. As a Captain, he was the Australian National University. In 2001 he attended the Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies, Chief of Personnel at the HQ of a Light Infantry Brigade. In 1997, he became the Head of the Canberra, graduating with and Masters of Arts (Strategic Studies). He became Commander of the Language Department in the Artillery Academy in Segovia. From 2002-2005 he was assigned Australian Defence Colleges in January 2006 and during that year led a review into the Defence’s to the NATO Rapid Deployable Corps-Italy (NRDC-IT) in Solbiate Olona, working in the joint education and training system. In April 2007, he was appointed Head Military Strategic Operations Division. From 2005-2009 he was the deputy Head of Protocol in the Cabinet of Commitments where he served for eleven months before becoming the Deputy Chief of Army in early the Spanish Minister of Defence. From 2009-2012 he was appointed as the Personal Military 2008. During that year he led a review into Army’s command and control structure which resulted in Assistant to the Spanish Military Representative to NATO and the EU in Brussels, Belgium. He the Adaptive Army initiative which had, as one of its key outcomes, the proposed creation of Army’s has served in two missions abroad: 1996-97 in the European Community Monitor Mission in Former Yugoslavia (EU) largest command - Forces Command, responsible for force generation and, through the oversight of as Head of the Team Slunj – Croatia and in 1999-2000 in the Office of the High Representative (OHR) in Bosnia and the Army’s Training Continuum, the development of a modern foundation war fighting capability. He was appointed as Land Herzegovina as Political Advisor in Mostar and Head of Office in Livno (Canton 10). Commander Australia in December 2008 and became Army’s first Forces Commander on 1 July 2009. On 24 June 2011, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General and on 27 June 2011 he assumed the appointment of Chief of Army. Moderator MS. ALEXANDRA SHEHADIE DR. CRISTINA FIGUEROA DOMECQ Alexandra (Alex) Shehadie is the Director of Defence Cultural Reform, in the Australian Human NATO Project Director of the Science for Peace and Security Project: UNSCR 1325 Reload. Dr. Rights Commission. Prior to that she was the Commission’s Director of the Review into the Figueroa Domecq is an Associate Professor and Course Manager of the International Relations Treatment of Women at the Australian Defence Force Academy and in the Australian Defence Degree at Rey Juan Carlos University (Spain). She has a PhD in Economics and has published Force. Alex has held senior management roles, with the NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet several books and articles on women studies in international journals. Dr. Figueroa Domecq is and was the Executive Director of the NSW Office for Women’s Policy. Alex was Director of a the Head of the section on “Women, Peace and Security” in the ReAS Research Group at Rey range of Parliamentary Committees in the NSW Legislative Council that examined legal and Juan Carlos University. She was the coordinator of the workshop “Women, Peace and Security” policy issues. In 2014 she was named as one of Westpac’s and the Australian Financial Review’s organized by the Rey Juan Carlos University in 2014 and sponsored by Public Diplomacy (NATO). 100 Women of Influence. She has also directed several previous workshops related to gender issues and is a member of the Mainstreaming Gender Studies Network in Human, Social and Legal Sciences.

SESSION III – ‘UNSCR 1325 Reload’ Project SESSION IV – Challenges of Implementing UNSCR 1325 DR JESÚS PALOMO MARTÍNEZ MS. MARI SKÅRE Dr Jesús Palomo Martínez is a co-director of the Science for Peace and Security Project: UNSCR 1325 Reload. He has been an Associate Professor at the Business Administration Department at the Rey Ms. Mari Skåre is currently serving as Senior Adviser on regional issues in Africa in the Norwegian Juan Carlos University (Spain), since 2007. He has a PhD in Computer Sciences and Mathematical Ministry of Foreign Affairs and has extensive experience from the Norwegian Foreign Service. Modeling, MA in Business Administration and MSc in Management Computer Sciences. He is Ms. Mari Skåre joined the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1991. Her first assignment currently the Director of the ReAS Research Group at the Rey Juan Carlos University. Dr. Palomo was as legal adviser in the Secretariat of the Minister of International Development and has Martínez has been a visitor researcher at NATO Defense College (Rome), Consiglio Nazionale delle later held a number of positions. Prior to her current job she served as the first NATO Secretary Ricerche (Italy), Duke University (USA), University of California at Santa Cruz (USA), National General’s Special Representative for Women, Peace and Security, and before that as Minister Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (USA) and the Danish Institute of Social Research. Counsellor and Deputy Permanent Representative at the Norwegian Delegation to NATO. She has also served as Minister Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission at the Norwegian Embassy in Kabul and previously as counsellor and legal adviser at the Norwegian Mission to the UN. Ms. COMMISSIONER ELIZABETH BRODERICK Mari Skåre holds a masters degree in law from the University of Oslo. Ms. Broderick is the Partner Project Director of the Science for Peace and Security Project: UNSCR AMBASSADOR MIGUEL AGUIRRE DE CÁRCER 1325 Reload. Ms. Broderick was appointed for a five year term as Sex Discrimination Commissioner in September 2007. The term has been extended to September 2015. She was also the Commissioner Ambassador Miguel Aguirre de Cárcer serves as Permanent Representative at the Spanish Delegation responsible for Age Discrimination from September 2007 until July 2011. In April 2011, the to NATO, since 2013. He joined the Spanish Foreign Service in 1981 and between 1983 and 1985, Government appointed Ms. Broderick to lead the Commission’s Review into the treatment of Women served as the Deputy Head of Mission in the Embassy of Spain in Amman and Warsaw. In his career in the Australian Defence Force. Four reports on the Review were tabled in Australia’s Parliament and he has served as counsellor to the Embassy of Spain in London, the Permanent Representation of the Review concluded in March 2014. Elizabeth now leads the Commission’s collaborative work with Spain to the Western European Union and the Permanent Representation of Spain to the United the Australian Defence Force on embedding cultural change across Navy, Army and Air Force. Nations. He became Head of the Cabinet in the Office of the Undersecretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1998 and Director General for North American, Security and Disarmament Affairs in 2000. In 2002, he became the Head of the Private Office of the Speaker of the Spanish Parliament. In 2005 he served as the representative of Spain to Slovakia. Prior to his appointment as Permanent Representative of Spain in NATO he was the Coordinator at the Permanent Representation of Spain to the European Union (2010) and the Director General of the Foreign Service at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2012).