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Opening Ceremony Keynote Speaker:\u00a0Wendy Gilmour<\/strong><\/p>\n

Former NATO Assistant Secretary General and Vice Chair of the CDA Institute<\/p>\n

\"\"Wendy Gilmour served for 34 years in Canada\u2019s foreign affairs and national defence departments, including: on secondment to NATO as Assistant Secretary General, Defence Investment; Canada\u2019s High Commissioner (Ambassador) to Pakistan; Director General Trade and Export Controls; and Director General International and Industry Programs and Deputy National Armaments Director. She also served in Canadian diplomatic missions abroad in Zimbabwe, the United Kingdom and Nigeria; and on international peace operations missions in the Office of the High Representative to Bosnia and Herzegovina, and as a Political Advisor (POLAD) to the first three Commanders of NATO\u2019s Kosovo Force in Pristina, Kosovo.<\/p>\n

Post 9\/11, she was assigned to the Canadian Joint Task Force South-west Asia in US CENTCOM, and subsequently to Ottawa as Director Peace Operations, i.a. supporting Canada\u2019s deployment to ISAF, with responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, Afghanistan, and as Director Sudan, with responsibility for Canadian support for the peace process in Darfur and South Sudan. She also served as POLAD to the Commander North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) in Colorado Springs, USA. Ms. Gilmour holds a BA (Honours) in Political Studies and History from Queen\u2019s University at Kingston, and served in the Canadian Forces Primary Reserve as a Logistics Officer.<\/p>\n

Closing Ceremony Keynote Speaker: Kerry Lynn Nankivell<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kerry Lynn Nankivell assumed the role of Director, NATO and Europe in the Policy Group of Canada\u2019s Department of National Defence in April 2024. Her responsibilities include managing Canada\u2019s defence policy and relationships with NATO, G7, the EU, Ukraine and 49 other bilateral partners across Europe, including the UK, Germany, France, and others.<\/p>\n

Dr. Nankivell has more than 20 years in national security and defence with broad experience in both government and academia. At the Department of National Defence Headquarters, she previously served as the Director of Strategic Assessments, while in prior roles across government, she was a Deputy Director in the National Security and Intelligence Advisor\u2019s Intelligence Assessment Secretariat at the Privy Council Office, and a senior analyst with the National Security team at Public Safety Canada. From 2008 \u2013 2018, she worked as a defence academic with the U.S. Department of Defence\u2019s Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies based in Honolulu, HI. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies at King\u2019s College London.<\/p>\n

Dr. Nankivell earned a PhD in Defence Studies from King\u2019s College London, MPhil in International Studies from Cambridge University, UK, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with International Relations from the University of British Columbia.<\/p>\n

She lives in Ottawa with her husband and three children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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