Arctic Encounter London

january 17-18, 2019 | London, united kingdom

hosted at THE PALACE OF westminster (uk parliament), the naval & military club, and the reform club

PROUDLY PRODUCED BY the arctic encounter & the polar research and policy initiative (prpi)

Review & Download Final Agenda - Arctic Encounter London 2019

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SPEAKERS & PARTICIPANTS:

U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, United States Senate, Alaska (United States) [Video Message]
The Rt Honorable Baroness Jay of Paddington PC, Member of the House of Lords; Member of the Executive Committee, British-American Parliamentary Group; Formerly, Leader of the House of Lords and the Lord Privy Seal; Minister for Women, 1998-2001; Chair of the Constitution Committee, House of Lords (United Kingdom)
Mr. Mark Pritchard MP, Member of Parliament for The Wrekin (UK); Chair, All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Abolition of the Death Penalty; Vice-Chair, Parliamentary Space Committee; Vice-Chair, All-Party Parliamentary Groups for Georgia, India, South Africa, Sudan and South Sudan, Vietnam, the British Museum, Gardening and Horticulture, and the Media; Officer, All-Party Parliamentary Group for Tourism, Leisure and the Hospitality Industry (United Kingdom)
Mr. Alex Sobel MP, Member of Parliament for (UK); Member, Environmental Audit Committee; Member, Backbench Business Committee; Chair, All-Party Parliamentary Group for Social Enterprise; Vice-Chair, All-Party Parliamentary Groups for Anti-Semitism, Hydrogen and Drones; Officer, All-Party Parliamentary Group for Climate Change (United Kingdom)
Mr. Mininnguaq Kleist, Head of the Greenlandic Representation to the EU (Greenland)
The Rt Hon The Baroness Neville-Jones DCMG PC, Member of the House of Lords; Formerly, Minister of State for Security and Counter-Terrorism; Chairman of the British Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC); Governor of the BBC; Chair, QinetiQ (United Kingdom)
The Lord Chidgey of Hamble-le-Rice, Member of the House of Lords; Member of Parliament for Eastleigh, 1994-2005; Co-currently, Chair, All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Commonwealth; Chair, Commonwealth Policy Development Centre; Co-Chair of the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Party Committee on International Affairs (DfID); Companion, Royal Aeronautical Society (UK); Fellow, Institution of Civil Engineers; Fellow, Institute of Highways and Transportation (United Kingdom)
Mr. Andrew Rosindell MP, Member of Parliament for Romford (UK); Member, House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee; Co-Chair, All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Commonwealth; Chair, All-Party Parliamentary Groups for Canada, Australia and New Zealand, Isle of Man, and UK Overseas Territories; Vice-Chair, All-Party Parliamentary Groups for Denmark and Gibraltar; Governor, Westminster Foundation for Democracy; Formerly, Shadow Minister for Home Affairs, 2007-2010; Opposition Whip (Commons), 2005-2007; Vice-Chair, Conservative Party, 2004-2005 (United Kingdom)
Mark Garnier MP, The UK Regional Envoy to the US; Member of Parliament for Wyre Forest (UK); Formerly, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Investment, UK Department of International Trade (United Kingdom)
The Honorable Alexander Downer AC, Executive Chairman, International School of Government, King’s College, London; Minister of Foreign Affairs, Australia, 1996-2007; Chair of Trustees, Policy Exchange; High Commissioner of Australia to the United Kingdom, 2014-2018; Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on Cyprus, 2008-2014; Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, 1994-1995; Member of the Australian Parliament for Mayo, 1984-2008 (United Kingdom)
His Excellency Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland, 1996-2016; Finance Minister of Iceland, 1988-1991; Chair, Arctic Circle; Chair, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)’s Global Commission on the Geopolitics of Energy Transformation
The Honorable Aleqa Hammond, Chair of the Foreign and Security Policy Committee, Parliament of Greenland (Inatsisartut); Chair of the Greenland Committee, Danish Parliament (Folketing); former Premier of Greenland (Greenland)
The Honorable Peter Olsen, Vice Chair of the Foreign and Security Policy Committee, Parliament of Greenland (Inatsisartut)
His Excellency Dominique Searle MBE, Representative of Gibraltar to the UK, HM Government of Gibraltar (Gibraltar)
Mr. Tyrone Duarte, Deputy Head of Mission in the UK, HM Government of Gibraltar (Gibraltar)
