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Speakers

Speakers

Speakers

Speakers

Department of Political Sciences, Roma Tre University, Italy

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Director, Combatting Terrorism Centre (CTC), U.S. Military Academy, West Point, United States

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Ms. Nitsana Darshan-Leitner

President, Shurat HaDin, Israel

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Prof.

Uriel Reichman

Founder & President , the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel

Mr.

Shabtai Shavit

Chairman of the Board of Directors, ICT, IDC Herzliya & Former Director of the Mossad, Israel

Mr.

Jonathan Davis

Vice President for External Relations and Head of the Raphael Recanati, International School (RRIS), IDC Herzliya, Israel

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Prof.

Boaz Ganor

Founder & Executive Director, ICT, Ronald Lauder Chair for Counter-Terrorism and Dean, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy & Strategy, IDC Herzliya, Israel

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Dr.

Qanta Ahmed

Associate Professor of Medicine, State University of New York, United States

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Maj. Gen. (Res.)

Yaakov Amidror

Former National Security Advisor & Director, National Security Council, Israel

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Mr.

Michael Balboni

Chairman, Infrastructure Protection and Cyber Security Committee, New York Power Authority and President and Managing Director, Redland Strategies Inc.; and Former New York Senator & State Deputy Secretary for Public Safety, United States

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The Honorable

Naftali Bennet

Minister of Education & Diaspora Affairs, Israel

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Brig. Gen. Dr.

Yuval Bitton

Head, Intelligence Divison, Israeli Prison Service (IPS), Israel

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The Honorable

Boyko Borissov

Prime Minister of the Republic of Bulgaria

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The Honorable

Ditmir Bushati

Foreign Minister, Albania

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ASG/ED

Michele Coninsx

Assistant Secretary General & Executive Director, Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate (CTED), United Nations

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Mr.

Gilles de Kerchove

Counter-Terrorism Coordinator, European Union

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Mr.

Aimen Dean

Author, My Time as the West's Top Spy Inside Al-Qaeda, United Kingdom

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Mr.

Brian Dodwell

Director, Combatting Terrorism Centre (CTC), U.S. Military Academy, West Point, United States

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DAC

Lucy D'Orsi

Deputy Assistant Commissioner (Specialist Operations), Metropolitan Police, United Kingdom

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Maj. Gen.

Zohar Dvir

Deputy Commissioner, Israel National Police, Israel

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Comm.

Ian Dyson

Commissioner, City of London Police, United Kingdom

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Col. Res.

Avi Eliyahu

Associate, ICT, IDC Herzliya & Former Southern Command Chief Intelligence Officer, IDF, Israel

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The Honorable

Hans-Georg Engelke

State Secretary for Security,

Federal Ministry of Interior, Germany

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MK

Gilad Erdan

Minister of Public Security, Strategic Affairs & Information, Israel

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The Honorable

Moshe Fadlon

Mayor of Herzliya, Israel

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Ambassador

Edmund Fitton-Brown

Coordinator, ISIL, Al-Qaida and Taliban Monitoring Team, United Nations

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ASG Arndt

Freytag von Loringhoven

Assistant Secretary General for Intelligence & Security, NATO

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The Honorable

David Glawe

Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), United States

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Maj. Gen.

Yair Golan

Former Deputy Chief of Staff,Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Israel

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Deputy Ambassador

Tony Kay

Deputy Ambassador, Deputy Head of Mission, United Kingdom Embassy to Israel

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MK

Israel Katz

Minister of Intelligence & Transportation, Israel

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Col.

John Kenkel

Army Attaché, Embassy of the United States to Israel

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Dr.

Jehangir Khan

Director, Office of Counter-Terrorism, United Nations

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Ambassador

Hélène Le Gal

Ambassador of the Republic of France to Israel

 

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Lt. Col.

Brent Lindeman

United States Army War College Fellow, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel

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The Honorable

Tzipi Livni

Leader of the Opposition & Member of Parliament, Israel

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Col. (Res.)

