/ CSARN / Advisory Council

Advisory council:

	Sir David Veness / Advisory Council Chairman Former Under-Secretary-General for Safety and Security Department of Safety and Security, United Nations David Veness served as Under-Secretary-General of the UN Department of Safety and Security from its creation in 2005 until June 2009. This role carries responsibility for UN operations globally. Prior to this appointment, he was Assistant Commissioner (Specialist Operations) New Scotland Yard from 1994-2005. He joined the Metropolitan Police as a cadet in 1964 and as a constable in 1966. In the course of his police career he specialized in serious crime investigation, hostage negotiation and counter terrorism. David was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge (MA, LLM), and attended The Royal College of Defence Studies 1990. David was awarded Queen’s Police Medal in 1994, appointed CBE in 2000, and was Knighted in 2004.

	Narinder Nayar / Chairman Bombay First Narinder Nayar has been actively and passionately involved with the Mumbai Transformation Programme, which is spearheaded by the Honourable Chief Minister. As Chairman of Bombay First, Narinder was instrumental in arranging a study together with McKinsey on how Mumbai could be transformed into a world-class City over the next ten years. Following this study, several initiatives have been taken by the Maharashtra Government including constituting a Citizens’ Action Group of which Narinder Nayar is the Vice Chairman. In addition, he is also an active member of the Empowered Committee headed by the Chief Secretary to monitor various ongoing projects in Mumbai. He is also President of the Indo-Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Chairman of the Indo-Portuguese Business Committee and chairs an important CII Committee dealing with metallurgical equipment. He is also Member of the National Council of the Confederation of Indian Industry. He was a member of the Deutsche Bank Local Advisory Board for eight years.

	Tom Barham / Business/Police Liaison Manager Welsh Assembly Government Tom Barham is developing Business Safety Wales, a project to raise awareness and respond to business crime. Tom has worked for North Wales Police for the past seven years as Income Generation Manager and has developed a successful range of police/ business partnerships including the award-winning DangerPoint safety education centre. He has been seconded to Welsh Assembly Government to develop Business Safety Wales. Tom was previously Deputy Director of Business in the Community Wales for five years, developing corporate responsibility projects impacting on education, crime and regeneration. He lives in North Wales with his wife and two young sons.

	Richard Bingley / Author - Terrorism: Just the facts Richard Bingley worked as executive director for a leading London business organisation, where he developed world-renowned public and private partnerships that synergised critical facets in business security, resilience and crisis communications. He has advised government partners in some of the world's most vulnerable urban security environments across Britain and India including the UK's National Counter- Terrorism Security Office (NaCTSO). Richard’s background spans the IT sector, journalism and government public relations, where Richard worked advising high-profile UK and overseas government leaders including Britain's last two prime ministers, MPs and Olympic borough local authority leaders. Richard has published books on the defence trade and global terrorism.

	Andy Blackwell / Head of Aviation Security Virgin Atlantic Andy is Head of Aviation Security with Virgin Atlantic Airways and has global responsibility for all aspects of the airline's security and emergency management programmes. Prior to joining Virgin, he was UK Security Manager and Lead Threat Assessor with DHL International, a position he held for seven years. Andy also has over 17 years law enforcement experience and served with UK Customs, British Transport Police, the UK's National Drugs Intelligence Unit, the National Drugs Intelligence Service of the Czech Republic, and the Strategic Research Unit of the UK's National Criminal Intelligence Service. He has considerable experience of managing threats and emergency incidents, and has been at the forefront of a number of initiatives aimed at developing public and private sector partnerships to enhance resilience in these areas.

	Jon Clements / Crime Correspondent, the Daily Mirror Jon was taken on by the Daily Mirror ten years ago as a graduate trainee and has enjoyed a varied career as a tabloid newspaper journalist. He has been a general news reporter, with assignments including undercover investigations of the far right, and a duty news editor, managing coverage of events such as the 2004 Tsunami and the July 7 bombings. Jon spent 18 months as showbiz editor in charge of the Mirror’s celebrity, television, music, film and Hollywood coverage and supervised the award-winning 3am girls column. In 2006, he became a foreign correspondent and has reported from Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Israel. For the last three years, Jon has covered crime, specialising in forensics, terrorism and the policing of rape.

	Richard Cooper / Principal Catalyst Partners Richard “Rich” Cooper is a Partner with Catalyst Partners, LLC, (formerly known as Olive, Edwards & Cooper, LLC) a government and public affairs practice in Washington, that focuses on homeland and national security matters. Cooper offers client advice and strategic planning support on matters relating to emergency preparedness and business continuity leadership, public-private partnerships, homeland security policies and programes as well as science and technology development and deployment. He also serves as the Vice Chairman of the Homeland Security Division of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA); as a member of the American National Standards Institute’s Homeland Security Standards Panel (ANSI-HSSP); and as an Advisor to the Reform Institute and New York University’s International Center for Enterprise Preparedness (InterCEP).

