Seventh International Conference: Terrorism's Global Impact: Toward a Balance Between Fighting Terror and Safeguarding Civil Liberties

International Institute for Counter-Terrorism, List of speakers for the IICT Seventh International Conference: Terrorism's Global Impact: Toward a Balance Between Fighting Terror and Safeguarding Civil Liberties held in late 2007

• Dr. Zachary Abuza, Expert, Terrorism in Southeast Asia; Associate Professor for Political Science and International Relations at Simmons College, MA, USA
• Dr. Sufyan Abu-Zayda, Former Minister of Prisoner Affairs at the Palestinian Authority; Lecturer, Elquds University, PA
• Sheikh Mussa Abubakar Admani, Director, The Luqman Institute, UK
• Prof. Jeffrey F. Addicott, Director, Center for Terrorism Law at St. Mary’s University School of Law, San Antonio, TX, USA
• Mr. Shlomo Aharonishky, Former Commissioner of Police, Israel
• Dr. Rateb Amro, Director General, Horizon Strategic Studies, Amman, Jordan
• Prof. Moshe Arens, Formerly, Minister of Defense and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Israel
• Dr. Gil Ariely, C.K.O. (Chief Knowledge Officer),The Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT), IDC Herzliya, Israel
• Dr. (Col. Res.) Eitan Azani, Deputy Executive Director, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel
• Mr. Avi Bachar, President and C.E.O., Israteam, Israel
• Dr. Irit Back, Lecturer and Researcher, Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University and in the Open University, Israel
• Mr. Michael Balboni, Deputy Secretary for Public Security, the State of New York, NY, USA
• Prof. William Banks, Director, Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism, Syracuse University, NY, USA
• Mr. Yehudah Barlev, CPA (Isr.), Managing Partner, Barlev Accountants - Investigative Auditing, Israel
• Prof. Moshe Barniv, Provost, IDC Herzliya, Israel
• Prof. , Gen. (Res.) Yitzhak Ben-Israel, Head, Program of Security Studies; Deputy Head, The Harold Hartog School of Government & Policy, Tel Aviv University, Israel
• Dr. Samir Ben-Layashi, Researcher, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel
• Barak Ben-Zur, ICT Research Associate; Former Special Assistant to the Head of the Israeli Security Agency, Israel
• Dr. Ronen Bergman, Senior Staff Investigative Journalist, Yedioth Ahronoth; University Of Cambridge, Israel
• Mr. Sjoerd B. Bloemsma, Head of Counter Terrorism and Intelligence, a Fellowship between National Police Agency and Police Academy of the Netherlands, The Netherlands
• Dr. Mia Bloom, Assistant Professor, School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA, USA
• Mr. Ilja M. Bonsen, Consultant & Project Manager, Business Unit of Biological and Chemical Protection, TNO Defence, Security and Safety, The Netherlands
• Mr. Michael Braun, Assistant Administrator Chief of Operations, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), USA
• Dr. Yigal Carmon, Founder and President, Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Israel
• Dr. Leonard A. Cole, Adjunct Professor, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA
• Prof. Irwin Cotler, P.C., O.C., M.P., House of Commons, Mount Royal, Canada
• General Wesley Clark, Former Supreme Allied Commander Europe, NATO; Former Democratic Party Presidential Candidate (2004), USA
• Dr. Thom Curtis, Senior Researcher, Department of Sociology, University of Hawaii at Hilo, HI, USA
• Mr. Jonathan Davis, Head of the Raphael Recanati International School, Vice President for External Relations, IDC Herzliya, Israel
• Rep. Burke Day, Chairman, Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee, GA, USA
• Avi Dichter, Minister of Internal Security, Israel
• Bassem Eid, Founder and Director, Palestinian Human Rights Monitor Group (PHRMG), PA
• Giora Eliraz, Research Fellow, Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Affiliated Fellow, KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, Leiden; Research Fellow, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel
• Rafi Eldor, Professor of Finance, Arison School of Business, IDC Academic Director, The Rich Center for Trading and Research in Financial Markets, IDC Herzliya, Israel
• Steven Emerson, Executive Director, The Investigative Project on Terrorism, Washington D.C., USA
• Reuven Erlich, Director of the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center for Special Studies (C.S.S.), Gelilot, Israel
• Yuval Eshed, Senior Research Fellow, ICT; Senior Consultant on programs for governmental agencies, Israel
• Iulian Fota, Director, National Defence College Ministry of Defence Bucharest, Romania
• Col. (Res.) Jonathan Fighel, Senior Research Scholar, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel
• Robert Friedmann, Professor and Distinguished Chair of Public Safety Partnerships, Georgia State University, GA, USA
• Boaz Ganor, Founder and Executive Director, ICT; Deputy Dean, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya, Israel