Lior Lotan

Senior Researcher & Former Executive Director, ICT, IDC Herzliya & Former Coordinator for POWs & MIAs, Prime Minister’s Office, Israel 

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Mr.

Michael McPherson

Deputy Assistant Director, Counter-Terrorism Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), United States

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The Honorable

Nickolay Mladenov

Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, United Nations

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Prof.

Luigi Moccia

Department of Political Sciences,
Roma Tre University, Italy

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Mr. 

Joseph Opondo

Deputy Director, National Counter-Terrorism Center (NCTC), Kenya

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Ambassador

Ron Prosor

Head of The Abba Eban Institute, IDC Herzliya, Former Director General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Former Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom & United Nations, Israel

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Col. (Res.)

Daniel Reisner

Associate, ICT, IDC Herzliya & Former Head of the International Law Department, IDF, Israel

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Mr.

Robert Singer

CEO and Executive Vice-President, World Jewish Congress (WJC), Israel

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Mr.

Marc Timmer

Head of Stadia & Security, Union of European Football Associations (UEFA)

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Mr.

Chagai Tzuriel

Director General, Ministry of Intelligence, Israel

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Mr. 

Yigal Unna

Director General of the Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD), Israel

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Lt. Gen. (Ret.)

Moshe (Bogie) Ya'alon

Former Defense Minister & Chief of Staff,
Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Israel

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Dr.

Eitan Azani

Deputy Executive Director, ICT and Head of BA & MA Specializations in Counter-Terrorism, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy & Strategy, IDC Herzliya, Israel

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Mr.

Yaniv Cohen

Executive Director, Abba Eban Institute of International Diplomacy, IDC Herzliya, Israel

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Brig. Gen. (Res.)

Itai Brun

Former Head, Research Department, Military Intelligence Directorate, Israel Defense Forces (IDF), & Associate, International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT), Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel 

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Col. (Res.)

Miri Eisin

Associate, ICT, IDC Herzliya

Maj. Gen. (Res.) Amos Gilead

Director, Institute for Policy & Strategy and Chairman, Herzliya Conference Series, IDC Herzliya, Israel

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Dr.

Daniel Heinke

Chief of Detectives and Director, State Bureau of Investigation, Bremen State Police, Bremen, Germany

Mr.

Brian Jenkins

Senior Advisor to the President, RAND Corporation and Member of the Professional Advisory Board, ICT, IDC Herzliya, United States

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Ms.

Rita Katz

Director, SITE Intelligence Group, United States

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Mr.

Herb Keinon

The Jerusalem Post, Israel

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Dr.

Matthew Levitt

Fromer-Wexler Fellow and Director, Reinhard Program on Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, United States

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Mr.

Charles Lister

Senior Fellow & Director of the Extremism and Counterterrorism Program, Middle East Institute (MEI), United States

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Prof.

Ariel Merari

Senior Research Fellow, ICT, IDC Herzliya and Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

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Mr.

Yaakov Peri

Senior Research Fellow, ICT, IDC Herzliya,  Former Minister of Science & Technology & Former Director, Israel Security Agency (ISA), Israel

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Dr.

Magnus Ranstorp

Research Director, Center for Asymmetric Threat Studies (CATS), National Defence College, Sweden

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Ms.

Meredith Stricker

Executive Director, The Soufan Center,

United States

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MK

Ksenia Svetlova

Member of Parliament, Zionist Union, Israel

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Maj. Gen. (Res.) Shlomo “Sami” Turgeman

Former Commander Southern Command, Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), Senior Fellow, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel

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Comm.

Luc Van der Taelen

Project Manager, Community Policing and the Prevention of Radicalisation (CoPPRa)

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Mr.

David Wells

Political Affairs Officer, Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), Security Council, United Nations

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Dr.

Aaron Zelin

Richard Borow Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, United States

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Mr.

Jacob Zenn

Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University & Fellow, Jamestown Foundation, United States

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Lt. Gen. (Ret.)

Orit Adato

Associate, ICT, IDC Herzliya and Former Commissioner, Israeli Prison Services (IPS), Israel

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Dr. Col. (Ret.)

