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Prof. Nayef Al-Rodhan
Head of the Geopolitics and Global Futures Programme
Position(s) Head of the Geopolitics and Global Futures Programme
Twitter SustainHistory
Personal website www.sustainablehistory.com
Contact Nayef.Al-Rodhan@sustainablehistory.com
Professor Nayef Al-Rodhan is a Philosopher, Neuroscientist and Geostrategist. He is Head of GCSP's Geopolitics and Global Futures Programme and Honorary Fellow of St. Antony's College at Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom. He was voted as one of the Top 30 most influential Neuroscientists in the world.
He holds an M.D. and a Ph.D. He trained in neurosurgery/neuroscience research at the Mayo Clinic, Yale University and Harvard University.
He founded the neurotechnology programme, headed translational research and founded the laboratory for cellular neurosurgery and neurosurgical technology at MGH, Harvard. He was on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School, has published extensively on neuroscience research and won several research prizes. These prizes include: The Sir James Spence Prize; The Gibb Prize; The Farquhar-Murray Prize; The American Association of Neurological Surgeon Poster Prize (twice); The Meninger Prize; The Annual Resident Prize of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons; The Young Investigator Prize of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons; The Annual Fellowship Prize of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons.
His interests include: Geostrategy and Sustainable National and Global Security; The Role of Science, Aerospace and Strategic Technologies in Geopolitics and Human Destiny; Global Strategic Cascading Risks; Global Justice, Human Dignity and Transcultural Synergy; Philosophy of Good Governance, Philosophy of Human Nature, Philosophy of History and Collective Civilisational Triumph; the History of Ideas; the Neurochemical and Cellular Foundations and Predilections of Human Nature and Their Implications for Global Discourses and Moral and Political Cooperation.
For speaking engagements, please contact :
Nayef.Al-Rodhan@sustainablehistory.com
Oxford Profile
Ms Anna Brach
Head of Human Security
Position(s) Head of Human Security
Twitter @anna_brach
Contact a.brach@gcsp.ch
Anna Brach is a Senior Programme Officer in the Emerging Security Challenges Programme where she leads the Human Security Cluster. Her work focuses on issues of environmental and health security with special emphasis on the climate change and security nexus. Her research interests include human security, human rights, environmental security, climate change, global public commons and resource management. She is responsible for developing and running the Human Security Cluster activities, including executive courses, workshops, and high-level conferences in Geneva and internationally. She is the Course Director for the European Security Course.
Anna holds a Master's degree in Economy from the Warsaw School of Economics, a Master's degree in Political Science from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva and a Master's degree in European Studies from the University of Geneva.
Prior to joining the GCSP, she worked for the private sector at the PR Department of Nestlé Poland in Warsaw and at Academy&Finance in Geneva. Her native language is Polish and she is fluent in English and French.
Participating in upcoming events
Environment and Security Course
Col. (GS) Christian Bülhmann
Head of the Regional Perspectives
Position(s) Head of the Regional Perspectives
Personal website https://www.christianbuehlmann.com
Contact mailto:c.buehlmann@gcsp.ch
Colonel Christian Bühlmann is the Head of the Regional Perspectives Programme . He is seconded from the Swiss Armed Forces.
Prior to this assignment, he gained extensive experience in the area of defence policy, politics, and military strategy as Senior Advisor to the Chief of Swiss Armed Forces. He has over 25 years of combined civilian and military experience. His previous appointments include : Head of Sales Defense at a major Swiss company (as a civilian) as well as head of doctrine research and development (as a regular officer).
He graduated from the École Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne (Master of Science in Computer Sciences), and the Swiss Military Academy. He received a Master of Arts in International Studies (King's College, London) after attending the Royal College of Defence Studies, London. In his spare time, he is working on a PhD thesis in political science assessing the influence of political ideas on the transformation of Swiss defence policy.
Christian Bühlmann co-authored a book on a Colonel Daniel Reichel, a maverick Swiss military thinker, and has published numerous article on doctrine, strategy, defence policy, and history.
He is a Swiss national; his mother tongue is French and he is proficient in German and English
Mr Peter Cunningham
Geneva Leadership Alliance Co-Director
Position(s) Geneva Leadership Alliance Co-Director
Twitter @cunningpete
Peter is founder and co-director of the Geneva Leadership Alliance, a partnership that combines Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) expertise on peace, security and global governance with leadership development expertise of the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL). The mission of this Alliance is to advance the understanding, practice and positive impact of leading in public, private, non-profit organizations and civil society: especially those dedicated to advancing peace and security.
He has worked for over 15 years in organisational & leadership development and executive coaching. He is always seeking new and innovative ways of bridging the study of leadership with the practice of leading, especially in complexity and across cultural, professional and political divides.
Peter is an experienced designer and facilitator of leadership development curricula for both public and private sectors and has a strong interest in creating innovative and transformational learning experiences that enable individuals, teams and organisations to develop the mind-sets and skills they need to excel in their chosen careers.
Peter is a British and Australian national and his mother tongue is English. He is fluent in Dutch and has an intermediate level of French and German.
Lead and Influence with Impact - September Edition 2019
Ms Dominika de Beauffort
Senior Policy Officer
Dominika de Beauffort
Position(s) Senior Policy Officer
Dominika de Beauffort is a Senior Policy Officer under the Security and Law Programme. In this role Dominika leads projects, teaches and is Course Director of the executive education course "International Disarmament Law". She also contributes to the event series "Security and Law: A Reality Check", a public dialogue that explores how international law matters in security affairs. Dominika has conducted research on the Arms Trade Treaty with a focus on national implementation practices regarding prohibitions and export assessments. Her current research interests include legal aspects of the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy.
Dominika brings many years of experience in consulting and training in the private and public sector in Brussels and Geneva. Prior to joining the GCSP, she was a senior consultant at PACT European Affairs (now EPPA), where she led European public affairs workshops and training sessions for private companies, NGOs and diplomatic missions.
Dominika is a trained conference interpreter and after completing a postgraduate Master's degree in European Interdisciplinary Studies at the College of Europe, Belgium, she has further specialized in international law at the Law Faculty of the University in Linz in Austria. Dominika is an Austrian and Polish national. She speaks German (native language) and fluent Polish, English, French and Russian.
International Disarmament Law
Dr Robert Dewar
Head of Cyber Security
Position(s) Head of Cyber Security
Twitter @robert_dewar
Contact r.dewar@gcsp.ch
Dr Robert Dewar is the Head of Cyber Security at the GCSP. Robert holds an MA (Hons.) in Modern History from the University of St Andrews, an MSc in Global Security (Politics, Information and Security) and a PhD in Politics, both from the University of Glasgow. His PhD thesis was an examination of institutional dynamics in EU cyber security policy-making.
At the GCSP Robert provides executive education courses on cyber security and defence, the European Union and international relations as well as developing innovative pedagogical approaches to the teaching of cyber security. He also initiates and engages in international dialogue activities on cyber security and defence and conducts research into cyber security and defence policy, security studies, active and blended learning, the European Union and historical institutionalism.
Prior to joining the GCSP Robert was a Senior Researcher in the Cyber Defence Team of the Centre for Security Studies at ETH Zurich. He published papers on EU cyber security development, cyber defence policy and strategy, cyber weapons development and the use of exercises and simulations as teaching tools in cyber defence.
Before moving to Switzerland Robert was a lecturer and tutor at the University of Glasgow and the University of Stirling. He taught courses on international relations, cyber security and the European Union promoting the use of active learning in the classroom.
Robert is a dual German and British citizen and speaks English and German.
Select Publications
Dewar, Robert and Myriam Dunn Cavelty, (2019) Die Cybersicherheitspolitik der Europaeischen Union: Bollwerk gegen die Versicherheitlichung eines Politiksbereichs in Schuenemann und Kneuer (eds.) E-Government und Netzpolitik im europaeischen Vergleich
Dewar, Robert, (2017) The European Union and Cybersecurity: A Historiography of an Emerging Actor's Response to a Global Security Concern, in O'Neill and Swinton (eds.) Challenges and Critiques of the EU Internal Security Strategy.
Policy Analyses
Dewar, Robert (ed.); (2018) National Cybersecurity and Cyberdefense Policy Snapshots, National Cybersecurity and Cyberdefense Policy Snapshots.
Dewar, Robert, (2018) Cybersecurity and Cyberdefense Exercises, Center for Security Studies Cyber Defense Report.
Dewar, Robert, (2018) Contextualizing Cyber Operations, Center for Security Studies Cyber Defense Trend Analysis.
Dewar, Robert, (2018) Cyberspace is a Consensual Hallucination, Center for Security Studies Policy Perspectives.
Dewar, Robert, (2017) Cyberweapons: Capability, Intent and Context in Cyberdefense, Center for Security Studies Cyber Defense Trend Analysis.
