The University of Kent: BSIS International Conference 2017

The Disappearing State? Contested Governance in the 21st Century

6 - 7 April 2017

SPEAKERS

Day 1 – BUILDING BLOCKS: COMPLEMENTING THE STATE?

Keynote address:

Henri Malosse, 30th President of the European Economic and Social Committee

Henri Malosse is a French representative of the business world and the 30th president of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) (April 2013 – October 2015). He was involved in European policies for SMEs, inspiring the creation of the Euro Info Centres. He worked to create the delegation of the Assembly of French Chambers of Commerce and Industry

to the EU, and assumed its presidency 6 years later. He also created the European Association of SMEs in the European Parliament. He has been working since 1995 in the EESC (European Economic and Social Committee), a consultative body of the EU, of which he was elected president in April 2013. He is the author and co-author of more than 50 reports and several books, among which The History and Future of a Europe of the People with Laure Limousin (Ed. L'Harmattan, 2012), or We must save the European citizen ! - A « C plan » to a citizens' Europe with Bruno Vever (Ed. Bruylant 2010). In 2014, he participated in a march for human rights in China, and visited the 14th Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, before receiving the National Order of the Legion of Honor by the former President of the French Republic, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, in Brussels.

• Session 1 – The Development Dilemma: who's responsible for aid? 

Michel Laloge, Head of sector unit B2 - Civil Society Organisations and Local Authorities, DG DEVCO, European CommissionMichel Laloge has been working for more than twenty five years in ODA in several countries in Africa, Middle East and Asia. He is currently the head of Sector for local authorities at DG Development and international Cooperation in charge of implementing the Commission Communication on "Empowering Local Authorities in partner countries for enhanced governance and more effective development outcomes". With his team he is giving technical support to the EU delegation for formulating programmes and project on Local

Development, Decentralisation issues and Territorial Approach for Local Development.

Dr. Bojan Savic, Lecturer, Brussels School of International StudiesBojan Savić joined the Brussels School of International Studies as Lecturer in International Relations from Elon University, North Carolina.  Bojan received his PhD from the University of Kent at Brussels in 2012 and MA degrees in European Studies (University of Maastricht, 2007) and International Relations (European Institute, Nice, 2008) before joining Virginia Tech's National Capital Region campus in Alexandria, VA as a postdoctoral researcher. His MA and PhD research focused on the formal modeling of intra-alliance relations, culminating with a doctoral dissertation on post-Cold War transformations of

NATO’s civilian and military structures. His postdoctoral research has combined insights from Critical Security Studies, Critical Geopolitics and International Development.

Dr. Sylvia I. Bergh, Associate Professor in Development Management and Governance, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The HagueSylvia I. Bergh is Associate Professor in Development Management and Governance at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam. She completed both her D.Phil. in Development Studies and her M.Phil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford, having obtained an MA in Arabic and International Relations from the University of St. Andrews. Bergh has published in several journals,

including  Mediterranean Politics  and the  International Journal of Public Administration, and is author of The Politics of Development in Morocco: Local Governance and Participation in North Africa, ( I.B. Tauris, 2017). She also edited the book  The Redeployment of State Power in the Southern Mediterranean (London: Routledge, 2013). At the ISS, she leads a popular course on the Evaluation of Development Policies, Programs and Projects, and regularly works as an evaluation consultant. Before her academic career, she worked at the World Bank, both in the President’s Office in Washington DC and in the Morocco Country Office.

Samuel Cogolati, PhD Fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO), Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies

Samuel Cogolati (°1989) is a PhD Fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, University of Leuven, where he is writing his thesis on the legal implications of the global public goods and commons discourses on development cooperation. He is also a member of the   Community of Practice on Human Rights and Development under the World Bank's Global Forum on Law, Justice and Development. Samuel has published articles in journals including the Cambridge International Law Journal and World Bank Legal Review on global public goods, human rights and development. He has also co-authored a report on the rights of migrants in the Mediterranean for the European Parliament's Subcommittee on Human Rights. Samuel holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School where he was a Fulbright scholar and BAEF Cleary Gottlieb Fellow.

