James Appathurai, NATO Spokesman

Panel: NATO

Bio: James Appathurai has been serving as a NATO Spokesman since 2004. In this position his duties include acting as the Principle NATO Spokesman and the NATO Secretary General on all issues and handling all NATO media policy and press relations. Before assuming this role, Mr. Appathurai worked as a Deputy Head and Senior Planning Officer in NATO, a Policy Officer with DND, and as an Editorial Assistant with CBC.

Charles Doran, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of International Relations at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Panel: NORAD
 

Bio: Charles Doran is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of International Relations at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. He is Director of the Program of Global Theory and History and chairs the Committee on International Relations. He also directs the Program of Canadian Studies. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, he is also a Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC. He received the International Governor General’s Award for distinguished scholarship in Canadian Studies.

General (Ret’d) Ray Henault

Panel: NATO

Bio: General (Ret’d) Henault’s highly decorated, 40 year career with the Canadian Forces began in 1968 and included the posts of Commander of 10 Tactical Air Group, Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff, and culminated, in 2001, as the Chief of the Defence Staff. In 2005 he was appointed Chairman of the NATO Military Committee in Brussels, Belgium, a position that he filled until 2008. General (Ret’d) Henault is a graduate of Canada’s National Defence College and the École supérieure de guerre aérienne (ESGA) in Paris and he is an Honorary Professor of the University of Pecs, Hungary.

George Macdonald, CFN Consultants

Panel: NORAD

Bio: LGen (Ret’d) George Macdonald joined CFN Consultants in January 2005 after serving 38 years in the Canadian Forces, culminating in the position of Vice Chief of the Defence Staff from 2001 to 2004, following three years as the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of NORAD. Throughout his career, he held many leadership positions in Ottawa, and has served with NATO forces in Germany and Norway, and with North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) in both Winnipeg and Colorado Springs, Colorado. He also held the position of Director of Operations in the Foreign and Defence Policy Secretariat in the Privy Council Office and is currently a Fellow with CDFAI.

Alexander Moens, Simon Fraser University

Panel: NATO
 

Bio: Alexander Moens is a Professor of Political Science at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, a CDFAI Fellow, and a Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute in the Centre for Canadian-American Relations. He teaches American Politics and Foreign Policy and Security and Defence Relations in North America and NATO. He is the author of The Foreign Policy of George W. Bush: Values, Strategy, Loyalty, Foreign Policy Under Carter and editor and co-editor of a number of books including Disconcerted Europe: The Search for a New Security Architecture and NATO and European Security: Alliance Politics from the Cold War’s End to the Age of Terrorism.

Joel Sokolsky, Royal Military College of Canada

Panel: NORAD
 

Bio: Dr. Joel J. Sokolsky is Principal of the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC). He is a Senior Fellow at the Queen’s University Centre for International Relations, and holds an appointment with the Queen’s Department of Political Studies. His areas of interest and teaching include Canadian foreign and defence policy, contemporary maritime strategy, international security relations and American foreign and defence policy. He has been the recipient of several scholarships and awards including two NATO Fellowships and two Fulbright Scholarships. Dr. Sokolsky has served as a consultant to several government offices and represented Canada on the Secretariat Working Group of the NATO/Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defence Academies and Security Studies Institutes.