• Maj. Gen. (Res.) Amos Gilad, Head of the Political-Military Bureau, Defense Ministry, Israel
• Dan Gillerman, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations
• Brooke M. Goldstein, Esq., Resident Scholar, The Hudson Institute, NY, USA
• Sebestyén L. v. Gorka, Executive Director, Institute for Transitional Democracy and International Security (ITDIS), Hungary
• Lt. Col. Erez Hareli, Second in Command, Israeli Naval Training Base, IDF, Israel
• Riaz Hassan, ARC Australian Professorial Fellow; Emeritus Professor, Department of Sociology, Flinders University, Australia
• Shmuel Hauser, Professor of Finance, Ono Academic College and Ben Gurion University, Israel
• Markus Hellenthal, Senior Vice President, Business Global Security of European Aeronautics Defense and Space Company (EADS), Germany
• Eric Herren, Security Consultant to numerous international organizations and institutions, Switzerland
• Frank Jensen, Head, Counter Terrorism Analysis Branch, Danish Security Intelligence Service, Denmark
• Richard H. Jones, United States Ambassador to Israel, USA
• Javier Jordán, Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Member of the Administration at University of Granada, Spain
• Dr. Maj. (Res.) Yoram Kahati, Research Fellow, ICT, IDC Herzliya; Deputy Director and Senior Researcher, Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC), Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC), Ramat Hasharon, Israel
• Dr. Daphne Kamely, Senior Research Fellow, Potomac Institute of Policy Studies, Arlington, VA, USA
• Dr. Ely Karmon, Senior Research Scholar, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel
• Dr. Mordechai Kedar, Lecturer, Department of Arabic; Researcher, The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
• Mr. Vernon M. Keenan, Director, Georgia Bureau of Investigations, GA, USA
• Dr. Isaac Kfir, Senior Research Fellow, ICT; Assistant Professor, Lauder School of Government, Strategy and Diplomacy, IDC Herzliya, Israel
• Mr. Haim Koren, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Israel
• Brig. Gen. Yosef Kuperwasser, Vice President, Global CST; Former Head of the Analysis Division, Israeli Military Intelligence, Israel
• Dr. Sergey Kurginyan, President, International Public Foundation Experimental Create Center, Russian Federation
• Dr. Anat Kurz, Senior Research Fellow, The Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) Tel Aviv University, Israel
• Dr. Mark Last, Senior Lecturer, Head of the Data Mining and Software Quality Engineering Lab, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
• Prof. Mooli Lahad, Director, Community Stress Prevention Center, Tel-Hai College, Kiryat Shemona, Israel
• Dr. Uzi Landau, Former Minister of Internal Security; Senior Research Associate, ICT, Israel
• MK Avigdor Lieberman, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Strategic Affairs, Israel
• Dr. Itshak Lederman, Senior Director for CTBT Affairs and Special Projects, Israel Atomic Energy Commission, Israel
• Ms. Tzipi Livni, Vice Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Israel
• Col. (Res.) Adv. Lior Lotan, Former Executive Director, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel
• Brig. Gen. Dov Lutzky, Former Deputy Commander, Northern Police District; Former Head of Training and Education, Israeli Police, Israel
• Dr. Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, Senior Research Fellow, The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel
• Prof. Rafi Melnick, Dean, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya, Israel
• Mr. Haim Messing, Director, Israel Anti-Drug Authority, Israel
• Col. (Res.) Shlomo Mofaz, Former Head of Israel Military Intelligence Counter Terrorism Analysis Department; Research Fellow, ICT, Israel
• Dr. Loretta Napoleoni, Economist, Political Analyst and Novelist, author of “Terror Incorporated” and “Insurgent Iraq”, Italy
• Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu, Former Prime Minister; Chairman of the Likud Party, Israel
• Dr. Peter R. Neumann, Director, Centre for Defence Studies, King's College, London, UK
• Dr. Maarten Nieuwenhuizen, Chairman, Security-Related Civil Science and Technology Panel of the NATO Science Programme; Member of the Human Factors and Medicine Panel of NATO’s Research and Technology Organization, The Netherlands
• Mr. Reuven Paz, Director, Project for the Research of Islamist Movements (PRISM) GLORIA Center, IDC Herzliya, Israel
• Dr. Kobi Peleg, Director, Israel National Center for Trauma and Emergency Medicine, Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Ha-Shomer, Israel
• Mr. Yaacov Perry, Former head of the Israeli Security Agency (ISA), Israel
• Dr. Daniel Pipes, Director, The Middle East Forum; Weekly Columnist in the Jerusalem Post, USA
• Dr. W. Lawrence Prabhakar, Visiting Fellow, Maritime Security Programme, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Mr. Yaser Qatarneh, Director, Regional Centre on Conflict Prevention, Jordan Institute of Diplomacy, Amman, Jordan
