Revised 1 June 2009
workshop participant list
workshop patron / His Excellency Vecdi GönülMinister of Defense of Turkey
workshop chairman / Dr. Roger Weissinger-Baylon
and founder / Co-Director, Center for Strategic Decision Research
presented by / Center for Strategic Decision Research
principal sponsors / Turkish Ministry of Defense
Microsoft
Northrop Grumman
U.S. Department of Defense
Center for Strategic Decision Research
with major sponsorship by CISCO, EADS, Lockheed Martin, MITRE Corporation, Thales, URS EG&G Division
at / Istanbul, Turkey | 25-28 June 2009
invited participant list - draft
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* indicates confirmed or tentatively confirmed
*His Excellency Jaak Aaviksoo
Estonian Minister of Defense
Colonel-General Safar Abiyev
Minister of Defense of Azerbaijan
*Ambassador Hassan Abouyoub
Ambassador-at-large of the Kingdom of Morocco
*Ms. Renée S. Acosta
President & CEO, Global Impact
*Lieutenant General M. Veysi Agar
Turkish Military Representative to NATO
*Ambassador Hamad Al Amer
Kingdom of Bahrain
*Ambassador Nabila Al Mulla
Ambassador of Kuwait
Ambassador Mohammed Salem Al-Suweidi
United Arab Emirates’ Ambassador to Belgium
*Colonel Arbod
Department of Strategic Affairs,
French Defense Ministry
*Mr. Alexander Bakradze
Head of Euro-Atlantic Integration,
Office of Georgian Vice Prime Minister
*State Secretary József Bali
Hungarian Ministry of Defense
*His Excellency Giorgi Baramidze
Vice Prime Minister of Georgia
*Ms. Rebecca Bash
Office of the Director, Net Assessment
*Ms. Anne D. Baylon
Co-Director, Center for Strategic Decision Research
*Rear Admiral Gerald R. Beaman
Deputy Chief of Staff Operations
Allied Joint Force Command Naples
*Ing. Giovanni Bertolone
CEO, Alenia Aeronautica
*Admiral Jean Betermier
Advisor to the CEO, EADS
*Lieutenant General David Bill
United Kingdom Military Representative to NATO
*Mr. Tim Bloechl
Managing Director, Worldwide Public Safety & National Security, Microsoft Corporation
*Brigadier General Renato Bocchetti
Office of the Italian Military Representative to the NATO Military Committee
*Lieutenant General Jurgen Bornemann
German Military Repr. to NATO Military Committee
*Dr. Edgar Buckley
Senior Vice President, Thales
Mr. Akin Bulut
General Manager, TEI (Tusas Engine Industry, Inc.)
*Lieutenant General Evgeniy Buzhinskiy
Russian Ministry of Defense
*General Vincenzo Camporini
Chief of General Staff of Italy
*Mr. Lo Casteleijn
Principal Director of the Directorate of General Policy Affairs, Netherlands Ministry of Defense
*Mr. Hikmet Cetin
Former Speaker of the Turkish Parliament, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, Former Senior Civilian Representative of NATO to Afghanistan
*Ambassador Vladimir Chizhov
Russian Ambassador to the EU
*Lieutenant General Mieczyslaw Cieniuch
Polish Ministry of Defense
His Excellency Selmo Cikotic
Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Minister of Defense
*Ambassador Franciskus baron van Daele
Belgian Ambassador to NATO
*Ambassador Jean-Jacques de Dardel
Swiss Ambassador to Belgium and to NATO
*Lieutenant General Christopher Davis
Canadian Military Representative to NATO
Ms. Elaine Dezenski
Managing Director, INTERPOL’s Global Security Initiative for the 21st Century
*Colonel Robert Dickey (Ret.)
Defense Threat Reduction Agency
*Ambassador Dumitru Sorin Ducaru
Romanian Permanent Representative to NATO
*Dr. Shekhar Dutt
Indian Deputy National Security Advisor
*Ambassador Stewart Eldon CMG OBE
British Ambassador to NATO
*Mr. William Ennis
Northrop Grumman International Inc.
*Rear Admiral Nadir Hakan Eraydin
Chief of Plans and Policy,
Turkish Ministry of Defense
*Dr. Werner Fasslabend
President, Political Academy of Austrian Peoples’ Party, Former Austrian Minister of Defense
*Assistant Secretary General Peter Flory
NATO Assistant General for Defense Investment
*Mr. Frans Godschalk
Poltical Assistant to the
Netherlands Minister of Defense
*His Excellency Vecdi Gönül
Minister of Defense of Turkey
*The Honorable John Grimes
U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense
*Major General Giacomo Guarnera
Director, Centro Alti Studi per la Difesa, Roma
*Mr. Raymond Haller
Senior Vice President, (C2C), MITRE Corporation
*Ambassador Abdullah Hussain Haroon
Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United Nations
*Dr. Scott Harris
President, Continental Europe, Lockheed Martin
*Mr. James Heath
President, Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems International, Inc.
