2021 GLOBAL SECURITY FORUM
Cooperation or Competition?
Changing Dynamics of Global Security
Changing Dynamics of Global Security
The 2021 Global Security Forum took place from October 12-14, 2021, in Doha, Qatar and adopted a hybrid approach for virtual participants. As states vie for power and resources in a rapidly evolving geopolitical climate, the 2021 Global Security Forum addressed the theme ‘Cooperation or Competition? Changing Dynamics of Global Security.’ Conversations focused on the imperative of balancing cooperation and competition in ensuring security and addressing critical challenges in governance and development.

H.E. SHEIKH KHALID BIN KHALIFA BIN ABDULAZIZ AL THANI
Prime Minister and Minister of Interior
State of Qatar
Prime Minister and Minister of Interior
State of Qatar

H.E. PAUL KAGAME
President of the Republic of Rwanda
President of the Republic of Rwanda

H.E. SHEIKH MOHAMMED BIN ABDULRAHMAN AL-THANI
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs
State of Qatar
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs
State of Qatar

HON. SECRETARY ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS
Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security
United States
Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security
United States

H.E. TEO CHEE HEAN
Senior Minister and Coordinating Minister for National Security
Republic of Singapore
Senior Minister and Coordinating Minister for National Security
Republic of Singapore

H.E. KOSTAS TSIARAS
Minister of Justice
Greece
Minister of Justice
Greece

HON. SHEIKH IMRAN ABDULLA
Minister of Home Affairs
Republic of Maldives
Minister of Home Affairs
Republic of Maldives

RT HON. DAMIAN HINDS MP
Minister of State, Minister for Security and Borders
United Kingdom
Minister of State, Minister for Security and Borders
United Kingdom

MR. KARIM A. A. KHAN QC
Prosecutor
International Criminal Court (ICC)
Prosecutor
International Criminal Court (ICC)

Director General Ahmed Rufai Abubakar
National Intelligence Agency
Nigeria

Dr. Fatima Akilu
Executive Director
Neem Foundation

Mr. Jeppe Albers
Executive Director
Nordic Safe Cities

Commissioner General Boy Rafli Amar
Head of the National Counter
Terrorism Agency
Indonesia

Dr. Majed Al Ansari
President
Qatar International Academy for Security Studies (QIASS)

Mr. Kevin Baron
Defense One

Mr. Bryan Bender
Politico

Mr. Peter Bergen
Studies and Fellows
New America

Dr. Karima Bennoune
United Nations Special Rapporteur
in Cultural Rights

AMB. Umej Bhatia
Permanent Representative to the United
Nations Offices in Geneva and Vienna
Singapore

Mr. Jason M. Blazakis
The Soufan Center

Ms. Laila Bokhari
Norway

Mr. John Brennan
Former Director of the
Central Intelligence Agency
United States

Dr. Colin P. Clarke
Director of Policy and Research
The Soufan Group

Mr. Steve Clemons
The Hill

Ms. Michele Coninsx
Assistant Secretary-General
Executive Director
United Nations Counter- Terrorism
Committee Executive Directorate

Col. Chris Costa (RET)
Former Special Assistant to the President & Senior Director for Counterterrorism
Executive Director
International Spy Museum

Senator Joseph Donnelly
Former United States Senator
from Indiana
United States

Ms. Josie Ensor
The Telegraph

Amb. Edmund Fitton-Brown
Coordinator
United Nations Analytical Support and
Sanctions Monitoring Team

Mr. Dexter Filkins
Journalist and Author
The New Yorker

Dr. Audrey Kurth Cronin
Director of the Center for Security,
Innovation & New Technology
American University

Ms. Naureen Chowdhury Fink
Executive Director
The Soufan Center

Mr. Joshua Geltzer
Deputy Assistant to the President
& Deputy Homeland Security Advisor
National Security Council
United States

Mr. Bobby Ghosh
Bloomberg

Mr. Alex Gibney
Award-Winning Director

Mr. John Godfrey

Ms. Karen J. Greenberg
Director
Fordham Law’s
Center on National Security

Commissioner Mohamed Hameed
Commissioner of Police
Maldives

Dr. Ahmad M. Hasnah
President
Hamad Bin Khalifa University
Member of Qatar Foundation