• Session 2 – The Taliban Shadow Justice: a challenge to the State or an opportunity to reinvent the judiciary?  

Dr. Ali Wardak, University of South Wales Dr.  Ali Wardak, who obtained his PhD degree from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, is a Reader in criminology at the University of South Wales, and a Fellow of the UK’s Higher Education Academy. His main teaching and research interests focus on comparative and transnational crime and justice, rule of law and the relationships between state and non-state justice systems. From 2006 to 2008, he worked for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Kabul, and co-authored the 2007 Afghanistan Human Development Report where a ‘hybrid model’ for post-

Taliban justice system in Afghanistan is proposed. Dr Wardak has collaborated closely with Professor John Braithwaite on Peacebuilding Compared research project that focuses on a study of ‘what works in peace building’ and on the causes of conflicts in 48 countries around the world. He is a Vice President of the South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology, and has been invited speaker at major conferences/forums in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the United States. Dr Wardak has published widely, and is the joint winner (with John Braithwaite) of the 2013 British Journal of Criminology Radzinowicz Prize. On winning the prize, Dr Wardak was congratulated by President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan through an official letter of tributes.

Dr. Antonio Giustozzi, London School of EconomicsDr. Antonio Giustozzi is an independent researcher born in Ravenna, Italy, who took his PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and is currently Visiting Professor at King’s College London. He is the author of several articles and papers on Afghanistan, as well as of five books, War, politics and society in Afghanistan, 1978-1992 (Georgetown University Press), Koran, Kalashnikov and laptop: the Neo-Taliban insurgency, 2002-7 (Columbia University Press), Empires of mud: war and warlords in Afghanistan (Columbia University Press), Policing Afghanistan (with M. Ishaqzada, Columbia University Press, 2013) and The army of Afghanistan (Hurst, 2016). He also authored a volume on the role of

coercion and violence in state-building, The Art of Coercion (Columbia University Press, 2011), one on advisory missions (Missionaries of modernity, Hust, 2016) and edited a volume on the Taliban, Decoding the New Taliban (Columbia University Press, 2009), featuring contributions by specialists from different backgrounds, and one on DDR processes, Post-conflict Demobilisation, Disarmament and Reintegration: bringing state-building back in (Ashgate, 2012). He is currently researching a project on the Islamic State in Central and South Asia.

Dr. Maria Mälksoo, Senior Lecturer in International Security, Brussels School of International Studies Maria Mälksoo (PhD, University of Cambridge, 2008) is Senior Lecturer in International Security at the Brussels School of International Studies, University of Kent where she convenes the MA in International Conflict and Security. Before joining the BSIS, Maria worked as Senior Researcher in International Relations at the University of Tartu in her native Estonia. She has been a visiting fellow at the Centre for International Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science (2015), Kone Foundation Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (2012), Mobilitas post-doctoral

fellow at the Institute of Government and Politics, University of Tartu (2010-2014), and a member of the HERA-funded international collaborative project Memory at War: Cultural Dynamics in Russia, Poland, and Ukraine (2010-2013). She has policy experience from the Estonian Ministry of Defence, International Centre for Defence Studies in Tallinn, and the Office of the President of Estonia. She currently serves as an editorial board member of International Political Anthropology and Contemporary Security Policy and is a member of the executive board of the CEEISA. Dr Mälksoo is the author of The Politics of Becoming European: A Study of Polish and Baltic Post-Cold War Security Imaginaries (London: Routledge, 2010) and a co-author of Remembering Katyn (Cambridge: Polity, 2012).

