Dr Artūras PETKUS NATO Energy Security Centre of Excellence, NATO ENSEC COE, Lithuania
Dr. Artūras Petkus joined the Strategic Analysis and Research Division of the NATO Energy Security Centre of Excellence in 2015 as a Head of division. His main areas of responsibility are: performance of energy security related analysis on strategic level; development of methodology and theoretical approach for assessment of energy security risks and threats, contribution to development of NATO Strategic Foresight Analysis; research in field of Energy Security (contribution to NATO CMX scenario, etc.) |
Commander (French Navy) Cyril STYLIANIDIS Ministry of Interior, General Directorate for Civil Protection and Crisis Management, France
CDR Stylianidis is currently appointed to the French ministry of interior, Directorate of civil security and crisis management in the office in charge of planning regarding crisis management. Amongst other tasks, he brings naval expertise to projects involving crisis management within a maritime environment and is a member of the coordination cell running the CIC. He is more specifically in charge of coordinating the activation of the anticipation CIC cell. He is also a naval liaison officer with the French Joint and Naval HQs in Paris. Surface warfare officer since 1989, he has been fulfilling numerous positions at sea on various ships as well as in joint and international HQs, including 7 years in NATO in England and Italy. He is an alumnus from the Cranfield (UK) and Paris VI (France) universities, from which he has respectively graduated with an MSc in “Resilience” and a degree in Biophysics. |
Mr Kris CHRISTMANN University of Huddersfield, Applied Criminology Centre (ACC), UK
Kris Christmann is an applied criminologist and Research Fellow at the Applied Criminology Centre (ACC) at the University of Huddersfield. His main research interests include the study of terrorism; radicalisation; and hate crime (for clients such as the: Youth Justice Board, Office for Security and Counter Terrorism, the Home Office, and the European Union’s Fundamental Rights Agency). This work includes how to improve reporting measures and interventions to prevent and control violent extremism and terrorism. Kris and ACC colleagues have recently completed research in counter terrorism for the EU (DG Move - Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport) examining how to protect large, multi-modal transport hubs across Europe from terrorist attack as well as from serious crime. The suite of reports delivered are currently being studied by commissioners and it is anticipated that some of this material will be published in the near future. |
Dr Paul THERON Thales Communications & Security, France
Paul Théron, PhD, FBCI, is Thales Communications & Security’s cyber-defence bids manager (export) and expert on cyber resilience. He is co-head of the Aerospatial Cyber Resilience research chair. Former member of ENISA’s Permanent Stakeholders Group, he also leads DG JRC’s European Thematic Group on the “Certification of the cybersecurity of Industrial Automation & Control Systems”. His work in cybersecurity includes cyber intelligence, C2 systems, cyber-attack strategies, awareness raising, the cyber resilience of massively collaborative systems such as the future European ATM system, and European studies of the resilience of telecommunications. |