The ICT is proud to announce that the following speakers have already confirmed their participation in the 10th World Summit on Counter-Terrorism. The list of confirmed speakers is regularly updated as we recieve additional confirmations.
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Brig. Gen. (Res.) Asaf Agmon, Managing Director, The Fisher Institute for Air and Space Strategic Studies, Israel
Commissioner (Ret.) Shlomo Aharonishki, Former General Commissioner of the Police, Israel
Dr. Maria Alvanou, Criminologist & Lecturer, Hellenic Military Academy, Greece
Dr. Rateb Amro, Director General and Founder, Horizon Center for Studies and Research, Jordan
Brig. Gen. (Res.) Dani Arditi, Former Chairman, National Security Council, Israel
Prof. Moshe Arens, Former Minister of Defense and Foreign Affairs, Israel
Dr. Gil Ariely, Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO), ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Dr. Alfredo D'Ascoli Graziano, Head of Terrorism & Security Unit, Centre for Advanced Studies on Terrorism and Political Violence, Italy
Mr. Daniel Ayalon, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Israel
Mr. Ami Ayalon, Former Head of the Israel Security Agency (ISA)
Maj. Gen. Shahar Ayalon, Police Commander, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Dr. Col. (Ret.) Eitan Azani, Deputy Director, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Mr. Michael Balboni, Principal and Senior Vice-President, Government Solutions Group, Cardinal Point Strategies, Fellow, George Washington Policy Institute & Former Homeland Security Advisor for the State of New York, U.S.A.
Prof. William C. Banks, Director, Institute for National Security and Counter-Terrorism, Syracuse University, U.S.A.
Dr. Shmuel Bar, Director of Studies at the Institute of Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Ehud Barak, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, Israel
Mr. Yury Bardakhchiev, Head, Military-Political Studies Division, International Public Foundation Experimental Creative Center, Russian Federation
Ms. Yehudit Barsky, Director, Division on Middle East and International Terrorism, American Jewish Committee, U.S.A.
Mr. Philip Baum, Editor-in-Chief of Aviation Security International Magazine; Managing Director, Green Light Ltd, United Kingdom
Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Eitan Ben Eliyahu, Former Commander of the Israeli Air Force (IAF)
Dr. Barak Ben Zur, Lecturer, IDC Herzliya, and Former Senior Director, Israel Security Agency (ISA)
Prof. Ofra Bengio, Senior Research Fellow, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies & Professor, Department of Middle Eastern History, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Dr. John Bew, Co-Director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence and Lecturer in War Studies at King's College London, United Kingdom
Det. Insp. Greg Bowd, Head of Counter-Terrorism, Victoria Police Command, Australia
Prof. Avishay Braverman, Minister of Minority Affairs, Israel
Judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere, Former Head of Counter-Terrorism Unit of the Paris District Court and Former leading French Magistrate for Counter-Terrorism, France
Brig. Gen. Itay Brun, Head, Dado Center for Interdisciplinary Thinking, Israel
Mr. Bradley Burston, Senior Editor and Journalist, Haaretz, Israel
Mr. Giacomo Caliendo, Deputy Minister of Justice, Italy
Adv. Dvora Chen, Attorney at Law, Former Director of the Department of Security Matters, State Attorney's Office, Ministry of Justice, Israel
Commissioner Dudi Cohen, General Commissioner of Police, Israel
Prof. Geoffrey Corn, Associate Professor of Law, South Texas College of Law, Houston, U.S.A.
Prof. Evan Criddle, Assistant Professor of Law, Syracuse University, U.S.A.
Adv. Moty Cristal, Founder and CEO, NEST & Research Fellow, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel
H.E. James B. Cunningham, Ambassador of the United States of America to Israel
Mr. Jonathan Davis, Head of the Raphael Recanati International School, Vice President for External Relations, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Maj. Gen. Uzi Dayan, Former IDF Deputy Chief of Staff, Former National Security Adviser, Israel
MK Avi Dichter, Former Minister of Internal Security and Former Head of the Israeli Security Agency (ISA), Israel
Dr. Adam Dolnik, Director of Research Programs and Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Transnational Crime Prevention (CTCP), University of Wollongong, Australia
Maj. Gen. (Res.) Giora Eiland, Former Chairman, National Security Council, Israel
Dr. Karen Feste, Director, International Security Program, Graduate Director, Conflict Resolution Institute & Professor, Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, U.S.A.