Dr. Orzala Ashraf Nemat, Director, Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit in Kabul Dr. Orzala Nemat is an Afghan scholar, an activist and expert in political ethnography, Dr Nemat’s key research interest includes political economy of governance and development. Her PhD research focused on studying local governance relations that results from external interventions. Born, lived and worked in Afghanistan (and for fourteen years in Pakistan as refugee), Dr Nemat experienced different aspect of life in varying

environments. Dr Nemat has over 17 years of experience in development research, practice, activism and women’s rights campaigns. Dr. Nemat holds MSc in Development Planning from University College London(UCL) and have completed her Doctorate level studies at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) titled: “Local Governance in the Age of Liberal Interventionism: Afghanistan’s governance relations in the post-2001 context”. Besides activism and research, Dr Nemat also convened teaching classes for BA and MA students in development studies at SOAS. She founded and served as HAWCA (An Afghan women led NGO) executive director between 1999-2007 and continued her role as women’s human rights and justice advocate, throughout her life. She also worked with various international organisations such as UNDP, ICCO, CMI etc. and served as executive board member for several networks of NGOs in Afghanistan. Dr. Nemat’s work and achievements is globally recognised. She received awards and recognitions from various institutions such as Amnesty International(Italy), Yale World Fellows (Yale University), Young Global Leaders (World Economic Forum), Kennedy School of Government and Oxford Said Business School. Her publications and writings are available online. After completion of her PhD and teaching classes, Dr Nemat returned to her home country to contribute her part in rebuilding of Afghanistan. In Kabul, she worked briefly as the president’s advisor on local governance and facilitated the process of sub-national governance policy formulation, then she joined AREU, an independent research think-tank as its director.

Huma Saeed, PhD Candidate, Leuven Institute of CriminologyA recipient of the Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Scholarship, Huma Saeed is a PhD candidate at the Leuven Institute of Criminology (University of Leuven), where her topic is “Economic- State Crime in Afghanistan at the Intersection of Transitional Justice and Criminology.” She has a MSc in Human Rights from the London of School of Economics and Political Science and a BA in Political Science from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (USA). She has worked with human rights and women’s rights organizations in Afghanistan, Pakistan and internationally as well as with the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Afghanistan. She has

published widely in international academic journals and books reflecting on her research and experiences in Afghanistan, including on transitional justice, economic-state crime and women and victims’ empowerment.

• Session 3 – Writing the textbooks in crisis situations: the Iraqi case

Jessica Oddy, War Child UK, London Prior to joining War Child, Jessica Oddy spent seven years designing, implementing and advising education and youth programs in protracted, urban and acute emergencies in the Middle East, Africa and most recently, the European refugee response. She has lead needs assessments and EiE Capacity building workshops in a variety of contexts and was formerly Education Co-Cluster Coordinator in Iraq and Whole of Syria. Jess is a trained teacher and has an MA International Humanitarian Action. Jess’s role as the EiE Advisor is to support the organisation as it scales up its

education programming. She is responsible for both driving and facilitating the development of War Child UK’s EiE strategy, advising and supporting country offices and partners in designing programmes, reviewing educational curriculum, improving approaches and ensuring high quality technical input based on international standards in current and future educational programme.

Dr. Zuhair Humadi, Visiting Lecturer at Kent State University in Florence, former General Director for the Higher Committee for Education Development in Iraq (HCED) and former Secretary General for the Council of Ministers (Iraq) Dr. Zuhair Humadi is a high ranking official in the Iraqi government, a renowned international educator, and a trusted advisor to state and national governments. His career is marked by many notable accomplishments, the highest of which is the Iraqi Education Initiative. Dr. Humadi has imprinted his vision and goals on this monumental endeavor for the benefit of the Iraqi people. A firm believer in excellent education for the young of an

emerging democracy, Dr. Humadi has already transformed the lives of many Iraqis through his concerted efforts in screening, guiding and placing students at the right colleges and universities in the US, UK and Australia. This powerful combination of personal experience, vision and hard work has already made an immeasurable impact on the lives and future of many Iraqi citizens. Dr. Humadi received NAFSA prestigious Cassandra Pyle award for Leadership and Collaborations in International Education Exchange in 2010. In addition, Dr. Humadi was instrumental in establishing an English Language Center as part of the Education Initiative, which has been operational since the summer of 2013. Dr. Humadi is also working towards the establishment of a Speech Pathology and Audiology center, which will be the first of its kind in Iraq. Fifty scholarships for the master’s

