Speakers
ROBERT BELL
Senior Vice President, European Business Development, SAIC
Robert Bell, formerly NATO Assistant Secretary General for Defense Investment, joined SAIC in March 2004, and was recently named Account Manager for NATO, the U.S. European Command, and defense business with the United Kingdom.
From 1999-2003, Mr. Bell was responsible for the promotion of NATO armaments cooperation policies and programs. He chaired NATO's Conference of National Armaments Directors (CNAD) and its C3 Board (NC3B) and directed NATO International Staff activities in the areas of common funding, resource coordination, airspace management and airspace defense.
From 1993-1999, Mr. Bell worked at the White House National Security Council (NSC) as a Special Assistant to President Clinton for National Security Affairs and as the NSC Senior Director for Defense Policy and Arms Control. In 1997, he was assigned additional responsibilities as NSC Counselor.
From 1984-1993, Mr. Bell served on the Committee on Armed Services of the U.S. Senate as a principal staff aide to Chairman Sam Nunn for arms control policy, strategic nuclear forces, and NATO weapons cooperation issues. From 1981-1984, he was on the Committee on Foreign Relations of the U.S. Senate as a principal staff aide for defense policy and arms control to Chairman Charles H. Percy. During 1975-1978 and 1980, Mr. Bell worked for the Congressional Research Service (CRS) as a defense analyst and assistant division chief for research. In 1979, Mr. Bell was seconded from CRS to Brussels, where he served as staff director of the Military Committee of the North Atlantic Assembly. From 1969-1975, Mr. Bell served as an officer in the U.S. Air Force, including duty as a Squadron Commander in the air traffic control and communications field. Mr. Bell's professional associations include the Council on Foreign Relations, IISS, and the Air Force Association.
Robert Bell is a native of Birmingham, Alabama. He holds a Master of Arts degree (1970) in international security studies from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, in Medford, Massachusetts. Mr. Bell's Bachelor of Science degree (1969) in International Affairs is from the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He is married to a Danish diplomat, Minister Counselor Vibeke Roosen Bell, and has two sons, Nathan and Stefan.
LIEUTENANT GENERAL HANS-OTTO BUDDE
Chief of Staff, German Army
Lieutenant General Hans-Otto Budde was born in Kirchohsen, Germany in 1948. In 1966 he joined the Bundeswehr.
He has been awarded the Gold Cross of Honour of the Bundeswehr (Germany), The Bundeswehr Foreign Duty Medal, SFOR, NATO, Ordre National de la Legion d'Honneur (officer's cross) (France), Order of Military Merit, Grand Cross, (Argentina), Decorazione d´Onore Interforze, (Italy), Grand officier de l'ordre national du Mérite (France) and the Medalla Cruz de la Victoria, (Chile)
From 1972 his posts have included:
1972 - 1974 S2-Officer, Airborne Battalion 272, Wildeshausen,
1974 - 1978 Commander 3rd Company, Airborne Battalion 272,
1978 - 1980 General Staff Course at the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College, Hamburg, 1980 - 1982 G2 1st Airborne Division, Bruchsal
1982 - 1983 General Staff Course at CGSC Ft. Leavenworth, USA
1983 - 1986 G3, Mechanised Infantry Brigade 31, Oldenburg
1986 - 1988 Commander, Mechanised Infantry Battalion 82, Lüneburg
1988 - 1990 Assistant Chief of Branch Fu S I / Assistant Chief of Branch P III 9,
Federal Ministry of Defence, Bonn
1990 - 1991 Chief of Staff, 5th Armoured Division, Diez
1991 - 1995 Chief of Branch P III 4 / P III 9, Federal Ministry of Defence, Bonn
1995 - 1997 Commander German/French Brigade, Mulheim
01/97 - 07/97 Commander Multinational Brigade Centre, SFOR, Sarajevo
1997 - 2001 Chief of Staff IV (GE) Corps, Potsdam
2001 - 2002 Commander, Special Operations Division, Regensburg
2002 - 2004 Chief of Staff German Army Staff, Federal Ministry of Defence, Bonn
since 03/2004 Chief of Staff, Army
Lieutenant General Hans-Otto Budde was promoted to his current role in 1995. He is married and has two children.
