The Speakers

Detective Chief Inspector Chris Phillips and his team work to The Home Office OSCT via ACPO (TAM) and are co-located with the Centre for the Protection of the National Infrastructure. He has three major responsibilities within the United Kingdom.

1. The protection of Crowded Places within the UK and to reduce the vulnerability of British nationals overseas from the terrorist threat to crowded places and soft targets. The role involves providing Counter Terrorist advice to all business involved in crowded places including Hotels, Stadiums, Shopping centres, Visitor attractions and licensed premises.
2. Protecting hazardous sites and dangerous substances. His team works with the business community to make the terrorist acquisition of weapons more difficult, there-by reducing the likelihood of a successful attack on the UK.
3. Supporting the CPNI to Protect the UK's Critical National Infrastructure.

He has responsibility for training, accrediting, tasking and co-ordinating over 270 Counter Terrorism Security Advisors across the UK.

DCI Phillips devised, developed and delivered the initial strategy and tactics for the protection of Crowded Places. As a major contributor to the Lord West review of CT he developed new and innovative ways of delivering advice to the various business sectors. This includes bespoke advice to groups normally difficult to engage.

The Crowded places work stream has grown enormously since the Lord West review. This work aims to identify those sites that are at the greatest risk of a terrorist attack and then working closely with the Site owners and Local authorities to reduce the vulnerability of the site. This includes target hardening and retro fitting locations that already exist and also encouraging Architects and planners to build in features to new designs that would reduce casualties if an attack were to take place.

Lieutenant Detective Commander Kevin Yorke is a 25 year veteran of the New York City Police Department, currently assigned to the Intelligence Division. His prior assignments within the NYPD include serving in the Joint Terrorism Task Force, the Organized Crime Control Bureau and the Detective Bureau, and patrol in Brooklyn North and Manhattan South. He has a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Transportation Management from New York Maritime College, a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Marist College and has completed additional training in terrorism and intelligence topics from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Nigel Inkster served in the British Secret Intelligence Service (M16) from 1975 to 2006.  He was posted in Asia, Latin America and Europe and worked extensively on transnational issues.  He spent seven years on the Board of SIS, the last two as Assistant Chief and Director for Operations and Intelligence.  He is a Chinese speaker and graduated in Oriental Studies from St John’s College Oxford. At IISS his work now includes the analysis of international political risk and development of programmes on counter terrorism, international crime, proliferation of CBRN, cross-border conflict and other transnational/global issues.  Nigel is also responsible for the IISS Armed Conflict Database.

John Beattie has been the Stadium Manager of Arsenal Football Club for the last 21 years and during this time has witnessed a dramatic restructuring of the industry, due to the influx of television money. Disasters have also had significant impact. He has been heavily involved in the initial redevelopment of Highbury and then the construction and move to Emirates Stadium, London. He is President of the recently formed European Safety and Stadium Management Association which is attempting to provide a one stop solution for all European Stadia to answer any question on issues related to Stadium held events. He also sits on the UEFA panel for Construction and Management of Stadia, which is currently consulting on the stadia in Poland and the Ukraine for the 2012 European Championships. Up to 2003-9 he was the chair of the Football Safety Officers Association with an intention to spread best practise through the industry.

Andy Williams is Marriott International’s Regional Director of Security for UK, Continental Europe, Middle East and Africa. Working out of Marriott’s London office, Andy travels extensively in the field with a home base in Istanbul. His primary focus is on Crisis Management and Threat Assessment.

With 15 years in the hospitality sector; Andy is a Regional Vice President for ASIS International covering an area of countries in East Europe and Mediterranean including Turkey and Israel. He is also a member of The Royal Society for Promotion of Health and a CPP Certified Protection Professional. Recently he consulted on the UK Government NaCTSO Counter Terrorism Protective Security Advice for Hotels and Restaurants. Previously he was a member of London’s Metropolitan Police, working on crime squads in the East End of London.

