Global Security Challenges: What Is Achievable To Make Us Safe?
Webinar - USA, UK & Switzerland

This major Cityforum series looks at global security challenges through the lens of the transatlantic relationship and the implications for both countries. It carries forward from previous series developed in conjunction with UK and US security and intelligence agencies. The challenges loom large including shifts in geopolitics, bio threats, climate change and the ever-growing dependence on technology. This Cityforum programme explores how the world is changing (and how it has changed as a result of Covid). But more importantly it looks at the options and responses available to governments, their agencies (including the military, security and intelligence services, law enforcement and emergency services) in the UK and the US. And it will seek to bring the best of thinking from both sides of the Atlantic to focus on how the two countries can work together to promote greater collective security and resilience. The programme focuses less on analysis of the problems and more on hard-headed and informed discussion of what can be done to deal with them. The Head of SIS recently described ‘adapting to a world affected by the rise of China’ as the single greatest priority for the Service. In the New York Times recently Matt Pottinger and David Feith described ‘data as the oil of the 21st century’ and warned recently that China is the biggest data broker in the world, and that it is winning a competition for global influence in which the West is barely even engaged.

This closing session is developed and chaired by Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli, Executive Chairman, Z/Yen Group, and is the final part of the 2022 Cityforum series. The opening session from 2021 can be viewed here: Global Security Challenges: Existential Threats & Geopolitics

This meeting will be conducted under the Chatham House Rule:

When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed”.

Speakers:

Chris Inglis currently serves as the first Senate-confirmed National Cyber Director and advisor to the President of the United States Joe Biden on cybersecurity. He previously worked as a U.S. Naval Academy Looker Distinguished Visiting Professor for Cyber Studies, as a managing director at Paladin Capital, a member of the boards of several public and private corporations, and as a Commissioner on the U.S. Cyberspace Solarium Commission. He retired from the Department of Defense in January 2014 after 41 years of federal service, including 28 years at the National Security Agency and seven and a half years as its Deputy Director. He served as a member of the Department of Defense Science Board and as a National Intelligence University trustee until early 2021. A 1976 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Inglis holds advanced degrees in engineering and computer science from Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, and the George Washington University. Inglis’ military career includes 30 years of service in the US Air Force and Air National Guard — from which he retired as a command pilot at the rank of Brigadier General. He and his wife Anna have three grown children and reside in Annapolis, MD.

John Plender is a British writer, broadcaster and journalist based at the Financial Times in London. After Oxford University, he joined Deloitte, Plender, Griffiths & Co, qualifying as a chartered accountant in 1970. He then moved into journalism and became financial editor of The Economist in 1974, where he remained until joining the UK Foreign Office policy planning staff in 1980. On leaving the Foreign Office, he became a senior editorial writer and columnist at the Financial Times, a role he combined for a time with broadcasting for BBC Television and Chanel Four. A past chairman of Pensions and Investment Research Consultants (Pirc), the UK shareholder activist, John Plender served on the UK government’s Company Law Review steering group which provided the basis for the Companies Act 2006. He joined the board of Quintain PLC as a non-executive director in 2002 and chaired the company from 2007 to 2009. John is a trustee of the £4bn Pearson Pension Fund and a member of the World Bank/OECD Private Sector Advisory Group on corporate governance. His books include Going Off The Rails: Global Capital and the Crisis of Legitimacy, John Wiley (2003) which anticipated the financial crisis and Capitalism: Money, Morals and Markets, Biteback Publishing (2015).

Maya Bundt is Cyber Practice Leader at Swiss Re. After developing the cyber insurance strategy and successfully building the Cyber and Digital Solutions functions and global team in Reinsurance, she is now responsible for cyber initiatives on Group level. Before joining Swiss Re in 2003, Maya was with The Boston Consulting Group where she spent 3 years as a strategy consultant serving a variety of industries. She holds a PhD in Environmental Science from the ETH Zurich. Maya is elected member of the World Economic Forum Future Council for Cybersecurity and supports a number of national and international initiatives around the digital economy and cyber risks. She has published several articles on the topic. Maya is an independent member of the Board of Directors of the Swiss bank Valiant and of out-of-home media leader in Switzerland APG SGA, serves in the Cybersecurity committee of digitalswitzerland and as partner for Governance of Digital Risks at the International Center for Corporate Governance.

Date
Wednesday, 27 April 2022

Time
15:00 - 16:00 BST

Cost
Free

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    Hon Chris Inglis
    National Cyber Director
    White House
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    John Plender
    Journalist
    Financial Times
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    Maya Bundt
    Cyber Practice Leader
    Swiss Re
Chairman:
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    Professor Michael Mainelli
    Executive Chairman
    Z/Yen Group

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