ERIC BRUNI
Director Deputy European Cooperation, DGA France
Ingenieur en Chef de l'Armement (Colonel armament)
Deputy director " Cooperation and European Development "
Directorate for Force systems & Industrial, Technological and Co-operation Strategies - DGA - French ministry of defence
Education:
2006 - 2007: Centre des Hautes Etudes Européennes, ENA - France
1990 - 1991: Master of sciences, Stanford University, CA - USA
1988 - 1990: École Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (Air and Space engineer school)
1985 - 1988: École Polytechnique
Career:
2002- 2006: Deputy director " Asia - Pacific ", Directorate for International Development - DGA
2001-2002: Information Systems general manager, Observation Telecommunication and Information Programme Service - DGA
1997-2000: Programme manager of Army's Tactical Information System (SICF), Observation Telecommunication and Information Programme Service - DGA
1991-1997: Aeronautical embedded software specialist, Aeronautical Test Center in Toulouse - DGA
Date and place of birth:
16 November, 1965 in Livry-Gargan (Seine-St-Denis, France)
Family:
Married, 1 son, 1 daughter
BERTRAND DE CORDOUE
Director for Research & Technology European Defence Agency (Brussels)
Mr Cordue was born on August 7, 1958 and is married with 2 sons. He graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique.
Career Development
Since December 2004 he has been Director for Research & Technology European Defence Agency (Brussels)
2001 - 2004 Director "Asia and the Americas" Economic and Trade Department
Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry (Paris)
1999 - 2001 Director "Europe - Africa - Middle East" Economic and Trade Department Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry (Paris)
1996 - 1999 Industrial Counsellor at the French Permanent Representation to
the European Union (Brussels)
1993 - 1996 Defence Procurement Counsellor at the French Delegation to the
Western European Union (Brussels)
1991 - 1993 Adviser to the French Minister of Defence for Defence Procurement
Affairs (Paris)
1988 - 1991 Desk-Officer for United Kingdom, then for European
Affairs at the Office of International Defence Procurement Ministry of Defence (Paris)
1986 - 1988 Expert for Defence and Technology at the Policy Planning Staff
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Paris)
1984 - 1986 Program Manager at the Office of Missiles and Space
Ministry of Defence (Paris)
MICHAEL DELL
Deputy CEO, Jane's Information Group
Michael Dell is Deputy Chief Executive of Jane's Information Group, (an IHS company) a world leading provider of intelligence and analysis on national and international defence, security and risk developments. In addition to his company-wide Executive responsibilities, he has line responsibility for the company's global sales, marketing, conference, consultancy and client services divisions.
He joined Jane's in 2001 and has been responsible through his career at the company for hardcopy and electronic product development, security editorial, and UK law enforcement advertising sales. Previously he was Director of Consultancy and Research at Oxford Analytica and a bond market analyst at the Union Bank of Switzerland. Both roles focused on political, security, economic and financial risk analysis. He holds degrees from the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics.
JUDY DEMPSEY
Senior Correspondent Europe, International Herald Tribune
Ms. Dempsey joined the International Herald Tribune in September, 2004 as the Central and Eastern Europe Correspondent. Her most recent assignment in a distinguished career in Europe and the Middle East was as diplomatic correspondent for the Financial Times (FT), based in Brussels. She was previously correspondent, in Jerusalem, Bonn and Vienna.
Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, Ms. Dempsey has over 24 years' experience as a correspondent. Throughout the 1980s until 1992, she reported on Eastern Europe, the collapse of communism and the Balkans for the Financial Times.
From 1992 to 1996, Ms. Dempsey was posted to Berlin to cover the political, social and economic ramifications of German unification. In 1996, she served as the FT's Jerusalem bureau chief until 2001 when she was appointed the FT's diplomatic correspondent in Brussels. She has won several prizes, including the Anglo-German Prize and Foreign Press Association Award for her coverage of Germany. In 2004, she was shortlisted for the prestigious David Watt Prize. She has contributed to several books on Eastern Europe.
GENERAL SIR JOHN DEVERELL KCB OBE FRSA FINSTCPD
Former Commander NATO Armed Forces North
General Sir John (Jack) Deverell was commissioned in December 1965 into the Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry. His early career was spent mostly in the non-armoured/mechanised role with a particular focus on Winter Warfare with operational tours in the Middle East and Northern Ireland. He instructed at the School of Infantry, the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and the Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham. He commanded a battalion for two years in Northern Ireland and subsequently commanded the United Kingdom Mobile Force, a Brigade-sized force committed to NATO in the defence of the Baltic Approaches. An ex-Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Deputy Commander in Chief Land Command and Deputy Commander in Chief (Operations) SFOR, his last appointment was in NATO as Commander in Chief, Allied Forces North based in the Netherlands during which time he was responsible for the defence of Northern Europe, the accession and integration of new NATO members from Eastern Europe, establishing the NATO Response Force and for the conceptual development, training and operational direction of the NATO International Security and Assistance Force, Afghanistan.
