22nd Parliamentary
Intelligence-Security Forum
Event Program
Day 01
WednesdayJuly 6
Day 02
ThursdayJuly 7
Day 03
FridayJuly 8
8:00 PMJuly 6th
OPENING RECEPTION
Diplomatic Club
Șoseaua București-Ploiești nr.2B, Bucharest
08:30 - 09:00July 7th
REGISTRATION AND WELCOME COFFEE
Palace of the Parliament, S1 Entrance, C.A. Rosetti Hall
09:00 - 09:50July 7th
OFFICIAL OPENING - Palace of the Parliament
Robert Pittenger & Pavel Popescu, Chairman Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum & Chairman of the Committee on Defence, Public Order and National Security, Romania
Marcel Ciolacu, President of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania
Nicolae Ciucă, Prime Minister of Romania
Robert Cazanciuc, Vicepresident, Senate of Romania
Lucian Bode, Minister of Interior of Romania
Gen. James L. Jones Jr, Former SACEUR, Former National Security Advisor
Karen Enstrom, Acting Chargé D’affaires, US Embassy Bucharest
Tammy Baldwin, U.S. Senator
10:00 - 11:15July 7th
THE WAR IN UKRAINE: RESHAPING THE GLOBAL SECURITY MAP
Dmytro Kuleba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (via VTC)
Ana Revenco, Minister of Interior, Republic of Moldova
Sabin Sărmaș, Chairman of the Information Technology and Communications Committee
Larry Pressler, Former U.S. Senator
Special remarks on food security and logistics
Irene Rosberg, Programme Director, Executive MBA in Shipping and Logistics, Copenhagen Business School
Interventions (1/2 minutes)
Olga Vasylevska, MP Verkhovna Rada, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Payment and Information Systems and Prevention of Money Laundering, Tax and Customs
Yelyzaveta Yasko, MP Parliament of Ukraine, Head of Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation Bilateral and Multilateral Relations
Denis Zvizdić, Deputy speaker of House of Representative of Parliamentary assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Cheryl Gallant, Member of Parliament in Canada and Member of the board of the NATO Assembly
Victor Guido Gonzalez, Member of Congress of Deputies of Spain
Philip Popov, Member of Parliament, Bulgaria and Deputy Chairman of the Legal Committee and Member of the Committee for Control of Security Services
Emanuelis Zingeris, MP, Chairman, USA Congress caucus, Parliament of Lithuania
Halyna Vasylchenko, MP Verhovna Rada, Member of the Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy
Fatmir Mediu, MP, Former Defense Minister, Albania
Olivier Cadic, Member of the French Senate
Simona Bucura-Oprescu, Chairwoman of the Committee for Public Administration and Territorial Planning, Romania
Daniel Florea, Deputy Chair of the Committee for Legal Matters, Discipline, and Immunities, Romania
Maria Fernanda Cabal Molina, Senator, Senado de la República de Colombia
More interventions will be announced
11:15 - 11:30July 7th
COFFEE BREAK
11:30 - 13:00July 7th
IS DIPLOMACY DRIFTING? THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Rt Hon Baroness Neville-Jones DCMG, Member, House of Lords of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Nury Turkel, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Chair of US Commission on International Religious Freedom
Nathan Sales, Former Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights, Nonresident Senior with the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative and Middle East Programs at the Atlantic Council
Rihards Kols, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Parliament of the Republic of Latvia
Yehor Cherniev, Member of Parliament, Ukraine, Chair of the Ukrainian delegation to the NATO PA
Dmytro Natalukha MP, Chairman of the Economic affairs committee, advisor to the MOD of Ukraine
13:00-14:15July 7th
LUNCH
14:15 - 15:45July 7th
SECURITY, INTELLIGENCE AND DEFENSE CHALLENGES
Mihai Șomordolea, Secretary, Supreme Council of National Defence
Simona Cojocaru, State Secretary and Chief of the Department for Defence Policy, Planning and International Relations