Dewar, Robert, (2017) Active Cyber Defense, Center for Security Studies Cyber Defense Trend Analysis.
Dewar, Robert, (2014) The "Triptych of Cyber Security": A Classification of Active Cyber Defence, NATO CCDCOE 2014 6th International Conference on Cyber Conflict.
Meeting the Cyber Security Challenge - 2019 Course
Ambassador Christian Dussey
Director of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy
Position(s) Director of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy
Twitter @DusseyCh
Contact c.dussey@gcsp.ch
Christian Dussey is the Director of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP).
Prior to this assignment, he served as Swiss Ambassador and Head of the Crisis Management Centre of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA). The Centre coordinates the governmental crisis response system during major incidents affecting Swiss citizens abroad (disasters, political upheavals, terror attacks, hostage-taking).
In 2012, he was selected to serve as a fellow at Harvard University (Weatherhead Center for International Affairs), where he spent the academic year 2012-2013.
Among other postings as a Swiss career diplomat, Christian Dussey headed the International Security Section of the FDFA, served as political counselor at the Embassy of Switzerland in Moscow (Russia) and as diplomatic adviser to the President of the Swiss Confederation.
Prior to joining the diplomatic corps of the FDFA, he served for five years at the Strategic Intelligence Service of the Federal Department of Defense. Christian Dussey is also a general staff officer in the Swiss armed forces. He is regularly invited to give lectures on crisis management at various universities and business schools. He was educated at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (MA), at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland (MA), and at Georgetown University, Washington D.C. (exchange student).
Ms Stéphanie Arqueros-Sanchez
s.arqueros-sanchez@gcsp.ch, +41 (0)22 730 96 02
The Case for Creativity Course
Don't fight the problem, shape the solution.
Mr Marc Finaud
Head of Arms Proliferation
Position(s) Head of Arms Proliferation
Twitter FinaudMarc
Personal website https://marcfinaud.webs.com/aboutme.htm
Marc Finaud is a former French diplomat who was seconded to the GCSP from 2004 to 2013 and is now a staff member. At the GCSP, Mr Finaud leads activities related to Arms Proliferation.
He finished Secondary School in Marseille in 1970 and in Independence, Iowa (USA) in 1971. He holds the Certificate of Proficiency in English (With Merits) of the University of Cambridge, Great Britain (1974), as well as a Master's Degree in International Law of the University of Aix-en-Provence, France (1975) and he is a Graduate of the Paris Institute of Political Studies (1977).
He joined the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1977, first at the Military Cooperation Division. In 1977-1978, he was Vice-Consul at the French Consulate-General in Leningrad (USSR). Back in Paris, he worked at the Directorate for Europe (Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe -CSCE-) from 1979 to 1982. He was a member of the French Delegation to the CSCE Meeting in Madrid (1980-1982). In 1982-1983 he served as Chief of Staff of the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, before being appointed First Secretary at the French Embassy in Warsaw. In 1987-1988, he was the Secretary-General of the French Delegation to the CSCE Meeting in Vienna.
In 1989-1993 he served as Second Counsellor at the French Delegation to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva and a member of the French Delegation to the First Committee of the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York. From 1993 to 1996 he was the Head of the Information Department (and alternate spokesman) of the Foreign Ministry in Paris. In 1995-1996, he was a lecturer on arms control and disarmament for a post-graduate course at the Marne-la-Vallée University. In 1996 was appointed Deputy Head of Mission at the French Embassy in Tel Aviv (Israel) where he joined the Team of Negotiators of the EU Special Envoy to the Middle East. He was transferred to Sydney as Consul-General for France in January, 2001, with jurisdiction over the whole of Australia.
Apart from French, he speaks English, Russian and Polish. He has published many articles, chapters and books on arms control and disarmament as well as on the Middle East and international humanitarian law.
In addition, from August 2013 to May 2015, Marc Finaud was Senior Resident Fellow at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR).
See Marc Finaud's publications
Building Arms Control Capacities in the Middle East and North Africa Region Amman 2019
Développement des Capacités pour une mise en oeuvre efficace du Traité sur le Commerce des Armes (TCA) 2019)
Ms Isabelle Gillet
Head of Community Engagement
Position(s) Head of Community Engagement
Contact mailto:i.gillet@gcsp.ch
Isabelle Gillet is the Head of Community Engagement and leads, develops, and organizes the Centre's community programmes in Geneva and abroad, including community-led projects. She aims to facilitate mutually beneficial and sustainable relationships between the GCSP and its alumni community.
Isabelle has joined the GCSP early 2008 and has held different positions throughout this period. She began at the Centre in the Protocol and Events department where she managed expert seminars, diplomatic dialogue, executive training workshops and major international conferences. In December 2013 she began working for the GCSP's alumni development and introduced a new strategic plan and new technology to most effectively engage alumni in the life of the GCSP.
Prior to joining the GCSP, Isabelle worked for 14 years for Geneva Tourism & Convention Bureau, where she started to work in the Sales and Promotions department. As its Manager in the later years, she was in charge of a cross-cultural team to brand and develop the destination's leisure tourism sector. Herself responsible for the Asian market, she established Geneva's partnerships in the Far East and implemented commercial strategies and promotional projects with an active participation at sales meetings, workshops trade shows and other task forces to further drive business.
Isabelle has a large international background and has continually evolved in a multi-cultural environment. Isabelle is Swiss and lived and worked in the US, UK, India, the Middle East, and the Far East.
She is trilingual in English, French and German and holds a degree in international hotel business management.
3rd GCSP - Global Alumni Networking Night (GANN) - Call for Volunteers to Host GANN
Ms Fleur Heyworth
Head of Gender and Inclusive Security
Position(s) Head of Gender and Inclusive Security
Ms Fleur Heyworth leads the GCSP's executive education, dialogue and policy analysis on gender and inclusive security. Working closely with the GCSP's Leadership Alliance, she designs and facilitates courses on leadership for women, and for male and female leaders to create more inclusive working environments. She also delivers modules on gender and inclusive security to the multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural participants on GCSP's core courses, incorporating the frameworks of the Women Peace and Security Agenda, and the Sustainable Development Goals.
The GCSP is also an incubator for collaboration with academics and practitioners, diplomats, NGOs and businesses, enabling Fleur to work across sectors to identify tools and strategies to promote greater senior level representation of women, and more equality in society, the economy and politics. In August 2017 she worked with Dr Catherine Turner to publish a policy paper 'Women in Mediation: Connecting the Local and the Global'; she is currently working on nudge theory and the relationship between gendered leadership styles and security outcomes.
Fleur began her professional career as a Barrister and spent 5 years advocating in court, representing government and private clients in family law proceedings in England and Wales. In Geneva, she worked at the UK Mission to the UN where she represented the UK government in negotiations in International Humanitarian Law at the Red Cross Conference 2015, and on a range of thematic topics during three Human Rights Council sessions. She organised events on Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict, Disasters and Emergencies, and on gender equality. She also worked with NGOs during UPR sessions and drafted recommendations to CEDAW. Fleur has a Geography Degree from Cambridge University, and took her post-graduate studies in law at Nottingham Law School..
Inspiring Women Leaders Workshop - After Metoo: Fierce Grace
Inspiring Women Leaders Course
Ms Annika Hilding Norberg
Head of Peace Operations and Peacebuilding
Position(s) Head of Peace Operations and Peacebuilding
Twitter @AnnikaHildingNo
Ms Annika Hilding Norberg joined the Geneva Centre for Security Policy in 2017 where she is leading the work on peace operations and peacebuilding with a specific focus on dialogue, research and policy development, and education and training. She serves on the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform Management Committee.
Prior to joining the GCSP, she was the Director of the International Forum for the Challenges of Peace Operations (CF), a joint platform of 22 countries, incl. the 5 Permanent Members of the UNSC for 21 years. The aim of the Forum was to strengthen the planning, conduct, evaluation of and support for UN peace operations. Founded in 1996 as part of her research studies at the London School of Economics and Political Studies (LSE), Ms Norberg coordinated the Forum based at the LSE, the Swedish National Defence College and the Folke Bernadotte Academy, an agency of the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Ms Norberg is main editor of more than 80 Forum reports and policy briefs. Key focus areas in recent years were the CF contributions to the UN-led development of the Principles and Guidelines for UN Peacekeeping, the Strategic Guidance Framework for International Police Peacekeeping, and the Considerations for Mission Leaders in UN Peacekeeping Study. In 2008, Ms Norberg was awarded the Silver Medal of the Swedish Royal Academy of Military Science for her contributions to strengthening UN peacekeeping.