He retired from the Army in May 2004 and runs JFD Solutions Ltd a defence and security consultancy, he is associated with City Forum, a conference company and acts as a mentor for the UK Defence Academy and the Baltic Defence College. He is a trustee of a Mine and Battlefield Clearance Charity, President of the Army Cadet Force Association, Chairman of the National Army Museum and a Governor of Milton Abbey School. He has recently become the UK representative of Rheinmetall, a German Defence Company
His main interests are golf, cricket, horses, rugby and military history. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Fellow of the Institute of Continuing Professional Development.
He is married to Jane, They have a married daughter who is a teacher and a son who has recently left the Army. He lives in Wiltshire.
MICHAEL FORMOSA
Practice Manager (EMEA/AP) Jane's Strategic Advisory Services
Michael Formosa manages the consulting practice for Jane's Strategic Advisory Services covering the Europe, Middle East and Asia regions. Starting with Jane's in 2005, his primary responsibility is to deliver strategic recommendations to government interior, foreign and defence ministries as well as multinational defence firms and financial institutions. Michael's office provides corporate clients bespoke market forecasting, price modelling, competitive intelligence and pre-transactional due diligence strategic assistance. For government clients his teams provide OSINT support, economic and geopolitical analysis and military future scenario planning.
Prior to joining Jane's, Michael led a US-based sector team within a British Government-funded trade consulting practice. As an Honorary Vice Consul (Commercial) from 1999 to 2005, he established relationships with representatives of the US and UK banking communities, New York and London stock exchanges, the New York Federal Reserve, and regional political contacts to advance UK commercial interests in several sectors including aerospace and defence. His team delivered market analysis and strategic recommendations to UK government officials such as the Minister of State for Trade and Investment, the Confederation of British Industries, various Parliamentary committees, local government departments and HM Treasury.
From the late 1980s, Michael worked in enterprises focusing on the international distribution of dual-use technologies for rotary-wing aircraft and consumables for jet engine manufacturing. Covering emerging Asian markets including India and China, he managed hundreds of transactions involving international supply chains, distribution and licensing agreements with dozens of trading partners, financial institutions and government departments.
Michael received an MSc in international affairs (2005) from the New School for Social Research in New York specialising in economic development. His dissertation is entitled From Foreign Aid to Foreign Direct Investment: Market Reform in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
MARC LEE
Chairman, Cityforum Ltd and Adviser to Jane's Information Group
After reading Modern History at Oxford, Marc lectured in International Politics at Southampton University when he wrote one book on the UN and edited another. While at Southampton he worked principally with the military. He joined the Financial Times in 1971 and worked there for over 20 years as Conference Director, Joint Managing Director of FT Business Enterprises and Conference Adviser. He developed for the newspaper its global conference business and took a special interest in Central Banking, Gold and in the Aerospace, Defence and Automotive industries.
Marc set up Cityforum initially to work on central banking, financial regulatory and multilateral banking issues. At the time of the Robertson SDR the focus of Cityforum moved to defence and in recent years it has developed work in homeland security. In the last year he has hosted, with the help of the Metropolitan Police, three forums on security and safety questions affecting the London 2012 Olympics. He devises conferences for Jane's, and Cityforum has a joint venture with Jane's featuring events in Washington, London and Continental Europe of which this forum is one. He advises several public and private sector organisations.
Marc Lee is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and serves as Treasurer Wales and West for that organisation. He is Chairman of the Welsh Ballet Russe Trust.
MAJOR GENERAL JURIS MAKLAKOVS
Commander of the Latvian National Armed Forces (appointed July 2006)
Major General Juris Maklakovs was born on 27 October 1964 in Ludza district, Latvia. He is married with one son and speaks Latvian, Russian and English. In 1985 he attended the Military Aviation Technical School, (Kaliningrad). In 1992 he studied at the Air Force Academy of Military Engineers, (Moscow) and in 2002 took a Course 'the Framework of Democratic Civilian and Military Relations' in 2004 he attended the United States Army War College.