Rateb Amro

Director General & Founder, Horizon Strategic Studies, Jordan

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Mr.

Yaniv Azani

Chief Technology Officer (CTO), National Cyber Unit, Israeli National Police, Israel

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Prof.

William Banks

Founding Director, Institute for National Security and Counter Terrorism (INSCT) and Professor of Law Public Administration and International Affairs, Syracuse

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Lt. Col. (Res.)

Uri Ben Yaakov

Senior Researcher, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel

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Det.

Charlie Benaim

Police Attaché, New York Police Department (NYPD), United States

Research Fellow, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel

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Mr.

Ilan Berman

Vice President, American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC), United States

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Mr.

Ilja Bonsen

Managing Director & Founder, IB Consultancy and President, CBRNe Society, The Netherlands

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Det.

Chris Capone

Police attache, New York Police Department (NYPD), United States

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Mr.

Milo Comerford

Analyst, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, United Kingdom

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Mr.

Yotam Dagan

Research Fellow, ICT, IDC Herzliya & Director of International Programming, Israel Trauma and Resilience Center (NATAL), Israel

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Col.

Regev Daharug

Executive Assistant to the Commissioner; Former Commander of Masada Unit & Head of Operations Branch, Israel Prison Services (IPS), Israel

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Ms.

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner

President, Shurat HaDin, Israel

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Mr.

Pedro das Neves

CEO, Innovative Prison Systems (IPS), Portugal

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Ms. Teresa de Almeida e Silva

Associate Professor, Institute of Social & Political Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal

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Adv.

Thibault de Montbrial

Attorney, Paris Bar & Chairman, Centre de Réflexion sur la Sécurité Interieure (CRSI), France

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Ms.

Olga Deutsch

Director, Europe Desk, NGO Monitor, Israel

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Brig. Gen. (Res.)

Rami Efrati

Associate, ICT, IDC Herzliya and Former Head of the Civilian Division, National Cyber Bureau, Prime Minister's Office, Israel

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Asst. Comm.

Graham Ellis

Assistant Commissioner, Operational Resilience / Special Operations Group, London Fire Brigade United Kingdom

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Dr.

Yaakov Falkov

Research Fellow, ICT, IDC Herzliya

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Mr.

Thorkild Fogde

Director General of the Danish Prison and Probation Service

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Prof.

Robert Friedmann

Founding Director, Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange (GILEE) and Professor Emeritus of Criminal Justice, Georgia State University, United States

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Mr.

Cary Gleicher

Attaché to Israel, Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), United States

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Dr.

Ori Goldberg

Senior Researcher, ICT, IDC Herzliya

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Mr.

Naftali Granot

Associate, ICT, IDC Herzliya & Former Deputy Director of the Mossad, Israel

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Prof.

Pinchas Halpern

Director, Emergency Medicine Department, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel

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Dr.

Dror Harel

Research Fellow, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel

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Adv. Deborah

Housen-Couriel

Research Associate and Adjunct Lecturer, ICT, IDC Herzliya & Fellow, Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center (ICRC), Tel Aviv University, Israel

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Commander (Ret.) Dr.

Eran Israel

Secretary General, International Police Associate, Israel

Mr. 

Meir Javedanfar

Lecturer & Researcher on Iran, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya, Israel

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Dr.

Ely Karmon

Senior Research Scholar, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel

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Mr.

David Karpf

Head of AI Center, Ministry of Defense, Israel

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Ms.

Lydia Khalil

Research Fellow, Lowy Institute, Australia

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Mr.

Paul Landes

Head, National Bureau for Counter Terror Financing (NBCTF), Ministry of Defense, Israel

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Prof.

Kristian Lauta

Associate Professor, Center for International Law, Conflict and Crisis, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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Mr.

Ariel Levanon

Vice President, Cyber and Intelligence, MER Group, Israel

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Prof.

Meir Litvak

Chair, Department of Middle Eastern and African History & Director, Alliance Center for Iranian Studies, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

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Ms.

Tallie Lipkin Shahak

Editor and Anchor, Defense Programs, Galei Tsahal, Israel

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Prof.