Swiss Peacebuilding Training Course (SPTC) 2019
Enhancing Leadership for Peacebuilding - Senior Level Course on Peacebuilding 2019
Colonel (GS) Stefan Hinz
Senior Programme Advisor, Regional Perspectives
Position(s) Senior Programme Advisor, Regional Perspectives
Colonel (GS) Stefan Hinz is seconded from the German Armed Forces. He is an Air Force Officer with a background in Extended Integrated Air Defence (EIAD), having been trained in air surveillance, fighter and surface-to-air-missile control from 1987 until 1995. His latest position was serving as Head of Branch International Relations and Arms Control in the staff of the Chief of the German Air Force Berlin.
Before that he was appointed twice as a Commander in his service, first of the NATO Control & Reporting Centre (CRC), Garrison Messstetten and then of I. Division GAF Officer School (Fuerstenfeldbruck). From 2002 to 2007, he worked mainly in the field of German military politics, first as Assistant Head of EU/ESDP Branch MOD Berlin and, during the German EU Presidency in 2007, as Assistant Head of ESDP Division, working fully integrated in the Federal Foreign Office (FFO, Auswaertiges Amt), Berlin. During his time in the FFO he had a focus on EU missions in Africa and on security sector reform in general.
Stefan holds a diploma in Commerce (Dipl-Kfm univ) and was decorated with the Bronze Cross of Honour of the Bundeswehr. He is an alumnus of the NATO Defense College in Rome (Senior Course 111) and has successfully completed the 40th Air Force General Staff Course and many other training courses. Recently he joined the Masters Programme in Governance at the Fernuniversität Hagen. He is a German national, speaks fluent German and English, has good knowledge of French and some basic knowledge of Italian and Dutch.
"Ist der INF-Vertrag noch zu retten? – Eine Bestandsaufnahme", - October 2017
"Can the INF Treaty still be saved? A pessimistic assessment on the occasion of its upcoming 30th anniversary", - English version - September 2017
"Le Traité FNI peut-il encore être sauvé ? Un bilan pessimiste dressé à la veille du 30e anniversaire", version française - September 2017
"Ist der INF-Vertrag noch zu retten? Eine pessimistische Bestandsaufnahme zum nahenden 30. Geburtstag", Russian version - September 2017
"Nukleares Wettrüsten? - Zur Krise des INF-Vertrages im globalen Kontext", Allgemeine Schweizerische Militärzeitschrift - August 2016
"L'Europe assiste-t-elle à une nouvelle course aux armements nucléaires? Réflexions sur la crise du Traité FNI dans le contexte global", version française - August 2016
"The Crisis of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty in the Global Context", GCSP Geneva Paper – Research Series n°16, December 2015
"La crise du Traité FNI dans le contexte global", version française - December 2015
"Zur Krise des INF-Vertrages im globalen Kontext", Behörden Spiegel, Nr. 145, 27 November 2015
"Alles ist relativ ....- auch die universellen Menschenrechte? Zu den Hintergründen einer aktuellen Diskussion", S. 120-152 in: Analysen und Perspektiven. Studien zu Staat, Politik und Gesellschaft, Hg. Uwe Hartmann, Bremen 1999
"Strategische Raketenabwerhr - stabilitätsfördernd?" A llgemeine Schweizerische Militärzeitschrift, October 2018
12th Annual Senior Officers Seminar (ASOS)
Mr David Horobin
Head of Crisis Management
Position(s) Head of Crisis Management
Mr David Horobin is Head of the Crisis Management at GCSP. He has more than 25 years operational experience in emergency and crisis management in natural and conflict related contexts in both field and HQ functions.
As Head of Crisis Management his main tasks are designing, researching and delivering contemporary crisis management courses for decision makers, leaders, researchers and specialists in the government, humanitarian and corporate sectors.
From 2010- 2017, he held the position of Head of Crisis Management and Security at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) providing policy, training and operational support for 18,000 ICRC staff in 80 countries for all emergency and security related incidents.
From 2006- 2010, he was Head of the Rapid Deployment Unit at the ICRC. He designed, staffed and managed ICRC's emergency response and surge capacity capability incorporating ICRC's technical and managerial support internally and through Red Cross/Crescent networks consisting of 190 National Societies with 24 hours deployable expertise and ERU teams.
From 2003-2006, Mr Horobin was Director of the Operations Team (CHASE-OT) at the UK's Governments Department for International Development (DFID). He lead the UK's emergency response to major international emergencies and managed a team of 45 experts in technical, operational and advisory roles. During this time he chaired the International Humanitarian Partnership (IHP) and was appointed EU High Level coordinator for Hurricane Katrina.
Throughout his career, he developed first hand operational experience in natural and complex emergencies; Angola, Ethiopia, Rwanda, DRC, Philippines, Timor, Balkans, Iran, Afghanistan, Liberia, Japan, Asian Tsunami and global emergencies such as Ebola, H1N1 and NRBC events. Additionally, he was responsible for high level policy and operational coordination with UN, RCRC, governments and commercial operators.
A logistician by profession he is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics (FCILT), and recently appointed Fellow and Advisory Board Member of the Institute of Strategic Risk Management (ISRM); he holds an MSc in Transport Engineering from Imperial College, London and a BSc in Social Science. He has attained accredited Senior People, Leadership and Management (PLM-CS), Ashridge, UK (2007-2010), and certified EU High Level Coordinator (EU DG ENV-2006). Mr Horobin has advanced kidnap and crisis management training.
Crisis Management : Navigating the Storm : Singapore 2019
Dr Siobhán Martin
Deputy Head, Leadership, Crisis and Conflict Management
Position(s) Deputy Head, Leadership, Crisis and Conflict Management
Twitter SiobhMartin
Dr Siobhán Martin joined the GCSP in 2006, and has had a range of increasing responsibilities since then. She is currently the Director of the 8-month Leadership in International Security Course, and Co-Director of the Master of Advanced Studies in International and European Security (MAS), jointly run by the GCSP and the Global Studies Institute of the University of Geneva. Her principal focus is on curriculum design, long course development and delivery, in addition to outreach and research activities.
Siobhán has a PhD in International Relations/Political Science from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. Her research interests focus on strategic intelligence, international cooperation, ethics, leadership issues, and transnational threats.
She also holds a Master's Degree in International Relations, and a Joint Bachelor's Degree in English and History from University College Cork (UCC), Ireland. Prior to joining the GCSP, she held a number of positions in the private sector. Her native language is English, and she also speaks French.
"Spying in a Transparent World", reprinted as Chapter 20 in Cyber Ethics 4.0: Serving Humanity With Values, edited by Christoph Stükelberger/Pavan Duggal, Globethics.net Global Series No. 17, 2018
"Secret Friends: Intelligence Cooperation and Counterterrorism" (with Carl Ungerer), in Intelligence and the Function of Government, edited by D. Baldino & R. Crawley, Melbourne University Publishers, 2018
"Spying in a Transparent World: Ethics and Intelligence in the 21st Century", GCSP Geneva Paper – Research Series No. 19, November 2016
Leadership in International Security Course (LISC) 2019-2020
Master of Advanced Studies in International and European Security Course (MAS) 2019-2020
Ms Alexandra Matas
Head of Effective Governance
Position(s) Head of Effective Governance
Contact mailto:a.matas@gcsp.ch
Alexandra Matas is a Head of the Effective Governance cluster at the GCSP. Alexandra is directing Effective Governance courses in both English and French for State officials from different countries including Myanmar, Iraq, Cameroon and others. She also contributes to a number of GCSP courses including the European Security Course (ESC), Leadership in International Security Course (LISC), Swiss Military Professional Officers Training (SPOT) and others.
Alexandra is designing and delivering dialogue events in Geneva and internationally on the topics of the European Security, the OSCE conflict prevention mechanisms and post-war reconstruction in Syria. She represents the GCSP to the OSCE Network of Think Tanks and Academic Institutions.
Her research interests include European Security Architecture, the OSCE and the relationships between Russia and the other post-Soviet states. She speaks Russian, English, French and basic German.
Alexandra joined the GCSP in January 2011 and coordinated activities of the Programmes on Security and Law, and WMD & Disarmament, respectively. She also worked at the GCSP as Short Course Coordinator in 2010 and as an intern from 2006 to 2007.
Prior to joining the GCSP, Alexandra coordinated the FDI promotion activities for the members of the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA). She also worked as a Junior Relationship Manager at the Trade Finance department of the Credit Suisse bank.
Alexandra holds a Master in International Affairs degree from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Geneva. During her studies she interned at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). She also holds a Public Relations degree from the Russian State University of Physical Education, Sports and Tourism.
