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FORUM PROGRAMME
 
All Day Delegates arrive at Bahrain International Airport; Welcome & Registration
09:30 – 10:45 OPENING OF THE FORUM & EXHIBITION – AL NOOR BALLROOM
  HE Lt. Gen. Shaikh Rashid bin Abdulla Al Khalifa
Minister of Interior, Kingdom of Bahrain

Sir Paul Lever
RUSI Chairman, UK

HE Abdul Rahman Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah
Secretary General, Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC)

The Hon. Michael Chertoff
Former Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, USA

HE Boon Hui Khoo
President, INTERPOL

HE Ambassador Claudio Bisogniero
Deputy-Secretary General, NATO

  ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE EXHIBITION
  Mr. Mohammed Zainalabedin
General Manager, Zain

Colonel Reyadh Eid Abdulla
Director General of the Ministry of Interior Court & Chairman of the Organizational Committee of BSFE
 
10:45 – 11:45 VIPs MEETING WITH PATRON
   
12:00 – 13:00 OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION
  TOURS OF THE EXHIBITION FOR VIPs, DELEGATES AND MEDIA
   
13:00 – 19:00 EXHIBITION OPENS
   
LUNCHTIME PROGRAMME
13:00 – 14:30 PRIVATE LUNCH FOR VIPs AND DELEGATION LEADERS
  HOSTED BY BAHRAIN MINISTER OF INTERIOR
13:00 – 14:30 LUNCH FOR ALL OTHER DELEGATES – Al Ghazal 1 & 2
   
15:00 – 16:30 FIRST PLENARY SESSION – AL NOOR BALLROOM
  TRANSNATIONAL THREATS TO HOMELAND SECURITY: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
Chair Rt. Hon Michael Howard QC MP
Former Home Secretary, UK
Speakers Sir Ian Blair QPM
Former Commissioner of the Police of the Metropolis, UK

HE Boon Hui Khoo
President, INTERPOL

HE Ambassador Vladimir Titorenko
Deputy Director of the Department on New Challenges & Threats, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russia

Judge Jean-Louis Bruguière
Representative for the EU for the fight against the Financing of the Terrorism, France

Brigadier General Ion Grosu
Deputy-Director, Intelligence Service, Romania

16:30 – 17:00 AFTERNOON COFFEE BREAK – GRAND FOYER
   
17:00 – 18:30 PARALLEL BREAK-OUT SESSIONS
GROUP 1: AL GHAZAL BALLROOM I
  LABOUR, POPULATION & RESPONSES TO HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Chair Ms. Kristina Kangaspunta
Executive Officer of the Applied Research Institute, United Nations Interregional Crime & Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), United Nations
Speakers HE Dr. Majid Bin Mohsen Al Alawi
Minister of Labour, Kingdom of Bahrain

HE Shaikh Abdul Aziz bin Mubarak Al Khalifa
Assistant Undersecretary for Coordination, Head of the National Committee for Combating Trafficking in Persons, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Bahrain

Mr. Anday Baker
Deputy-Director, ID Surveillance, Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), UK

Mr. Mohammed Abdul Aziz
Representative fRepresentative for the Middle East & North Africa United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), United Nations

GROUP 2: AL GHAZAL BALLROOM II
  SECURITY, INTELLIGENCE AND THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA
Chair Dr. Tobias Feakin
Director, Homeland Security and Resilience Department, RUSI, UK
Speakers Mr. Wadah Khanfar
Director General, Al Jazeera, Qatar

Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones
Shadow Security Minister, UK

Dr. Magnus Ranstorp
Research Professor, Centre for Asymmetric Threat Studies,
Swedish National Defence College, Sweden

HE Ambassador Cresencio Arcos
Former Assistant Secretary and Director of International Affairs at US Homeland Security , USA

Mr. Hervé Guillou
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the EADS Defence and Communications Systems Business Unit (EADS/DCS) and President of EADS Defence and Security Systems SAS, France

GROUP 1: AL GHAZAL BALLROOM III
  BORDER SECURITY AND CONTROL CHALLENGES
Chair Rear Admiral David M. Stone USN (Ret.)
Former Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), USA
Speakers Mr. Ajit Kumar Doval
Former Director of the Intelligence Bureau, India

Major General (Ret.) Dato Nordin Yusof
Former Senior Commanding Officer, Malaysian Armed Forces, Malaysia

Mr. Thomas Marten
Vice President for Government and Security Solutions, SITA, USA

Brian Phelps
Director of Professional Services, THALES Information Systems Security, USA
8:30 – 17:30 EXHIBITION OPENS
8:30 – 10:00 SECOND PLENARY SESSION – AL NOOR BALLROOM
  THE US AND EUROPE: NEW CHALLENGES OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND COUNTER-TERRORISM
Chair Prof. Michael Clarke
Director, RUSI, UK
Speakers HE Dr. August Hanning
State Secretary, Federal Ministry of the Interior, Germany