Edythe London

Professor In-Residence, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), United States

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Dr.

Amichai Magen

Senior Researcher and Head of the Terrorism & Governance Desk, ICT & Head, MA Program in Diplomacy & Conflict Studies, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy & Strategy, IDC Herzliya, Israel

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Adv. 

Kathleen Magnafici

Assistant Attache to Israel, Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI)

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Mr.

Pierre Maitrot

Head, Security & Intelligence Division, National Prison Administration, Ministry of Justice, France

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Prof.

Yossi Mann

Researcher, Department of Middle-Eastern Studies, Bar Ilan University, Israel

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Mr.

Denis Monette

Associate, ICT, IDC Herzliya; Chairman, STARCOM & Former Assistant Commissioner of Police, Nassau, New York, United States

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Angel Vicente

Lopez Muriel

Co-chair, RAN Working Group on Prison and Probation & Director, Security Department, Prison of Madrid, Spain

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Brig. Gen. (Res.)

Nitzan Nuriel

Associate, ICT, IDC Herzliya & Former Director, Counter-Terrorism Bureau, Prime Minister's Office, Israel

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Prof.

Liav Orgad

Senior Researcher, ICT, IDC Herzliya, & Director, Global Citizenship Governance, EUI Florence & WZB Berlin, Israel

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Commander

James Phipson

Chief Officer, Special Constabulary, City of London Police, United Kingdom

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Prof.

Fernando Reinares

Professor and Chair, Political Science and Security Studies, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos & Senior Analyst on International Terrorism, Real Instituto Elcano & Member of the Professional Advisory Board, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Spain

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Dr.  Daphné Richemond Barak

Associate, ICT, IDC Herzliya & Former Director, Counter-Terrorism Bureau, Prime Minister's Office, Israel

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Prof.

Randall Rogan

Professor of Communication, Wake Forst University, United States

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Dr. 

Katja Samuel

Director, Global Security and Disaster Management Limited & Co-chair, American Society of International Law Disaster Law Interest Group, United Kingdom

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Prof.

Alex Schmid

Director, Terrorism Research Initiative (TRI); Research Fellow, International Centre for Counter Terrorism (ICCT) & Member of the Professional Advisory Board, ICT, IDC Herzliya, The Netherlands

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Lt. Col. (Res.)

Michael Segall

Senior Analyst, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA), Israel

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Dr.

Eran Shadach

Research Fellow, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel

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Ambassador

Daniel Shapiro

Former US Ambassador to Israel & Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), Tel-Aviv University, Israel

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Superintendant

Gal Sharon

International Vice President, International Police Association (IPA), Israel

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Brig. Gen. (Res.)

Charly Shugg

Executive Director, Global Consortium for Counter Cyber-Terrorism (GC3T) and Partner and COO, Sylint, United States

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Chief

Joseph Spillane

Chief of Police, Georgia State University, United States

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Prof.

Gerald Steinberg

Founder & President, NGO Monitor and Professor of Political Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Israel

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Dr.

Stephen Tankel

Associate Professor, American University & Senior Editor, War on the Rocks, United States

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Mr.

Omri Timianker

Founder and President, Cobwebs Technologies, Israel 

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Prof.

Abraham Wagner

Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs and Senior Research Scholar, Saltzman Institute for War and Peace Studies, Columbia University, United States

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Prof.

Gabriel Weimann

Full Professor, Department of Communication, University of Haifa, Israel

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Mr.

Levi West

Director of Terrorism Studies, Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security, Australia

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Dr.

Craig Whiteside

Associate Professor, Naval War College Monterey, California & Fellow, International Centre for Counter-Terrorism, the Hague

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Ms.

Jennifer Woodard

Co-Founder & CEO, Insikt Intelligence, Spain

Prof. Uriel Reichman
Prof. Boaz Ganor
Mark Rowley
Manuel Valls
Jehangir Khan
David Friedman
Brian Jenkins
Tricia Bacon
Stephanie bagley
Alistair Sutherand1
Ayelet Shaked
Brian Fishman
Nickolay Miadenov
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