Global Defence and Security Challenges – Fall Conference

Fall 2015 Conference

The NATO Association of Canada’s Fall Conference on November 10, 2015 will provide an opportunity for members of the Canadian defence community to discuss Canada’s defence engagement in the world, specifically as it relates to Canada’s ongoing commitments to NATO and the impact of the 2014 NATO Wales Summit.

Representatives from the Department of National Defence, NATO, foreign governments, and academics will discuss security issues and international collaboration at the Lester B. Pearson Building in Ottawa. Several panels and speakers will be discussing the challenges and opportunities NATO faces in terms of international security, including its ongoing operations in Afghanistan (including the Resolute Support Mission) and the impact of the NATO Readiness Action plan. Members of the general public who wish to learn more about international security are also welcome to attend.

Speakers include:

Hugh-SegalHugh Segal, Chair of the NATO Association of Canada, has spent four decades in the public, private, academic, and not-for-profit sectors. The current Master of Massey College (University of Toronto), he was a former Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister in the 1990s and retired in 2014 from the Canadian Senate, where he served as Chair of the Standing Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade.

 

raynell-andreychukSenator Raynell Andreychuk presently chairs the Standing Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade. She is also Chair of the Ukraine-NATO Inter-parliamentary Council (UNIC) of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (PA) and serves as Vice-President of NATO PA’s Mediterranean and Middle East Group. After a distinguished legal and academic career, she was named High Commissioner to Kenya, Uganda, and Ambassador to Somalia, and the Comoros in 1987 and appointed Ambassador to Portugal three years later.

 

Ferry de KerckhoveFerry de Kerckhove is Executive Vice President of the Conference of Defence Associations Institute and a Senior Fellow at the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. In 1973, he entered the Canadian Foreign Service, where he served as High Commissioner to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Ambassador to the Republic of Indonesia, and Ambassador to the Arab Republic of Egypt. He was also the personal representative of the Prime Minister for la Francophonie.

 

colin-robertsonColin Robertson is Vice President and Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute and Executive Fellow at the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy. A career foreign service officer from 1977-2010, he was a member of the team that negotiated the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement and NAFTA, and served as first Head of the Advocacy Secretariat and Minister at the Canadian Embassy in Washington and Consul General in Los Angeles, with previous assignments as Consul and Counsellor in Hong Kong and in New York at the UN and Consulate General.

 

stephen-saidemanStephen M. Saideman is the Paterson Chair in International Affairs at Carleton University. His research interests focus on the causes and consequences of intervention into intra-state conflicts. His current work focuses on Canadian and NATO’s efforts in Afghanistan, and also on the mobilization of diaspora groups.

 

 

November 10, 2015 – Fall Conference Schedule (TBC)


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