Confirmed Speakers
With the conference date rapidly approaching, the International Institute for Counter Terrorism is currently in the process of assembling workshops and defining the conference schedule. The ICT is proud to announce that the following speakers have already confirmed their participation:
Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Orit Adato, First International Vice President, International Correction and Prison Association (ICPA), Former Commissioner, Israeli Prison Service, Israel
Dr. Maria Alvanou, Senior Analyst, Research Institute for European and American Studies, Greece
Mr. Dominique R. Antonini, Director of Business Development, AVS&C, Switzerland
Dr. Ron Avi Astor, Professor, University of Southern California, Schools of Social Work and Education, U.S.A.
Maj. Gen. Shahar Ayalon, Deputy Commissioner, Israel Police, Israel
Dr. Col. (Ret.) Eitan Azani, Deputy Director, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Prof. William C. Banks, Director, Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism, Syracuse University, U.S.A.
Mr. Alain Bauer, President of the Strategic Security mission to the President, Criminologist, France
Mr. Philip Baum, Editor-in-Chief of Aviation Security International Magazine; Managing Director, Green Light Ltd, U.K.
Mr. Udi Bechor, General Manager, MTRS3 Ltd., Israel
Prof. Rami Benbenishty, Professor, Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Lt. Col. (Res.) Ron Ben-Yishai, Columnist on Security Matters, Yediot Aharonot, Israel
Dr. Barak Ben-Zur, Research Associate, ICT; Lecturer, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Lt. Col. (Ret.) Patrick Bettane, Former Chief of Water Security - Israel Defense Forces, Strategic Consultant of Suez Environment, Israel
Dr. Joseph Bollag, Founder and Chairman, Institute for Security Analysis and Strategic Networking, Switzerland
Mr. Thierry Bourbie, CEO of PharmaLeads, France
Dr. Danny Brom, Founding Director, Israel Center for the Treatment of Psychotrauma, Herzog Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
Mr. Stanislav Cadjo, Minister of the Interior, Republika Srpska Government, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mr. Yigal Carmon, Founder and President, Middle East Media Research Institute, Israel
Mr. Sydney Chau, General Manager, Aviation Security Co. Ltd., China
Adv. Dvora Chen, Attorney at Law, Former Director of the Department of Security Matters, State Attorney's Office, Ministry of Justice, Israel
Prof. Hiram Chodosh, Dean, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah, U.S.A.
Ms. Michele Coninsx, Vice President, Eurojust (a European Judicial Co-operation Body), Hague, Netherlands
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean, Simon Wiesenthal Center, U.S.A.
Dr. Geoff Corn, Associate Professor of Law, South Texas College of Law, U.S.A.
Ms. Valerie Lannet de Courten, Counter-Terrorism Unit, France
Mr. Jonathan Davis, Head of the Raphael Recanati International School, Vice President for External Relations, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Mr. Michael P. Downing, Deputy Chief Commanding Officer, Counter-Terrorism and Criminal Intelligence Bureau, Los Angeles Police Department, U.S.A.
Mr. Oded Distal, Director, Israel Newtech, Ministry of Industry Trade & Labor, Israel
Mr. Mark Dubowitz, Executive Director, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, U.S.A.
Det. (Ret.) Mordecai Dzikansky, Former NYPD Intelligence Division Overseas Liaison to the Israel National Police, NYPD, U.S.A.
Gen. (Ret.) Giora Eiland, Former Head of the Israeli National Security Council and Former National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, Israel
Dr. Gil Feiler, Senior Researcher, Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University; Managing Director, Info-Prod Research, Israel
Col. (Ret.) Jonathan Fighel, Senior Researcher, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Dr. Jonathan Fine, Research Fellow, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Prof. Sir Lawrence Freedman, Professor of War studies and Vice Principal of Research, King's College, London, U.K.
Prof. Robert Friedmann, Professor of Criminal Justice and Distinguished Chair of Public Safety Partnerships, Georgia State University, U.S.A.