degree have been allocated for these two fields. Dr. Humadi served as the co-chairman of the Iraqi Fulbright Commission where his efforts have significantly increased Iraqi’s contributions to the Fulbright Visiting Student Program. He is also the principal founder of the Institute for Iraqi Studies at Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts. Lastly, Dr. Humadi was the Senior Advisor to Dr. Adel Abdel Mahdi, the ex-Vice President of Iraq. He was also an adviser to Iraqi Prime Minster Haider Al-Abadi and was the Secretary General of the Council of Ministers for the Iraqi Transitional Government of Dr. Eyad Allawi. He is frequently called upon to provide expert commentary on the politics of Iraq and the Middle East. Dr. Humadi possesses a Ph.D in Political Science from, and is a distinguished alumnus of, Southern Illinois University. Dr. Humadi has published many journal articles and was the author of Civil Society in Iraq in Richard Augustus Norton’s classical book on Civil Societies in the Middle East (1996). Today, he is a visiting lecturer at Kent State University, Florence campus.

Paulo Casaca, Executive Director, South Asia Democratic Forum, and former Member of the European Parliament (moderator)Founder and executive director of the “South Asia Democratic Forum”; founder of the international co-operation association registered in Brussels ARCHumankind, “Alliance to Renew Co-operation among Humankind”, founder of the consultancy company on sustainable development registered in Brussels, Lessmeansmore, Land and Energy Sustainable Systems, Fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the US in the first semester of 2010. Paulo

Casaca was a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2009 where, namely, he chaired the delegation for relations with NATO Parliamentary Assembly. He was a member of the national parliament in 1992-1993 and a member of the regional parliament of the Azores in 1990-1991. He was a Councillor in the Permanent Representation of Portugal to the European Union from 1996 to 1999, chief of staff of the Minister for Territorial Planning and Public Works in 1995/1996, economics advisor for the socialist fraction in the national parliament in 1989/1990, 1992, 1994/1995. Paulo Casaca was also an invited professor at the Technical University of Lisbon in 1995-1996. He lectured in the University of the Azores from 1980 to 1987 and in 1991 and in the Accounting High School in Lisbon from 1987 to 1989. Paulo Casaca is the author of several books and reports on economics and international politics.

• Session 4 – Beyond Internet access: Developing Countries and citizens' data protection

Jake Slosser, Researcher, Brussels School of International Studies (moderator) Jake Slosser started his PhD in Law in September 2014. Prior to this he earned his LLM in International Law and International Relations at the University of Kent, Brussels School of International Studies (BSIS) with Distinction. Before BSIS, Jake studied at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is originally from Los Angeles, California. His research interests include: Digital information law, internet law, privacy law, intellectual property law, legal ambiguity, legal categories, judicial interpretation, analogy and metaphor,

cognitive linguistics, and the intersection of Cognitive Science and Law. The working title of Jake’s PhD is: “On the Use of Cognitive Linguistics to Explore Legal Categories: Judicial Interpretation in the European Court of Justice’s Conception of Digital Information and Privacy.” He focuses on conceptual change in precedent in the European Court of Justice by using cognitive linguistics, namely conceptual metaphor theory, applied to digital privacy law.

Dr Gloria Gonzalez Fuster, Research Professor, Law Science Technology & Society (LSTS), Vrije Universiteit BrusselGloria González Fuster is a research professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)’s Faculty of Law and Criminology. Member of the Law, Science, Technology and Society (LSTS) Research Group, she investigates legal issues related to privacy, personal data protection and security, and lectures on fundamental rights and the European Union (EU) in the context of the Master of Laws in International and European Law (PILC) of VUB’s Institute for European Studies (IES). She is also faculty member of the Máster Universitario en Protección de Datos of the Universidad Internacional de La

Rioja and lecturer for the Master’s Degree on Technology and Privacy of Universitat de Girona and Eticas Research & Consulting, as well as Education Coordinator at the Brussels Privacy Hub (BPH).

