Speakers

  Dr. Benjamin Tallis joined DGAP in September 2022. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Alfred von Oppenheim Center for European Future Affairs and leads the project “Aktionswerkstatt Zeitenwende”.     Previously, he served the EU on security missions in Ukraine and the Balkans and worked as a policy officer at the European Competence Center for Civilian Crisis Management in Berlin. He spent five years at the Institute of International Relations Prague (IIR), where he directed the Center for European Security, advised numerous European governments, edited the journal New Perspectives, and organized the 2017 Prague Insecurity Conference. He then worked at the Institute for Peace Research and Security …

        Dr. Jo Zayner is a visionary biochemist and genetic designer. For over 15 years, they have pioneered work in the field of bioengineering, publishing a number of scientific papers on the topic. Jo received their PhD in Biophysics from the University of Chicago, winning several awards for their work on engineering proteins.     They then spearheaded work on developing engineered microbes for Mars terraforming at NASA, eventually leaving to start The ODIN, a bioengineering company based in Austin, Texas that is working to make genetic engineering accessible to everyone. Zayner’s groundbreaking work in human genetic engineering and medicine has been the focus of many documentaries, …

Work experience 09/22 – today German Bundestag, Office of Tobias B. Bacherle, MdB, Berlin Research assistant for digital and foreign policy Head of the Office of the Chairman of the Committee on Digital Affairs Preparation and monitoring of digital policy work in the committees for Digital Affairs, for European Affairs and for Foreign Affairs Drafting policy positions, in particular on international digital policy, digital foreign policy, the intersection of security and technology Preparation of speeches and appointments 10/21 – 09/22 Mercator College for International Affairs Graduate program of the Federal Foreign Office, the German National Academic Foundation and the Mercator Foundation for the promotion of young professionals in international cooperation …

  Dr. Laeed Zaghlami Education: PHD level University of Algiers Political Communication, Image Perception and Reception  PHD Algiers University 3 University of Surrey, UK [1986-1989] MPHIL degree Media and Social Research Methods; Media Coverage of Wapping Dispute and Readers’s Attitudes and Perception International Academy of Broadcasting Montreux,  CH 1994-1995; Diploma Arts, Sciences & Technologies of Broadcasting. University of Algiers First Degree (licence) 1976-1981 Social Sciences Dept Algiers University MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES: Elected 1998 to 2004 Member of European Broadcasting Union Steering Committee, International Press Institute Vienna, International Mass Communication Research Association Algeria. Professor Algiers University3 and Associate professor National High School of Politics Algiers, Expert with Algerian Diplomatic Institute …

Georg Löfflmann is Assistant Professor in War Studies and US Foreign Policy at the Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) at the University of Warwick in the UK. He is the author of American Grand Strategy Under Obama: Competing Discourses (Edinburgh University Press,2017) and several articles on US foreign and security policy and international security, including in Survival, International Politics, Geopolitics, and Critical Studies on Security.   His latest book project, under contract with Routledge, examines the role of populist security narratives under the Trump presidency

  Gustav Gressel is a senior policy fellow with the Wider Europe Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations’ Berlin office. His topics of focus include Russia, Eastern Europe, and defense policy. Before joining ECFR, Gressel worked as a desk officer for international security policy and strategy in the Bureau for Security Policy of the Austrian Ministry of Defence from 2006 to 2014, and as a research fellow of the Commissioner for Strategic Studies with the Austrian MoD from 2003 to 2006. He was also a research fellow with the International Institute for Liberal Politics in Vienna. Before his academic career he served five years in the Austrian Armed Forces. Gressel holds a PhD in …

          Dr. Reza Parchizadeh, PhD (@DrParchizadeh), is a political theorist, security analyst, and international relations specialist who concentrates on Iran, the Middle East, and great-power competition. He has advised U.S. government institutions on national security and foreign policy matters. Parchizadeh serves as an editorial board member at Al Arabiya Farsi and has contributed to leading international research institutes and news outlets such as the BESA Center, Center for Security Policy, Fox News, Israel National News, Middle East Institute, the Royal United Services Institute, the Jamestown Foundation, the Mackenzie Institute, the Middle East Forum, and Voice of America.

  Manuel ‘HonkHase’ Atug has been working in information security for well over 23 years and has many years of experience in technical IT security and auditing, especially in critical infrastructures. He is founder and speaker of the independent AG KRITIS.   His other honorary topics are KRITIS, digital disaster prevention, hackback and ethics. Manuel studied computer science and applied IT security. He is an engineer and also an instructor for the BSI additional qualification “Additional test procedure competence for § 8a BSIG”. He is active on the web as @HonkHase.

Kurt Klein Born 1967, Krefeld has lived in Duisburg since 1970. After graduating from high school and completing his training as an electrical engineering assistant, he joined the German Armed Forces in 1989. 1990-2003 UAV battery 100 Trained and used in the function of drone flight planning, surveying, aerial photo evaluation optical, infrared and radar, airspace coordination. In 1997 and 1998 two missions with SFOR and NKAVM. 2003-2008 Staff Artillery Reconnaissance Battalion 71 UAV Sergeant Major. Planning and coordination of airspace regulation for CL 289, LUNA and KZO. Planning and training of personnel for 18 operational contingents KFOR and ISAF. Drone specialist advisor for large units on exercises and in …

    Bandara D. is the leader of Sri Lanka’s Pirate Party (PPSL). He is an electrical engineer and a real estate developer. The country’s 22 million people must be saved from decades of political corruption, which will bankrupt the country in 2022. Currently, the PPSL is pursuing digitalization of the entire country’s government administration and less government.