From Bombs to Bots
Security in the Cyber Sphere
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Who controls your data? How did they get it? And what might they do with it?
What if the internet went down? Or traffic lights stopped working? Is critical national infrastructure vulnerable to infiltration?
Who should police the cyber sphere? And how?
When?
Wednesday, March 21st at 6pm
Where?
Imperial College Business School
Lecture Theatre 1 (LT1)
South Kensington Campus
What?
An important and growing issue, cyber-crime and attack represents a threat in many varied guises not least due to the increasing dependence of national infrastructure on ICT.
Who?
Prof. Chris Hankin
Director, Institute for Security Science & Technology, Imperial College London
Prof. Chris Hankin is Director of the Institute for Security Science and Technology and a Professor of Computing Science. He was Deputy Principal of the Faculty of Engineering from September 2006 until October 2008, and Pro Rector (Research) from June 2004 until September 2006. He is a Head of the Theory Section in the Department of Computing, and his research is in semantics-based program analysis and language-based computer security.
Judy Baker
Chair of the Board, Cyber Security Challenge UK
Judy Baker is Director of the Cyber Security Challenge UK designed to attract more highly talented people to a career in cyber security. Prior to this she worked within the UK Government to help protect Critical National Infrastructure. She established the Government's first Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) department and spent 9 years developing CIP policies and information exchange.
David Livingstone MBE
International Security Programme, Chatham House
David Livingstone MBE DSC is an Associate Fellow on the International Security Programme at Chatham House and the Managing Director of Napier Meridian. His company, established in 2005, provides expertise on business transformation in the national security and resilience domain, with a particular focus on the cyber domain. He was a founder member of the Cabinet Office’s first official committee addressing the electronic threats to the Critical National Infrastructure.
Henry Harrison
Technical Director, BAE Systems Detica
Henry Harrison is the Technical Director at BAE Systems Detica. His current focus is cyber security, where he is leading the development of new security technologies, and speaks for Detica on cyber security matters. He has spent his working career with organisations innovating the digital platform – from communications equipment manufacturers to telecoms operators and software vendors. Previously, he ran his own start-up developing a digital collaboration environment.
Chair?
Jay Abbott
Director, Threat & Vulnerability Practice, PricewaterhouseCoopers
PAST EVENT
Nation Building
The Role of the West in African Health, Development and Governance
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When?
Thursday, October 20th at 6pm
Where?
Imperial College Business School
Lecture Theatre 2 (LT2)
South Kensington Campus
What?
This panel discussion will focus on the role of the developed world, including both governments and NGOs, in African health ranging from the building of primary healthcare systems to administering mass vaccination and treatment programmes and trauma care. Such intervention crosses into both development and governance, with issues surrounding foreign policy objectives and sovereignty, combined with persistent debate about the best approach to aid, posing some challenging questions in the health arena. Just when does helping amount to meddling?
Who?
Prof. David Heymann CBE is the Chairman of the Board of the UK Health Protection Agency (HPA) and is the Head of the Centre on Global Health Security at Chatham House. Prior to his appointment to the HPA in 2009, Dr. Heymann was the World Health Organization's (WHO) Assistant Director-General for Health Security and Environment. Before joining WHO, Dr. Heymann worked for 13 years as a medical epidemiologist in sub-Saharan Africa on assignment from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Prof. Moses Bockarie is the Director of the Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases and Professor of Tropical Health Sciences at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Hailing originally from Sierra Leone, he has worked there as a medical entomologist before moving to the Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research and then joining the Center for Global Health and Diseases at Case Western University. He is a member of the WHO panel of Experts on parasitic infections.
Andrew Jack is Pharmaceuticals Correspondent with the Financial Times, based in London. He joined the newspaper in 1990, and has worked as a correspondent in London, Paris and Moscow. Since 2005, he has covered pharmaceuticals and healthcare. Prior to joining the FT, has worked for the New York City Government and as a freelance consultant and writer.
Chair?
Prof. Alan Fenwick OBE is Director of the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI) and Professor of Tropical Parasitology at the School of Public Health, Imperial College London. Prof. Fenwick has spent 36 years in Africa working on the research and control of schistosomiasis and other intestinal helminths including 17 years in Sudan where he was a Founder of the Blue Nile Health Project, and 14 years in Egypt where he led the $36 million Schistosomiasis Research Project. He was awarded an OBE in 1988 for his work in Burkina Faso.
PAST EVENT
Big Pharma and Global Health
The Role of Intellectual Property
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When?
Monday, March 7th at 6pm
Where?
Imperial College Business School
Lower Ground Square Lecture Theatre (LGS)
South Kensington Campus
What?
A Global Village will host a panel discussion to address the issues surrounding the role of intellectual property rights and the pharmaceutical industry in global health. Does the protection of intellectual property rights in developing countries hinder the improvement of public health? Is the patent system unsuited to the field of public health? Is the UNITAID Medicines patent pool a feasible solution to the access to medicines problem, what are the alternatives?
Who?
Jon Pender, Vice President Governmental Affairs at GlaxoSmithKline
Saul Walker, Senior Policy Advisor at Department for International Development UK
Diarmaid McDonald, StopAIDS Coordinator, UK Consortium on AIDS & Intl. Development
Dr. Adrian Hopkins, Director of the Mectizan Donation Program
Chair?
Prof. Alan Fenwick OBE, Director Schistosomiasis Control Initiative at IC London
PAST EVENT
Is The Future Nuclear?
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Panel discussion chaired by Neil Hirst, with Prof. Jim Skea OBE, Prof Gordon MacKerron and Prof. James Marrow
When?
Thursday, Feb 17th at 6pm
Where?
Imperial College Business School
Lower Ground Square Lecture Theatre (LGS)
What?
A Global Village will host a panel discussion addressing the question 'Is the Future Nuclear?'. The panel will be composed of Prof. Jim Skea OBE, Director of the UK Energy Research Centre, Prof Gordon MacKerron, Director of the Sussex Energy Group and Chair of the UK Committee on Radioactive Waste Management, and Prof. James Marrow, Co-director of the Programme in Nuclear & Energy Materials, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford. The event will be chaired by Neil Hirst, Senior Policy Fellow in Energy Mitigation and Climate Change at the Grantham Institute at Imperial College. The panel discussion will specifically focus on the potential for nuclear power to play an increased role in an emerging global low carbon economy.
PAST EVENT
Launch of Issue 3
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When?
Tuesday, Jan 25th at 6pm
Where?
Imperial College Business School Main Foyer
What?
The team at A Global Village would like to invite you to come to the launch of the third issue on Tuesday, January 25th. Come along for drinks, a copy of the next issue hot off the press and hear from some of our contributors about their articles!
PAST EVENT
Global Food Crisis
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Panel discussion chaired by Prof. Alan Fenwick OBE, with Dr. Martin Bloem, Prof. Don Bundy and Prof. Peter Smith
When?
Wednesday, Oct 20th from 6pm to 8pm
Where?
Read Lecture Theatre, Sherfield Building level 5, Imperial College
What?
A Global Village and the World Food Programme will host a panel discussion on the Global Food Crisis chaired by Prof. Alan Fenwick OBE. The panel will be composed of Prof. Peter Smith from Imperial College with Dr. Martin Bloem, Chief for Nutrition and HIV/AIDS Policy at the UN World Food Programme in Rome and Prof. Don Bundy, the World Bank's leading specialist on school health, nutrition, HIV/AIDS and education. The panel discussion will specifically focus on the role of the scientific community and international organisations such as WFP in tackling global food shortages particularly in areas such as nutrition and catering for the millions affected by chronic disease.