Career Development
July 2006 Commander of National Armed Forces
2004-2006 Air Force Commander
2001-2004 The Commandant of National Defense Academy
1997-2001 The Deputy Commandant in Academics at National Defense Academy
1995-1997 The Head of Engineering Department at National Defense Academy
1994-1995 The lecturer in Engineering Department at National Defense Academy
1993-1994 The lecturer in the Department of Military Weapons and their Usage at National Defense Academy
1993-1993 The Head engineer/programmer in the Computer Centre of the National Defense Academy
1987-1988 The head of Radio Technical Equipment Service Group
1985-1987 The technician of Radio Technical Equipment
His Awards are numerous: The Gratitude from the President (1998), Award "Honor Sign of Recognition" by the Minister of Defense (2001), The Honor Sign "For the Contribution to the Development of the Latvian National Armed Forces" by the Minister of Defense (2000), The Award "Button" by the Minister of Defense (1997), The Memorial Medal "For Fostering Latvia's accession to the NATO" by the Minister of Defense (2004).
COMMODORE TONY MIKLINSKI
Principal Consultant, Vega
Tony Miklinski joined VEGA in October, after retiring from the Royal Navy in the rank of Commodore. Tony's last appointment was in MOD as the Director Training and Education, responsible for Defence policy. He spent most of his time as the Customer 1 lead (sponsor) for the £15Bn DTR programme and leading the MOD's response to the Deepcut Duty of Care agenda following adverse reports from the HCDC and Adult Learning Inspectorate. His career has been evenly split between the Royal Marines and MOD policy appointments, and he will provide VEGA with specialist advice and direction across the learning spectrum.
MAJOR GENERAL ROBERT MOOD
The Norwegian Army
General Mood was born on 8 December 1958 and is Chief of Staff the Norwegian Army.
He has held the rank of Major General since April 2005.
EDUCATION:
In 1978 Robert Mood attended Officer Candidate School/Infantry and in 1983 joined the Military Academy. In 1993 he went to Army Staff College I and in 1993 Army Staff College II. In 1995 he attended the USMC Command and Staff College and Military Studies, USMC University. In 1996 he went to the SMC School of Advanced War fighting and in 2001 continued his studies at the NATO Defence College.
SERVICE:
1983-86 2nd Battalion/Brigade North Norway
1986-88 OC Rifle company, 2nd Battalion/Brigade North Norway
1989-90 Operations Officer, NORBATT/UNIFIL, Lebanon
1988-91 Defence District No 5/Infantry Regiment No 5
1991-93 Operations Officer, Defence Command South Norway
1993-94 XO, Telemark Battalion
1994-96 Seconded to the Chief of Staff the Norwegian Army
1996-98 Operations Officer, Division 6
1998-00 CO Telemark Battalion
1999-00 CO Telemark Battalion/Kosovo Forces, Kosovo
2000-01 Chief Operations Planning Branch/Operations Division/
Headquarters Defence Command Norway
2001-02 Director Operations/Ops and Management Division/Joint Staff/
Headquarters Defence Command Norway
2002 Chief Joint Implementation Commission / KFOR Command Group
2002-03 Inspector General of Combined Arms & CO NoA Combined Arms Training Centre
2004-05 CO Norwegian Army Transformation and Doctrine Command
2005- Chief of Staff the Norwegian Army
PROMOTIONS:
1978 Sergeant
1979 Lieutenant
1983 Lieutenant
1987 Captain
1991 Major
1996 Lieutenant Colonel
2000 Colonel
2002 Brigadier
2005 Major General
DECORATIONS:
1982 The National Proficiency Medal
1990 The UNIFIL Medal
2000 The NATO Medal
2001 International Operations Medal
2005 French Order of Merit
GENERAL KLAUS NAUMANN
Former Chairman, the NATO Military Committee
General (ret) Dr.h.c. Klaus Naumann, KBE, former Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, was born on May 25, 1939 in Munich, Germany.
He joined the German Army in 1958 as a gunner and was commissioned as lieutenant in 1960. After graduation from the German Armed Forces Staff and Command College in 1972 he saw numerous assignments in the Ministry of Defence, at NATO Headquarters and as Chief of Staff of an armoured brigade. He attended in 1983 the Royal College of Defence Studies' Course in London. He commanded a self-propelled 155 howitzer battalion and a mechanized infantry brigade. His last command assignment was Commanding General of the 1st German Corps. He was appointed Chief of Defence Germany in October 1991 and simultaneously he was promoted to the rank of general (****).In that capacity he had to reorganise and to downsize the Bundeswehr, to integrate the former East German Armed Forces and to oversee the first German deployments to peacekeeping missions to Cambodia, Somalia and Yugoslavia.