	Thomas Croall / Corporate Business Continuity Manager Manchester City Council Thomas is Corporate Business Continuity Manager for Manchester City Council. His role involves leading and managing the corporate business continuity / crisis management programme for the local government operations across the major metropolitan city. Linked to this role Thomas acts as a senior manager within the City Council’s Civil Contingencies Unit and is responsible for enhancing community resilience by ensuring robust and resilient capability exists to prepare for, respond to, and recover from a disaster that may inflict the city. Thomas is Chair Manchester Business Continuity Forum (MBCF). The public - private collaborative working and partnerships the Forum encourages have been nationally recognised and continue to set new precedents for best practice working within the UK. Prior to joining Manchester City Council, Thomas worked in both business continuity management and insurance in the financial services. Thomas is an Associate Member of the Business Continuity Institute for over 2 year been a board member of the UK Emergency Planning Society Business Continuity Professional Working Group. In his spare time Thomas is training to become an operational member of the International Rescue Corps which is a United Nations Registered UK based charity that provides a global disaster rescue capability.

	Steve Cummings OBE / Deloitte Steve Cummings established the UK’s Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) in 2007 and was its first Director until he left the government sector at the end of 2008. As a senior intelligence and security official, Steve held several key posts and was responsible for the Critical Infrastructure Protection and Personnel Security Programmes under CONTEST, the UK Counter terrorist Strategy. Since 2009, Steve has worked primarily as a special adviser to Deloitte’s Security and Resilience Practice concentrating on corporate and cyber security and business resilience. He is an Associate Fellow of RUSI and speaks regularly at conferences.

	Wayne Harrop / Director The Centre for Disaster Management Coventry University Wayne is a Director at the Centre for Disaster Management, Coventry University, where he leads on global academic and practitioner based CPD partnerships. He has a diverse background spanning risk, crisis, continuity, emergency planning, incident management, facilities and security management. He is the recipient of three inter/national business continuity awards, and a member of the CIR Hall of Fame. He holds the position of Vice Chairman of the Emergency Planning Society (Professional Working Group) on Business Continuity Management and is the appointed principle expert for the UK in relation to ISO standards on ‘security assurance’ (TC247) and ‘societal security management’ (TC223), where he is currently working with under Swedish Ambassador Krister Kumlin and NAPSO. Over the past 10 years Wayne has been privileged to advise 26 governments, central banks, the commonwealth, island communities, inter/national police, fire and ambulance services, churches, voluntary organisations and national museums on the core principles of organisational resilience. He has helped draft “Emergency Preparedness”, the non statutory guidance for the UK Civil Contingencies Act (2004), and was invited to contribute to Sir Michael Pitt’s review team regarding proposed recommendations on UK Critical National Infrastructure following serve summer flooding in 2007. Wayne was appointed by the UK Cabinet Office to oversee new national guidance on Business Continuity Management for all Category One responders. He is a long serving member of the British Standards Institute BCM/1-Business Continuity Management (BS25999), and RM/1 Risk Management (BS31100) committees. He is a former Close Protection operative with extensive experience of operations in private security operations, where he was involved in urban security design, counter IED, and counter terrorism for key London landmarks.

	Emily Hough / Editor Crisis Response Journal Emily is Editor of Crisis Response Journal, the international publication, which for five years has been analysing large scale natural and man-made emergencies, disasters and homeland security issues from a multi-agency perspective, and distilling them into practical lessons learnt. Now in its fifth year, Crisis Response Journal has rapidly attained a prominent reputation for its international perspective, the quality of its content and the calibre of its contributors and Editorial Advisory Panel. For nearly two decades Emily has researched and written about fire, homeland security and civil defence issues. Visiting and reporting from Europe to China, North America to the Middle East, and South America, including regions experiencing conflict or disasters. She has produced highly successful regional editions of resilience and fire publications in Spanish, Chinese, Thai and Arabic. She is also the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) Europa Representative on the IAEM’s Editorial Working Group

	Nicole A. Lipkin, PsyD, MBA, MACJ / Equilibria Coaching and Consultation Services A prominent business psychologist and leadership coach. She is the owner of Equilibria Coaching and Consultation Services, a business/organizational solutions company and also Equilibria Psychological and Consultation Services, LLC, a group practice. Based in Philadelphia, USA, Nicole coaches business and public sector desision-makers to prepare for crisis management and staff trauma scenarios. Ms. Lipkin co-authored “Y in the Workplace: Managing the “Me First” Generation”, released by Career Press in July 2009, and is a regular contributor to the US print and broadcast media community.

