Dr Michael Lister is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Oxford Brookes University. He has previously been Lecturer in Politics at the University of Surrey and an ESRC/Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, where he also gained his PhD. He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Michael's research interests include citizenship, British politics and comparative politics. He is co-editor (with Colin Hay and David Marsh) of 'The State: Theories and Issues' (Palgrave, 2005) and co-author (with Emily Pia) of 'Citizenship in Contemporary Europe' (Edinburgh University Press, 2008). He has recently concluded an ESRC-funded project entitled 'Anti-Terrorism, Citizenship and Security in the UK' with Dr Lee Jarvis (Swansea University), which examines perceptions of contemporary anti-terrorism measures in the UK and their impact upon safety and security.


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Brodie Clark is Head of the UK Border Force. This covers the UK immigration control activity at sea and air ports, including responsibility for the operation of juxtaposed controls in France and Belgium frontline detection. He has responsibility for modernising business change through new technology to provide Automated Clearance Systems, Cyclamen and, more critically, the wider e-Borders Programme. Brodie is also the board member responsible for ensuring the UKBA elements of the 2012 Olympics are delivered.

He has been in the UK Border Agency since 2003, where initially he had responsibility for the Immigration Service before his current role in transforming the UK Border. Prior to this his career had been in the UK Prison Service, where his final two board-level positions had been as Director of the High Security Estate and Director of Security. Brodie was awarded a CBE in the 2010 New Year's Honours List.

Presentation: Managing risk, national security and utilising technology

The UK border security strategy seeks to maximise the depth and breadth of border protection. This requires shared responsibilities across all levels of government, private sector partnerships and civil society. By utilising technology, such as biometrics, for improved document control and making better use of data, such as the e-Borders programme, the strategy aims to intercept threats at an early stage.

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Mary Calam was appointed Director – Law, Security and International in the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism in the Home Office in May 2011. In that role, she is responsible for ensuring the delivery of the policy and legislative framework needed to deliver the PURSUE strand of CONTEST, the UK's counter-terrorism strategy. PURSUE is the part of CONTEST which aims to stop terrorists mounting attacks in the UK and against UK interests abroad.

Mary's career to that point spanned a range of government agencies. She began her career in the Security Service (MI5), working in a range of roles, mostly in the field of counter-terrorism (both Northern Ireland-related and international). In 2003, she left the Service to become regional director for the North region in the newly formed Independent Police Complaints Commission, in which role she oversaw investigations of a broad range of cases, from homicide to racism. In 2005, Mary was part of the start up team for SOCA, the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency, setting up and then running the Knowledge Department, responsible for strategic assessment and intelligence investigation of all aspects of serious crime.

From February 2008 to May 2011, Mary was Head of JTAC, the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, the UK's centre for strategic assessment of the international terrorist threat, providing reports to a wide range of UK government customers and responsible for maintaining the UK's threat level system.

Presentation: Safeguarding the UK: an integrated approach

New and diverse threats are ever evolving. The National Security Strategy aims to increase awareness of the kinds of risks facing the UK and deliver a cohesive and responsive framework that is vital to meeting security challenges. At a local level authorities are seeking to engage with communities to increase social cohesion and help minimise the risk of violent extremism.

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Dr Jurek Tolloczko is an expert in blast and fire protection and has been involved in the production of several key internationally recognised design guides on the protection of buildings and offshore oil and gas platforms against explosion (detonations and deflagrations) and fire.

Having held senior management and technical positions in the offshore, steel and concrete industries, Jurek has in-depth experience of both materials. He also has extensive knowledge of how buildings and site perimeters can be protected from terrorist attack involving explosive devices, having worked closely over the last 10 years with Government security services, police, specialist consulting engineers and end user companies involved in designing anti-terrorism schemes.

Presentation: Risk mitigation through "proportionate" design of CT Hostile Vehicle Mitigation

Addressing the methodology available for practical risk mitigation, the steps in specifying such measures and also who decides on what measures should be implemented and why/how these decisions are made. The presentation will focus on the specific threat of Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Devices.

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Nick Kinsella is a former senior police officer in the United Kingdom and is a current board member for the United Nations Global Trust Fund for Victims of Human Trafficking (Trustee for Western Europe and North America). He is the anti-trafficking adviser to the board of Crime Stoppers International. Nick is the founder and former Chief Executive of the United Kingdom Human Trafficking Centre and founder and current Trustee of the UK Fund for Victims of Human Trafficking. He is responsible for establishing the UK's largest anti-trafficking enforcement campaigns, Operations Pentameter 1 and 2, and is also the founder of the international prevention campaign 'Blue Blindfold' (active in a number of jurisdictions including Ireland and Canada). Nick is a former member of various Interpol and Europol groups. He is a qualified teacher, international speaker, trainer and consultant, and was awarded the Queen's Police Medal in the 2009 UK New Year's Honours List.

Presentation: Trafficking in human beings – the importance of knowledge information exchange

Human trafficking activities continue to pose a real threat to community safety and security. The impacts of human trafficking in the UK see migrants exploited for labour or sexual purposes. What can we do at a local, national and international level to help combat criminal activity?