In February 1996 he became as Chairman Military Committee NATO's top general. He retired in May 1999 more or less at the end of the Kosovo Air Campaign. After his retirement he remained seized with political-military issues. He was a member of the UN Panel on UN Peace Operations in 2000 and in 2001 of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty. He is currently serving in numerous non profit tasks, among them as the Vice-President of the Deutsche Atlantische Gesellschaft. In fall 2004 he received an honorary doctorate from the Miklos Zrinyi University, Budapest. In October 2006 he was elected to serve as a Senator in the Board of the German National Foundation (Deutsche Nationalstiftung).
His latest book published in fall 2002 is titled: Peace, the unaccomplished mission.
AMBASSADOR VICTORIA NULAND
U. S. Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Victoria Nuland was sworn in as the 18th United States Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on July 13, 2005.
A career Foreign Service Officer, she was Principal Deputy National Security Advisor to Vice President Cheney from July 2003 until May 2005 where she worked on the full range of global issues, including the promotion of democracy and security in Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Lebanon and the broader Middle East.
She was United States Deputy Permanent Representative to NATO in Brussels, Belgium from July 2000 to July 2003. There she worked on NATO's historic invocation of Article 5 of its charter - "an attack on one ally is an attack on all" - in support of the U.S. after September 11, 2001. She also worked on the enlargement of the Alliance to include 7 new members, the creation of the NATO-Russia Council and NATO's first deployment "out of area" to Afghanistan.
From 1997-1999, she was Deputy Director for former Soviet Union affairs at the Department of State, with primary responsibility for U.S. policy towards Russia and the Caucasus countries.
She has twice been a visiting fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). In 1999-2000, she looked at the effect of anti Americanism on U.S. relations with other major world powers as a "Next Generation" Fellow at the Council, and in 1996-1997, as a State Department Fellow, she directed a CFR task force on "Russia, its Neighbors and an Expanding NATO," which was chaired by Senator Richard Lugar.
From 1993-1996, she was Chief of Staff to Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott. From 1991-1993, she covered Russian internal politics at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. She has also served on the Soviet Desk (1988-90), in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia where she helped open the first U.S. Embassy (1988), in the State Department's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1987) and in Guangzhou, China (1985-86). Her awards include the Secretary of Defense's Distinguished Civilian Service Medal and the Department of State Superior and Meritorious Honor Awards. She speaks Russian and French.
She has a B.A. from Brown University and is married to Robert Kagan, a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a Fellow at the German Marshall Fund. They have two children.
REAR ADMIRAL CHRIS J PARRY CBE MA FCMI
Formerly DG, Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre and Director, Strategic Forecasting
Chris Parry was educated at the Portsmouth Grammar School and read Modern History at Jesus College, Oxford. He joined the Royal Navy as a Seaman Officer and subsequently sub-specialised as a Sea King, Wessex and Lynx Observer, operating from carriers and surface combatants. He was mentioned in despatches during the Falklands war and received the 1983 Prince Philip Helicopter Rescue Award from the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators.
After the Royal Naval Staff Course in 1986, he was Staff Aviation Officer to Flag Officer Sea Training and then Executive Officer of the destroyer leader HMS YORK. He was promoted Commander in 1989 and, after appointments in Defence Policy at the Ministry of Defence and on the staff of Commander-in-Chief Fleet, commanded the air defence destroyer HMS GLOUCESTER from 1994 to 1996.
On promotion to Captain, he commanded the Maritime Warfare Centre from 1996 to 1998 and was responsible for the teaching and evolution of Joint and maritime doctrine, tactical development and operational analysis. After the Royal College of Defence Studies in London, he returned to sea in January 2000 in command of HMS FEARLESS and as Flag Captain to the Amphibious Task Group. From April 2001, as a Commodore and as Director Operational Capability in the Ministry of Defence, he was directly responsible to Ministers and the Chiefs of Staff for the provision of independent assessments of operational capability and lessons from operations. In September 2003, he took command of the UK's Amphibious Task Group and NATO's UK/Netherlands Amphibious Task Group. On promotion to Flag rank in January 2005, he formed the Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre and spent 3 years as its Director General. He is currently gainfully and fully employed as a consultant, writer and lecturer.