	Brett Lovegrove / Director,CSARN and Former Head of Counter Terrorism City of London Police Brett is also a Director of Valentis Bridge Ltd and Quadre Resilience Ltd and will be the Chair of the annual National Risk Conferences. His companies address the full spectrum of resilience issues featuring both nationally and internationally on defence and organisational solutions. Brett joined the Metropolitan Police Service in 1978. Over his 30 years of service, he has been posted to uniformed, academic, strategic and detective duties. In 1992, he served as a Detective Inspector in Counter-Terrorism and spent much of that time in Northern Ireland and Europe. He attended Reading University and gained a Masters degree in Criminal Justice and Terrorism. Brett transferred to the City of London police in his last five years and retired as the Head of Counter Terrorism that included the CT Section, Emergency Planning and Business Continuity, CBRN, Police Search Advisors and Architectural Liaison. In this role, he was frequently asked to advise international organisations and governments including the US Congress, the European Government in The Hague and the Danish Parliament. Brett led on the London, national and international rollout of Project Griffin (a police/security professional initiative to identify hostile reconnaissance), is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Security Professionals, a member of the Defence and Security Committee in the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, a member of the UKTI DSO security sector advisory group, a Visiting Fellow at Cranfield University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

	Richard Lyall / Facility Services Director AEG (Europe) - The O2 Richard Lyall is Facility Services Director for Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG Europe), owners and operators of The O2 in London. Richard has overall responsibility for all hard and soft support services for The O2 Estate including; Building Services, Health & Safety, Logistics, Customer Support Services, Cleaning and, crucially, the Security Services for this iconic site. Richard is a professional security and senior operations manager whose career to date includes 24 years senior management experience with the UK Post Office security and investigation departments, including 6 years as the Head of Security for Royal Mail Group working throughout the UK and abroad. More recently, involved in developing security strategy and managing the operational security services for Wembley (London) Limited and a range of security consultancy projects.

	Hugh McLeod MBE / Stirling Assynt International Group Hugh McLeod established Assynt Associates in 2003, producing briefing and analysis on terrorism and country risk issues to large companies and government entities with interests in the Middle East, Asia and beyond. In April 2008, their 11-strong-team became part of the Stirling Assynt International Group, of which Hugh is Chief Operating Officer. This new company also provides Business Intelligence and enhanced Due Diligence services. From 2006-7 Hugh was Head of Security Intelligence in HSBC. Earlier, he spent 18 years in HM Diplomatic Service, with postings to Islamabad, Accra, Nicosia - where he served as Political Counsellor - and Kosovo. During his service in London his responsibilities included Counter Terrorism, the Arabian Peninsula and the Former Soviet Union. Before joining the Diplomatic Service he was in the Army for 14 years, where he served as an infantry officer. His final appointment was to the Military Mission to the Soviet Forces in East Germany, when he was awarded the MBE.

	David M Olive / Principal Catalyst Partners David has more than 30 years’ experience in business, politics, law and public affairs. As former chief of staff to US Rep Asa Hutchinson (R-AR3) and a former staffer for US Senator Jim Allen (D-AL) Mr Olive understands that very few things get done in Washington without approaching them in a bi-partisan manner. Upon leaving Capitol Hill, David oversaw the aviation, antitrust, telecommunications and information technology practice group as senior vice president of the public affairs firm, Powell Tate. Before coming to Washington, he served as president of Care First Inc, a nursing home management company in Fort Smith, Arkansas. He also directed the legal division of the Donrey Media Group, a multi-state publishing, real estate and advertising firm. Prior to this he practised law as a partner in the Birmingham, Alabama, firm of McMillan & Spratling. There he had a general civil practice, specialising in news media, risk mitigation, employment law and insurance defense. He has taught at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, University of Montevallo, and Webster University-Fort Smith. In 2005, The Hill named David one of the top Homeland Security lobbyists in Washington, DC He established and currently serves as the moderator of The Washington Homeland Security Roundtable and is a frequent contributor to Security Debrief, a homeland security blog.