Claire Lauterbach, Research Officer, Privacy International London

Claire leads the research and investigation team at Privacy International where she investigates the trade, use and abuse of surveillance and data technologies and their human rights impacts. Claire has previously worked for organisations including Human Rights Watch, Gender Action and Grain Media.

Day 2 – WHERE DOES THE RESPONSIBILITY LIE? DECONSTRUCTING GOVERNANCE IN CONFLICT AND MIGRATION  

Keynote address:

Dr Richard Lewis, Senior Research Fellow Migration & Diversity, Institute for European Studies (IES), Vrije Universiteit BrusselRichard Lewis' career, first in industry and later in the European Commission has always had a strong international outlook. Committed to European integration and trans-Atlantic relations, he also has had a strong dedication to human rights and conflict prevention. This arose especially after his three year's of work dealing with former Yugoslavia and then Roma issues. Later this led to six years of experience working with refugee and immigration related questions. In addition his subjects of

interest and research include the integration of migrants into their host societies, ethnic conflict resolution and urban studies relating to migration. In a career spanning nearly thirty years in the European civil service, Richard Lewis served in a variety of functions but notably in the Directorates General for External Relations, where he was involved in South Asian affairs, and Justice Freedom and Security. He has worked with or done consultative work for a number of international organisations, notably, the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the International Organisation for Migration. In the Autumn of 2008, Richard renewed his contacts with India and, during a Belgian

State Visit by King Albert II, was instrumental in the signature of Memoranda of Understanding between IES, Jawaharlal Mehru University and the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations. In 1996-7 he was European Union Fellow at Duke University and he is visiting Fellow at the Human Rights Centre, University of Essex. He now concentrates his academic work on migration and in particular, the integration of immigrants into European society.

• Session 5 – Forced migrants in Austria: who's responsible? 

Hannes Swoboda, Former Member of the European Parliament, AustriaHannes Swoboda was member of the European Parliament from 1996 to 2014 with focus on South-East Europe, Central Asia, Russia and Middle East and North Africa. From 2012 to 2014 he was President of the S&D Group at European Parliament. Today he acts as president or advisor of many european and foreign-policy institutes, p.e. as President of Institute for International Peace (Vienna), CDRSEE – Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe, Sir Peter Ustinov Institute (Vienna), Architekturzentrum Wien (Vienna), Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies and

Denk.Raum.Fresach, Vice-President of ÖTZ (Österreichisch Türkische Zusammenarbeit gemeinsam für Europa), Member of the board at Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue (Vienna), A Soul for Europe (Berlin), IFIMES - International Institute for Middle-East and Balkan Studies (Ljubljana). He is regular speaker at international conferences.

Monika Alamgir, Board Member, Train of Hope, ViennaMonika Alamgir studied islamic education at KPH/IRPA Vienna. She is a board member of Train of Hope – a private, religiously and politically independent civil society initiative, which was founded in September 2015. While the Austrian government was not taking action and failed in taking care of the thousands of refugees arriving in Vienna, Train of Hope stepped in - offering refugees assistance and support in a human, non-bureaucratic and open-minded way. As part of Train of Hope’s organization team, Monika contributed to fulfilling Train of Hope’s mission of giving hope to

refugees through an active welcoming culture based on voluntary commitment. Between September and December 2015, Monika and her fellow volunteers welcomed and supported approx. 300.000 refugees at Vienna’s main train station. Besides volunteering for Train of Hope, Monika works at an accommodation facility for refugees in Vienna.

