Speakers
The Hon Liam Fox MP
UK Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
Liam contested Roxburgh and Berwickshire in the 1987 General Election, and was elected as the Member of Parliament for Woodspring in April 1992.
In June 1993, Liam was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Michael Howard, then Home Secretary. In July 1994, he was appointed an Assistant Government Whip, and promoted to the position of Senior Government Whip the following year. He was a Minister at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1996 until the 1997 General Election.
In June 1997, Liam was appointed Opposition Front Bench Spokesman on Constitutional Affairs. For four years from May 1999 to November 2003 he served as Shadow Secretary of State for Heath before being appointed Co-Chairman of the Party in 2003. Subsequently, from May 2005 to December 2005, he served as Shadow Foreign Secretary. Since December 2005, he has been the Shadow Secretary of State for Defence.
Liam was born in 1961. He was educated at St Bride's High School, East Kilbride and University of Glasgow where he studied medicine. As a keen university debater he won national and international prizes.
Liam is a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners. He worked as a Civilian Army Medical Officer and also worked in the voluntary sector as a divisional surgeon for St Johns before working as a GP in Buckinghamshire and Somerset. He has a large number of interests outside of politics including skiing, tennis, and diving.
Prof Keith Hartley
Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of York
Founding Editor, Defence and Peace Economics, 1990-2007.
Special Advisor to the Editor, Defence and Peace Economics, 2008- Chair, Finance Group, Aerospace Innovation and Growth Team, reporting to Secretary of State, DTI.
Written and Oral evidence presented to House of Commons Defence Committee for its Enquiries into the UK Defence Industrial Strategy and Defence Commitments and Resources
Special Adviser to House of Commons Defence Committee, 1985 – 2001. Consultant to UN, EC, EDA, UK Ministry of Defence, DTI, HM Treasury, Korean Defence Agency and Korean Development Institute
Research Interests include: defence economics including procurement, economics of alliances, industrial policy, EU defence policy, collaboration, the costs of conflict (e.g. Iraq) and military outsourcing.
Dr Emanuele Ottolenghi
Executive Director, Transatlantic Institute
Dr Emanuele Ottolenghi is the executive director of the Brussels' based Transatlantic Institute. A political scientist by training, he came to Brussels in 2006 after having previously taught Israel Studies at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and at the Middle East Centre of St. Antony’s College, Oxford University. He obtained his Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and did his undergraduate studies at the University of Bologna.
He is a frequent commentator on Middle East affairs for various English and Italian language publications. He has a regular column in the British monthly, Standpoint Magazine and blogs on Contentions, the Blog of Commentary Magazine. He is the author, most recently, of Under a Mushroom Cloud: Europe, Iran, and the Bomb (Profile Books, 2009).
Minister Ali A. Jalali
Distinguished Professor and Former Interior Minister of Afghanistan
Ali A. Jalali, former Interior Minister of Afghanistan (Jan. 2003-Sept. 2005), is currently serving as both a Distinguished Professor at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies (NESA) and as a researcher at the Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS). His areas of interest include reconstruction/stabilization and peacekeeping operations in Afghanistan and regional issues affecting Afghanistan, Central and South Asia.
As Interior Minister, he created a trained force of 50,000 Afghan National Police (ANP) and 12,000 Border Police to work effectively in counter-narcotics, counter-terrorism, and criminal investigation to fight against organized crime and illegal border crossings. He successfully led the country-wide operations to protect the constitutional grand assembly (Loya Jirga) in 2003, the nationwide voters’ registration drive and landmark 2004 Presidential election, and the parliamentary elections in 2005. His leadership won the freedom of all ten kidnapped foreign nationals in Afghanistan (2003-2005) without giving in to the demands of the hostage takers. Minister Jalali implemented a nationwide program under the Afghanistan Stabilization Program (ASP) to extend the central government’s authority to all 34 provinces and 365 districts throughout the country. His efforts removed warlord-governors, incompetent provincial administrators, corrupt officials and ineffective police chiefs to ensure basic security and good governance for all of Afghanistan. He was Chairman of the Executive Steering Committee of Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRT) whose members include high-ranking Afghan government officials, the commanders of the U.S.-led Coalition Forces and the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the head of the U.N. Assistance Mission, ambassadors from the donor countries and representatives of international organizations.
Prior to assuming his post as Minister, Mr. Jalali was the Director of Afghanistan National Radio Network Initiative and Chief of the Pashto Service at the Voice of America in Washington, D.C. A reputed multi-lingual and political analyst he has native fluency in English, Pashto, Dari, Persian (Farsi) and Tajik, is fluent in Russian, fluently translates from French and has functional knowledge of Arabic, Turkish and Urdu. He has directed broadcasts in Pashto, Dari and Farsi to Afghanistan, Iran and Tajikistan. As a journalist, he traveled extensively while covering the war in Afghanistan (1982- 1993) and the former Soviet Central Asia (1993-2000). His work includes hundreds of analytical reports for VOA on political, economic and social developments in the region. He is a frequent commentator on Afghan issues at major U.S. and European TV and radio networks. He is a published writer in three languages (English, Pashto, Dari/Farsi) and the author of numerous books and articles on political, military and security issues as well as the Islamic movements in Afghanistan, Iran and Central Asia.
A former Colonel in the Afghan Army and graduate of high command and staff colleges in Afghanistan, the United Kingdom and the United States, Mr. Jalali served as a top military planner with Afghan Resistance following the Soviet invasion in 1979.
Inspector General Malik Naveed Khan
Inspector General of Police, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan
| Inspector General of Police, NWFP. BS - 22 Provincial Police Officer, NWFP. | 12.03.2008 to Date |
| Commandant, Frontier Constabulary | May 2006 to 12.03.2008 |
| Director Crimes, FIA, Peshawar Zone | 2001 to May, 2006 |
| Joint Director General, Intelligence Bureau NWFP (twice) | 1997 to 2001 |
| DIG Special Branch, NWFP, Peshawar | 1995 to 1997 |
| DIG Traffic, NWFP, Peshawar | 1995 |
| Commandant, Frontier Reserve Police, NWFP, Peshawar | 1994 to 1995 |
| DIG Police Peshawar, Peshawar Region (twice) | 1992 to 1994 |
| DIG Police, Hazara Region | 1990 to 1992 |
| DIG Police HQrs: NWFP, Peshawar | 1989 to 1990 |
| DIG Police, Traffic & Highway Karachi | 1988 to 1989 |
| DIG Police Crimes, Sindh Karachi | 1987 to 1988 |
| SP Mansehra | 1985 to 1987 |
| SP HQrs: Peshawar | 1984 to 1985 |
| Community Welfare Attache Pak: Embassy at Kuwait | 1979 to 1984 |
| District Officer, Frontier Constabulary, Peshawar | 1977 to 1979 |
| ADO FC (HQ) Peshawar | 1975 to 1977 |
| ASP Mardan | 1972 to 1974 |