Prof Martin Gill is Director of Perpetuity Research and Consultancy International which is a research and  consultancy company that is a ‘spin-out’ from the University of Leicester. He has published work on crime, security and policing including 13 books, as well as over 100 journals and magazines articles including Managing Security and CCTV (Perpetuity Press)and the Handbook of Security (Palgrave). He has undertaken a range of studies over many years looking at different aspects of CCTV. He led the Government’s national evaluation of CCTV, a three year study which culminated in the publication of nine reports, all accessible from the company website (www.perpetuitygroup.com). The reports cover an array of issues centrally to the good functioning of CCTV, including: the management of CCTV, the workings of the control room, the engagement of stakeholders, the relationship with law enforcement and technical issues to name but a few. He has examined offenders’ attitudes to CCTV, including thieves and murderers, as well as the economic benefits of CCTV. Professor Gill is a Fellow of The Security Institute, a member of Company of Security Professionals, Chair of the ASIS Research Council. He is co-editor of the Security Journal and founding editor of Risk Management: an International Journal.

Dr Craig Donald is an industrial psychologist and Director with Leaderware and Advanced Development Applications, companies that have a specialist involvement in the security industry and CCTV. He consults internationally on the human factors in CCTV management and operations, selection and assessment techniques, and training and performance management. Craig has exposure to a number of sectors including aviation, police, diamonds and precious metals, customs, and other major businesses. He has been extensively involved in the design of selection instruments used in the selection of aviation screeners and CCTV operators in the UK and elsewhere, Craig is a leading specialist in the use and training of body language for CCTV surveillance. His work includes project and research based involvement in association with prominent research institutions in the UK, Holland and South Africa. He has worked in Europe, Canada, Australia, and Africa, has published widely in journals and magazines in various countries, and has presented at conferences including IFSEC, the ACI Europe Security Summit, and several times at the CCTV User Group conferences in the UK.

Mark Scoggins handled the successful Old Bailey defence of Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir John Stevens and his predecessor Lord Condon on all charges brought against them by the HSE arising out of roof falls suffered by patrolling police officers.  Appointed by Balfour Beatty on the derailment at Hatfield, helped win the acquittal of its rail division on all corporate manslaughter charges.  Represented the Metropolitan Police in the health and safety prosecution brought to trial in October 2007 over the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell station. He is a visiting lecturer to the National Policing Improvement Agency, FBI Academy and the Police National CBRN Centre.

Brett Lovegrove joined the Metropolitan Police Service in 1978 and transferred to the City of London police in his last five years and retired as the Head of Counter Terrorism that included the CT Section, Emergency Planning and Business Continuity, CBRN, Firearms, Police Search Advisors and Architectural Liaison.  He was frequently asked to advise international organisations and governments including the US Congress, the European Government in The Hague and the Danish Parliament.

Brett is a Director of Valentis Bridge Ltd and Quadre Resilience Ltd. His companies address the full spectrum of counter terrorism, business continuity, risk analysis and emergency planning issues featuring both nationally and internationally on defence and organisational solutions.  He is a member of the Defence and Security Committee in the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, a member of the UKTI DSO security sector advisory group, a Visiting Fellow at Cranfield University (UK Defence Academy), Chair of the annual UK National Risk Conference, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Security Professionals.  He attended Reading University and gained a Masters degree in Criminal Justice and Terrorism.

Winfried Lonzen, had worked as a senior property manager on national projects, before  joining “Rebuilding Zentralstadion Leipzig” in 2001. Today he is CEO of the ZSL Betreibergesellschaft mbH the operating company of the Sportforum Leipzig, which includes the Zentralstadion Leipzig, the Arena Leipzig and the Leipziger Festwiese.