General (RETD) Philippe Meyer
Head of Organisational Enabler
Position(s) Head of Organisational Enabler
Twitter @maverickdoha
Philippe Meyer graduated from the French Air Force Academy in 1977, and earned his wings as tactical transport pilot in 1978. He logged over 5,000 flying hours on C160 Transall and C130 Hercules, commanded the tactical transport wing of Orleans, and his flying operational career included many detachments in Africa and others in Cambodia (UN), Sinai (MFO) and Saudi Arabia (Desert Storm). Since 1993 he has been deeply involved in international relations and politico-military issues, serving in the Ministry of Defence's office in the diplomatic cell and as advisor at the strategic planning office of the joint headquarters. He was assigned for four years in Doha (Qatar) as Defence Attaché at the French Embassy and four years in Vienna as General Head Military Advisor to the French Ambassador near the OSCE. Before joining the GCSP in 2011, he ended his career at the Air Defence and Operations Command in Paris where he was Deputy to the Commander, in charge of international relations (EU, NATO).
From 2011 to 2014 he was seconded from the French Ministry of Defense to the GCSP and served as Special Advisor of the Director and Senior Defense Advisor in the Regional Development Programme. In that position, he supervised relations between GCSP and the French Ministry of Defense and developed the "Francophonie" programme. Lecturer on diplomacy and defense issues, he helped further GCSP projects in the Gulf Region and Africa.
He was appointed as COO on the 1st of July 2014.
His educational background includes a Diploma of Engineering in Aeronautics, and courses at the US Air War College at Maxwell AFB, the National Defence and Security Institute in Paris, the High Military Institute in Paris and the European Security and Defence College.
Born in 1956, he is married and has three children.
Ms Emily Munro
Deputy Head of Emerging Security Challenges
Position(s) Deputy Head of Emerging Security Challenges
Emily Munro is the Deputy Head and Strategic Anticipation Cluster Leader in the Emerging Security Challenges Programme (ESCP) at the GCSP. In this role Emily leads projects and contributes to courses, in particular in the area of strategic foresight and international security and on initiatives seeking to foster dialogue on cybersecurity and arms proliferation. She is Course Director of the New Issues in Security Course (NISC), is a term facilitator and module responsible in the Leadership in International Security Course (LISC), and she directs an annual short course on strategic foresight.
Emily has been with the GCSP since 2003, in functions related to partnership development and governance issues, training and academic affairs, and courses and projects on peacebuilding and new issues in security.
She has previous professional experience at the International Organization for Migration (Geneva), the Global Forum for Health Research (Geneva) and the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, Canada).
Emily holds a Master's Degree in international relations from the Graduate Institute in Geneva and a Bachelor's Degree in international relations and political science from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Emily is a Canadian and Swiss citizen and she speaks English (native language) and French.
Security in a World without Nuclear Weapons: Visions and Challenges, (co-editor, with David Atwood), GCSP, Geneva, December 2013.
Multidimensional and Integrated Peace Operations: Trends and Challenges, Geneva Paper 1 (Conference Series), Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and GCSP, Geneva, January 2008.
"Natural Disasters, Globalization, and the Implications for Global Security", in Policy Briefs on the Transnational Aspects of Security and Stability, edited by Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan, pp. 149-162, Zurich, LIT Verlag, 2007.
Challenges to Neutral and Non-Aligned Countries in Europe and Beyond, (editor), GCSP, Geneva, 2005.
Strategic Foresight: Tools and Techniques for Planning in Uncertain Times 2019
Ms Christina Orisich
Deputy Director, Head of Executive Education
Position(s) Deputy Director, Head of Executive Education
Twitter @OrisichCh
Christina Orisich is the Deputy Director of GCSP and Head of GCSP's "Executive Education" activities, developing and expanding the organisation's comprehensive portfolio internationally.
Ms Orisich brings an extensive international experience in executive education to GCSP, as well as expertise in consulting in organizational and leadership development, change management, strategy and leading a business. She has a very good understanding of challenges leaders face in this complex and ever-changing world both in the private and public sector.
Prior to joining the GCSP, she worked for 12 years for the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) - Europe, where she was Head of the Coaching and Leadership Development Practice, responsible for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Previously as EMEA Design Practice Leader, she led a cross-cultural team of experienced instructional design faculty who delivered highly customized leadership solutions in response to very specific client challenges. In her role as Regional Director, responsible for Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Spain and France at CCL she was responsible for all CCL activities in these countries (multi-million businesses). She built extensive experience in partnering strategically with international global corporations and institutions to support them with their organizational, talent and leadership development challenges. She was Senior Lead Faculty for several client engagements and worked with most of the large international corporations from the Pharma, Health Care, Chemical, Automotive and Financial Services industry. She is also a very experienced Executive coach, and regularly worked with senior leaders from big blue chip corporations as well as international organizations.
Before this, Christina worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC Consulting) in Brussels and London leading EU financed projects in Russia, Ukraine, Estonia, Romania in the public and private sector. Christina also worked at the European Commission in Brussels, Ericsson in Vienna and the Austrian Trade Commission in New York City.
Christina has a broad international background and has always worked in multi-cultural environments across a wide range of industries, leading and working with cross-cultural teams. She is Austrian and has lived and worked in 13 countries (Austria, The Netherlands, Belgium, Romania, Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Ukraine, Estonia, Russia and Poland). She speaks 8 languages.
She holds a degree in International Business Administration from the University of Economics and Business Administration in Vienna, Austria. She earned her postgraduate degree in European political studies, from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. She is a certified Leadership Embodiment Coach and is certified by the International Coaching Federation.
Ms Anne-Caroline Pissis Martel
Head of Global Fellowship Initiative and Creative Spark
Position(s) Head of Global Fellowship Initiative and Creative Spark
Anne-Caroline is the Head of the GCSP's Global Fellowship Initiative and Creative Spark. Anne-Caroline joined the GCSP in September 2003 and has held different positions throughout this time. She spent a number of years working with the Director of Special Programmes on diplomatic activities and training courses abroad. She then worked with the External Relations Team and, as its Manager, was in charge of the Centre's external communications - GCSP website, media relations and publications. She later joined the Emerging Security Challenges Programme as a Senior Programme Officer responsible for the Security and Law activities of the Centre. Since 2015, Anne-Caroline coordinates the GCSP Global Fellowship Initiative and currently also heads the development of the Creative Spark.
She holds a Master's Degree (LL.M.) in International Humanitarian Law, jointly awarded by the Law Faculty of the University of Geneva and the Graduate Institute of International Studies (HEI). She studied Law at Pierre Mendes France, University of Grenoble (France), and after her Maîtrise with specialisation in European Law, she obtained a Diploma from their European Summer Academy on "Europe in Transition".
Prior to her employment at the GCSP, she worked for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Athens (Greece), and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) in Geneva.
Anne-Caroline speaks English, French, Greek, Spanish, Italian and German.
Dr. Jean-Marc Rickli
Head of Global Risk and Resilience
Position(s) Head of Global Risk and Resilience
Twitter Dr_JMRickli
Dr. Jean-Marc Rickli is the Head of Global Risk and Resilience at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) in Geneva, Switzerland. He is also a research fellow at King's College London and a non-resident fellow in modern warfare and security at TRENDS Research and Advisory in Abu Dhabi. He is a senior advisor for the AI (Artificial Intelligence) Initiative at the Future Society at Harvard Kennedy School and an expert on autonomous weapons systems for the United Nations in the framework of the Governmental Group of Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS). He is also a member of The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems and the co-chair of the NATO Partnership for Peace Consortium on Emerging Security Challenges Working Group.
Prior to these appointments, Dr. Rickli was an assistant professor at the Department of Defence Studies of King's College London and at the Joint Command and Staff College in Doha. He was also an assistant professor at the Institute for International and Civil Security at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi. Dr. Rickli received his PhD and MPhil in International Relations from Oxford University, UK, where he was also a Berrow scholar at Lincoln College.
Dr Jean-Marc Rickli's publication
Geopolitical Analytical Skills for Business Leaders 2019
Mr Jean-Paul Rouiller
Manager, Terrorism-Joint Analysis Group (T-JAG) at the GCSP
Position(s) Manager, Terrorism-Joint Analysis Group (T-JAG) at the GCSP
Twitter @EXPECT_GCTAT
Contact j.rouiller@gcsp.ch
Jean-Paul Rouiller was born on April 8, 1967 in Saint Maurice, Switzerland. He worked for the Swiss Federal Office of Police (Fedpol) from December 2003 to January 2010, creating the first Counter-terrorism Unit within the Swiss Federal Criminal Police (SFCP). He then developed the structures and concepts of the first counter-terrorism analysis unit of the SFCP (in charge of intelligence collection and risk analysis in the field of counter-terrorism and terrorism).
In 1994, Mr Rouiller joined the Swiss Intelligence Service as a junior country analyst. By 1996, Rouiller had taken responsibility for all terrorism files; these encompassed, among others, Radical Islamic organizations, the 'ethno-nationalists' groups (eg. IRA, PKK, LTTE or ETA) and the remnants of the far-left (eg. 17N phantom group in Greece). On a more technical level, he worked on a project dedicated to the research and treatment methods of both open and classified information (including the technique of cascading), as specifically applied to the field of terrorism. He was also involved in creating the first comprehensive anti-terrorism database used by the Swiss Intelligence Service.