The Hon. Michael Chertoff
Former Secretary of Homeland Security Department, USA

Mr. Vladimir Kulishov
Head of the Administration of the National Antiterrorism Committee, Russia

Vice Admiral William E. Gortney
Commander, U.S. 5th Fleet, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, Combined Maritime Forces, USA

Mr. Emile Perez
Chief of International Co-operation Police Department (SCTIP), French National Police, France

10:00 – 10:30 COFFEE BREAK – GRAND FOYER
10:30 – 12:00 THIRD PLENARY SESSION – AL NOOR BALLROOM
  NATIONAL SECURITY CHALLENGES WITHIN THE BROADER MIDDLE EAST: REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES
Chair Professor Rafia Obaid Ghubash
President, Arabian Gulf University, UAE
Speakers HE Jawad Al Bulani
Chief of Public Security, Iraq

HE Major-General Dr. Abdul Latif Rashid Al Zayani
Chief of Public Security, Kingdom of Bahrain

HE Dr. Ahmed Mohammed Al Salem
Under-Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Dr. Roby C. Barret
President, C.COMM, INC. Middle East Institute, USA

Dr. Maryam Sultan Lootah
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Emirates University, UAE

12:00 – 12:30 COFFEE BREAK – GRAND FOYER
12:30 – 14:00 FOURTH PLENARY SESSION – AL NOOR BALLROOM
  CIVIL CONTINGENCY PLANNING, EMERGENCY RESPONSE & THE ROLE OF THE MILITARY.
Chair Mr. Magnus Ovilius
Vice President, Government Relations, Smiths Detection Group, UK
Speakers Rt. Hon. Adam Ingram MP
Former Minister of State for the Armed Forces, UK

Ambassador Maurits Jochems
Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Plans, Operations Division, NATO’s International Secretariat , NATO

Brigadier Charles Le Gallais
Strategy Director, National Security and Resilience Programme,
SELEX Sistemi Integrati, UK

Lt.Col. Frederic Gallois
Former Commander, Special Gendarmerie Task Force – GIGN, France

LUNCHTIME PROGRAMME
13:00 – 14:30 PRIVATE LUNCH FOR ALL EXHIBITORS
  HOSTED BY CHIEF OF PUBLIC SECURITY
14:00 – 15:30 LUNCH FOR ALL OTHER DELEGATES – AL Ghazal 1 & 2
   
16:30 – 17:00 DEBATE (By Invitation Only) – AL NOOR BALLROOM
SECURITY IN THE GULF
Moderator: Mrs. Elisa Kitson
Founder & Chairman of THE KITSON
   
17:00 – 18:30 PARALLEL BREAK-OUT SESSIONS
GROUP 1: AL GHAZAL BALLROOM I
  GLOBAL INSECURITY & THE FINANCIAL CRISIS
Chair Dr. Zakaria Hejres
Deputy Chief Executive, Economic Development Board, Kingdom of Bahrain
Speakers HE Ambassador Assia Ben Salah Alaoui
Ambassador at Large, Kingdom of Morocco

Mr. Abdulhakeem Yaqoob Al-Khayyat
CEO & Managing Director, Kuwait Finance House, Kingdom of Bahrain

Ms. Bronwen Maddox
Chief Foreign Commentator, The Times, and Governor, Ditchley Foundation, UK

GROUP 2: AL GHAZAL BALLROOM II
  COMBATING TERRORIST FINANCING AND ITS NETWORKS
Chair Professor Thomas Biersteker
Adjunct Professor, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, USA
Speakers Mr. Richard Barrett
Coordinator, Al Qaeda & Taliban Monitoring Team, United Nations

HE Mr. Rasheed bin Mohammed Al Maraj
Governor of the Central Bank of Bahrain, Kingdom of Bahrain

Mr. Matthew Levitt
Former U.S. Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis, USA

GROUP 3: AL GHAZAL BALLROOM III
  ENHANCING SECURITY AT THE NATIONAL AND REGIONAL LEVELS: PERSPECTIVES FROM ASIA
Chair Dr. Jonathan Eyal
Director, International Security Studies Department, RUSI, UK
Speakers HE A. Rehman Malik
Advisor to the Prime Minister on Interior, Pakistan

Major Gen. (Ret.) Gong Xianfu
Vice Chairman, China International Institute of Strategic Studies
People’s Republic of China

Dr. Norman Vasu
Assistant Professor, Centre of Excellence for National
Security, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Mr. Shekhar Dutt
Deputy National Security Advisor, India

HE General Benjamin Defensor
Ambassador for Counter-Terrorism, Philippines

19:00 – 19:30 CONCLUSIONS AND FAREWELL – AL NOOR BALLROOM
   
 
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