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Rachel Briggs
Rachel Briggs runs the Risk and Security
Programme at the Foreign Policy Centre. Her work focuses on
how the changing security environment impacts on key foreign
policy actors - from government and companies to individual
citizens and employees. Rachel regularly broadcasts and writes
on kidnapping, terrorism, corporate security, travel advice
and other aspects of the new security world order. |
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Michael Clarke
Professor Michael Clarke is
the Director of the International Policy Institute at King's
College London, having previously been the founding director
of the Centre for Defence Studies at King's College, a post
he held from 1990 until 2001. Since 1997, he has acted as a
Specialist Advisor to the House of Commons Defence Committee,
having served previously with the House of Commons Foreign Affairs
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Chris Dandeker
Christopher Dandeker is Professor
of Military Sociology in the Department of War Studies at King's
College London, and was Head of the Department of War Studies
from 1997-2001. Christopher's work focuses on all aspects of
civil-military relations. |
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Bill Durodié
Bill Durodié is a Senior
Research Fellow in the Centre for Defence Studies, part of the
International Policy Institute at King's College London. There,
he is responsible for coordinating the 'Domestic Management
of Terrorist Attacks' programme, a two-year, Economic and Social
Research Council funded project, investigating the UK's response
to the terrorist events of September 2001 - of which this conference
is a part. |
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George Eykyn
George Eykyn is a BBC News Correspondent
and occasional presenter on BBC World. He spent several years
covering the Troubles in Belfast and in the early 1990s extensively
reported on the war in Bosnia. He has been involved in developing
the full range of BBC news safety courses, including Hostile
Environments and NBC training. |
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Fiona Fox
Fiona Fox is the Head of the Science
Media Centre. Fiona has a degree in Journalism and 15 years
experience in media relations. Fiona has worked with the Equal
Opportunities Commission and the National Council for One Parent
Families. Prior to her appointment at the Science Media Centre,
Fiona was Head of Media at CAFOD, one of the UK's leading aid
agencies. |
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Sir Timothy Garden
Sir Timothy Garden retired
from the RAF in 1996 as an Air Marshal. He flew strategic bombers
and helicopters and among a number of MOD posts, he was the
Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff responsible for the defence
programme. After retirement, Sir Timothy became the Director
of the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House
and is now a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Defence Studies,
King's College London. |
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Branwen Morgan
Branwen Morgan recently completed
a PhD in Medicine from The University of New South Wales in
Australia. Whilst conducting her research in the field of Neuroscience
at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, she also freelanced
as a science journalist and community radio broadcaster. Although
Branwen is now based in London, she still writes and records
pieces for the Science Show on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's
national radio station. |
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Kim Sengupta
Kim Sengupta is a journalist
with The Independent, specialising in defence. He has
covered conflicts in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Northern
Ireland. Other trips have included New York after September
11 and he has reported, as part of a team, the Lockerbie trial
at Camp Zeist and the Milosevic trial at the Hague. Kim has,
in total, spent five months out of the last eight in Iraq and
was based there during the war. |
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Jon Snow
Jon Snow is the main presenter
of Channel 4's flagship news programme, Channel 4 News, which
ITN has produced since its launch in 1982. He joined the presenting
team of this highly-acclaimed programme in April 1989. Jon also
presents First Edition, the weekly news and current affairs
programme aimed at 9-13 year olds. In addition to presenting
ITN's programmes on Channel 4, Jon is Chairman of the New Horizon
Youth Centre and Deputy Chairman of the Media Trust. |
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Laura Trevelyan
Laura Trevelyan was appointed
as Political Correspondent for BBC Television and Radio News
in June 1999. Laura's first job at the BBC was in 1993 as a
researcher for Breakfast News. She has also worked on Newsnight
and the Today programme. |
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Bruno Waterfield
Bruno Waterfield is deputy
editor for the Brussels online news service EUpolitix.com.
Coming from a research background, he previously worked as
senior reporter on the Westminster staff of ePolitix covering
political stories since May 2000.
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Simon Wessely
Simon Wessely is Professor of Epidemiological
and Liaison Psychiatry at King's College School of Medicine
and the Institute of Psychiatry, and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist
at King's and Maudsley Hospitals. |