Dr. Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels, Senior Lecturer in Migration and Politics, Brussels School of International Studies (moderator)Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels received her PhD in Government and MA in Germany and European Studies from Georgetown University, Washington, DC. She received an AB from Harvard University. Prior to teaching at the University of Kent, she held positions at the University of Münster (Germany) and at the International Organization for Migration. Since being at Kent, she has been Visiting Scholar at Harvard University's Center for European Studies 2012-13 and Visiting Professor at the

University of Vienna, in the Research Group Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion, in Autumn 2009. Her most recent publications include Migrants or Expatriates? Americans in Europe (Palgrave-

Macmillan, 2014), “‘The distance between us’: a comparative examination of the technical, spatial and temporal dimensions of the transnational social relationships of highly skilled migrants” (with Louise Ryan and Jon Mulholland) in Global Networks, “ ‘Gotta go visit family’: Reconsidering the relationship between tourism and transnationalism” (with Louise Ryan and Jon Mulholland) in Population, Space and Place and “Americans Abroad: A Disillusioned Diaspora?” (http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/americans-abroad-disillusioned-diaspora).

Dr Anna Bara, Project Officer, International Center for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), ViennaDr. Anna Bara is employed as a Project Officer, working in support of the Africa-EU Migration and Mobility Dialogue (MMD) at the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) in Vienna, Austria, and a visiting lecturer at the Brussels School of International Studies, Kent University, and the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena in Germany. She holds a PhD in History and Civilisation (2011) and a Master of Research (2004) from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, an MA degree (2003) in Central European History from the Central European

University in Budapest, Hungary, and a Diploma in History and Foreign Languages (2002) from the Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia. Previously, Dr. Bara partook in the INTERACT project at the Migration Policy Centre (MPC) of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), European University Institute. She also coordinated the activity of the Social-Political Module of the Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration (CARIM-East project) within the MPC. Her main research interests lie in the field of policy responses to migration in receiving, sending, and transit countries, including migrant smuggling. The social impact of migration, as well as various legal aspects thereof, constitute further areas of particular research interest. Dr. Bara has also worked on governmental responses to human trafficking, with a specific focus on post-conflict societies. In her capacity as a visiting lecturer at the Brussels School of International Studies, Kent University, she teaches the module Histories of International Conflict. At the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, she teaches courses on Law and History of International Conflicts and Policy and Governance in European and Global Migration.

• Session 6 – Armed Groups and Humanitarians: a de facto partnership? 

Rony Brauman, Director of Research at the Doctors Without Borders Foundation (CRASH), Associate Professor at the HCRI (University of Manchester) Qualified as a medical doctor, Rony Brauman has worked in the field of international medical assistance since 1977. Initially serving as a field physician in developing countries with Médecins Sans Frontières (France), he gained experience in the provision of medical humanitarian assistance in contexts of wars, refugee and IDP camps. He became the President of the organization from 1982 to 1994. He authored several documentary films, essays and books on these matters. He has been Associate Professor at the

Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Paris) from 2002 to 2015, and is currently Director of Research at the

MSF Foundation also in Paris, and Director of the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute in Manchester (UK).

Dr. Yvan Guichaoua Lecturer, Brussels School of International Studies (Moderator)Yvan Guichaoua joined the Brussels School of International Studies in September 2015 as convenor of the MA International Conflict and Security. Prior to this, from 2011, Yvan was a lecturer in International Politics at the University of East Anglia. He is also a former teaching fellow at Yale University and research officer at the University of Oxford. His focus is the dynamics of insurgency formation, rebel governance and state responses in Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali and Niger since 2004. Since 2007, Yvan

Guichaoua has been studying Tuareg recurring rebellions in Niger and Mali and the rise of Jihadism in the Sahel. His works pays close attention to the complex interactions between violent entrepreneurs, low level combatants and civilian populations shaping the success or failure of irregular armed groups as well as the forms of violence they perpetrate. Yvan engages regularly with the policy-making community (International Crisis Group, World Bank etc) and is frequently consulted by the media on the Sahelian crisis.

