Dr. Rudolf Adam

Dr. Rudolf Adam is president of the Federal Academy for Security Policy in Berlin. Previously he worked in several positions for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and has been vice-president of the Federal Intelligence Service from 2001 to 2004.

Daniel Bircher

Daniel Bircher is manager of the risk management and information security field at Ernst Basler + Partner AG, Zollikon, Switzerland. He is member of the advisory board of the InfoSurance foundation and member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). His field of activity are security policy, strategy development and population protection.

Dipl.-Ing. Dieter Farrenkopf

Dieter Farrenkopf is Fire Chief of Hamburg since 1991.

Col. (ret.) Jonathan Fighel

Ursus Fuhrmann

Ursus Fuhrmann is head of the department for constitution, law and security at the Board of Municipal Authorities, Cologne.

Boaz Ganor, PhD

Dr. Boaz Ganor is director of the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya, Israel.

Dr. Bruno Gas

Dr. Bruno Gas is chairman of the board of the EXTREMUS Insurance AG. He is a former member of the board of the Mecklenburg Insurance Group and member of the Association of the German Insurance Economy.

Dr. August Hanning

Dr. August Hanning is president of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND). Previously he worked in several positions for the Ministry of the Interior and the Federal Chancellary.

Prof. Dr. Jochen Hörisch

Prof. Dr. Jochen Hörisch is full professor for German language and literature and for media analysis at the University of Mannheim. He is member of the European Academy for Sciences and Arts in Salzburg and member of the Academy of Arts in Hamburg. He works on the fields of culture and media analysis and history of the media.

Matthias Holenstein

Matthias Holenstein is project manager for security at the Ernst Basler + Partner AG, Zollikon, Switzerland. His fields of activity are crisis and risk management and operation organization.

Prof. Dr. Jan von Knop

Prof. Dr. Jan von Knop is Professor for Computer Science and Director of the Computing and Media Center at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf. Besides he is a member of the „Arbeitskreis Schutz von Infrastrukturen“ (AKSIS).

Dr. Erhart Körting

Dr. Erhart Körting is Senator of the Interior, Berlin. He has been vice-president of the Berlin Institutional Court 1992-1997 and Senator for Justice 1997-1999.

Günter Lessing

Günter Lessing is Managing Associate of the Lessing IRM GmbH – Management Consultancy for Integral Risk Management. His fields of activity enclose preventive and repressive security measures in integral security and integral risk management

Prof. Dr. Alexander Lorz, LL.M.

Prof. Dr. Alexander Lorz holds a chair for German and Foreign Public Law, International Law and European Law at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf. Besides he is co-chair of the Institute for Foreign and Security Policy, Düsseldorf. His academic focuses are comparative constitutional law, institutional law of the European Union, international protection of human rights and international commercial law.

Dr. Stephan Maninger

Dr. Stephan Maninger is Political Scientist and lecturer at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. His actual scientific focus is the influence of culture on methods of warfare.

Dr. h.c. Uwe Nerlich

Dr. h.c. Uwe Nerlich is chairman of the European Security and Defence Analysis Group (ESDAG) and Senior Scientific Advisor at the IABG, Ottobrunn. Besides he is founder and co-chair of the „Arbeitskreis Schutz von Infrastrukturen“ (AKSIS).

Peter S. Probst

Peter S. Probst is Vice-President and Director of Programs at the Washington-based Institute for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence. Previously he served with the CIA and the Office of the Secretary of Defense for 30 years. He co-authored a major and provocative study, „Terror-2000: The Future Face of Terrorism“.

Dr. Christoph Rojahn

Dr. Christoph Rojahn, Political Scientist, is consultant at the Prevent AG, Hamburg. His fields of activity are investigation and risk management.

James A. Russell

James A. Russell is a senior lecturer in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), Monterey, California. He is on loan to NPS from the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Department of Defense. At NPS, he is teaching courses in the Middle East security studies curriculum and performing sponsored research for a variety of U.S. government organizations.

Marc Sageman, MD, PhD

Dr. Marc Sageman is a clinical assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania. From 1984 to 1991 he worked for the CIA. He published the study „Understanding Terror Networks“ and is consultant on terrorism to various government agencies.

Yael Shahar

Yael Shahar heads the database program at the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT), Herzliya, Israel, and is responsible for the ICT Internet site. She designed the ICT terrorist connections database and the terrorist incidents database, used for tracking links between terrorist individuals, front companies, and organizations. She specializes in the study of technological trends, as applied to terrorism and cyber-terrorism, with a particular emphasis on infrastructure terrorism.

Peter Sharfman, PhD

Dr. Peter Sharfman is Director of Policy Analysis for The MITRE Corporation, a not-for-profit company that works primarily for the United States Government. He has contributed to MITRE technical support of a variety of government agencies in the intelligence community, focusing on the implications of information sharing policy issues.

Prof. Dr. Bassam Tibi

Prof. Dr. Bassam Tibi is Head of the Department for International Relations at the University of Göttingen and Research Associate at Harvard University/USA since 1988. Besides he is Visiting Professor for Islamic Studies at the University of St. Gallen/Switzerland. He published several books on Islam – translated into 13 languages.

Prof. Dr. Gabriel Weimann

Gabriel Weimann is a Full Professor of Communication at the Department of Communication at Haifa University, Israel. He spent the last year as a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), Washington, DC. His research interests include the study of media effects, political campaigns, persuasion and influence, media and public opinion, modern terrorism and the mass media.

Dr. James J. Wirtz

Dr. James J. Wirtz is Chairman of the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey California and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Security and Cooperation, Stanford University. He is the Section Chair of the Intelligence Studies Section of the International Studies Association and President of the International Security and Arms Control Section of the American Political Science Association. His most recent publication is “Balance of Power: Theory and Practice in the 21st Century”.