Col. (Ret.) Jonathan Fighel, Senior Researcher, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Dr. Jonathan Fine, Research Fellow, ICT and Academic Advisor, Raphael Recanati International School, Program in Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Dr. Robert R. Friedmann, Director, Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange, U.S.A.
Dr. Boaz Ganor, Executive Director, ICT, Deputy Dean, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Mr. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Director, Center for the Study of Terrorist Radicalization, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, U.S.A.
Maj. Gen. (Res.) Amos Gilad, Head of the Political, Military and Policy Bureau, Ministry of Defense, Israel
Mr. Carmi Gillon, Former Head of the Israel Security Agency (ISA)
Adv. Brooke Goldstein, Director, The LAWFARE Project; Director, The Children's Rights Institute, U.S.A.
Dr. Sebastian Gorka, Irregular Warfare Department, College of International Security Affairs, National Defense University & Associate Fellow, Joint Special Operations University, U.S.A.
Dr. Rohan Gunaratna, Head of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Dan Halutz, Former Chief of Staff, IDF, Israel
Dr. Col. (Ret.) Thomas X. Hammes, Senior Research Fellow, National Defense University U.S.A
Commissioner (Ret.) Assaf Hefetz, Former General Commissioner of the Police, Israel
Mr. Eric Herren, Senior Consultant, ISSN and ICT, Switzerland
Mr. Michael Hopmeier, President, Unconventional Concepts, Inc., U.S.A.
Mr. Ehud Ilan, Former Head of the Investigation Division, ISA, Israel
Prof. Efraim Inbar, Director, Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Mr. Mathew Kirai Iteere, Commissioner of Police, Kenya
Maj. Gen. (Ret.) David Ivri, President of Boeing Israel and Former Deputy Chief of Staff, IDF, Israeli Ambassador to the US and National Security Advisor, Israel
Mr. Meir Javedanfar, Director, The Middle East Economic and Political Analysis Company, Israel
Mr. Shanaka Jayasekara, Associate Lecturer (Research) at the Centre for Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism (PICT) at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.
Prof. Eric T. Jensen, Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Law, Fordham University, U.S.A.
Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Avigdor Kahalani, Former Minister of Internal Security, Israel
Dr. Ely Karmon, Senior Research Scholar, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Prof. Asa Kasher, Laura Schwarz-Kipp Chair in Professional Ethics and Philosophy of Practice, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Prof. Ehud Keinan, President of the Israel Chemical Society, Professor of Chemistry and Former Dean, the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion, Israel
Col. Richard Kemp, Former Commander of the British Forces in Afghanistan, United Kingdom
Dr. Peter Knoope, Director, International Centre for Counter-Terrorism, The Hague, The Netherlands
Adv. Irit Kohn, Former Head of the International Department, Ministry of Justice, Israel
Prof. Martin Kramer, Senior Fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, and President-designate of Shalem College, Israel
Prof. Arie Kruglanski, Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park and co-director START, National Institute for the Study of Terrorism and the Response to Terrorism, U.S.A.
Brig. Gen. (Res.) Yosef Kuperwasser, Deputy-Director General, Ministry of Strategic Affairs, Israel
Dr. Irina Kurginyan, Senior Analyst , International Public Foundation Experimental Creative Center, Russian Federation
Dr. Sergey Kurginyan, President, International Public Foundation Experimental Creative Center, Russian Federation
Lt. Col. (Res.) Guermantes Lailari, Subject Matter Expert - Irregular Warfare, U.S.A.
