2023 Global Security Forum

2023 Global Security Forum

Join colleagues on Tuesday, March 7 for free in-person, fireside chats with leading international experts at the 2023 Global Security Forum hosted by Center for Intelligence and National Security and Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Oklahoma. 

Speakers examine structuring and sustaining effective strategies to defend democracy and counter threats authoritarian states pose in ever-changing landscapes. They also share insights on what is on the horizon. Time for Q&A.

Begins in Holeman Lounge at 9:00am, includes lunch, and ends 3:45pm. 

Confirmed:

James Roscoe is Deputy Head of Mission, British Embassy to the United States. He was Ambassador to the UN General Assembly, Director for Communication, Cabinet Office and subsequently Department for Exiting the European Union, Communications Secretary to HM The Queen in the Royal Household, and Chief Press Officer for Prime Ministers Blair and Brown. He discusses the British perspective on global security.

Shigeru Kitamura is former National Security Advisor, Government of Japan. Kitamura was Director of Cabinet Intelligence during Democratic Party of Japan and Liberal Democratic Party administrations.  He discusses Indo-Pacific challenges facing Japan, its Economic Security Promotion Act, and National Security Strategy. 

Simon McGee is a former UK senior civil servant and Cabinet Office director of government communication. McGee was personal communications advisor to four Cabinet ministers – Greening, McLoughlin, Hammond, and Johnson – and lead the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s media operations. Before entering Whitehall, he was a journalist for Mail on Sunday, Sunday Times, and Yorkshire Post. He discusses the press, social media, and the information environment.  

Feroz Bashari was director of communications, Office of the President, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Bashari was country media advisor for the U.S. Embassy Kabul and head of strategic communications for the U.S. military command (CFC-A). He provides an Afghanistan retrospective and discusses lessons learned.