Managing Critical Events

Managing Critical Events
Webinar

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The fourth introductory webclave to the forthcoming Cityforum ‘Reimagining Security and Resilience’ programme is scheduled for September 2023, entitled 'Managing Critical Events'.

Chaired by Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli of Z/Yen with whom Cityforum is working on this series, the excellent panel of discussants comprises Professor Sir David Omand, former UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator; Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom Chairman of the Advisory Panel of Thales (UK); and Zhanna L. Malekos Smith Visiting Fellow Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs & Senior Associate Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS). The panel has much experience on what to do in response to managing critical events. One of the themes Michael Mainelli wishes to include is problems in the space domain and in particular with how debris could wreck both movement and communication, a subject for which Zhanna has particular expertise.

The whole thrust of this Cityforum project, which extends until Christmas, is how to deliver improved security and resilient recovery in a period of global stress, fragmentation and polycrisis.

More information to follow

Speakers:

Sir David Omand is a Visiting Professor in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London and at PSIA Sciences Po in Paris. His government service included UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator in the Cabinet Office, Permanent Secretary of the Home Office, Director of GCHQ, Deputy Under-Secretary of State for Policy in the MOD and Principal Private Secretary of the Secretary of State for Defence. He is a senior adviser to Paladin Capital, investing in growing cyber security companies and has been the Senior Independent Director of Babcock International Group plc. He is the author of Securing the State (Hurst) 2010; (with Professor Mark Phythian) Principled Spying: The Ethics of Secret Intelligence (OUP, 2018); and How Spies Think: 10 Lessons in Intelligence (Penguin Viking 2020). His new book ‘How to Survive a Crisis – Lessons in Resilience and Avoiding Disaster’ was published by Penguin Viking on 1st June 2023.

Lord (James) Arbuthnot is Chairman of the Advisory Panel of Thales (UK), of the Nuffield Trust for the Forces of the Crown, of the Information Assurance Advisory Council and of the Airey Neave Trust. From 2020 to 2021 he chaired the House of Lords Select Committee on Risk Assessment and Risk Planning which reported in December 2021. He is an Advisory Board member of Montrose Associates and of RUSI and a member of the Horizon Compensation Advisory Board From 1987 to 2015 he was a Conservative MP, serving as a Government Whip, Pensions Minister, Minister for Defence Procurement, Opposition Chief Whip, and from 2005 to 2014 Chairman of the Defence Select Committee. He became a member of the House of Lords in 2015.

Zhanna L Malekos Smith, JD, is a senior associate with the Aerospace Security Project and Strategic Technologies Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Fellow of the Carnegie Council US Global Engagement Program. She is also a fellow with the Army Cyber Institute at the US Military Academy at West Point. Previously, she was an assistant professor in the Systems Engineering Department at West Point, and a professor of cyber warfare studies with the US Air War College. Her expertise spans cybersecurity, aerospace security, emerging technologies, and international security. A former captain in the Air Force Judge Advocate General’s Corps, she has held fellowships with the Madeleine K. Albright Institute for Global Affairs, the Belfer Center’s Cyber Security Project at the Harvard Kennedy School, Duke University Law School, and Stanford University’s US-Russia Forum.

Date
Wednesday, 13 September 2023

Time
16:00 - 17:00 BST

Cost
Free