Dr. Uzi Landau, Minister of National Infrastructures, Israel
Prof. Ella Landau-Tasseron, Lecturer on Islam and Middle Eastern Studies, The Hebrew University, Israel
Dr. Anat Lapidot-Firilla, Academic Director, Mediterreanean Neighbors Unit, Van Leer Institute, Israel
Mr. Omer Laviv, Chief Executive Officer, Athena GS3, Israel
Dr. Ariel (Eli) Levite, Nonresident Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, U.S.A.
Dr. Meir Litvak, Senior Researcher, Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Mr. Arie Livne, Former Head of the Investigations Division, Head of the Southern Command, and member of the Executive Committee, Israel Security Agency, Israel
MK Tzipi Livni, Chairperson of the Kadima Movement and Chairperson of the Opposition, Israel
Prof. Marco Lombardi, Associate Professor at the Università Cattolica and Project Manager of the Italian Team for Security, Terroristic Issues & Managing Emergencies (ITSTIME), Italy
Col. (Res.) Adv. Lior Lotan, Former Executive Director, and Senior Researcher, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Dr. Amichai Magen, Managing Director, Institute on Democracy, Law and Diplomacy and Associate Fellow, The Shalem Center, Israel
Mr. Shiraz Maher, Senior Fellow, International Center for the Study of Radicalization (ICSR), King’s College London, United Kingdom
Dr. Moshe Maoz, Professor of the History of the Middle East, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel
Lt. Gen. Giovanni Marizza, Former Deputy Commander of the Multinational Corps in Iraq, Italy
Prof. Ariel Merari, Professor, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Mr. Dan Meridor, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Intelligence and Atomic Energy, Israel
Prof. Alex Mintz, Dean of the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel
Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Shaul Mofaz, Former Minister of Defense and Former Chief of Staff, IDF, Israel
Col. (Res.) Shlomo Mofaz, Research Associate, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Mr. Denis Monette, Chairman of STARCOM (Stop Terrorism Aggressive Response Coordinated Operational Management) and Former Assistant Commissioner of Police, Nassau, New York, U.S.A.
Commander (Col.) Ilan Mor, Head Operations, Tel-Aviv District, Israel Police
MP Fiamma Nirenstein, Vice-President of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Chamber of Deputies, Italy
Dr. Vladimir Novikov, Senior Analyst, International Public Foundation Experimental Creative Center, Russian Federation
Brig. Gen. (Res.) Nitzan Nuriel, Director, Counter-Terrorism Bureau, Israel
Maj. (Res.) Aviv Oreg, Founder and general Manager of CeifiT, Israel
Mr. Jonathan S. Paris, Associate Fellow, International Center for the Study of Radicalization (ICSR), King’s College London, United Kingdom
Prof. David Passig, Futurist and Head of the Graduate Program in ICT and Education, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Dr. Reuven Paz, Director, Project for the Research of Islamist Movements (PRISM), GLORIA Center, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Mr. Hagai Peleg, Director-General, Ministry of Public Security, Israel
Mr. Yaakov Peri, Former Head of the Israeli Security Agency, Israel
Ms. Keli Perrin, Assistant Director, Institute for National Security and Counter-Terrorism (INSCT), Syracuse University, U.S.A.
Dr. Daniel Pipes, Director, The Middle East Forum, U.S.A.
Mr. Peter S. Probst, Senior Partner, National Security Associates Worldwide and Member of the Advisory Board, ICT, U.S.A.
Mr. Don Radlauer, Researcher, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Dr. Magnus Ranstorp, Research Director of the Centre for Asymmetric Threat Studies at the Swedish National Defense College, Sweden
Prof. Uriel Reichman, President, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Prof. Fernando Reinares, Professor of Political Science and Security Studies, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Principal Researcher on International Terrorism, Real Instituto Elcano, Madrid, Spain
Mrs. Daphné Richemond-Barak, Lecturer, Radzyner School of Law, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Dr. Randall G. Rogan, Associate Dean, Wake Forest University, U.S.A.
Congressman Mike Rogers, Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee on Terrorism, U.S.A.
