Conference Schedule Friday 19 July 8.30 – 9.15: Registration and Cofee 9.15 – 10.15: Welcome remarks and Panel 1 ‘Te interface between government and the security services’ David Omand and Richard Wilson in conversation. Chair: Richard Dearlove 10.15 - 11.30: Panel 2 ‘Confict and security sectors in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia’ Discussants: Renad Mansour, Michael Clark, Keith Beaven Chair: Tom Maguire 11.30 – 12.00: - Refreshments 12.00 – 13.15: Keynote Session 1 ‘Te Future is Now: Cyber Operations and Artifcial Intelligence’ Discussants: Chris Inglis, Di Cooke, Joe Hatfeld Chair: David Gioe 13.15 - 14.15: - Lunch 14.15 – 15.15: Panel 3 ‘Ordered or ordering? Britain’s post-Brexit role in Europe in historical perspective’ Brendan Simms Chair: David Omand 15.15 - 16.00: Keynote Session 2 ‘Iran in the Gulf, signalling, skirmishing or war’ Speaker: John Raine Chair: Michael Goodman 16.00 – 16.30: Refreshments 16.30 - 17.30: Keynote Session 3 ‘Countering-Terrorism – the perspective of the former Head of JTAC’ Speaker: Suzanne Raine Chair: Daniela Richterova Evening : 19.00 for 19.45; Drinks and Conference Dinner; King’s College Conference Schedule Saturday 20 July 09.00- 09.30: – Cofee and Welcome 9.30-11.00: Keynote Session 4 ‘Russia, Bear or Porcupine?’ Speaker: Tony Brenton Chair: Frederic Ischebeck-Baum 11.00 -11.30: – Refreshments 11.30-12.45: Keynote Session 5 ‘Cooperation against terrorism in Europe’ Speaker: Bernard Cazeneuve Chair: David Omand 12.45-13.45: – Lunch 13.45-15.30: Panel 4 A security overview of the Asia/Pacifc region. Discussants: Nigel Inkster, Angus Knowles-Cutler, Charles Parton, Chris Inglis 14.45: –Discussion and questions Chair: Richard Dearlove c.15.30 – Closing remarks: Richard Dearlove, David Gioe and Mike Goodman Speakers Sir Richard Dearlove, KCMG, OBE Richard Dearlove served as Chief (known as ‘C’) of the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, also known as MI6) from August 1999 until his retirement in July 2004. For the preceding fve years he was Director of Operations and, from 1998, Assistant Chief. Sir Richard is a career intelligence ofcer of 38 years standing and has served in Nairobi, Prague, Paris, Geneva, and Washington as well as in several key London-based posts. Between 2004 and 2015 Sir Richard was Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge and currently Chairs the Trustees of the University of London. Bernard Cazeneuve Bernard Cazeneuve is a lawyer and graduate of the Institute of Political Studies of Bordeaux. He has held several key posi- tions in the French Government including Prime Minister, Minister of the Interior, Minister for European Afairs, and Minister for the Budget. He was Minister of the Interior in January 2015 when France sufered a series of terrorist attacks which started with the assault on the ofces of the Charlie Hebdo magazine. He is currently a partner at the law frm Au- gust Debouzy. Professor Sir David Omand GCB After a distinguished government career in defence, security and intelligence, David Omand is now one of the leading fgures in shaping public debate on national security. He was the frst appointee, in 2002, to the re-vamped post of UK Se- curity and Intelligence Coordinator, responsible for the UK’s national counter-terrorism strategy and ‘homeland security’. He spent much of his earlier career in the Ministry of Defence, including as Director of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), Deputy Secretary for Policy, Under Secretary in charge of the defence programme, and Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State. He also served for three years in Brussels as Defence Counsellor to NATO and for seven years on the UK’s Joint Intelligence Committee. He is currently Visiting Professor at the War Studies Depart- ment, King’s College, London. Chris Inglis Chris Inglis is the former Deputy Director of the National Security Agency (NSA). He has twice served away from NSA Headquarters, frst as a visiting professor of computer science at the U.S. Military Academy (1991-1992) and later as the U.S. Special Liaison to the United Kingdom (2003-2006). Chris Inglis is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy and holds advanced degrees in engineering and computer science from Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, and the George Washington University. He is also a graduate of the USAF Air War College, Air Command and Staf College, and Squadron Ofcers’ School. His military career included nine years active service with the US Air Force and twenty-one years with the Air National Guard from which he retired as a Brigadier General in 2006. He holds the rating of Command Pilot and has commanded units at the squadron, group, and joint force headquarters levels. Sir Tony Brenton Tony Brenton is a distinguished British diplomat and writer on international issues. He joined the British Diplomatic Service in 1975 and, in the course of a 33 year career, served in the