Artists like Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Phil Collins, Depeche Mode, Paul McCartney, George Michael, Lionel Richie, Metallica, Rammstein and the German national soccer team have played in the Leipzig Sportforum, one of the most important event locations in Germany. He was stadium and facility manager for the Leipzig local organisation committee with responsibility for safety and security aspects of the FIFA Confederations Cup 2005TM and FIFA World Championsship 2006TM.He is the Leipzig representative in the “Vereinigung Deutscher Stadionbetreiber e.V.“ an association of  German soccer stadiums. He has particpated in workshops with local and national institutions to develop general and event based safety and security concepts for the Sportforum.

Superintendent Malcolm Baker serves with the Metropolitan Police Service currently seconded to work with the Association of Chief Police Officers (Terrorism and Allied Matters) Business Area on the PREPARE Strand of CONTEST. Malcolm has 28-years service having previously served in both the Anti-Terrorist Branch and the Counter Terrorism Command. His areas of expertise include: Business Continuity Planning, Organisational Learning & Development, Counter Terrorism exercises, contingency planning, inter-Agency cooperation and developing multi-agency partnerships. He is an Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Security and Defence Studies in Whitehall and currently studying for a Masters degree in Resilience at the Defence Academy  of the United Kingdom, Shrivenham

Adrian Dwyer is a former Army bomb disposal officer and the counter-terrorist risk adviser to the British Transport Police

Detective Sergeant Dannie Parkes has been working within the field of Forensic Video in excess of 10 yrs and is currently the Forensic Imagery Analyst for the West Midlands Police.

He has served for several years with HM Forces specialising within the field of Radio and Tele-Communications.  On his release he studied Electrical Engineering with a particular interest in Alarm and Associated Systems such as CCTV prior to joining the Police.
On his first major presentation of Forensic evidence and detailed Analysis of evidential CCTV for a joint Enterprise murder trial, Dannie spent three and a half days in the witness Box being cross examined by a number of Barristers utilising several defence specialists. He subsequently received a Judges commendation relating to the presentation of the evidence and became entrenched within Forensic Video.
Dannie has given specialist testimony to numerous serious crime trials including the Court of appeal.
In 2006 he received a National Technical award for the development of a Deca-Megapixel camera he jointly designed with a third party and sits on a number of Home Office Forensic and ACPO CCTV working groups.

Philip Baum
Editor Aviation Security International
Managing Director
Green Light Ltd, UK

Philip Baum was a liaison officer between the peacekeeping forces serving on the border between Israel and Egypt and the Israel Airports Authority, following his military service. On returning to the UK, he joined TWA’s security subsidiary. From Duty Manager at Heathrow he moved to TWA’s International HQ where he ultimately became Manager Security Training and Auditing, until leaving in 1996 to establish Green Light.

Green Light runs Hijack Management and Profiling seminars, and delivers Train-the–Trainer courses on Disruptive Passenger Management & Restraint and In-flight Security for individual airlines, often including full-scale Hijack Exercises. One of the company’s most popular products is its Passenger Profiling programme; Philip advocates that profiling is the most important security technique in the aviation security screening process.

Philip is Editor of “Aviation Security International”, interviewing persona from government ministers (such as Norman Mineta) to hijackers (including Leila Khaled)! He also regularly commentates for CNN, Sky and BBC.

Gillies Crichton is head of Assurance at Glasgow Airport with over 20 years experience in the Aviation industry including 17 years in the Airport Fire & Rescue Service, 7 of which as the Senior Airport Fire Officer, and nearly 10 years as a Retained Firefighter. His current role has him overseeing Safety, Health & Environment and delivering Fire Safety, Risk Management, Business Continuity, Contingency & Emergency Planning.

He is a Member of the Emergency Planning Society; an Associate Member of the Business Continuity Institute and a founding Director & Vice Chair of the International Aviation Firefighting Protection Association. Gillies is a key architect of BAA Glasgow Airport’s crisis & business recovery plans with a wealth of experience in planning and implementing these plans, most notably during the Terror Attack on Glasgow Airport on 30 June 2007.  Gillies has given numerous presentations both at home and around the world, on risk, crisis management & business continuity.