	Chris Phillips / Detective Chief Inspector Head of the National Counter Terrorism Security Office (NaCTSO Detective Chief Inspector Chris Phillips is the Head of the National Counter Terrorism Security office. This is a team of officers responsible for protecting the United Kingdoms hazardous sites and dangerous substances. The unit aims to make the terrorist acquisition of weapons more difficult. The team have the lead role in the Counter terrorism protection of crowded places and soft targets including Stadiums, Shopping centres, Visitor attractions and Licensed premises., They work alongside the Centre for the Protection of the National Infrastructure. He has responsibility for training, tasking and co-ordinating over 230 Counter Terrorism Security Advisors across the UK. DCI Phillips devised, developed and delivered the strategy and tactics for the protection of Crowded places. He also worked closely with the Home Office and Lord West to review and then develop new and innovative ways of delivering advice to the various business sectors. He is a regular speaker to Governments, Business and Police both in the UK and across the world on Counter Terrorism Protective Security and in particular the protection of Crowded places. He has extensive policing experience in both Public order and community based policing. This included event commander for major sporting events and concerts at Twickenham Stadium. During his service he has experience of commanding events such as Wimbledon tennis and the Epsom Derby. As a public order commander he led teams at many hundreds of public order and security events across London. He is a very experienced Police Security Co-ordinator (SECCO). In this role he co-ordinated the Counter Terrorist security for visits to the UK from foreign governments and dignitaries. Within this role he also had responsibility for the policing at Lords cricket ground, The Oval, Wembley stadium and large concerts such as The Proms and music concerts.

	Ze’ev Portner / Political Adviser to Louise Ellman MP Ze’ev Portner is currently Political Adviser to Louise Ellman MP and in this role he has conducted extensive research into terrorist groups operating in the Middle East, and extremist groups operating operating within the UK. He also works for two of the United Kingdom’s leading security companies and has taken part in major security operations at leading sport stadia and arenas, such as Wembley Stadium, Twickenham, Wembley Arena and Lords Cricket Ground. Ze’ev is a visiting lecturer at the University of Greenwich in constitutional and international law, as well as, international and domestic politics. He also guest lectures at the University of Liverpool

	Sue Seaby / Managing Director Global Aware International Sue is a 30 year Corporate Security Professional, who has worked in the fields of Aviation, Finance, and Telecommunications at various levels of management and has learnt her trade along the way. Sue was actively involved in investigating or managing her teams during the Lockerbie air disaster, 9/11 and 7/7 incidents. Sue is a trained and qualified Crisis Management Leader, Hostage Negotiator, Change Management Practitioner, Bomb Threat Assessor and Behaviour Profiling Specialist. In her last corporate role as Global Group Head of Security for Barclays, Sue managed the Crisis Response Team through the Islamabad and Mumbai travel emergencies. Sue joined Global Aware International in December 2008 in the role of Managing Director. Her skills offer Global Awares customers consultancy services that are truly unique.

	Richard Stones / Director East Midlands Business Crime Forum Richard is currently seconded from his home force, Nottinghamshire, to the East Midlands Police Regional Collaboration Board researching crimes affecting the Business community in the region. Richard manages the Nottinghamshire Police Business Crime Reduction team, developing the team from concept to a Home Office funded best practice model which addresses business continuity and risk. He is a Director of the East Midlands Business Crime Forum, a member of the UN Public Private Partnerships Project in protecting Crowded Places and has spoken at numerous international conferences on public sector engagement with the private sector and problem solving. Richard is a member of the Security Institute and recently worked with the CPNI / NaCTSO Resilient Design Team. As a Private Pilot and aircraft owner Richard has a particular interest in the threat posed by private aviation.

	Keith Weston QPM / Senior Research Fellow Security Studies Institute Cranfield University, UK Defence Academy Keith Weston is a Senior Research Fellow in Counter Terrorism in the Security Studies Institute of the Department of Applied Science, Security and Resilience, at Cranfield University, located within the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. He currently lectures on several Post Graduate Degree courses on the subjects of policing, counter terrorism, crisis management, security and the forensic management of crime scenes. In 2005, after 32 years service, he retired from the Metropolitan Police Service. He was a career counter-terrorist officer and served in both Special Branch and the Anti-Terrorist Branch. His last post was head of the Police International Counter Terrorism Unit. He is a regular speaker at UK and international conferences and is on the International Board of Advisors at New York University Law School, Centre on Law and Security. He is a founder member of the Institute for Civil Protection and Emergency Management. In 1992 he was awarded a Master of Arts Degree by Exeter University. In 2003 he was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal.

	Andy Williams / Regional Security Director UKI, Middle East, Africa and Continental Europe Marriott Hotels International Ltd Andy Williams is Marriott International’s Regional Director of Security for UK, Continental Europe, Middle East and Africa. Working out of Marriott’s London office, he travels extensively in the field with a home base in Istanbul. His primary focus is on Crisis Management and Counter Terrorism programmes. On the vocational front, he is a Regional Vice President for ASIS International; a member of The Royal Society for Promotion of Health; a CPP Certified Protection Professional; and member of the European Institute of Corporate Security Management. As a regular speaker at numerous international security conferences, he also consulted on the NaCTSO publication on Counter Terrorism Protective Security Advice for Hotels and Restaurants. In a previous life he was a member of London’s Metropolitan Police, working on crime squads in the East End of London.