Arab world, the European Union, Russia and the USA, dealing with such issue as the Arab/Israel dispute, global climate change, international energy policy, and the Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq wars. He was a senior ofcial at the British Embassy in Washington DC following 9/11 and at the time of the Iraq war and served as British Ambassador in Moscow 2004-2008 during one of the most difcult periods in modern British/Russian relations. He is Director of the Russia British Chamber of Commerce and a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. Nigel Inkster CMG Nigel Inkster is the former director of operations and intelligence for the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, also known as MI6), and is currently the Director of Transnational Treats and Political Risk at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). He was educated at the University of Oxford and joined MI6 in 1975, serving in Beijing, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, and Bangkok, and rising to become deputy to SIS Chief Richard Dearlove. Angus Knowles-Cutler Angus Knowles-Cutler is Vice Chairman of Deloitte, Chinese Services Group Leader and London Ofce managing part- ner. He leads the frm’s work on the impact of technology on the workplace and is an adviser to the UK government and major businesses on the subject. He has a particular interest in how national governments are reacting in a range of ways to the major opportunities and signifcant risks presented and how automation might be fuelling both nationalism and globalisation at the same time. Professor Stefan Halper Stefan Halper has served four American presidents in the White House and Department of State and is an expert on US foreign policy, national security policy, China and Anglo-American relations. He was Executive Editor and host of “World- wise”, a nationally televised program on foreign and national security afairs from 1996-2000 and “Tis Week from Wash- ington”, a national radio program aired from 1985-2001. He is a Life Fellow of the Centre of International Studies, a Life Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and holds doctorates from both Oxford and Cambridge. Lord Wilson of Dinton, GCB During his early career in the Civil service Richard Wilson served in a number of departments including 12 years in the Department of Energy where his responsibilities included nuclear power policy and the privatisation of Britoil. He headed the Economic Secretariat in the Cabinet ofce under Mrs Tatcher from 1987-90 and after two years in the Treasury was appointed Permanent Secretary of the Department of the Environment in 1992. He became Permanent Under Secretary of the Home Ofce in 1994 and Secretary of the Cabinet and Head of the Home Civil Service from January 1998 until September 2002. He was Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge from 2002-12. He remains actively interested in the contribution of academic research to policymaking. Dr Tomas Maguire Dr Tomas Maguire is a Teaching Fellow in the King’s Intelligence and Security Group at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, and a Research Fellow at Darwin College and the Department of Politics and International Stud- ies (POLIS), University of Cambridge. Tom also teaches on the Cambridge Security Initiative’s International Security and Intelligence (ISI) specialist short-course. Awarded the Lisa Smirl Prize for best PhD thesis in his year at POLIS in 2015, his research forms the basis for a forthcoming monograph with Oxford University Press, Te intelligence-propaganda nexus: British and American covert action in Cold War Southeast Asia, 1948-1963. Tom’s ongoing research is examining British security assistance across the Global South since 1945 and the development of African states’ intelligence and security sec- tors. Tom was previously the John Garnett Visiting Fellow within the National Security & Resilience Studies programme at the Whitehall-based RUSI think tank, focusing on confict, violent extremism and organised crime in East Africa. Professor Brendan Simms Simms is a Professor of the History of International Relations in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge. Professor Simms lectures on the History of European Geopolitics and supervises MPhil and PhD theses for both POLIS and the Faculty of History, dealing primarily with German and British history in its interna- tional context and the history of humanitarian intervention. LCDR Joseph M. Hatfeld Ph.D. Dr. Joseph M. Hatfeld is an active-duty US naval intelligence ofcer with more than a decade of overseas operational experience, including an operational tour with Helicopter Squadron Five aboard the aircraft carrier USS EISENHOWER, working as an intelligence team lead at U.S. Africa Command, and leading as the staf intelligence ofcer for Commander Task Force sixty-seven in Sicily. He is currently the Associate Chair of the Department of Cyber Science at the U.S.