Her Worship Madeleine Redfern, Mayor of the City of Iqaluit, Nunavut; President, Nuvujaq Society; Chair, Nunavut Legal Services Board; President, Ajungi Tourism; President, Ajungi Arctic Consulting; Mentor, Fondation Trudeau Foundation; Formerly, Executive Director, Qiqiqtani Truth Commission (Canada)
Rear Admiral Frederick J Kenney, Jr., Director, Legal and External Affairs, International Maritime Organisation (IMO); formerly, The Judge Advocate General and Chief Counsel, United States Coast Guard (United States)
Vice Admiral John Henry Stuart McAnally CB LVO, Chairman, The Naval and Military Club; Commandant of the Royal College of Defence Studies, 1998-2001; Flag Officer, Training and Recruitment, Naval Recruitment Training Agency (1996-1998), Director of Naval Staff (1994-1996), Director of Naval Logistics Policy (1993-1996); Assistant Director of Naval Plans (1989-1993); HMS Torquay, HMS Alacrity, HMS Ariadne and HMS Hermione, Royal Navy (United Kingdom)
Rear Admiral Nick Lambert, Former UK National Hydrographer; Former Captain of Royal Navy Icebreaker HMS Endurance (United Kingdom)
Brigadier Matthew Jackson, Brigade Commander, 3 Commando Brigade, Royal Marines (United Kingdom)
Mr. Tero Vauraste, Chair, Arctic Economic Council (Finland)
Colonel Eric Maxon, Deputy Chief of Staff, Alaskan Command (ALCOM), United States Army (United States)
Captain John Aitken RN, Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff (Submarines), Royal Navy; Formerly, Commanding Officer of HMS Talent (United Kingdom)
LTC Darryl W Lyon, Lieutenant Colonel and High North Action Officer, Maine National Guard (United States)
Dr. Heike Deggim, Director, Maritime Safety Division, International Maritime Organisation (IMO); formerly, Senior Deputy Director, Marine Environment Division, IMO, and Head, Marine Technology Section, IMO (United Kingdom)
Mr. Mead Treadwell, President, Treadwell Alaska Consulting; Lt. Governor of Alaska, 2010-2014; Chair US Arctic Research Commission, 2010-2016; Current Co-Chair, Woodrow Wilson Center Polar Initiative and Private Investor (United States)
Mr. Brinley Salzmann, Director, Overseas & Exports, ADS Group (Farnborough); Secretary to the Export Group for Aerospace, Defence and Dual-Use (EGADD), the Business Ethics Network, the Defence Export Strategy Group (DESG), and the British Industrial Participation & Offset Group (BIPOG) (United Kingdom)
Mr. Anthony Marzi, General Manager, Praxis, Inc. | A Technology Service Corporation Company (United States)
Professor Heather Nicol, Professor, School of the Environment, Trent University (Canada)
Mr. Kyle Hurst, Director Maritime Safety and Security Services, Iridium Communications (United States)
Mr. Stephane Vrignaud, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries Representative to the EU, U.S. Mission to the European Union (United States)
Dr. Rowan Allport, Senior Fellow, Defence and Security, Human Security Centre (United Kingdom)
Mr. Michael Essex, Maritime and Engineering Lead, UK Department of International Trade (United Kingdom)
Ms. Eleanor Weavis, Head of Transportation and Delivery Services, UK Department of International Trade (United Kingdom)
Mr. James Burn, Policy Adviser, UK Department of International Trade (United Kingdom)
Mr. Jos Standerwick, CEO, Maritime London (United Kingdom)
Ms. Sarah Johnson, Overseas Marketing Representative (UK and Northern Europe), Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (United Kingdom)
Mr. Paul Wood, Scottish Government (United Kingdom)
Mr. Julian Clark, Global Head of Shipping, Hill Dickinson LLP (United Kingdom)
Ms. Terzah Tippin Poe, Lecturer, Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; US Lead, Polar Research and Policy Initiative (United States)
Ms. Rachel Kallander, CEO, Kallander & Associates; Founder & Executive Director, Arctic Encounter (United States)
Dr. Dwayne Ryan Menezes, Founder and Managing Director, Polar Research and Policy Initiative (PRPI); Human Security Centre (HSC) and Commonwealth Policy Development Centre (CPDC); Honorary Fellow, UCL Institute of Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London (United Kingdom)
Mr. Evan Travers, Director, Public Safety Canada (Canada)
Mr. Casey Pape, Operations Manager, Prince William Sound Aquaculture Corporation (United States)
Captain John Lloyd RD MBA FNI, Chief Executive Officer, The Nautical Institute (United Kingdom)
Ms. Jackie Qataliña Schaeffer, Indigenous Leader & Motivational Speaker; Tribal Member of the Native Village of Kotzebue, NANA Regional Corporation, and Kikiktugruq Inupiat Corporation (United States)
Dr. Fiona Bloor, Law of the Sea, United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (United Kingdom)