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Frank Gregory was Professor of European Security and Jean Monnet Chair in European Political Integration in the Division of Politics and International Relations in the School of Social Sciences at Southampton University until he retired in February 2010. His research interests (part ESRC-funded) are linked to the homeland security, terrorism, crime and policing aspects of the EU's internal security policy area, with special reference to UK-related matters. He has been a Specialist Adviser to the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee and has worked on a Falcone Project and two EU-SEC projects (FP7-funded). He was co-opted as a member of a specialist ACPO sub-committee (Explosives Detection), was a member of a UK government advisory panel on emergency responses (SAPER) and was a visiting professor at Cranfield University and is a member of RUSI. He has recently been elected an Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Civil Protection and Emergency Management (ICPEM).

Recent publications
Chapters on UK homeland security 'lead department' strategy, the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and policing and intelligence-led counter-terrorism in P. Wilkinson (ed.), Homeland Security in the UK, Routledge, London, June 2007.
UK Border Security: Issues, systems and recent reforms, Institute for Public Policy Research, London, 2009.
The EU and the promotion of major event security within the EU area, in A. Richards, P. Fussey and A. Silke (eds), Terrorism and the Olympics, London, Routledge, 2011.

Presentation: Contemporary issues in CT intelligence

Whilst certain technologies may be of use in identifying and subsequently 'executing' terrorist suspects in a combat zone they are not really usable in stable democracies. Thus, whilst technology is an undoubted surveillance aid in a law enforcement lead CT mode, the availability of adequate numbers of human CT officers to track terrorist suspects remains a crucial factor as does HUMINT sources.

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Marie Breen-Smyth is Professor of International Politics and Director of Research in the School of Politics at the University of Surrey. She is also Co-Director and co-founder with Professor Sir Michael Aaronson of the Centre for International Intervention which is based in the School of Politics and linked with programmes in Seoul National University in South Korea and Singidunum University in Belgrade, Serbia. Prior to her appointment at Surrey, Marie was founder and Director of the Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Contemporary Political Violence (CSRV) in the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, and on the staff of the University of Ulster and the faculty at Smith College Massachusetts. She was 2002-2003 Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace. In 1994, she founded the Institute for Conflict Research and initiated The Cost of the Troubles Study, the first study of the impact of political violence on the population of Northern Ireland. Marie has worked with the Special Representative of the Secretary General of United Nations for Children and Armed Conflict. She is a founder editor of the journal Critical Studies on Terrorism. Her latest books are Truth Recovery and Justice after Conflict: Managing Violent Pasts (Routledge, 2007), Critical Terrorism Studies: A New Research Agenda (Routledge, 2009) - a jointly edited work with Richard Jackson and Jeroen Gunning, and Terrorism: A Critical Introduction with Jackson, Gunning and Lee Jarvis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). Marie is currently editing the Ashgate Research Companion on Political Violence which will be published in late 2011.


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Matt Cavanagh is an Associate Director at the Institute of Public Policy Research, working on UK Immigration.
Before joining IPPR in 2011, Matt worked as a special adviser for the Labour Government between 2003 and 2010, in the Home Office, the Treasury, the Ministry of Defence, and finally in the Number 10 Policy Unit from 2007 to 2010 – working on Defence, National Security, Immigration, and Home Affairs.
From 2000 to 2003, Matt worked for the Boston Consulting Group, and prior to that as a lecturer in Philosophy at St Catherine's College, Oxford. He has a BA in PPE, BPhil in Philosophy, and DPhil in Philosophy from the University of Oxford.


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Azad Ali is married with three children and lives in East London. He has been a community activist for over 20 years. He is the Chair of the Muslim Safety Forum and currently leads on its Counter-Terrorism work stream, working with the Home Office, MET, ACPO and Security Services. Azad is one of the founding trustees of the Civil Service Islamic Society and its former President. He is a member of Liberty and was also its National Council member.

He sits on the National Accountability Board for Schedule 7 stops with the police and Home Office. Azad is also a member of the IPCC's Community Advisory Group and the Home Office's Trust and Confidence Community Panel. He is a Member of the East London Mosque & London Muslim Centre and a Central Working Committee member of the MCB.

Azad is a presenter on Muslim Community Radio's flagship show Easy Talk and a presenter of Islam Channel's Your Views on the News.


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Don Flynn has worked in the field of migration policy since the mid-1970s, when he started work as a caseworker at a London law centre. Since then he has worked as policy officer for the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, a national legal rights organisation.

He currently leads the Migrants' Rights Network, which works to improve networking between migrant and refugee community organisations and other civil society organisations working to support the rights of all migrants.

He is also involved in networking with migrants' rights organisations across Europe, currently serving at the Chair of PICUM – the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants and the UK Race and Equality Network (UKREN).

Don regularly writes on themes relating to the politics of immigration, is a sought after media commentator and blogs about the developments for various online publications.


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