Schedule

8.00 TO 9.00
REGISTRATION

9.00 TO 9.15 GREAT HALL
WELCOME REMARKS

• Catherine McGuinness – Policy and Resources Committee Chairman, City of London
• Lord Saatchi – Chairman, Centre for Policy Studies

9.15 TO 10.00 GREAT HALL
KEYNOTE ADDRESS

• Dr Henry Kissinger
• Chaired by: Professor Michael Clarke – Board of Directors, Centre for Policy Studies

10.00 TO 11.15 GREAT HALL
Values: What should ‘The West’ stand for?

• Chair: Charles Moore – Daily Telegraph and Biographer of Margaret Thatcher
• Anne Applebaum – The Washington Post
• The Rt Revd & Rt Hon Dr Richard Chartres – Former Bishop of London
• Rabbi Lord Sacks – Former Chief Rabbi of the UK

11.15 TO 11.45 THE CRYPT
REFRESHMENTS

11.45 TO 13.00 GREAT HALL
GEOPOLITICS: OLD AND NEW CHALLENGES ACROSS EUROPE

• Chair: Rt Hon Gisela Stuart – Former Labour MP
• Lord Richards – Former Chief of the Defence Staff, UK
• Lord Robertson – Former Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
• Boris Titov – Presidential Commissioner for Entrepreneur’s rights (Russia), Chairman of the Political Party “PARTY OF GROWTH”

13.00 TO 14.15 THE CRYPT
BUFFET LUNCH

14.15 TO 15.30 GREAT HALL
GEOPOLITICS: IDEOLOGY AND FRAGMENTATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST

• Chair: Sir Peter Westmacott – Former Ambassador to France, Turkey and the United States
• Prince Turki Al Faisal – Chairman of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, Saudi Arabia
• Ambassador Omar Saif Ghobash – UAE Ambassador to Russia
• Senator Joseph Lieberman – Former United States Senator from Connecticut

15.30 TO 16.00 GREAT HALL
IN CONVERSATION WITH

• Lt. Gen. (res.) Moshe (Bogie) Ya’alon – Former IDF Chief of Staff and Defense Minister, Israel
• Rt. Hon. Sir Malcolm Rifkind – Former Foreign Secretary

16.00 TO 16.30 THE CRYPT
REFRESHMENTS

16.30 TO 17.45 GREAT HALL
INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY: RE-WRITING THE RULES?

• Chair: Professor Deepak Lal – UCLA
• Commissioner Ian Dyson – Commissioner of the City of London Police
• Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP – Minister of State for Digital and Culture
• Robert Hannigan – Former Director of GCHQ
• Lara Poloni – Incoming Chief Executive, EMIA

17:45 TO 18:15 GREAT HALL
IN CONVERSATION WITH

• General Sir Richard Barrons – Former Commander Joint Forces Command
• Johan Eliasch – Chairman HEAD; Former Special Representative of the UK Prime Minister

18.15
CLOSING COMMENTS

• Professor Sir Roger Scruton

*Please note, Conference is subject to Change