• Session 7 – Shifting the security monopoly: EU counterterrorism and the State 

Dr. Raphael Bossong, Research Associate at the German Institute for International and Security AffairsRaphael Bossong is Research Associate at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. His research interests span across the breadth of EU internal security cooperation, with a special emphasis on the governance of counterterrorism, borders security and disaster management. His recent publications include   Theorising EU Internal Security Cooperation (with Mark Rhinard; 2016, Oxford University Press) EU Borders and Shifting Internal Security(with Helena Carrapico; 2016, Springer International) and   European Civil Security Governance   (with Hendrik

Hegemann; 2015, Palgrave Macmillan).

Prof Thomas Renard, Senior Research Fellow, Egmont Institute (moderator)Thomas Renard is senior researcher at the Egmont Institute and Adjunct Professor at the Vesalius College, Free University of Brussels (VUB), both in Brussels. His research has focused mainly on terrorism issues and EU foreign policy. Prof Renard is a security analyst for the Belgian public broadcaster (RTBF), and a member of several ‘next generation leaders’ groups, in Belgium (King Baudouin Foundation), USA (Atlantic Council) and Korea (Korea Foundation). Prior to joining Egmont, Mr Renard worked as a journalist and analyst in Washington DC, and also headed the Brussels office of the Center on

Global Counterterrorism Cooperation. He graduated from the George Washington University, Universidad Salamanca and Université Catholique de Louvain.

Dr. Jamie Shea, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges, NATO

Jamie Shea is NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges. He has been working with NATO since 1980. Positions included Director of Policy Planning in the Private Office of the Secretary General, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for External Relations, Public Diplomacy Division, Director of Information and Press, Spokesman of NATO and Deputy Director of Information and Press, Deputy Head and Senior Planning Officer in the Policy Planning and Multilateral Affairs Section of the Political Directorate as well as Assistant to the Secretary General of NATO for Special Projects. Outside NATO, Jamie Shea is involved with several prominent academic institutions. He is Professor at the Collège d’Europe, Bruges, Visiting Lecturer in the Practice of Diplomacy, University of Sussex, Associate Professor of International Relations at the American University, Washington DC, where he also holds the position of Director of the Brussels Overseas Study Programme. He also lectures at the Brussels School of International Studies at the University of Kent and at the Security and Strategy institute of the University of Exeter, where he is an Honorary Fellow. He is also a Senior Transatlantic Fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States and a Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics, where he teaches a course on crisis management and political communication. He holds a D.Phil. in Modern History from Oxford University (Lincoln College), 1981. Amongst his many associations and memberships, Jamie Shea is a member of the Advisory Board, Security and Defence Programmes at Chatham House, a member of the Policy Council at the World Economic Forum in Geneva and founder and member of the Board, Security and Defence Agenda Brussels and Friends of Europe. He serves on the Board of the Danish Defence College, Copenhagen, and the Académie Diplomatique Internationale in Paris. Jamie Shea is a recipient of the Golden Eagle medal of the Republic of Albania and the Linden medal of the Czech Republic. He was European Communicator of the Year in 1999 and in 2016 was awarded the International Prize for Human Rights of the AAB University in Kosovo.

Claude Moniquet, CEO, European Strategic Intelligence and Security Center (ESISC)Claude Moniquet is a retired French journalist and a former intelligence agent at the French Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE), operating extensively in eastern Europe and the Balkans for more than twenty years. He is author of several specialized books and he is often called as a guest speaker in conferences organized by international institutions. Mr. Moniquet is ESISC’s CEO and co-founder along with

CEO Genovefa Etienne. He is specialized in the conception and direction of operations of human intelligence, analysis of terrorism, security issues and geopolitics.

Closing Keynote address:

Dr. Heike Schroeder, Senior Lecturer in Climate Change and International Development, School of International Development, University of East Anglia Heike Schroeder is a senior lecturer (associate professor) in climate change and international development at the School of International Development, University of East Anglia. Her work focuses on the UNFCCC process, forest governance and REDD+ and urban climate governance. She is a member of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, the Earth System Governance project under

Future Earth and IDDRI’s Scientific Council. Previously, Heike has held positions at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford and the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara. She holds a PhD in political science from the Free University of Berlin.