Mr. Franck Galland, Vice President of Corporate Security, Suez Environment, France
Dr. Boaz Ganor, Executive Director of ICT, Deputy Dean of the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Ms. Yael German, Mayor of Herzliya, Israel
Maj. Gen. Yair Golan, GOC Homefront Command, Israel
Prof. Bob de Graaff, Director, Centre for Terrorism and Counterterrorism, Campus The Hague, Leiden University, Netherlands
Prof. Emanuel Gross, Professor at Faculty of Law, University of Haifa, Israel
Prof. Amos Guiora, Professor, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah, U.S.A.
Dr. Rohan Gunaratna, Head of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Mr. Tony Heal, Deputy Head of the PREVENT Unit, UK Office of Security and Counter Terrorism (OSCT), U.K.
Mr. Eric Herren, Research Associate, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Mr. Shanaka Jayasekara, Associate Lecturer, Centre for Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism (PICT), Macquarie University, Australia
Maj. Gen. Wisith Jeangprajah, Director General, Strategic Research Institute, National Defense Studies Institute, Thailand
Baroness Pauline Neville Jones, Shadow Security Minister, U.K.
Mr. Walter Jordan, Principal Special Agent, Mobile Teams, Amtrak Special Operations Division, U.S.A.
Dr. Ely Karmon, Senior Research Scholar, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Mr. Bill Kelly, Former Deputy Commissioner, Victoria Police, Australia
Mr. Michael B. Kraft, Counterterrorism Consultant, Writer, and former State Department Counterterrorism Official, U.S.A.
Mr. Gilles de Kerchove, Counter-Terrorism Coordinator, General Secretariat, European Union
Mr. Haim Koren, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Israel
Dr. Sergey Kurginyan, President, International Public Foundation Experimental Creative Center, Russian Federation
General (Ret.) Antoine Lahad, Former Commander of the South Lebanese Army (SLA), Israel
Dr. Uzi Landau, Former Minister of Internal Security and Member of the Israeli Knesset (Likud Party), Israel
Mr. Omer Laviv, C.E.O., Athena GS3 Security Implementations Ltd., Israel
Mr. Dovev Levinson, C.E.O., Whitewater Security, Israel
Dr. Matthew Levitt, Senior Fellow and Director, Washington Institute's Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, U.S.A.
RADM (Ret.) Manuel Lora, Former Vice Chief of Staff of the Navy, Peru
Col. (Res.) Adv. Lior Lotan, Former Executive Director, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Maj. Gen. Dov Lutzky, Head of Operations, Israeli Prison Service, Israel
Mr. Shiraz Maher, Senior Research Fellow, Policy Exchange, London, U.K.
Mr. Cliff May, President, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, U.S.A.
Gen. Montgomery C. Meigs, Visiting Professor of Strategy & Military Operations, Georgetown University, U.S.A.
Dr. Dirk Merckx, Team Leader, Middle East and North Africa Team, Terrorism Prevention Branch, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Austria
Mr. Hans Meurisse, General Director, Belgian Prison Service, Belgium
Prof. Mario Mikulincer, Dean, New School of Psychology, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Mr. Denis Monnette, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Nassau, New York, U.S.A.
Dr. Hilly Moodrick-Even Khen, Assistant Professor of Law, Sha’arei Mishpat College, Israel
Mr. Luis Moreno, Deputy Chief of Mission, United States Embassy in Israel, U.S.A.
Dr. Daniel Moro, Chief Editor of the flagship news program TG5, Italy
Mr. Joel Mowbray, Syndicated Columnist, Knight-Ridder Tribune, U.S.A.
Mr. Yassin Musharbash, Terrorism Analyst, Spiegel Online, Berlin, Germany
Mr. David Nahmias, United States Attorney, Northern District of Georgia, U.S.A.
MK Benjamin Netanyahu, Former Prime Minister of Israel, Leader of the Opposition, The Knesset, Israel
Dr. Peter Neumann, Director, International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR), U.K.
