Speakers
GUY ANDERSON
Editor, Jane's Industry Quarterly
Guy Anderson is editor and lead analyst of Jane's Industry Quarterly. He is an award-winning journalist who has spent a decade in the industry covering financial and corporate affairs. In 2002 he moved into financial journalism, specialising in the fields of mergers & acquisitions and defence.
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Guy joined the Jane's Information Group in April 2005. In addition to leading Jane's Industry Quarterly, he is head of the Jane's Defence Industry daily news service (jdin.janes.com); editor of the Jane's World Defence Industry reference service; managing editor of Jane's Defence Budgets; and industry editor of Jane's Defence Weekly.
He is a research associate of the UK Defence Forum; a frequent writer of defence articles for the Royal United Services Institute; and a regular commentator on defence industrial issues in press and on television and radio.
MARK FITZPATRICK
Senior Fellow for Non-Proliferation, International Institute for Strategic Studies
Mark Fitzpatrick is Senior Fellow for Non-Proliferation at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and director of the IISS Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme. He is the author of The Iranian Nuclear Crisis: Avoiding worst-case outcomes (London: Routledge for IISS, 2008) and the editor and principal author of IISS strategic dossiers on Nuclear Black Markets: Pakistan, A.Q. Khan and the Rise of Proliferation Networks (2007) and Nuclear programmes in the Middle East: In the shadow of Iran (2008). Before joining IISS in 2005, he served for 26 years in the US Foreign Service, where he spent the last ten years of his career focussed on non-proliferation issues, including as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Non-Proliferation (acting). He earned a Master's in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He is a frequent commentator on BBC and other global news outlets and has published articles on nuclear issues in the Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, Survival, The Nonproliferation Review, Arms Control Today and elsewhere.
REAR ADMIRAL CHRIS PARRY
Former Director General, Development Concepts and Doctrine Center, UK MoD
Chris Parry read Modern History at Jesus College, Oxford. He joined the Royal Navy as a Seaman Officer and subsequently sub-specialised in aviation, operating from carriers and surface combatants all over the world and in operations in the Gulf, Northern Ireland and the Falklands. 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 appointments in Defence Policy at the Ministry of Defence and in command of the air defence destroyer HMS GLOUCESTER, 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. Here, he supervised a major revision of UK Joint thinking, together with the associated concepts and doctrine, and the widely acclaimed DCDC Strategic Trends programme.
He is currently gainfully and fully employed as a consultant, writer, broadcaster and lecturer, specialising in strategic change, forecasting and geopolitics. He has published, broadcasted and lectured on historic, Security and Defence themes and has contributed strongly to every Defence options exercise, cost study and review since 1989. Apart from his family, his interests include medieval and military history, hill-walking and sport; he represented both the University of Oxford and the Royal Navy at Rugby Union and is currently President of a Rugby League Club. A Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute, the international Institute for Strategic Studies and the Chartered Management Institute, he is also a member of the Institute of Directors and on the Policy Board of the Oxford Research Group.
PROFESSOR PHILIP TAYLOR
Professor of International Communications, University of Leeds, UK
Professor Phil Taylor was born on Merseyside in 1954. He graduated with a first class honours degree in History from the University of Leeds in 1975 and secured his doctorate, also from Leeds, three years later in 1978. His PhD was an examination of the very first Whitehall press department - the Foreign Office News Department - between 1914 and 1939. The thesis was supervised by David N Dilks, and externally examined by the late W N Medlicott.
In 1978 he joined the School of History at the University of Leeds as a Lecturer in International History and Politics. In 1982-83, he was Visiting Professor of Political Science & History at Vanderbilt University (Nashville) in the USA. He was made a Senior Lecturer in International History in 1988 and a Reader in International Communications in 1992. He secured his Chair in International Communications - the first of its kind in the UK - in 1998.
In between, in 1990, he was seconded to the newly created Institute of Communications Studies where he served as its first Deputy Director until 1998, when he became its second Director (succeeding Professor Nicholas Pronay). He was Director for four years until 2002.
His research interests are government-media relations, public and cultural diplomacy, propaganda, psychological operations/warfare, information operations/warfare, military-media relations, international film, radio and television (international communications) - all in an historical or contemporaneous context.
He is Associate Editor of both the 'The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television' and 'The Journal of Information Warfare' and he serves on the international editorial board for the new journals, 'Global Media and Communication', 'Media, War and Conflict' and the USC 'Public Diplomacy Annual'.
He also served for many years as Executive Secretary or Chairman of the InterUniversity History Film Consortium. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1982.
He has lectured all over the world, including at such institutions as the European Commission in Brussels and the Prime Minister's Office in Malaysia.
In the UK, he has lectured regularly on military education courses, especially on the MPOC* at the Defence Intelligence and Security School (DISS) at Chicksands (and previously at Ashford) and the NIOC** at Cranfield University. He has also lectured at the Royal College of Defence Studies and the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in London, as well as at Sandhurst and at the Joint Services Command Staff College (JSCSC) at Shrivenham. He has also been invited to speak at such bases as Catterick, RAF Fylingdales, HMS Collingwood and the UK Permanent Joint Force Headquarters at Northwood.