Isabella Sankey
Director of Policy
Liberty (the National Council for Civil Liberties), UK

Isabella Sankey leads Liberty’s parliamentary lobbying and policy development, working in particular on the protection of human rights in the context of counter-terror policy. As such, she was heavily involved with Liberty’s successful Charge or Release campaign against holding terror suspects for 42 days without charge. She is one of Liberty’s principal spokespeople and speaks on a range of human rights issues including: privacy rights, freedom of expression, police powers, the rights of vulnerable minorities as well as criminal justice issues more widely. She is a non-practising barrister and previously worked for the Legal & Constitutional Affairs Division at the Commonwealth Secretariat.

Keith Weston QPM MA
Deputy Director Cranfield University Security and Resilience Group,
UK Defence Academy, Shrivenham, Oxfordshire Senior Research Fellow in Counter Terrorism
Cranfield University, UK

Keith Weston is a member of the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Technology Innovation Committee. Keith is on the International Board of Advisors for New York University Law School, Centre on Law and Security and is a Fellow of the Institute of Civil Defence and Disaster Studies. His position at Cranfield University has provided an opportunity to develop innovative programmes with organisations such as the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), while also retaining links with the Metropolitan Police Service, NaCTSO and the Centre for the Protection of the National Infrastructure (CPNI), City of London Police, the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), and the Fire Service College (FSC).  He has also retained links with organisations such as the Risk and Security Managers Forum (RSMF), the International Security Managers Association (ISMA) and the ‘Sister Banks’. Before joining Cranfield Keith was a Metropolitan Police officer for thirty-two years, and retired in September 2005.  During the latter years of his police service he was involved in counter terrorism contingency planning, which included working in partnership with the business community to enhance their capacity and capability to prepare for and respond to terrorist attacks.  At the same time he was a senior investigating officer and responded to the RIRA attacks in London and Birmingham, and to the ‘Nail Bomb’ attacks perpetrated by David Copeland.

Robert Whalley
CB, Consulting Senior Fellow International Institute for Strategic Studies, former Director for Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence
Home Office, London, UK

Robert Whalley recently retired, as Director for Counter Terrorism and Intelligence; he was the principal policy and operational adviser to the Home Secretary during the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the London bombings of July 2005.  He chaired meetings of COBR (the Government's crisis management structure) during both those events. He also supervised the teams responsible for legislation on terrorism in the UK Parliament from 2000 to 2005 and advised the Home Secretary on development of longer term counter-terrorism strategy covering prevention, pursuit, protective security and post-incident planning. Within the central UK counter-terrorist structure, he chaired senior official committees concerned with developing relations with Muslim groups and leaders, and on scientific research, aviation security and terrorist financing. He advised the Home Secretary on liaison with the US Department of Homeland Security and was the senior Home Office official on the UK/US Joint Contact Group. Over his career 36 years in UK Government service, he has served in the Home Office, but also in the Northern Ireland Office and the Cabinet Office. He holds an MA in Modern History from the University of Cambridge.

Brian Powrie
UNICRI Senior Adviser on Security Governance and Counter Terrorism
QPM

From Scotland, Brian was a Chief Superintendent with Tayside Police. He retired in 2006 after 30 years in the Force. Brian spent virtually all his police service in operational, planning and command level roles and he was involved in the delivery of security at many major events. Most significantly however, he was the Security Planning Director for the very successful 2005 G8 Summit at Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire, Scotland.

He is currently engaged in Lisbon, Portugal as UNICRI’s senior adviser on counter terrorism and security governance matters. His significant experience in this regard is widely acknowledged internationally and he has worked all round the world in places such as Beijing, Moscow, Nairobi, London, Berlin, Lima, Sofia, Hong Kong, Kampala, Hanoi, Tokyo, New York and Singapore. He also has a great deal of experience in the public private partnership security arena. Brian holds an MBA from the University of Abertay, Dundee, and he was awarded the Queens Police Medal in the 2006 Queen’s New Years Honours list.

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