• Dr. Angel Rabasa, Senior Policy Analyst, RAND Corporation; Formerly served in various director positions in the Departments of State and Defense, USA
• Mr. Don Radlauer, Research Associate, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel
• Prof. Uriel Reichman, Founding President, IDC Herzliya, Israel
• Mr. Josh Reiter, Office of the Naval Intelligence, USA
• Col. (Res.) Adv. Daniel Reisner, Former Head, International Law Branch of the IDF Legal Division, Israel
• Mr. Alexander Ritzmann, Senior Fellow, European Foundation for Democracy, Brussels, Belgium
• Adm. (Ret.) Arieh Rona, Director, Ports and Administration of Shipping, Ministry of Transport, Israel
• Prof. Barry Rubin, Director, Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center; Editor, Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal; Editor, Turkish Studies, Israel
• Col. Behram A. Sahukar, Research Fellow, United Service Institution of India; Former Research Fellow, Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis, India; Member, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, UK
• Adv. David Scharia, Legal officer, Counter Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate, United Nations
• Dr. Dan Schueftan, Deputy Director, National Security Studies Center, University of Haifa, Israel
• Ms. Yael Shahar, Director, Database Project, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel
• Prof. Shmuel Shapira, MD., MPH., Deputy Director General, Hadassah University Hospital, Israel
• Mr. Prakhar Sharma, Research Analyst, International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR), SINGAPORE; Head of Research, Centre for Conflict and Peace Studies (CAPS) based in Kabul, Afghanistan
• Prof. Moshe Sharon, Distinguished Lecturer, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
• Mr. Shabtai Shavit, Former Head of the Israeli Mossad; Chairman of ICT's Board of Directors, Israel
• Dr. Joshua Sinai, Program Manager, Counterterrorism Studies and Education, The Analysis Corporation, McLean, VA, USA
• Col. (Res.) Gilad Shenhar, Senior Consultant, Homeland Security Arena; Research Fellow, ICT, Israel
• Judge (Ret.) Amnon Straschnov, Formerly, The Military Advocate General of the I.D.F., Israel
• Prof. Emanuel Sivan, Professor of History, Hebrew University; Senior Lecturer, IDC Herzliya, Israel
• Mr. Chip Smith, Managing Director, Global Security for The Bank of New York - Mellon, NY, USA
• Maj. Gen. (Res.) Dr. Annette L. Sobel, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories, NM, USA
• Prof. Hussein Solomon, Director, Centre for International Political Studies, University of Pretoria, South Africa
• Mr. Erroll G. Southers, Associate Director, National Homeland Security Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) University of Southern California, CA, USA
• MK Dr. Yuval Steinitz, Former Chairman of the Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee, 16th and 17th Knesset, Israel
• Ms. Anne Stenersen, Researcher, Transnational Radical Islamism Project, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), Norway
• Dr. Moshe Terdman, Director, Islam in Africa Project; Research Fellow, Project for the Research of Islamic Movements (PRISM), GLORIA Center, IDC Herzliya, Israel
• Dr. Darko Trifunovic, Faculty of Security Studies, University of Belgrade, Serbia
• Mr. Lorenzo Vidino, Deputy Director, The Investigative Project on Terrorism, Washington D.C., USA
• Dr. Katharina Von Knop, Researcher, George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Program on Terrorism and Security Studies, Germany
• Dr. Abraham Wagner, Professor of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University; Senior Research Fellow, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, NY, USA
• Mr. Richard John Warnes, Senior Analyst on the Defense and Security Team, RAND Europe, UK
• Prof. Gabriel Weimann, Dept. of Communication University of Haifa, Haifa, ISRAEL
• Mr. Michael Whine, Director, Government and International Affairs, Community Security Trust, UK
• Mr. Gary Winuk, Chief Deputy Director, Governor's Office of Homeland Security, State of California, USA
• Dr. Avi Wohl, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Management, Tel Aviv University, Israel
• Maj. (Res.) Joshua Yeres, Senior Analyst of Defense Industries, Giza-Singer-Even, Financial and Economic Consulting, Israel
• Maj. General (Res.) Aharon Zeevi Farkash, Former Director of Military Intelligence, IDF, Israel
• Dr. Daniel Zisenwine, Research Associate. Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel
• Prof. Eyal Zisser, Head, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies; Chair, Department for Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University, Israel
• Dr. Yahia H. Zoubir, Professor of International Relations and International Management; Director of Research in Geopolitics, Euromed Marseille, France