Dr Karin von Hippel has joined the list of speakers at the Security Institute 2016 annual conference at the Amba Hotel, Marble Arch on September 22.
Dr von Hippel became Director-General of the defence and security think-tank Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in November 2015 after serving as Chief of Staff to General John Allen, US Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter-ISIL.
Dr von Hippel has also worked as a Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations and as a Senior Adviser in the Bureau of Counterterrorism at the US Department of State. Prior to that, she directed the Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC and was a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Defence Studies at King’s College London. She has also worked for the United Nations and the European Union in Somalia and Kosovo.
Dr von Hippel has numerous publications to her name, including Democracy by Force: US Military Intervention in the Post-Cold War World (2000), which was short-listed for the RUSI Westminster Medal in Military History. She holds a PhD from the London School of Economics, an MA from Oxford University, and a BA from Yale University.
Security Institute chairman Garry Evanson said: “We are delighted to have secured Dr von Hippel to speak at our conference. We have really worked hard to ensure a high level line up of speakers for this year’s event and to be able to bring a speaker of her vast experience to our members and their guests is a matter of great personal pride for me. It’s no coincidence that three of our confirmed speakers so far are women operating at the very highest levels of leadership within the security sector. Immediately after the conference we will be hosting the annual Women in Security Awards presentation and dinner and this gives us an opportunity to recognise how women have now become equals in what was once a male-dominated industry…and that can only be a positive step forward”
Previously announced speakers are Prof Martin Gill CSyP FSyI; Sir David Veness CBE QPM; Major General Chip Chapman CB who is who is a regular analyst/commentator on terrorism, radicalisation, government Counter-Terrorist policies and Middle East strategies; Brett Lovegrove MSyI the Chief Executive of CSARN – the City Security and Resilience Network; Sean Cunningham, former Head of the New Scotland Yard Hostage and Crisis Negotiation Unit who is now Group Operations Manager for the Inkerman Group; Security Institute President Baroness Ruth Henig CBE and Sue Fish OBE, Deputy Chief Constable of Nottinghamshire Police.
