NATO Engages - Innovating the Alliance

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What is 'NATO ENGAGES'?

On 4 December, the world watched as heads of state and government and military leaders gather at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s Leaders’ Meeting in London.

With the commemoration of the Alliance’s 70th anniversary, the year has served to honour NATO’s achievements. To round off the celebrations, the NATO Leaders’ Meeting presented an important opportunity to jointly assess challenges and opportunities and highlight NATO’s enduring value as it adapts to a changing world.

Building on the success of NATO Engages Brussels 2018 and NATO Engages Washington, DC 2019, the Atlantic Council, GLOBSEC, King’s College London, the Munich Security Conference, and the Royal United Services Institute organised the official NATO outreach event the day before the Leaders’ Meeting in cooperation with NATO and the UK government.

The town hall-style scene-setting event in central London encouraged a broader public conversation about the importance of NATO, add new voices into the conversation about today’s changing world, and cast a look into NATO’s future.

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Media Resources

Speakers and Moderators

Jens Stoltenberg

NATO Secretary General

H.E. Erna Solberg

Prime Minister of Norway

Tomáš Valášek

Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe

Shashank Joshi

Defence Editor, The Economist

Dr. Kori Schake

Deputy Director-General, International Institute for Strategic Studies

Bill Neely

Chief Global Correspondent of NBC News

General André Lanata

Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, NATO

H.E. Jüri Luik

Minister of Defence, Republic of Estonia

Clare Hutchinson

Special Representative for Women, Peace and Security, NATO

H.E. Zoran Zaev

Prime Minister, Republic of North Macedonia

Ambassador Sir Nicholas Kay

Senior Civilian Representative to Afghanistan, NATO

Dr. Thomas Gomart

Director, French Institute of International Relations

Olivia Seltzer

Founder, The Cramm

Aryana Sayeed

Singer, Songwriter and Women's Rights Activist

Deborah Haynes

Foreign Affairs Editor, Sky News

Ciaran Martin

Chief Executive Officer, UK National Cyber Security Centre

Professor Dame Angela Mclean DBE FRS

Chief Scientific Adviser, UK Ministry of Defence

Ambassador Boris Ruge

Vice-Chairman, Munich Security Conference

H.E Andrzej Duda

President, Poland

Ambassador Rastislav Káčer

Chairman, GLOBSEC

The Rt. Hon Lord Robertson of Port Ellen KT

Former NATO Secretary General 1999-2003

H.E. Vadym Prystaiko

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ukraine

H.E Raimundas Karoblis

Minister of National Defence, Republic of Lithuania

Jakub Kalenskey

Senior Fellow, Digital Forensic Research Lab, Atlantic Council

Oana Popescu-Zamfir

Director, GlobalFocus Center

Mark Webber

Professor of International Politics at the University of Birmingham

Nik Gowing

Founder and Director, Thinking the Unthinkable

Herman Narula

Cofounder and CEO, Improbable

Mark Scott

Chief Technology Editor, Politico

Mircea Geoană

Deputy Secretary General, NATO

Carlos Abellán

Cofounder and CEO of Quside

Rt. Hon. Ben Wallace

Secretary of State for Defence

Rand Waltzman

Deputy Chief Technology Officer and Senior Information Scientist at RAND Corporation

Klara Jordan

Executive Director for the EU and Africa at the Global Cyber Alliance

Dr Bleddyn Bowen

Lecturer in International Relations, University of Leicester

H.E. Nicolae-lonel Ciuca

Minister of National Defence, Romania

H.E. Justin Trudeau

Prime Minister, Canada

H.E. Mark Rutte

Prime Minister, Netherlands

Damon Wilson

Executive Vice President, Atlantic Council

Maithreyi Seetharaman

Director of Content, Fortune Live Media

Katarina Klingova

Senior Research Fellow of the Strategic Communication Programme, GLOBSEC

Ambassador Sorin Ducaru

Director of the European Union Satellite Centre (SATCEN)

H.E. David Zalkaliani

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia

Teija Tiilikainen

Director of the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats

Professor Gülnur Aybet

Senior Advisor to the President of the Republic of Turkey on Foreign Policy

Professor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber CBE

Director Emeritus of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Stephen Sackur

Presenter, BBC HARDtalk

Dr. Karin von Hippel

Director-General, Royal United Services Institute

Camille Grand

Assistant Secretary General for Defence Investment, NATO

Noam Perski

Global Public Sector Lead, Palantir Technologies

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Conference Themes

Strong at 70

Examining NATO’s record in maintaining security in a rapidly changing world.

Innovating NATO

How NATO maintains effective defence through a technological edge.

Digital and Societal Resilience