From January to March 2000, he joined the Combined Strategic Intelligence Training Program (CSITP), an intelligence course developed by the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). In this three month course, within a class composed of students from different countries and services, he expanded his understanding U.S. intelligence machinery, methods and operations.
Mr Rouiller left the Swiss Intelligence Service in October 2000 in order to join the Office of the Coordinator of Intelligence Services of Ambassador Jacques Pitteloud, as Adviser on Homeland Security (in german, Referent Innere Sicherheit).
The events that lead him to join the Swiss Federal Criminal Police unfolded in late 2001, following the 9/11 attacks. From December 2003 to December 2010, Mr Rouiller created, developed and lead no less than four different counter-terrorism units within the Swiss Federal Criminal Police. In 2011, he created the Geneva Centre for Training and Analysis of Terrorism.
In 2017, Mr Rouiller created the Terrorism Joint Analysis Group at the GCSP, to deliver timely analysis to both the public and private sectors on the global manifestations of terror.
Dr Christina Schori Liang
Head of Terrorism and Organised Crime
Position(s) Head of Terrorism and Organised Crime
Dr. Christina Schori Liang is a Senior Advisor and Senior Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP). She leads the Terrorism and Organised Crime Cluster at the GCSP.
Dr. Liang designs and directs courses on Preventing Violent Extremism and on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict: Addressing the Challenges Posed by the Presence of Non-State Armed Groups and contributes to GCSP's Track Two diplomacy and dialogue events. From 2012-2016, she served as Co-Director and later as Director of GCSP's New Issues in Security Course.
Dr. Liang was editor of Europe for the Europeans: The Foreign and Security Policy of the Populist Radical Right and has contributed to the 2015, 2016 and 2017 Global Terrorism Index Reports. Dr. Liang has given academic and policy-related presentations in over 25 countries. She is an active member of the UN's Global Counter Terrorism Research Network and advises the UN Security Council's 1267 Committee on terrorist financing. Dr. Liang has testified for the US National Intelligence Council, the US State Department, the European Commission, and the European Forum for Urban Security and has given multiple presentations for the NATO Defense College in Rome and the OSCE Secretariat in Vienna. Dr Liang is a Steering Group Member of the RESOLVE Network, a member of the Global Solutions Exchange (GSX), and a global expert for the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.
Dr. Liang was an Adjunct Faculty member for Boston University from 2008-2013 and is currently a Professor at the Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po, Paris. She holds a doctorate in International Relations and an MA in History and International Politics from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland.
Liang, Christina Schori, "Unveiling the "United Cyber Caliphate" and the Birth of the E-Terrorist" in Georgetown Journal of International Affairs International Engagement on Cyber VII, Fall 2017, Volume 18, No. 3. p. 11-20.
Liang, Christina Schori, "Leaderless Jihad in a Leaderless World: The Future of Terrorism", in the "2017 Global Terrorism Index: Measuring and Understanding the Impact of Terrorism." Instiute for Economics and Peace. 2017 p. 88-91.
Liang, Christina Schori, "Mapping the New Global Criminal-Terrorist Networks," in the "2016 Global Terrorism Index: Measuring and Understanding the Impact of Terrorism." Institute for Economics and Peace. 2016 p. 84-88.
Liang, Christina Schori, "The Criminal-Jihadist: Insights into Modern Terrorist Financing," Strategic Security Analysis – 2016 n°10, August 2016.
Liang, Christina Schori, "ISIL Inc: A Portrait of a Modern Terrorist Enterprise," in the "2015 Global Terrorism Index: Measuring and Understanding the Impact of Terrorism." Institute for Economics and Peace. 2015 p. 76-80
Liang, Christina Schori, "Cyber Jihad: Understanding and Countering Islamic State Propaganda." GCSP Policy Paper 2015/2
Liang, Christina Schori, "Shadow Networks: The Growing Nexus of Terrorism and Organised Crime." GCSP Policy Paper 20, November, 2011.
Liang, Christina Schori, "Schattennetzwerke: Der Wachsende Nexus von Terrorismus und Organisierter Kriminalität, GCSP Policy Paper 20, November, 2011. GCSP Policy Paper 20 – Deutsch.pdf (952.2 kB)
Liang, Christina Schori (ed.) Europe for the Europeans: The Foreign and Security Policy of the Populist Radical Right (London: Ashgate Publishing, 2007), 318 p.
Building a National Strategy for Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE) Course 2019
Ms Alexandra Thiry
Head of Learning Innovation and Impact
Position(s) Head of Learning Innovation and Impact
Twitter @alexandra_thiry
Contact a.thiry@gcsp.ch
Alexandra Thiry is GCSP's Learning Innovation and Impact Lead. She manages projects that aim at enhancing the learning experience of participants to GCSP's executive education activities. Specifically, she is responsible for streamlining GCSP's approach to blended learning and building capacity to design and deliver extended learning journeys for impact.
Alexandra is a Certified Learning Professional from the "Swiss Competence Centre for Innovations in Learning" at the Institute of Business Education and Educational Management, University of St. Gallen. She possesses a passionate curiosity for learning and a strong commitment to advancing continuous learning and professional development at the international level. Alexandra is particularly interested in formats and methods that help learners apply new knowledge, skills and behaviours to their workplaces, as well as in opportunities arising from digitalisation and the possibilities of social learning.
Alexandra holds a Master's Degree in "Peace and Conflict Studies and International Relations" from the University of Tuebingen (Germany) and a Bachelor's Degree in "European Studies". She has completed project management certificates, including in results based management. A German citizen Alexandra speaks English and French in addition to her native German. She is married and the proud mom of a son.
Mr Tobias Vestner
Head of Security and Law
Position(s) Head of Security and Law
Contact mailto:t.vestner@gcsp.ch
Tobias Vestner leads the Security and Law Programme. He teaches, researches, and organizes dialogue on the intersection between security policy and international law.
He heads the Symposium for Senior NATO/PfP Legal Advisors. Tobias Vestner also leads and teaches in the executive education courses Air and Missile Warfare: Navigating the Legal Dimension (Advanced AMPLE), Legal Dimensions of Contemporary and Future Use of Force, Weapons Law and the Legal Review of Weapons, as well as Negotiations Theory and Practice. He is also responsible for the event series Security and Law: A Reality Check, a public dialogue that explores how international law matters in security affairs.
Tobias Vestner has many years of experience in international law, international relations, and policymaking. Before joining the GCSP, Tobias Vestner was Research Affiliate and Global Futures Fellow at Georgetown University. Prior to that, he was Policy Advisor at the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, where he managed political processes with regard to the export of conventional weapons, and participated in the UN negotiations of the Arms Trade Treaty. Previously, while at the Law of Armed Conflict Section at the Swiss Federal Department of Defense, Sports and Civil Protection, he contributed to bilateral negotiations on military cooperation, and trained military officers in international humanitarian law.
Tobias Vestner holds a Master of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, a Master of Laws in International and European Law from the University of Geneva, and a Bachelor degree in Swiss law from the University of Lausanne. Tobias Vestner has Swiss and German nationality, and is fluent in English, French, and German. A former reserve member of the Swiss Special Forces Command, he serves as reserve Legal Advisor at the Swiss Armed Forces Staff. He is member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War and the International Institute of Humanitarian Law.
'A Guide to International Disarmament Law', Routledge, June 2019 (co-authored)
'Book Review of the Leuven Manual on the International Law Applicable to Peace Operations', International Review of the Red Cross, August 2019 (co-authored)
'Synergies between the Arms Trade Treaty and the Wassenaar Arrangement', Strategic Security Analysis, Geneva Centre for Security Policy, May 2019
'Prohibitions and Export Assessment: Tracking Implementation of the Arms Trade Treaty', Geneva Paper 19/23, Geneva Centre for Security Policy, March 2019
'Weapons Systems Supply and Operational or Logistical Support under the PSSA', Geneva Centre for Security Policy, March 2019 (co-authored)
Air and Missile Warfare: Navigating the Legal Dimension (Advanced AMPLE 2019)
Legal Dimensions of Contemporary and Future Use of Force 2019
Weapons Law and the Legal Review of Weapons 2019
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With over 300 appearances for Brisbane Roar FC and 59 appearances for the Socceroos, Brisbane Strikers alumnus Matt McKay has drawn the curtain on his illustrious football career.
The Sunshine Coast and Moreton Bay region will play host to the 2019 Football Queensland (FQ) Futsal State Titles on Saturday, 20 April and Sunday, 21 April 2019.
The International Football Coaching Conference Australia (IFCCA) has today announced a partnership with Football Nation Radio (FNR).
