The panel examined how the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed military organizations and alliances to take on ‘new roles’ in order to help member states and partners overcome coordination challenges. It also addressed the ramifications on ongoing and future military operations, as well as the role of military alliances in enhancing member states’ preparedness for future public health crises. Dozier moderated the 90-minute discussion with: Gabriele Cascone, Head of the Counter-Terrorism Section, NATO; Barre Seguin, NATO Senior Mentor, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe SHAPE; Juan Battaleme, Academic Director, CARI. Watch here on YouTube.

Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations; Author, The World: A Brief Introduction; Sunjoy Joshi, Chairman, Observer Research Foundation, and Elizabeth Sidiropoulos, Chief Executive, South African Institute of International Affairs discuss the mounting challenges to global governance and their implications for international cooperation, including rising climate concerns, economic volatility, and increasing great power tensions amid a global pandemic. CFR Member Kimberly Dozier presiding. Watch the video here.

Virtually moderated The Aspen Institute Romania’s Bucharest Forum 2020, interviewing H.E. Mr. Valdis Dombrovskis, Executive Vice-President, European Commission, on “Geo-political and economic disruptions” of the COVID-19 pandemic on Oct. 9th. On Oct. 16th, moderated Day 7 panel “Investing in defense for economic recovery or the other way around?” centered on the COVID-19 pandemic impact on defense spending, with Sorin Ducaru, Director, European Union Satellite Center; Ben Hodges, Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies, Center for European Policy Analysis; Harlan Ullman, Chairman, The Killowen Group and Radu Tudor, Political and Military Analyst.

Opening address for the James Bagauda Kaltho Memorial Media Lecture, sponsored by the Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF). The Lecture Series is meant to immortalize James Bagauda Kaltho, who disappeared in mysterious circumstances in 1996, because of his reporting. The first Media Lecture was held in 2019 and examined varying issues that impact on media practice in Africa, as well as its role in shaping democracy. The Second edition of the Lecture was held virtually with the theme: Press Freedom vs. Digital Surveillance: How Safe is the African Journalist.