He has written, broadcasted and lectured on historical and Defence themes and has contributed to all Defence options, cost studies and reviews since 1989. Apart from his family, his interests include medieval and military history, hill-walking and sport and he has represented both the University of Oxford and the Royal Navy at Rugby Union. Between 2003 and 2008, he was President of both the Royal Navy and Combined Services Rugby Leagues.
DAVID RICHARDSON
Development Executive, Raytheon Systems
David Richardson joined Raytheon Systems Limited in December 2002, after retiring from the Army in the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. David's last appointment was in the Army's Directorate of Individual Training Policy where he was responsible for a number of training policy issues. These included initiating the Army's study into Command, Leadership and Management training for Non Commissioned Officers and Warrant Officers. He also co-ordinated the Army's input to the original Defence Training Review and subsequently oversaw the implementation of the Report's recommendations across the Army. Since joining Raytheon he has worked within the company's Global Training Solutions Business concentrating in particular on its bid for the Defence Training Rationalisation Programme as a member of the Metrix Consortium.
MICHAEL C. RYAN
Defense Advisor US Mission to the European Union
Michael Ryan is the Defense Advisor, United States Mission to the European Union, Brussels, Belgium. The Mission, comprising more than 10 agencies of the federal government, is responsible for all aspects of the United States' relationship with the 27-member European Union, a union of 500 million citizens generating an $11 trillion economy. The increasing importance of the European Union's European Security and Defense Policy, the increasing tempo and intensity of US commitments in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and the increasing operational demands on both, necessitated a permanent and an effective US Department of Defense presence at the US mission to the EU.
Mr. Ryan joined the Senior Executive Service of the Department of Defense in 2007 following a 25-year career in the US Air Force having retired as a Colonel. He was commissioned in 1982 from the U.S. Air Force Academy. He is a distinguished graduate of the Joint Military Intelligence College, was a National Defense Fellow with Congress, and attended the Collège Interarmèe de Défense in Paris. His assignments include flying duties as an instructor pilot, flight commander, Red Flag mission commander, and assistant director of operations in the A-10A. His staff assignments include the Command Action Group in Air Education and Training Command and a tour in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Colonel Ryan has taught extensively in the United States and Europe including as a Department Director at the NATO School. Prior to assuming his current position full-time, he also served as the Military Advisor to the Secretary of Defense Representative, Europe at the US Mission to NATO.
KENT R. SCHNEIDER
President and Chief Executive Officer
Kent R. Schneider, AFCEA's president and chief executive officer, is a 26-year veteran of the U.S. Army Signal Corps. He comes to AFCEA from Northrop Grumman Corporation's Information Technology sector, where he served as vice president of business development. In this role, he oversaw the company's long-range strategic planning. He was also a partner in the IT sector's alliance initiatives, and headed up the sector's international business development activities.
After retiring from the Army in 1994, Mr. Schneider became the director of C4I Initiatives at Litton PRC. His subsequent positions include defense systems director of Advanced Programs; general manager, Maritime and Ground Systems; vice president and general manager, C3I Systems; senior vice president and general manager, Defense Systems sector; and president, Defense Systems division.
Mr. Schneider brings to AFCEA the wealth of experience he gained while working for the Army in the early years of information technology. Specifically, his expertise in information systems includes designing, integrating and managing areas related to U.S. Defense Department command, control, communications, computers and intelligence (C4I) systems.
Mr. Schneider earned a bachelor's degree in business management from Augusta College, and a Master's in information systems management from the University of Southern California. He is also a graduate of the National War College.
As a member of AFCEA, Mr. Schneider offered his time and talents as chairman of the Association's Budget and Finance Committee and as a member of the executive and technology committees. He also established and then co-chaired the Strategic Development Committee for seven years. Schneider has received the AFCEA Meritorious Service, Chairman's Superior Performance and Educational Foundation Distinguished Service to Education awards, and was named AFCEAN of the Year in 2004. He also has been recognized by Federal Computer Week magazine as one of the top 100 executives with the greatest influence on the information systems community.