The 2019 FFA Cup South East Queensland (SEQ) Round 5 draw took place today at Football Queensland (FQ) headquarters.
Football Queensland (FQ) would like to extend our condolences to the family and loved ones of life member Donald Look, who sadly passed away last Friday.
Round 11 of the National Premier Leagues (NPL) Queensland will only see five matches split between Saturday and Wednesday with the Match of the Round to be between Brisbane Strikers and Brisbane Roar Youth.
With one game already completed in the National Premier League Women's (NPLW) Queensland in Round 10, it leaves 10 teams to battle it out on Easter Monday, with Lions FC and The Gap clash featuring as Match of the Round.
Rounding out the long weekend in style, Round 12 of the National Premier Leagues (NPL) Queensland will play out on Easter Monday, with the Match of the Round to be between Brisbane City and Olympic FC.
It will be a Saturday full of National Premier Leagues Women's (NPLW) Queensland games with the Match of the Round between The Gap and Moreton Bay United closing out the night.
The match between Rochedale Rovers and Southside Eagles is the lone Sunday match, and the Match of the Round for Round 6 of the Football Queensland Premier League (FQPL).


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Taylor Ewert - Going to Arkansas
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Runningfast
Congrats, Taylor! Certainly a powerhouse program with world-class resources and a long tradition of success.
I wonder how racewalking will fit into the picture for her since it is not contested in the NCAA.
Runningfast said:
I suspect they'll work with her a bit on that one, but by not going to the NAIA, where they DO sponsor RW, she'll be missing out on some medals. However, when you're already at her level of performance in RW, why bother winning NAIA championships when nobody is even close except at the National & World levels.
Arkansas is a big time program. This year the XC team started the season ranked #8 in the preseason poll and have worked their way up to the #2 spot just a bit behind Colorado. At the NCAA last year the Razorbacks were 14th. They've got a good stable of track distance runners and the future looks solid for XC and in track.
Ewert is an incredibly driven athlete with concentration and dedication that is rare for someone her age. She was also that way when she younger. Here is a good article that will give you an idea of the focus this young woman has (while a good article, the author was a bit sloppy in not dating it. It was written in 2018 after Taylor walked a 45:58 10K in Finland). The time that Ewert posted in the 10K in Finland stands as the #6 time ever by female Statesian. The 10K event is not contested in the Olympics. Women only contest the 20K. Men contest the 20K & 50K. This past summer Taylor hit the 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials standard in the 20K race walk with a time of 1:38:55.
Because making the 2020 Olympics has been a stated goal of Ewert's, it more than likely made her college search more difficult. I get the feeling that she is going to concentrate on race walking until after the Olympics and then turn her attention to the steeple and XC. Here's a quote from the article that I posted the link to:
Ewert's future in distance running, as in race walking, seems just as bright.
But major, collegiate programs at the Division I level dole out scholarships to distance runners, not race walkers, and finding a school that will allow Ewert time to train in the discipline will be a long process.
That's one reason why Ewert and her family are planning for a potential qualification to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in the race walk. Teri (Teri is Taylor's mom) believes if Ewert qualifies, she can compete unencumbered and then focus her next four years in college at the events she was recruited for. She even has a file on her computer titled, "The Road to the Olympics."
So, to answer Runningfast's question:
It seems that Arkansas is willing to work with Ewert on this. The 2020 Olympics are held in late July and early August so, in reality, Taylor will only be missing out on some of her summer running in preparation for the 2020 XC season.
Nice info. It would make perfect sense for Arkansas' staff, or any other staff for that matter to work with an elite athlete like her. It's plain ole' good PR
said_aouita
Wouldn't Taylor get an extra year of NCAA T&F eligibility if she qualifies for the Olympics?
said_aouita said:
She's a '20 graduate. The Olympics are next summer, 2020, in late July/early August, and prior to her freshman year. If anything she could possibly redshirt her frosh XC year. I wouldn't see why she would also redshirt her T&F season.
I had to go back and reread your question after I posted ^. I think you're asking if she will be able to redshirt and not if she will get an "extra" year of eligibility. Is that assumption correct? Nobody gets 5 years of eligibility.
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I wasn't sure how the calendar year worked for ncaa and Olympic RS. Even if the summer Olympics, if carried over the entire (following) semester year for the student athlete.
I tried to research Olympic redshirting and only found a plethora of material pertaining to wrestling (an athlete must meet 1 of 4 criteria to gain an Olympic redshirt for wrestling from the NCAA).
Do Olympic redshirts even exist for collegiate XC and Track and Field, let alone any other sports besides wrestling (swimming, gymnastics, etc)?
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I think, before the season, you can redshirt for any reason. Once the season begins, if an athlete races minimally in the early season, they can be granted a "medical redshirt" if they do not finish the season. (My son was given this after running 1 outdoor track race). Each season CC, Indoor, Outdoor, is treated as a separate season. (You can run CC and Indoor and redshirt Outdoor ... or any other combination).
EuclidandViren
KevinL you are correct. You can also redshirt and then also apply and earn the 6th year of eligibility for a medical redshirt. I have had numerous athletes run 6 years while earning a master's degree.
I know about traditional redshirting, academic redshirting (a.k.a grayshirting), and medical redshirting. An Olympic redshirt is something else entirely, but so far, I have only found them to exist in wrestling.
Here's how one can get one from USA Wrestling for the 2020 Olympics:
Meet one of the following:
1) Past National Team members (Top 3 from the World or Olympic Team Trials)
2) Top 8 at the 2019 Senior US Open
3) Top 3 at the 2019 NCAA Wrestling Championship or NCAA Champion from a previous year AND top 2 from the 2019 U23 World Team Trials (must accomplish both)
4) Previous Cadet, Junior, U23 World Medalist
Why would the olympic redshirt (in T&F) be any different than traditional redshirt? Are there prohibitions against non-collegiate competitions? I thought the only prohibition was competing for your school?
An Olympic redshirt is a bonus. If a wrestler already used a traditional redshirt, he could still use an Olympic redshirt if he meets 1 of the 4 criteria mentioned previously. In that sense, it's similar to a medical redshirt. Again though, I don't see where these exist outside of wrestling.
Newton's Third
If an Olympic redshirt exists for track would she be able to take advantage of it since racewalking is not an NCAA division 1 event? The NCAA may see racewalking as a sport not associated with track and field at their level.
Newton's Third said:
Racwalking under USATF is considered a sub sport. The sub sports recognized by USATF are:
(1) Road Racing
(2) Track and Field
(3) Mountain/Ultra/Trail Running
(4) Race Walking
(5) Cross Country
NFHS and OHSSA also differentiate the above sports as different sports and different seasons.
The issue is how the NCAA sees it, in order to grant or not Olympic status and some potential special resdhirt year. It seems to me that if NCAA division 1 track and field does not recognize walking as a sport it might have the same status as if she were an equestrian or some other non-track Olympian. Someone wrote that wrestling has this status but would it for an NCAA wrestler that is an Olympian in racewalking but not wrestling?
But why would she need a red shirt for that? The trials are after her HS is done and well before the start of college. The Olympics are also before the college season for CC (A different sport) Most likely she would red shirt as a freshman anyway, so no big deal. The issue would come up again in 4 years and it would depend on the dates for the trials and Olympics.
Wow, I thought all NCAA sports which are also in the Olympics would be allowed to use the "Olympic" RS, as in earning another year of college competition. Mr. Slippery is right-on, the Olympic RS is commonly used among the top college wrestlers. Seems odd if wrestling is the only sport to get them.
Like Newton's Third mentioned race walking is not a NCAA sport, but it is an event in Olympic track and field. Same sport, different event.....
psycho_dad said:
What date is the official start of ncaa xc?
First meet is Sept 1st ish and practice usually starts 21 days before that with a bunch of hard to understand exceptions for start of classes and day the dorm opens and the moons relationship to mars.
She still can only compete for 4 seasons. If she red shirts as a freshman, which is typical, the big question will be if she qualifies to the Olympics in that 4th year. I would suspect she would have to qualify and compete in the Olympics for anything to even matter. Simply going to the trials would not matter much.
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Any thoughts on her race walking benefiting her running form or vice versa? She's very efficient, no wasted up/down or side to side motion. Does race walking contribute to stronger hips?
That is entirely reasonable. Below is a quote from the article that I posted the link to. The "Russ" that is referenced in the quote is Howard Russ, her coach at Beavercreek.
The effort is almost casual. Ewert, who's cadence reveals a small knee drive reminiscent of her race walk, clicks off each lap looking easier than the last. Her arms and legs move in swift, unified motion.
"Her hips, the way she has to do her movements in the race walk, it's made her stronger overall in the lower body," Russ said. "When you come to cross country and steeple, they're strength events. And she loves to make people hurt."