On military matters outside the UK, he has been invited to speak several times at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in Mons, Belgium, and on NATO Bi-Strategic courses first at the Polish Land Forces HQ in Warsaw, and subsequently in Paris, Bratislava, and Tallinn. In Germany, he has lectured at Church House, at the NATO School at Oberammergau, to the 1st Armoured Division at Herford, to the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) at Rheindahlen, and at the HQ of the Allied Land Component Command in Heidelberg. He has also spoken at the Norwegian Defence and Security School (NORDISS) and at the Norwegian Staff Defence College in Oslo, the Swedish Defence College in Stockholm, the Royal Danish Defence College in Copenhagen, CIMIC North in Holland, and the Italian Air Force Academy in Naples. Further afield, he has addressed the armed forces in Singapore and the Mubarak Al-Abdullah College for Joint Command and Staff in Kuwait City.
In North America, he has lectured to the Canadian Armed Forces at Montreal Garrison and at the Canadian Department of National Defence in Ottawa, and he has also spoken at the US Army War College in Pennsylvania and at US Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa. He has also spoken for the past 16 years at NATO sponsored courses (the JSPOC***) at the United States Air Force Special Operations Command at Hurlburt Field Air Force Base, Florida.
In 2002, he was consulted by the Prosecution Team of the Milosovic trial at the International War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague on Serbian propaganda.
He has published 13 books, including 'War and the Media: Propaganda and Persuasion in the Gulf War' (2nd edition 1997); 'Munitions of the Mind: a history of propaganda from the ancient world to the present day' (3rd edition 2003); 'Global Communications, International Affairs and the Media since 1945' (1997) and 'British Propaganda in the 20th Century: Selling Democracy' (1999)] as well as more than 90 articles/book chapters. His latest books are Shooting the Messenger: the political impact of war reporting (2008, with Paul Moorcraft) and the Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy (2008, co-edited with Nancy Snow). His work has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian and Spanish.
He has made many media appearances, including on BBC's 'Newsnight' and 'Timewatch' programmes, Channel 4 News, Sky News, BBC Radio 4 and 5 Live, and he has written op-ed pieces, inter alia, for 'The Washington Post' and 'Al Ahram' (Egypt).
In the summer of 2006 he was made Distinguished Visiting Professor in Communications and Media Studies at the Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) in Shah Alam (Malaysia). He has since been made an Adjunct Professor of the Centre for Media and Information Warfare Studies at UiTM and a Fellow of the Centre for Public Diplomacy in the University of Southern California. In 2008, he was made a Visiting Professor at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom at Cranfield University as part of his duties on the Postgraduate Certificate in Information Operations now being taught there. He is also on the Advisory Board of the Strategic Communications Laboratories, based in London, which hosts the Behavioural Dynamics Institute
PETER VARNISH, O.B.E., B.Sc. (Hons), FREng, FIEE, FRSA
Peter Varnish is an independent electronics and weapons engineer specialising in defence and security technologies advising corporates and Governments in the threat, resilience, offset; technology transfer, mergers and acquisitions. His particular interests include cyber warfare; data mining and passive tracking.
He began his career with the Royal Navy Scientific Service in 1968 and after 33 years in HM Government Service he retired from the board of the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, [now QinetiQ] to join Definition International Limited as Chairman. He is also director of ConSols Ltd a technology audit company; Closed Solutions Ltd who provide advice to Middle and Far East Governments; Table 27 Ltd a technology and conference forum, and Geopolitical Solutions who offer threat and security solutions. He is a Director of CMBC Inc of Chicago, who source funds for technology companies in the USA primarily for Homeland Security products. Lately he has been appointed as Advisor to a NASA Ames CRAD with m2mi Inc on a satellite cloud programme for secure networking.
He has been on the Technical Program Committee and Chairman for radar, military microwaves, and Stealth conferences including TRIDEX & IDEX-UAE;, Gulf Defence Conference; Global IMDEX Asia and Security Asia in Singapore; Air Launched Weapons; Asymmetric Warfare; Defence Partnering; and Ballistic Missile Defence. He sponsored the 1995 Theatre Missile Defence Conference, London, and the first open Stealth conference in 1986. His particular knowledge of the International Homeland Defence and Internal Security was supplemented in December 2007 at the ISNR Conference and Exhibition held jointly with the US Department of Homeland Defense which he chaired. In 2008 he chaired the Network Public Safety Conference, London.
In January 1993 Peter was appointed as the Director General of the Strategic Defence Initiative Participation Office, MoD, London. He supervised all scientific and technical co-operations with the US on the SDI programme, and represented the UK at NATO and other international fora.
He spent 1992 at the Royal College of Defence Studies, London, travelling extensively in the Middle East, and Europe making significant long-term international relationships.
Before RCDS he was Director "Above Water Warfare" in the DRA, sitting on the board. At DRA he was also Head of Weapons and EW Department. Head of the Radar, and to exploit the lessons of the Falklands War he created the Signature Control Divisions at ARE, Portsdown and Funtington, where he was also officer in charge. He wrote the definitive Naval Equipment Standard for the Stealth Design of Warships leading to the Type 23 and Type 45 Frigates.
He spent 1975 to 1978 at the British Embassy Washington as Special Scientific Adviser to the MoD.
He has patents in radar, stealth and semiconductor devices and has been a member of Council at ERA Leatherhead, the University of Surrey Advisory Board, The Portsmouth University Council, and the UK Defence Scientific Advisory Board.
He sits on the Royal Academy Pro-Active Committee and was elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering, in 1995, a Fellow of the IEE in 1990, and a Fellow of the RSA. He has appeared as a key witness on the Discovery, Channel 4 and other TV channels. Peter was awarded the OBE in 1982 for his contribution to the Falklands War.