*Vice Admiral Michiel B. Hijmans
Assistant Chief of Staff for International Militairy Cooperation, Netherlands Defense Staff:
*Mr. Thomas Homberg
Corporate Vice President,
Head of EADS Strategic Coordination
*The Rt Hon John Hutton MP
United Kingdom Secretary of State for Defence
*Dr. Edward Ifft
Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University
*Ambassador Tacan Ildem
Turkish Ambassador to NATO
*Ambassador Kire Ilioski
Macedonian Ambassador to NATO
*Her Excellency Dr. Ljubica Jelusic
Minister of Defense of Slovenia
*Ambassador Ghazi Jomaa
Tunisian Ambassador to Turkey
*General George Joulwan (Ret.)
Former Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
*Deputy Minister Drasko Jovanovic
Montenegro’s Deputy Minister of Defense for Policy
PrinceTurki Bin Mohamed Bin saud Al Kabeer
Saudi Arabian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
*Ambassador Ulfat Kadyrov
Uzbekistan’s Ambassador to Turkey
*Mr. Andreas Kaju
Advisor to the Estonian Minister of Defense
*Ambassador Dr. Mahmoud Karem
Egyptian Ambassador to Belgium and the EU
*Colonel Muhterem Karatas
Secretary General, Turkish Ministry of Defense
*Mr. Marcin Kazmierski
Director, Polish Ministry of Defense
International Security Department
*His Excellency Bogdan Klich
Polish Minister of Defense
*Colonel (ret) Robert Kosla
Microsoft
*Ambassador Artur Kuko
Albanian Ambassador to NATO
*Mr. Kemal Koprulu
ARI Movement, Istanbul
*General Karl-Heinz Lather
Chief of Staff, SHAPE
*Deputy Assistant Secretary Robert Lentz
U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
(Cyber, Information, and Identity Assurance)
*His Excellency Imants Liegis
Latvian Minister of Defense
*Ambassador Mohammed Loulichki
Moroccan Ambassador to the United Nations
*Ms. Alexandra Abreu Loureiro
Press Advisor to Portuguese Minister of Defense
*Ambassador Jüri Luik
Estonian Permanent Representative to NATO
The Honorable Peter Gordon MacKay
Canadian Minister of Defense
*Mr. Daniel Maly
Microsoft
*Ambassador Dr. Ahmad Masa’deh
Jordanian Ambassador to Belgium and the EU
*Ambassador Thomas Matussek
Permanent Representative of Germany to the U.N.
*Colonel Alessandro Mauriello
Dep. Director, Centro Alti Studi per la Difesa, Rome
*Lieutenant General Mike McDuffie (Ret.)
Vice President, U.S. Public Sector Services, Microsoft
*Ambassador Robert McRae
Canadian Permanent Representative to NATO
*Professor Dr. Holger Mey
Vice President, EADS Defense & Security Systems
*His Excellency Eimert van Middlekoop
Minister of Defense of the Netherlands
*Ms. Catherine Montie
Director of Combat Support, Defense Threat Reduction Agency
*Mr. Terrence Morgan
Director, Net-Centric Strategies
Global Government Solutions Group, Cisco
*His Excellency Amre Moussa
Secretary General of the League of Arab Nations
*Mr. Bert Oltmans
Director, Microsoft Corporation
His Excellency Volodymyr Ogryzko
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
*Prof. Ilber Ortayli
Director, Topkapi Palace Museum
*Mr. J. David Patterson
Executive Director, National Defense Business Institute, University of Tennessee
*Mr. Wayne Phillips
Microsoft
*Mr. Nick Pickard,
Head of Security Policy Department,
U.K. Foreign and Commonwealth Office,
*Mr. Paulo Vizeu Pinheiro
Director for Defense Policy,
Portuguese Ministry of Defense
Ambassador Singh Puri
Indian Permanent Representative to the U.N.
