The 2020 ‘Virtual’ Global Security Forum took place from November 16-19, 2020, and addressed the topic ‘A New World (Dis)order? Managing Security Challenges in an Increasingly Complex Landscape.’ The Forum explored, through a series of online fireside chats and panel discussions, the evolution of global security challenges posed by complex geopolitical realities that have been exacerbated by the global COVID-19 pandemic, including disinformation, extremism, and governance and legitimacy.
2020 FORUM
2020 GLOBAL SECURITY FORUM
A New World (Dis)Order? Managing Security Challenges in an Increasingly Complex Landscape
KEY SPEAKERS
Alphabetical Order
PARTICIPANTS

KEVIN BARON
Executive Editor
Defense One

Peter Bergen
Vice President Global Studies & Fellows
New America

Jason M. Blazakis
The Soufan Center

Colin P. Clarke
Senior Research Fellow
The Soufan Center

STEVE CLEMONS
The Hill

Kimberly Dozier
TIME Contributor and
CNN Global Affairs Analyst

Joseph Donnelly Sr
The Soufan Center

Joshua Geltzer
for Counterterrorism

BOBBY GHOSH
Bloomberg

Alex Gibney
Award-Winning
Director

Karen J. Greenberg
Director
The Center on National Security
Fordham Law

Marc Jones
Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies
Hamad bin Khalifa University

Rami G. Khouri
American University of Beirut Director of Global Engagement,
and Harvard Kennedy School nonresident senior fellow

Adrienne LaFrance
Executive Editor
The Atlantic

Fionnuala Ní Aoláin
the Promotion and Protection of Human
Rights while Countering Terrorism

Nicholas J. Rasmussen
Global Internet Forum to
Counter Terrorism (GIFCT)

Bret Schafer
Media and Digital Disinformation Fellow
Alliance for Securing Democracy

David Scharia
Counter-Terrorism Committee
Executive Directive (CTED)

Ali Soufan
Founder
The Soufan Center

Maria J. Stephan
Co-author, Why Civil Resistance Works:
The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict;
co-editor, Is Authoritarianism Staging a Comeback

Meredith Stricker
Senior Fellow
The Soufan Center

Charles Spencer
Assistant Director
FBI

Emerita Torres
Senior Fellow, The Soufan Center, and
Vice President of Policy, Research and
Advocacy, Community Service Society

ALI VELSHI
for NBC News and MSNBC

Rebecca Ulam Weiner
NYPD Intelligence Bureau

Lawrence Wright
Staff Writer
The New Yorker
ORGANIZER
PARTNERS