SDA Header

Security Jam Navigation Toolbar

Security Jam VIP Programme

Click on the clock icon to save a reminder to your calendar application

Participating at various times throughout the Jam

General Stéphane Abrial, NATO Supreme Allied Commander Transformation 

Major General Muniruzzaman, Founder and President of Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies (BIPSS)

Jean-François Bureau, NATO Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy

Henk Geveke, Director of the National, Safety and Security Department, Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, The Netherlands

Lt. Gen. David Leakey, Director General, European Union Military Staff (EUMS)

Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch

Bogusław Sonik, Vice-Chairman of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, European Parliament

Thursday, 4 February

Time


Name

Forum

12:00 CET Click here to set a reminder

Giles Merritt, Security and Defence Agenda

Political Context

 

Click here to set a reminder

Pierre Reuland, INTERPOL, Special Representative to the European Union

Piracy

12:30 CET 

Click here to set a reminder

Carl Bildt, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sweden

Political Context

 

Click here to set a reminder

Ambassador Dmitry Rogozin, Mission of the Russian Federation to NATO

Political Context 

13:30 CET

Click here to set a reminder

Admiral James Stavridis, Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR)

Political Context, Capabilities & Budgets, Development and Piracy

14:00 CET

Click here to set a reminder

Laima Liucija Andrikiené, Vice Chairwoman, European Parliament Committee on Human Rights

Human Rights 

15:00 CET

Click here to set a reminder

Hans Tino Hansen, Managing Director and CEO, Risk Intelligence

Piracy

16:00 CET

Click here to set a reminder

Steven Erlanger, Paris Bureau Chief, The New York Times

Rising Powers

17:00 CET

Click here to set a reminder

Ambassador Robert Hunter (ret), Rand Corporation Washington Office, Former US Ambassador to NATO

Comprehensive Approach

18:00 CET

Click here to set a reminder

Pertti Salolainen, Chairman, National Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee, Finland

Political Context

 Friday, 5 February

Time
Name                                                                     Forum

7:00 CET

Click here to set a reminder

John A. Heffern, Deputy Permanent Representative, United States Mission to NATO

Political Context

10:00 CET

Click here to set a reminder

Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, Secretary General, OSCE                                                     

Comprehensive Approach 

11:00 CET

Click here to set a reminder

Jacqueline McGlade, Director of the European Environment Agency

Environmental Security


Click here to set a reminder

Ioan Mircea Paşcu, Vice Chairman of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs, Former Romanian Minister of Defence

Rising Powers

12:00 CET

Click here to set a reminder

Mark Pyman, Director, International Defence and Security Programme, Transparency International

Comprehensive Approach
(also Afghanistan at 13:00)

 

Click here to set a reminder

Wahu Kaara, Social Justice Activist, Former Ecumenical Coordinator for the MDGs

Environmental Security

14:00 CET

Click here to set a reminder

Sheelagh Stewart, Head of the Stabilisation Unit, UK Government 

Capabilities & Budgets 

15:00 CET

Click here to set a reminder

Miroslav Lajčák, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic

Comprehensive Approach


Vice Admiral Dennis McGinn (ret), CNA Military Advisory Board

Environment


Jaroslaw Pietras, Director General, Directorate General for Environment, Health, Consumers, Education and Culture, Council of the European Union

Environment

17:00 CET

Click here to set a reminder

Professor Michael T. Klare, Professor and Director of the Five College Program in Peace
and World Security Studies (PAWSS), Hampshire College

Political Context

19:00 CET

Click here to set a reminder Anne-Marie Slaughter, Director of Policy Planning, United States Department of State

Political Context

 Sunday, 7 February

Time
Name Forum

13:00 CET

Click here to set a reminder

Ana Maria Gomes, Member of the European Parliament

Afghanistan

22:00 CET   Mohamed Gilao,Political Advisor for Peace and Security, Transitional Federal Government of Somalia Piracy

 Monday, 8 February

Time
Name  Forum 
10.30 CET
  Ambassador Song Zhe, Ambassador of China to the European Union
Environmental Security

11:30 CET

Click here to set a reminder

Rasa Juknevičienė, Minister of Defence, Lithuania

Comprehensive Approach

12:00 CET Click here to set a reminder Giorgi  Baramidze, Vice Prime Minister of Georgia Political Context

 

Click here to set a reminder

Fernando Perpiñá-Robert Peyra, Secretary General of Club of Madrid

Human Rights

14:00 CET

Click here to set a reminder

Admiral Mark Fitzgerald, Commander JFC Naples and U.S. Naval Forces, Europe (COMUSNAVEUR)

Comprehensive Approach

  Click here to set a reminder

Ambassador William E. Kennard, US Ambassador to the European Union and former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission

Political Context

15:00 CET

Click here to set a reminder

General Vincenzo Camporini, Chief of Defence, Italy

Crisis Preparedness


Click here to set a reminder

Ambassador Grigol Mgaloblishvili, Permanent Representative of Georgia to NATO, Former Georgian Prime Minister

Political Context

15:30 CET

Click here to set a reminder

Sherri Goodman, Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, CNA, Former Deputy US Undersecretary of Defense

Environmental Security

16:00 CET     


Pieter De Crem, Minister of Defence, Belgium



Click here to set a reminder

Rear Admiral Neil Morisetti, Climate and Energy Security Envoy of the UK Ministry of Defence and Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Environmental Security


Click here to set a reminder

Karel Kovanda, Deputy Director General, European Commission Directorate General for External Relations

Political Context

17:00 CET

Click here to set a reminder

Ana Palacio, Former Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs

Political Context

 

Click here to set a reminder

Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola, Chairman of the Military Committee, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)

Comprehensive Approach

19:00 CET

Click here to set a reminder

Jakkie Cilliers, Executive Director, Institute of Security Studies

Comprehensive Approach


19:15 CET

 

Click here to set a reminder Radhika Coomaraswamy, Under-Secretary-General and Special Representative for
Children and Armed Conflict, United Nations
Political Context

 Tuesday, 9 February

Time
Name Forum 
9.00 CET Click here to set a reminder

Piercarlo Valtorta, Secretary General of ISTRID (Italian Institute of Defence Studies, Research and Information)

Human Rights

10:00 CET

Click here to set a reminder

Krzysztof Lisek, Vice Chairman, European Parliament Committee on Security and Defence

Political Context

11:00 CET

Click here to set a reminder

Jaap de Hoop Scheffer , Former NATO Secretary General

Afghanistan

12:15 CET

Click here to set a reminder

Giorgi Kandelaki, Deputy Chairman, Head of the Parliamentary Delegation of Georgia at NATO, Parliamentary Assembly, National Parliament of Georgia

Rising Powers

13:55 CET

Click here to set a reminder

Marleen Temmerman, Chairwoman, Committee on External Relations and Defence, Senate, Belgium

Development

14:00 CET Click here to set a reminder Josette Sheeran Executive Director, World Food Programme

Development

14:30 CET

Click here to set a reminder

Ambassador Kai Eide, United Nations Special Representative to Afghanistan, United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA)

Afghanistan

15:15 CET

Click here to set a reminder

General Håkan Syrén, Chairman of the European Military Committee (EUMC)

Capabilities and Budgets

Click here to set a reminder

Charles Goerens, Member of the Committee on Development, European Parliament

Development

17:30 CET

Click here to set a reminder

Heidi Hautala, Chairwoman, Subcommittee on Human Rights, European Parliament

Human Rights

18:30 CET

Click here to set a reminder

Alain Hubert, Founder and President International Polar Foundation

Environmental Security