Here is the article that I posted above. There is a video in the article. She is well-spoken and really has her act together. She seems poised beyond her years and it is helpful that her parents are very supportive and let her dabble in what interested her.
Is this the greatest girls' team in the history of Ohio?
Better than Mags was in their hay day?
Better than Colerain was?
If they put their top 5 in the top 25 overall and top 5 in the top 10 in the team race and score less than 28, then yes. If not, no.
Not having Centerville there has to make the chance of scoring lower a lot easier. 5-10 points off the score right there.
Mags scored 28!
Thanks! Great article by Flo. I'm also a fan of flowrestling She is definitely a strong and efficient runner. My favorite paragraph- "Over time, Russ saw that dynamic change as Ewert dug even more into the physics of running. She realized it was more about the process leading up to a race, rather than the day itself, and eventually learned that every workout didn't reveal some huge insight about her fitness. Variables and conditions made a huge difference."
(edit) I know the Troy regional course drains well but Ewert's time, in those conditions, on that course is REALLY special. Her time would have been top 13 in the D3 boys race.
EuclidandViren said:
Mags was 5th at the NTN finals that year I believe, so I still have to go with Mags. #5 and #6 matter. Today was impressive, but it wasn't as impressive as Mags 09. IMHO

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From the RCDS powder puff football game, held on the 19th of September 2014 on the RCDS campus for Oklahoma's Win-Win Week, a campaign to raise funds for cancer awareness and research.
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Symfonie nr. 9 kan onder andere verwijzen naar:
Symfonie nr. 9 (Aho) (1994) - Kalevi Aho
Symfonie nr. 9 (Arnold) (Op. 128, 1986) – Sir Malcolm Arnold
Symfonie nr. 9 (Atterberg) (Op.54, 1956) - Kurt Atterberg
Symfonie nr. 9 (Beethoven) (Op. 125, 1824, in d klein, Koorsymfonie) – Ludwig van Beethoven
Symfonie nr. 9 (Bolcom)
Symfonie nr. 9 (Brian) (1951) – Havergal Brian
Symfonie nr. 9 (Bruckner) (1896, laatste deel onvoltooid) – Anton Bruckner
Symfonie nr. 9 (Bruk)
Symfonie nr. 9 (Diamond) (1985) – David Diamond
Symfonie nr. 9 (Dvořák) (Op. 95, 1893, Uit de Nieuwe Wereld) – Antonín Dvořák
Symfonie nr. 9 (Joseph Haydn) (voor 1763)
Symfonie nr. 9 (Michael Haydn) (1766)
Symfonie nr. 9 (Henze) (1997) – Hans Werner Henze
Symfonie nr. 9 (Holmboe) (1968) - Vagn Holmboe
Symfonie nr. 9 (Hovhaness) (Op. 180, 1950, St. Vartan) – Alan Hovhaness
Symfonie nr. 9 (Mahler) (1910) – Gustav Mahler
Symfonie nr. 9 (Maslanka) (2011) - David Maslanka
Symfonie nr. 9 (Milhaud) (1926–1927) – Darius Milhaud
Symfonie nr. 9 (Mjaskovski) – Nikolaj Mjaskovski
Symfonie nr. 9 (Mozart) (K. 73, zomer 1772) – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symfonie nr. 9 (Pettersson)
Symfonie nr. 9 (Schnittke) - Alfred Schnittke, Aleksandr Raskatov
Symfonie nr. 9 (Schubert) (D. 944, 1826, De grote symfonie in C-groot) – Franz Schubert
Symfonie nr. 9 (Schuman) (1968) – William Schuman
Symfonie nr. 9 (Sessions) (1978) – Roger Sessions
Symfonie nr. 9 (Sjostakovitsj) (1945) – Dmitri Shostakovich
Symfonie nr. 9 (Simpson) (1987) – Robert Simpson
Symfonie nr. 9 (Vaughan Williams) (1957) – Ralph Vaughan Williams

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Advantages of light steel structures - Shanghai Xingfeng Color Board Light Steel Structure CO.,Ltd.
1) The use of efficient light thin-walled profiles, light weight, high strength, small footprint.
2)The components are automatic, continuous, high-precision production, serialization of product specifications, stereotypes, matching. The dimensions of each part are exact.
3) Structural design, detail design, computer simulation, installation, factory building, site installation and so on, with small time difference.
4) Dry construction method above foundation has no wet operation, and interior decoration is easy to be in place once. After being galvanized and coated, the profile is beautiful and antiseptic, which is beneficial to reduce the cost of enclosing and decorating.
5)To facilitate the expansion of space and provide greater space, can reduce the height and increase the construction area (residential area of up to 92%). It has obvious advantages in increasing layer, rebuilding and strengthening.
6) New wall material in a wide range of applications, the extensive use of lighting with good ventilation condition.
7) Indoor plumbing and heating pipes are all concealed between the wall and the floor. The arrangement is flexible and convenient for modification.
8) Houses can be relocated, materials can be fully recycled, garbage will not be generated, in line with the strategy of sustainable development.
Developed countries are rapidly applying non residential buildings and are expanding into multi-storey residential buildings. Non residential building in the door type light steel structure four layer below the main span is generally greater than 20m, commonly used in the construction of large span light industry, electronics, warehouse and processing workshop, it is also applied in daily supermarket, temporary housing, such as hangars. Light steel structure residential buildings are generally used for multi-storey (4~6 storey) and height 24m (7~9 storey) high-rise. By adding energy dissipation and energy dissipation components, the light steel structure can also be used for higher levels. The frame structure is composed of hot-rolled H steel residential steel structure, nodes are connected by high strength bolts (with welding), the slab of reinforced concrete structure steel substrate instead of the template, the roof panel and the exterior with color coated steel plate insulation, waterproof in one of the household wall waterproof light wallboard.


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Did you know that even one harmless mistake can put you in violation of the FDCPA and set you up for a costly, time-consuming legal battle? What you learn here will enable you to take a careful look at your organization's collection policies and procedures, adjust them if necessary, and ensure that your collection practices are within the law at all times. You will become familiar with specific collection activities and practices that can put you in violation of the FDCPA. Then, you'll learn alternative methods of handling your debtors that won't land you in a legal quagmire.
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Portland December 2013 - The Pro's 1 Day Workshop - Bottom Line Underwriters, Inc.
This is a snippet of a public workshop conducted in Portland where the participants are role playing a new type of greeting that helps customers feel much more comfortable. Kudos to everyone there who invested in themselves and their careers.


Urgent Gear was founded in 1982 featuring a small collection of moderately priced tops and bottoms, which has since evolved into multiple lines of fashion driven lifestyle products.As our initial branded conception, the Urgent Gear line is an updated Young Men's & Boy's Sportswear line featuring Pants, Shorts, Knit and Woven Tops, and Outerwear. Today Urgent Gear produces 8 branded collections for Men, Women, Juniors, and Children along with private label programs for many of the largest retailers in the world. Our progressive designs and far-reaching production capabilities have made Urgent Gear an invaluable resource in todays fast moving market for retailers worldwide.


Mercury Creative Arts, LLC provides representation to artists that create artwork installations for corporations, hotels, casinos, health care facilities, private collectors and individuals. Architects and designers choose to work with MCA when their project requires an elevated level of design for elements such as art glass lighting, sculpture, glass feature walls and more. Sheila Kuster, President of Mercury Creative Arts, LLC, spent decades operating a glass blowing studio and managing major glass installations globally. This experience makes Sheila uniquely qualified to assist architects, designers, and individual clients in managing a project from conception through installation. The talented artists represented by Mercury Creative Arts are well established, creative individuals working in different mediums; glass, sculpture, photography, painting and mixed media. Our portfolio includes extensive glass sculpture, architectural lighting, and custom glass feature walls. As an organization we are committed to bringing significant, original pieces of art into people's lives on a daily basis.
As President of MCA, Sheila uses her artistic vision and business acumen to meet the needs of her clients, and promotes her represented artists with the goal of consistently exceeding everyone's expectations.


0:10 in some sort of asyncio system.
0:19 to have asynchronous methods that we can call.
0:29 MongoDB, Postgres, file systems, and Redis.
0:35 and that's totally fine.
0:41 for the thing that you're working with.
0:50 much further in the course.
0:55 for these four systems.
0:59 so I'm just going to show you the github repos.
1:01 So the first one, file IO.
1:07 to open a text file or a binary file in Python.
1:13 like the filestream that came with open.
1:16 None of that stuff supports asyncio.
1:21 that does not support asynchronous IO.
1:24 Anyway, that's a whole side discussion.
1:26 So here is one project that you could use aiofiles.
1:34 and read and write from them asynchronously.
1:41 within your async methods.
1:45 but it's an example. If you need it, go have a look.
1:48 MongoDB, very popular NoSQL database.
1:58 Object Document Mappers don't support asyncio.