Dr. Bruce Hoffman
Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism & Homeland Security
Council on Foreign Relations

Ms. Dina Hussein
Organisations Policy Head for EMEA

Prince Zeid Al Hussein
International Peace Institute (IPI)

Mr. Michael Isikoff
Yahoo News

Dr. Shashi Jayakumar
S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS)

Dr. Marc Owen Jones
Assistant Professor
Hamad bin Khalifa University

AMB. Bilahari Kausikan
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Singapore

Mr. Gilles de Kerchove
Former Counter-Terrorism Coordinator
Council of the European Union

Ms. Deeyah Khan
of Fuuse

Mr. Rami G. Khouri
Director of Global Engagement, Adjunct Professor of Journalism, and Journalist-in-Residence American University of Beirut

Mr. Ioannis Koskina
Senior Fellow
International Security Program
New America

Mr. Qudus Malik, Esq
Executive Director
Global Lawyers for Refugees

Mr. Michael G. Masters
President
The Soufan Center

Mr. Mark Mazzetti
Washington Investigative Correspondent
The New York Times

Mr. Saad Mohseni
Co-Founder & Chairman
Moby Group

Mr. Omar Mohammed
Lecturer, Sciences Po University

Dr. Asfandyar Mir
Stanford Center for International
Security and Cooperation

Ms. Maya Mirchandani
Observer Research
Foundation

Dr. Ahmad El-Muhammady
Centre for Counter-Terrorism
The Hague

H.E. Geraldine Byrne Nason
Permanent Representative
to the United Nations
Ireland

Dr. Peter Neumann
Professor
King’s College London

Amb. Jacqueline O'Neill
Ambassador for Women, Peace and Security
Canada

Dr. Oluwole Ojewale
Observatory Coordinator, Institute for Security Studies
Senegal

Ms. Irene Poetranto
The Citizen Lab

Mr. Matthew Pottinger

Mr. Mark Power
Deputy Ambassador
British Embassy Israel
United Kingdom Foreign Office

The Right Honourable Mark Pritchard MP
Member of Parliament
United Kingdom

H.E. Dr. Mutlaq Bin Majed Al Qahtani
Special Envoy Of The Foreign Minister Of The State Of Qatar For Counterterrorism And Mediation Of Conflict Resolution
State of Qatar

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

Dr. Kacper Rekawek
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Oslo Center for Research
on Extremism (C-REX)

Ms. Vidhya Ramalingam
CEO and Founder
Moonshot

Mr. Eric Rosand
Senior Associate Fellow
Royal United Services Institute

Mr. Max Rose
Former Congressman
from New York
United States

Mr. Irfan Saeed
of State Bureau of Counterterrorism

Ms. May Salem
Program Manager, DDR & Preventing Radicalisation and Extremism, The Cairo International Center for Conflict Resolution

AMB. Nathan Sales
Democracy, and Human Rights (acting), Department of State

Mr. David Scharia
Chief of Branch
United Nations Counter-Terrorism
Committee Executive Directorate (CTED)

Mr. Zachary Schwitzky
Founder & CEO
Limbik

Dr. W.P.S. Sidhu
Professor
Center for Global Affairs, School of Professional Studies
New York University

Mr. Mohamed Sinan Siyech
Observer Research Foundation

Mr. Charles Spencer
Assistant Director of the International Operations Division,
Federal Bureau of Investigation
United States

Ms. Meredith Stricker
Senior Fellow
The Soufan Center

H.E. Hassan Al Thawadi
Secretary General of the Supreme
Committee for Delivery and Legacy (SC)
State of Qatar

Dr. Gina Vale
for the Study on Radicalisation (ICSR)

Mr. Ali Velshi
Host of “Velshi”
MSNBC

Ms. Lori Wachs
Partner
Springboard Growth Capital

Mr. David Wells

Dr. Tim Wilson
Airey Neave Trust

Mr. Lawrence Wright
Author & Staff Writer
The New Yorker

Ms. Robin Wright
Columnist
The New Yorker
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