Mr. Rafi Ron, CEO, NASS & Former Director of Security, Ben Gurion Airport, Israel
Maj. Gen. (Res.) Danny Rothschild, Director, Institute of Policy and Strategy, Israel
Dr. Greg Rose, Professor Faculty of Law & Research Fellow with the Institute for Transnational and Maritime Security, University of Wollongong, Australia
Dr. Harvey Rubin, Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Computer Science & Director, Institute for Strategic Threat Analysis and Response (ISTAR), University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Col. Behram A. Sahukar, Research Fellow, United Service Institution, India
Mr. David Saranga, Former Consul for Media and Public Affairs at the Consulate General in New York and Adjunct Faculty at Sammy Ofer School of Communication, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Mr. Shmuel Sasson, Former Director of Security, El Al Airlines & Research Associate, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Dr. David Scharia, Legal Officer, Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate (CTED) of the UN Security Council
Mr. Hagai M. Segal, Lecturer, New York University in London, Analyst and consultant on Middle-Eastern affairs and terrorism, London First Security & Policing Advisory Board member, United Kingdom
Dr. Charles Selengut, Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Liberal Arts, County College of Morris, U.S.A.
Ms. Yael Shahar, Senior Researcher, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Mr. Prakhar Sharma, Post-Graduate Associate, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University, U.S.A.
Mr. Shabtai Shavit, Chairman of the Board of Directors, ICT, IDC Herzliya; Former Head of the Mossad, Israel
Dr. Col. (Res.) Shaul Shay, Head of Security Policy Division, National Security Council; Senior Research Fellow, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Dr. Gary Shiffman, Director of Homeland Security Studies, Center for Peace and Security Studies, Georgetown University, U.S.A.
Senator Vladimir Sloutsker, Member, Federation Council of Russia's Federal Assembly & Former President, Russian Jewish Congress and Vice-President, European Jewish Congress, Russian Federation
Mr. Lee Smith, Visiting Fellow, Hudson Institute, U.S.A.
Brig. Gen. (Res.) Amnon Sofrin, Former Head of Intelligence Directorate, ISIS, Israel
Mr. Erroll Southers, Associate Director, National Center for Risk & Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) & Adjunct Professor of Homeland Security and Public Policy, University of Southern California, U.S.A.
Mr. Tommy Steiner, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Dr. Howard Stoffer, Deputy Executive Director, Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), United Nations
Mr. Muhadi Sugiono, Director, Center for Security and Peace Studies, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
Dr. Micha'el M. Tanchum, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Zionist and Middle East Studies, The Shalem Center, Israel
Dr. Joshua Teitelbaum, Principal Research Associate, Global Research in International Affairs Center (GLORIA), IDC Herzliya, Israel
Dr. Darko Trifunovic, Professor, Faculty of Security Studies, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Dr. Lorenzo Vidino, Fellow at the Initiative on Religion in International Affairs, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and a Peace Scholar at the U.S. Institute of Peace, U.S.A.
Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Matan Vilnai, Deputy Defense Minister, Israel
Dr. Abraham Wagner, Professor of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University; Senior Research Fellow, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, NY, U.S.A.
Mr. Richard Warnes, Analyst, Defence and Security Team, RAND Europe, U.K.
Prof. Gabriel Weimann, Department of Communications, University of Haifa, Israel
Mr. Aaron Weisburd, Director, Society for Internet Research, U.S.A.
Mr. Michael Whine, Director, Government & International Affairs at the Community Security Trust, U.K.
Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Moshe Yaalon, Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Strategic Affairs, Israel
Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Danny Yatom, Former Head of the Mossad, Israel
Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Aharon Ze'evi-Farkash, Former Head, Military Intelligence Directorate, Israel
Dr. Ronen Zeidel, Director of Research, Center for Iraq Studies, University of Haifa, Israel
Prof. Eyal Zisser, Dean, Faculty of Humanities & Director of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Dr. Corri Zoli, Research Fellow, Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism, Syracuse University, U.S.A.