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SUMMARY:FCDOA Online talk by Sir David Omand: Surviving Crises
DESCRIPTION:FCDOA Online talk by Sir David Omand\nSurviving Crises\nFormer Head of GCHQ \na talk on the theme of his book “How to Survive a Crisis“ \non 14 April 2026 at 11.00-12.00 \nModerator: Sir Jeremy Greenstock \nTicket £5 \n\nSir David Omand will draw on his most recent book\, How to Survive a Crisis (Penguin paperback\, 2023) and on his own career to discuss how organisations and government can best try to to survive crises and avoid disasters. Conflict\, terrorism\, cyberattack\, climate change\, the threat of AI\, rupture in the international order: it has never been more important to be prepared for the crises that await us. “This book is the instruction manual we all need. Leaders\, in particular\, should take note”\, Sir Alex Younger\, former chief of SIS. “We live in a world where crises have become the new normal. Here is the survival guide you need”\, Peter Ricketts. \nProfessor Sir David Omand GCB \nSir David Omand is a Visiting Professor in the Department of War Studies\, King’s College London. He was Director of GCHQ\, Permanent Secretary of the UK Home Office\, Permanent Secretary in the Cabinet Office as UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator.  He also served in the MOD as Deputy Under Secretary of State for Policy and was Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Defence during the Falklands conflict. He served for three years with the Diplomatic Service as the UK Defence Counsellor in NATO\, Brussels. He served for seven years on the UK Joint intelligence Committee. For many years he was the Senior Independent Director of the Babcock International Group. Among other publications\, he is the author of How to Survive a Crisis: Lessons in Resilience and Avoiding Disaster (Penguin Viking\, 2023)\, How Spies Think: 10 Lessons in Intelligence (Penguin Viking\, 2020)\, Principled Spying: The Ethics of Secret Intelligence (with Professor Mark Pythian) (Oxford University Press\, 2018) and Securing the State (Hurst\, 2010). \n \n 
URL:https://fcdoa.org.uk/event/fcdoa-online-talk-by-sir-david-ormand/
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SUMMARY:FCDOA Online talk by Sir Mark Lyall Grant: Are we facing the death of multilateralism?
DESCRIPTION:FCDOA Online Talk\nSpeaker: Sir Mark Lyall Grant GCMG \nAre we facing the death of multilateralism?\nModerator is Sir Matthew Rycroft KCMG CBE  \n📅 Date: 21 April\n🕚 Time: 11:00 AM (London time)\n📍 Platform: Zoom\n🎟 Tickets: free \n\nWith the UN failing to stop or prevent conflicts in Ukraine\, the Middle East and Africa\, and President Trump openly dismissive of multilateralism\, have we reached the end of the road for the post World War 2 international order?  If so\, what will replace it and how can the UK exploit its strengths to thrive in this new environment?  \n  \nSir Mark Lyall Grant GCMG \n  \nMark Lyall Grant qualified as a Barrister before joining the diplomatic service in 1980.  After postings in Pakistan\, France and South Africa\, he was appointed High Commissioner to Pakistan (2003-06)\, Political Director in the FCO (2007-09) and British Ambassador to the UN (2009-15). In that capacity\, he chaired the UN Security Council on 4 occasions. \nMark’s final Government appointment was National Security Adviser to David Cameron\, then Theresa May (2015-17)\, advising the Prime Minister on Security\, Defence and Foreign policy issues\, overseeing the British Intelligence Agencies and acting as Secretary to the National Security Council. \nMark is currently a visiting Professor at King’s College\, London\, a Bencher at Middle Temple and a fellow at Eton College. He has a number of private sector consultancy roles\, focussed on national and international security\, and on geopolitics; and is on the advisory board at Chatham House. He was knighted in 2007 by HM Queen Elizabeth the Second and in 2022 was appointed the King of Arms at the Order of St Michael and St George.
URL:https://fcdoa.org.uk/event/fcdoa-online-talk-by-mark-lyall-grant-on-multilateral-diplomacy/
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