Mr. Jack Ferguson, President, Jack Ferguson Associates, Inc.; Formerly, Chief of Staff to US Senator Ted Stevens (Alaska); Administrative Aide to US Representative Don Young (R-AK); Legislative Aide to US Representative Floyd Hicks (D-WA) (United States)
Mr. Neil Roberts, Head of Marine and Aviation, Lloyd’s Market Association’ (United Kingdom)
Ms. Sabra Simmonds, Northern Policy Associate, North Star Group (United States)
Mr. Stian Osmundsen, CEO, Turbo Tape Games (Norway)
Mr. Stephen Payne, President, Linden Strategies (United States)
Mr. Alexander Borodin, Iridium Polar Advisory Board (United Kingdom)
Mr. Frank Manning, Parliamentary Researcher, Office of Andrew Rosindell MP, UK House of Commons (United Kingdom)
Dr. Hazel Woodland, Doctor of Medicine Student, University of Bristol; Clinical Research Fellow in Hepatology, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Trust (United Kingdom)
Ms. Anna Brodin, Political Officer, Embassy of Sweden in the UK (Sweden)
Brigadier (AF) Lars Hedemark, Defence Attaché, Embassy of Denmark in the UK (Denmark)
Capt Maurice AuCoin, Naval Attaché, High Commission of Canada in the UK (Canada)
Colonel William H Kale III, Commander, 501st Combat Support Wing (CSW), US Air Forces in Europe (United States)
Mr. Michael Hardy, EBRX – Arctic, Belgium, Canada, Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, Luxembourgs M, UK Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)
Cdr Marcus JC Hember RN, Overseas Crisis and plans (Maritime) | Defence Commitments and Crisis | UK Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)
Ms. Ashley Manning, Defence Strategy & Priorities | UK Ministry of Defence; formerly Director for Global Force Posture in the Office of the U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, (United Kingdom/United States)
Ms. Charlotte Martin, Senior US Trade Policy Adviser, Trade Policy Group, UK Department of International Trade (United Kingdom)
Mr. Andrew Whitten, Head of North America Team, UK Department of International Trade (United Kingdom)
Ms. Irene Kerrison, Senior Desk Officer, North America, UK Department of International Trade (United Kingdom)
Mr. Alex Wright, Canada Lead, North America, UK Department of International Trade (United Kingdom)
Mr. Ricky Chima, Principal Economist, UK Department of International Trade (United Kingdom)
Mr. Daniel Banks, Economist, UK Department of International Trade (United Kingdom)
Mr. Joel Plaja, Senior Policy Adviser, UK Department of International Trade (United Kingdom)
Ms. Vanessa Gould, Head of Implementation Unit, UK Department of International Trade (United Kingdom)
Mr. George Radice, Policy Adviser, Trade Policy Group, UK Department of International Trade (United Kingdom)
Mr. Michael Vibert, Maritime Security Team Leader | Security Policy Department | UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (United Kingdom)
Mr. Kim O’Neil, Fellow and Flight Operations Group Member, Royal Aeronautical Society (United Kingdom)
Mr. Phil Holland, Chief Executive Officer, Lloyds Energy (United Kingdom)
Mr. David Clarke, Project Management Consultant to Lloyds Energy (United Kingdom)
Ms. Alice Rogoff, Owner and Publisher, Arctic Today (United States)
Mr. Krestia DeGeorge, Editor, Arctic Today (United States)
Mr. Michael Kingston, Managing Director, Michael Kingston Associates (Ireland/United Kingdom)
Mr. Steve Cameron, Principal, Cameron Maritime Resources (CMR); Executive Director, The Honourable Company of Master Mariners (United Kingdom)
Mr. Thomas Bishop, Head of the Built Environment Unit, Polar Research and Policy Initiative (United Kingdom)
Mr. Max Daniels, Fellow, Polar Research and Policy Initiative (United Kingdom)
Mr. Peter Sherwin, Fellow, Polar Research and Policy Initiative (United Kingdom)
Mr. Jackson Blackwell, Associate, Kallander & Associates; Outreach Development Coordinator at Arctic Encounter (United States)
Dr. Daniel Volland, Photographer, Tinker Street; Creative Strategist and Member of the Advisory Board at Arctic Encounter (United States)
Dr. Maryna Panamarova, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, King’s College London (United Kingdom)
Ms. Ieva Satkute, Commercial Director, Oxford Economics (Lithuania/United Kingdom)
Ms. Minal Bhanshali, Associate Director, Edelman (United Kingdom)
Ms. Malin Bogue, Public Affairs Manager, GFG Alliance (United States/United Kingdom)
Ms. Michaela Peykovska, DPhil, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford (United Kingdom)

CONFIRMED PERFORMERS:

Mr. Morgan Pearse, Baritone Opera Singer (London Based Australian-Kiwi-British)
Mr. Chad Vindin, Professional Pianist (London Based Australian-Kiwi-British)
Mr. Cyrill Ibrahim, Concert Pianist (The Netherlands/United Kingdom)