Mr. Schneider may be contacted at:
AFCEA International
4400 Fair Lakes Court
Fairfax, VA 22033-3899
(703) 631-6100
kschneider@afcea.org
NICK WITNEY
Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations
Nick Witney, until autumn 2007 the first Chief Executive of the European Defence Agency (www.eda.europa.eu) in Brussels, is now a defence consultant. He works primarily with the Paris office of the European Council on Foreign Relations (www.ecfr.eu), a new pan-European think-tank committed to promoting a more integrated and effective European foreign policy.
Nick was chosen by Javier Solana in January 2004 to lead the project team charged with developing the concept and blue-print for the Agency - and following the approval by the European Council of the team's proposals in July 2004 (an achievement recognised by the European Voice in nominating Nick one of its 50 'Europeans of the Year'), he was appointed to establish and run the Agency for its first 3 years.
Nick's previous career, after reading Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, was spent in British Government service, first with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and later with the Ministry of Defence (MOD). As a diplomat he learned Arabic in Lebanon and Jordan, served in Baghdad, and spent 4 years as Private Secretary to the British Ambassador in Washington.
With the MOD, his career covered a wide range of responsibilities: planning and finance; defence exports (the Al Yamamah programme with Saudi Arabia); nuclear policy; the defence estate (he ran the privatisation of the MOD's married quarters housing stock); the new Labour Government's 1998 Strategic Defence Review; the forward Equipment Programme; and defence industrial policy. During a 1990s sabbatical with RAND, Santa Monica, he published on British and European nuclear policies. His last job before Brussels was as the MOD's Director-General of International Security Policy, responsible for NATO and EU policy as well as missile defence.
He lists his interests as sailing, modern fiction and rugby football.
PROFESSOR PETER D ZIMMERMAN
Emeritus Professor of Science & Security, Kings College London and Advisor to Congressional Committees
Peter D. Zimmerman recently retired as Chair of Science & Security in the Department of War Studies at King's College, London and Director of the KCL Centre for Science & Security Studies but continues his association as Professor Emeritus, a title conferred in recognition of his contributions to the College and to scholarship. At King's his interests included nuclear terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and technical studies of debris in space caused by the use of space weaponry. He served as a member of the National Academies of Science panel on the Safety and Security of Spent Reactor Fuel, a panel mandated by the U.S. Congress.
Before moving to London, he served as the Chief Scientist of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee until 15 January 2003 and Democratic Chief Scientist until 15 March 2004. His responsibilities at the Senate included nuclear testing, nuclear arms control, cooperative threat reduction, and bioterrorism. He was the principal architect of S-3121, the "Nuclear and Radiological Terrorism Threat Reduction Act of 2002" cosponsored by Senators Biden, Lugar, Domenici, Clinton, Gregg and Schumer. He also organized the Foreign Relations Committee's hearing on "Dirty Bombs" (radiological dispersion devices) in 2002 and the classified briefings the Committee received on the subject. He has written on Dirty Bombs and nuclear terrorism for the National Defense University, for Survival, and Foreign Policy magazine. Prior to assuming his duties in the U.S. Senate he was the Science Adviser for Arms Control in the U.S. State Department. His responsibilities included technical aspects of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, biological arms control, missile defense, and strategic arms control.
Before the merger of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency into the Department of State, Dr. Zimmerman served as the last Chief Scientist of ACDA. He has held positions as a senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a Senior Fellow of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and as an adjunct member of the research staff of the Institute for Defense Analyses. At IDA he led the technical working group which wrote the sections of the Militarily Critical Technologies List dealing with nuclear weapons and the nuclear industry. From April, 1999 until April, 2000 he was Chair of the American Physical Society's Forum on Physics and Society; in 2001 he was elected to a four year term as a member of the Council of the Society and re-elected in 2004. In 2006 he was elected to the executive board of the Society, and in 2007 to a four-year term as a member of the Society's Panel on Public Affairs. He became a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1988. Dr. Zimmerman is the recipient of the 2004 Burton/Forum Award of the American Physical Society for his work in arms control and national security, and of the 2005 G. William Morgan Lectureship of the Health Physics Society for his work on "dirty bombs."
His first appointment in Washington was as a William C. Foster Fellow at the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (1984-1986) during which time he served as a technical expert on the START I negotiating team. Dr. Zimmerman holds B.S. (With Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa) and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University and a Filosofie Licentiat degree from Lunds Universitet in Lund, Sweden, all in experimental nuclear and elementary particle physics. He was Professor of Physics at Louisiana State University and is the author of more than 100 papers and articles on basic physics, arms control, and national security.