James Carafano, Director of the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies and Vicepresident of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies at The Heritage Foundation
General Daniel Petrescu, Chief of Defense, Romania
Major General (r) Allen Batschelet, CEO Horizon Strategies, U.S. EUCOM J3, USAREUR G3, CG USARC and CoS USSTRATCOM
Brig. Gen. (r) Eduard Simion, Senior Associate Expert at New Strategy Center, Former NATO HUMINT Center of Excellence Commander and Former SACT Representative in Europe
15:45 - 17:45July 7th
CYBER, 5G AND EMERGING TECH THREATS
Dan Cîmpean, Director of Romanian National Cyber Security Directorate
Sorin Ducaru, Director, SATCEN
Brig.Gen. Anton Rog, Head of National Cyberint Center, Romania Intelligence Service, Romania
Dustin Carmack, Research Fellow at the Center for Technology Policy at The Heritage Foundation (via VTC)
John Strand, CEO Strand Consult
Sohan Dasgupta, Former Deputy General Counsel at U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Megan Bishop, Economic Officer with U.S. Department of State, US Embassy Bucharest
17:45 - 18:00July 7th
COFFEE BREAK
18:00 - 19:30July 7th
HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND TERRORISM
Karen Bradley, Member of UK Parliament and Co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery, UK
Alexandra Shema, Human Rights Officer, US Embassy in Bucharest
Rushan Abbas, Executive Director of Campaign for Uyghurs
Ioana Bauer, President of eLiberare and Former Policy Adviser in the Office of the Prime Minister
Anne Basham, Chair of PI-SF Taskforce on Human Trafficking
Rozalia Biro, Chairwoman of the Committee for Foreign Affairs of the Chamber of Deputies, Romania
Davis Opoku, Member of Parliament in Ghana
19:30July 7th
DINNER
Reception Hall, Palace of the Parliament
This schedule is tentative and subject to change.
07:30 - 08:30July 8th
PRAYER BREAKFAST - Brâncovenesc Hall, Palace of the Parliament
Speaker: Rev. William Franklin Graham IV
08:30 - 9:00July 8th
Welcome coffee - Palace of the Parliament
09:00 - 10:30July 8th
ADVERSARIAL FOREIGN INVESTMENTS AND ABUSIVE EXPLOITATION IN GLOBAL ECONOMIC EXPANSION
Pavel Popescu, Chairman of the Committee on Defence, Public Order and National Security, Romania
David Rader, Deputy Director for the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, Department of Defense
Olivier Cadic, Member of Senate, France
Marco Zanni, Member of the European Parliament, Italy
Andreas Jahn, Bundestag Foreign Policy Senior Advisor
Mark Davis, Regional Director, Romania & Bulgaria at EBRD
10:30 - 12:00July 8th
ENERGY INDEPENDENCE AND SECURITY
Stefan Popescu, Deputy Director for Public and Regulatory Affairs at Engie Romania, former Secretary of State to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania
Cosmin Ghita, CEO Nuclearelectrica, Romania
John Hopkins, CEO NuScale Power
Cristian Bușoi, Chair of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy at the European Parliament
Theodore S. Boone, Energy Practice Group, International Law Firm of Dentons and former President, American Chamber of Commerce in Hungary
12:00-12:15July 8th
COFFEE BREAK
12:15 - 13:45July 8th
ILLICIT FINANCE, ILLICIT TRADE AND MONEY LAUNDERING
Adrian Cucu, President National Office for Prevention and Control of Money Laundering, Romania
John Walsh, President and Chief Executive Officer, SightSpan Inc. Washington D.C.
Silvia Matus, President, Junta de la ACFCS Capítulo de México
Andreas Frank, AML/CFT advisor for the Bundestag, Council Europe and the European Parliament
Thayne Larson, SME on Organised Crime at US Embassy in Bucharest
Volodymyr Ariev, MP Ukrainian Parliament
13:45 - 14:30July 8th
WRAP-UP SESSION
Igor Grosu, President of the Parliament, Republic of Moldova
Alina Gorghiu, President ad interim of the Senate, Parliament of Romania
Dan Neculăescu, Permanent Representative of Romania to NATO
Emanuelis Zingeris, Rapporteur on the Parliamentary Assembly to the Council of Europe
Iulian Chifu, Foreign Policy, Security and Strategic Affairs State Advisor to the Prime Minister of Romania
This schedule is tentative and subject to change.