2021 GLOBAL SECURITY FORUM
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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