*Ing. Gen. de l'Armement Robert Ranquet
Dep. Dir., Strategic Affairs, French Defense Ministry
*Mr. Airis Rikveilis
Chief of Cabinet of Latvian Minister of Defense
*Lieutenant General Gian Piero Ristori
Italian Military Representative to NATO
*Vice Admiral Ferdinando Sanfelice di Monteforte
Former Italian Military Representative to NATO
*Mr. William Schmieder
Vice President International, General Dynamics
*Director General Henri Serres
Director General for Information and Communication Systems, French Ministry of Defense
*Mr. Timothy Shephard
Northrop Grumman/Electronics Systems Sector
*His Excellency Vasil Sikharulidze
Georgian Minister of Defense
Ambassador Feridun Sinirlioglu
Turkish Deputy Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs
*Mr. Fred Spivey
Defense Consultant
*Ms. Cynthia Sturm
Head, MITRE European operations
*Ambassador Veselin Sukovic
Head of the Mission of Montenegro to NATO
*Mr. David Swindle
Executive Vice President, URS Corporation;
EG&G Division
*General Håkan Syrén
Supreme Commander of Swedish Armed Forces,
Designated Chairman of the EU Military Committee
*Ambassador Zahir Tanin
Afghan Ambassador to the United Nations
*His Excellency Borys Tarasyuk
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine; Chairman, Сommittee on European Integration Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament)
*His Excellency Dr. Nuno Severiano Teixeira
Portuguese Minister of Defense
*Brigadier General Christine Turner
Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff Defence Planning
ACT, Staff Element Europe
*Mr. Joop Veen
Director of the Directorate of Information and Communication, Netherlands Ministry of Defense
*Mr. Vitor Rodrigues Viana
Chief of Cabinet, Portuguese Minister of Defense
*Lieutenant General Pascal Vinchon
French Military Representative to NATO
*Mr. Alfred Volkman
Director for International Cooperation, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense
*His Excellency Boro Vucinic
Montenegro’s Minister of Defense
His Excellency Branko Vukelic
Croatian Minister of Defense
*Dr. Roger Weissinger-Baylon
Workshop Chairman and Founder; Co-Director, Center for Strategic Decision Research
*Dr. Lin Wells
National Defense University
*Ambassador Bogusław W. Winid
Polish Permanent Representative to NATO
*Mr. Kaya Yazgan
Secretary General, Savunma Sanayii Imalatcilari Denergi (SASAD)
*Admiral Luciano Zappata
NATO Deputy Supreme Allied Commander
*Dr. Stefan Zoller
CEO, EADS Defence & Security
Supporting Staff
*Colonel Adil Ayaz
ADC to Turkish Defense Minister
*Colonel Erdal Dodurga
ADC to Turkish Defense Minister
*Lieutenant Colonel Arkadiusz Kobielak
Office of Polish Defense Minister
*Mr. Atila Uzel
Assistant to Turkish Military Representative to NATO
*Colonel Paulo Frare
Dep. Supreme Allied Command-Transformation
*Captain Paulo Pezzutti
Dep. Supreme Allied Command-Transformation
*Commander Chris Pillar
Office of the Chief of Staff, SHAPE
*Captain Jens Rohrmoser
Office of Chief of Staff, SHAPE
*Master Sergeant Funke
Office of the Chief of Staff, SHAPE
*Major H.P. van Reenen
Netherlands Ministry of Defense
*Mr. Robert Wilton
Office of the British Minister of Defense
*Major Cesario Totaro
ADC to Italian Chief of General Staff
*Chief WO Antonio Ciontoli
Personal Assistant to Italian Chief of General Staff
*Lieutenant Victor Lange
Allied Joint Forces Command Naples
*Major Keith Cameron
Office of the Canadian MILREP to NATO
*Lieutenant Colonel Stephen M. Bruce
DTRA Security Cooperation Branch
*Major Velibor Bakrac
ADC to Montenegro’s Minister of Defense
*Ms. Gordana Djurkovic
Montenegro’s Defense Ministry (Translator)
*Mr. Sylwester Ziolek
Polish Ministry of Defense
*Mr. Pedro Vilela
Office of the Portuguese Minister of Defense (Photographer)
International Workshop staff
*Major Soydan Gorgulu, Turkish Ministry of Defense
*Ms. Elcin Karana
*Ms. Caroline Baylon, CSDR
*Dr. Ania Garlitski, MD, CSDR
*Ms. Jean Lee, Graphics/Photography, CSDR
*Dr. Eugene Whitlock, JD, CSDR
*Ms. Grace Wong, CSDR
*Ms. Pinar Atayol, CSDR
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The 2009 International Workshop on Global Security is presented by the Center for Strategic Decision Research with the sponsorship of the following governments and organizations:workshop sponsors
Principal Sponsors
Major Sponsors
acknowledgements to past host and sponsoring governmentsCzech Republic
Kingdom of Denmark
Federal Republic of Germany
Republic of Greece
Republic of Hungary
Kingdom of the Netherlands
Kingdom of Norway
Republic of Poland
Republic of Portugal
Ministry of Defense of Austria
Ministry of Defense of France
Ministry of Defense of Italy
Canadian Armed Forces
Russian Ministry of Industry, Science & Technology