Brig. Gen. (Res.) Nitzan Nuriel, Director, Counter Terrorism Bureau, Israel
Mr. Jonathan S. Paris, Adjunct Fellow, Hudson Institute, London, U.K.
Dr. Ruth Pat-Horenczyk, Director, Child and Adolescent Clinical Services, Israel Center for the Treatment of Psychotrauma, Herzog Hospital, Israel
Dr. Gustavo Perednik, Visiting Professor, UCEMA University of Argentina, Israel
Dr. Daniel Pipes, Director, The Middle East Forum, U.S.A.
Dr. Angel Rabasa, Senior Policy Analyst, RAND, U.S.A.
Mr. Don Radlauer, Researcher, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Mr. Gilad Rafaeli, Director of Projects and Consulting Services, MTRS3 Ltd., Israel
Dr. Magnus Ranstorp, Research Director, Center for Asymmetric Threat Studies, Swedish National Defence College, Sweden
Prof. Uriel Reichman, President, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Prof. Fernando Reinares, Director, Program on Global Terrorism, Elcano Royal Institute, Madrid, Spain
Col. Adv. Daniel Reisner, Former Head of the International Law Branch, IDF Legal Division, Israel
Ms. Daphne Richemond-Barak, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Dr. Greg Rose, Associate Professor, Centre for Transnational Crime Prevention University of Wollongong, Australia
Col. Behram Sahukar, Research Fellow, United Service Institution, India
Mr. Udi Segall, Senior Product Marketing Manager, NICE Systems, Israel
Ms. Yael Shahar, Director, Database Project, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Mr. Shabtai Shavit, Former Head of the Mossad and Chairman of the Board of Directors, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Dr. Col. (Res.) Shaul Shay, Head of Security Policy Division, National Security Council; Senior Research Fellow, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Mr. Pini Shif, CEO, Organization of Israeli Security Companies, Israel
Dr. Joshua Sinai, Program Manager for Counter-Terrorism Studies, The Analysis Corporation, U.S.A.
Rep. Adam Smith, Chairman, Congressional Subcommittee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities, U.S.A.
Brig. Gen. (Res.) Amnon Sofrin, Former Head of Intelligence Directorate, ISIS, Israel
Mr. Erroll Southers, Associate Director for Educational Programs, CREATE, U.S.A.
Dr. David Spencer, Combating Terrorism Chair, Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, National Defense University, Washington D.C., U.S.A.
Mr. Howard Stoffer, Director, Management and Operations, Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate, United Nations
Dr. Andrew Tan, Associate Professor in International Studies, University of New South Wales, Australia
Dr. Moshe Terdman, Research Analyst, Orient Research Group Ltd; Senior Research Fellow, PRISM, GLORIA Center, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Mr. Jack Thomas Tomarchio, Deputy Under Secretary for Operation, Department of Homeland Security, Office of Intelligence & Analysis, U.S.A.
Dr. Darko Trifunovic, Professor, Faculty of Security Studies, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Mr. Eliezer (Geizi) Tsafrir, Former Senior Executive, Shabak (ISA) and Mossad; Former Advisor to the Prime Minister on Arab Affairs, Israel
Mr. David Tsur, Former Chief Police Commander of Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Mr. Aviad Tur-Sinai, PhD. Candidate, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Dr. Abraham Wagner, Professor of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University; Senior Research Fellow, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, NY, USA
Mr. Stefan Wailand, German Federal Intelligence Service (BND), Germany
Mr. Jeffrey B. Walker, Legal Attaché, U.S. Embassy in Israel, U.S.A.
Mr. Richard Warnes, Analyst on the Defence and Security Team, RAND Europe, U.K.
Mr. Mark Weitzman, Director, Task Force Against Hate and Chief Representative to the United Nations, Simon Wiesenthal Center, U.S.A.
Mr. Michael Whine, Director, Government & International Affairs at the Community Security Trust, U.K.
Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, Head of the Israeli Military Intelligence Directorate, IDF, Israel
Adv. Avner Yarkoni, Former Head of the Civilian Aviation Authority, Israel
Prof. Eyal Zisser, Director, The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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