2:01 However, here's a pretty cool one called umongo.
2:08 at the beginning, even though it's a u.
2:13 and asynchronous support for MongoDB.
2:30 to do that using async and await. Don't like MongoDB?
2:43 not the standard one that doesn't support asyncio.
2:46 You can check out asyncpg.
2:51 in async and await.
2:53 Finally, our final example here is going to be Redis.
3:01 for, like, queuing systems and things like that.
3:03 Redis is quite popular in the Python space.
3:12 is one of the ways you can do that.
3:24 there's an asyncio library for it.
3:37 like Redis, or MongoDB, or even the file system.


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When basic needs aren't met, health care choices suffer. UCHealth is working to address both.
By: Kati Blocker, UCHealth
Food insecurity, or lack of access to affordable, healthy food on a consistent basis, is a concern in physician offices across the United States.
Tasha Marchant, with UCHealth FMC, stocks its food pantry recently. Photos by Kati Blocker, UCHealth.
Physicians know that patients with food insecurity often have to choose groceries over prescription medicine, or groceries over vaccinations or a wellness checkup with a doctor. It's hard to make good health decisions when basic needs aren't met.
"We all know that lifestyle dramatically impacts health, and if people are struggling to simply find food to eat or are competing with paying for a medication or paying for food, their health will suffer," said Dr. David Marchant, medical director of the UCHealth Family Medicine Center in Fort Collins.
Beyond medicine
To address basic needs for patients, UCHealth has created innovative ways of connecting patients to more than just health care.
The UCHealth Family Medicine Center opened a food pantry adjacent to the clinic in Fort Collins in 2017. The move demonstrates how a health care office can take proactive measures to tackle social factors that affect overall well-being.
"Food insecurity forces suboptimal health choices," Marchant said. "By addressing food insecurity, we empower people to make better health decisions, which leads to a happier and more fulfilling life for themselves and their families."
Food pantry in Fort Collins
Through a partnership with the Food Bank for Larimer County and donations from local retail stores, the pantry offers healthy foods and family meal ideas to the community almost daily. The pantry is stocked with fresh fruits and vegetables, canned and packaged staples such as beans and pasta and refrigerated foods.
The UCHealth Family Medicine Center opened a food pantry adjacent to the clinic in Fort Collins in 2017.
In 2018, the pantry served 1,607 households. Open Tuesday through Friday, the pantry averaged 52 visits per day and distributed 2,500 pounds of food each week, 37% of which was produce.
"I frequently have shoppers who rave about how they can make meals with vegetables in it that their kids will actually eat, or how excited their kids are that they get to take fresh fruit to school," said Laura Elliot, the food pantry program coordinator.
A community need
The Family Medicine Center is a primary care and residency-training practice that serves about 150 patients a day, 70% of whom are low-income and Medicaid-enrolled. Almost 60% of all the center's patients expressed the need for the pantry service in 2017.
A 2018 Community Health Needs Assessment from UCHealth showed that 13% of Larimer County and 9% of Weld County residents said they lacked adequate access to food.
Through partnerships and donations, the FMC food pantry in Fort Collins is stocked with fresh fruits and vegetables, canned and packaged staples such as beans and pasta, and refrigerated foods.
"It's in a good area. It's always running nice and smoothly and it's not crowded," said Bonnie, a once-a-week pantry visitor. "I try to eat healthy. Coming here, plus food stamps, makes that doable."
Visit the food pantry in Fort Collins
The Family Medicine Center food pantry in Fort Collins, 1025 Pennock Place, suite 109, is open 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, and noon to 5 p.m. on Thursday. It is not just for patients, but the entire community.
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As a journalism major at the University of Wyoming, Kati wrote for her college newspaper. She also studied abroad in Swansea, Wales, while simultaneously writing for a Colorado metaphysical newspaper.
After college, Kati was a reporter for the Montrose Daily Press and the Telluride Watch, covering education and health care in rural Colorado, as well as city news and business.
When she's not writing, Kati is creating her own stories with her husband Joel and their two young children.
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What's the Best Option for Renting a Cargo Van One-Way Between States?
Renting a cargo van for moving between two different states is made easy by a choice of a number of companies that offer this option. You will be picking up your van at one location and dropping it off at another location, owned by the same company.
Be sure the cargo van that you rent is large enough to carry your stuff; otherwise, you will have to make an additional trip or find a small truck. Here are some options, including U-Haul, which has been highly recommended for one way moving with a cargo van.
Go to the website, where you can enter the city where you wish to pick up the van and the city where it will be dropped off. They offer special rates for extended miles and distance.
The capacity of their cargo van is 245 cu. ft. and the maximum load is 4,000 lbs. The van gets 20 mpg and uses unleaded fuel. It features cruise control to make distance driving easier and has air conditioning as well as automatic transmission.
This van will hold any queen size mattress set. The van has tie-down rings in the floor if you want to add straps to secure your belongings for the long move. Seating is for two adults only.
Your one-way rental will have a base price that includes a number of days and miles. This cannot be reduced once it is in the contract. If you need extra days for a one-way truck rental, it will cost $40 (plus $14 or $28 if you selected SafeMove or SafeMove Plus respectively) per day.
SafeMove is an insurance option, which is recommended. Extra miles cost $0.40 per mile.
Another choice is Enterprise Rental. They have recently added cargo vans to their fleet of rentals. You will be getting a Chevrolet Express Cargo or something similar. You can choose from a list of locations from which to pick up or drop off, in town and not at an airport.
Budget Truck Rental also offers cargo vans for one way moving.
Be aware that some companies may charge a drop-off fee for dropping the van off in a different city. Be sure that the company and representative that you rent from, including U-Haul, knows that you will be dropping the van off in a different city and state.
This is very important when reserving at a location; you might also forget to fill out the form for a different drop-off location, which can be costly. Learn more about drop-off from an employee of U-Haul. Having all the information will make your move easier and less stressful, so have a great move to your new state!


is there any way how to import oficial profile from origin ?
In order to capture data from your Origin profile, you must use MITM (man-in-the-middle) mode. Set up redirection like you'd do for an offline match, then activate MITM in PSE. After that, activate "Record player settings". You can use the original EXE and connect with Origin open, just make sure you're using binkw32 patch.
Watch the PSE logs: a message "dummy player file created" should appear once the game's main menu loads. A file called RecordedPlayerSettings.txt will be created in PSE's folder if everything went well. Now, all you have to do is copy data from the dummy profile and paste it over stuff from a PSE profile (stored in 'player' folder). Copy and paste everything from "Base" until the end of file (ignore the first five lines).


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Season Opener Event a Huge Success!
Thanks to all those who were able to attend the Houston Wild 2nd Annual Season Opener Event at Regal Ranch! Despite the weather, the day was a huge success!
3rd – New York Islanders ($10 Baskin Robbins gift cards) lead by General Manager, Coach Brown.
With ONE HUNDRED PERCENT (100%) Event Attendance, the 10U Minor team is the winner of a $410 cash deposit to their team account! Well done!
And last, but certainly not least, many thanks to all the Houston Wild volunteers who helped out at the event and keep our players on the ice and in the game!


Most business sales are inclusive of all assets. This generally includes goodwill, which is the intangible value.
In many situations, the business's reputation is tied closely to the seller. The owner has generated personal goodwill. It may be difficult to value, but it is a real asset.
In some sales it is favorable to separate personal goodwill from other assets, particularly in C Corporations. This is a useful strategy for certain ownership structures, offering the seller an opportunity to claim a portion of the proceeds as capital gains and get a favorable tax rate. And because it is an asset, the buyer still gets the depreciation.
This can't be a last minute decision. Think it through. A special valuation is needed. Specific wording must be used in all documents. Consult your accountant and attorney first. But handled properly, the tax savings can be substantial.


It originally served as the throne hall of King Mindon who actually died within its walls in 1878. His son, the last Burmese king called Thibaw Min got the building dismantled and relocated outside the palace walls to convert it into a monastery. As Richard M. Cooler states, during the Konbaung period, throne halls closely resembled the main hall of monasteries. Since all other royal buildings were inevitably destroyed by WWII bombings, now this is the only surviving element of the glorious royal palace.
Exterior walls of the building are covered with elaborate carvings.


Proviron (Mesterolone) mesterolone is an orally applicable androgen and dihydrotestosterone derivative. It is sold under the brand name Proviron, by Bayer Schering Pharma.
Growth hormone (GH), also known as somatotropin (or as human growth hormone [hGH or HGH] in its human form), is a peptide hormone that stimulates growth, cell reproduction, and cell regeneration in humans and other animals. It is thus important in human development. It is a type of mitogen which is specific only to certain kinds of cells. GH is a stress hormone that raises the concentration of glucose and free fatty acids. It also stimulates production of IGF.