Tune in to expert conversations on global risks, geopolitics, and international security. Our weekly episodes feature insights from leading professionals, academics, and policymakers. Expand your understanding of complex global issues with The International Risk Podcast.
Today we are joined by Gail Rego Rego. Gail is a human rights activist, intersectional feminist and ethical technologist with a decade of experience in communication and community building roles within the social impact sector in countries like the UAE, Colombia, Austria, Kenya, and Belgium. By day, she is a storyteller on the impact of…
Today we are joined by Dr. Mira Suleimenova. Mira is an international privacy and data protection consultant. Mira holds a doctoral degree in Law and worked in legal consulting focusing on international investment protection for more than a decade. Blending her legal background with an affinity for technology, she became an expert in international privacy….
Today, we’re joined by Dana. Dana Motley is the founder of Motley Matrix Business Solutions, providing business intelligence, cyber investigations and social media analysis. She brings 12 years of experience in intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance technologies, social media intelligence, Open Source Intelligence, digital marketing, media relations, and partnered with a lifetime of volunteer work dedicated…
Today, we’re joined by Rafael Cabrera. Rafael is a senior strategic intelligence analyst for Latin America. He was a founding partner of the Risko consultancies. He was also in charge of the corporate intelligence unit of the Banco Sabadell in Mexico, and the deputy director of strategic liaison of human rights at Mexico City. He’s…
Today we are joined by William Clapton is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at UNSW Sydney. He is the author of Risk and Hierarchy in International Society: Liberal Interventionism in the Post-Cold Era (Palgrave, 2014) and has published articles in International Relations; International Politics; and the Australian Journal of International Affairs. His upcoming book,…
Today we are joined by Ken Duckworth. Ken’s journey into psychiatry started when he was a boy growing up with a dad who experienced severe bipolar disorder. His father was loving, kind and periodically quite ill, hospitalized for months at a time. Ken became a psychiatrist in part to help his father. He is very…
Today we are joined by Mary Ana McGlasson. Mary Ana holds dual Masters degrees in public policy and nursing from Princeton University and the University of Washington. She is the Director of the Center for Humanitarian Leadership, and an Associate Professor, with almost 20 years of experience as a Family Nurse Practitioner and a decade…
Today we are joined by Steve Walter. Steve supervises the crime analysis and intelligence unit at the Oceanside police department in Oceanside, California. He manages the department’s intelligence strategy and provides threat assessments during periods of civil unrest working closely with neighbouring police agencies, the FBI and the San Diego law enforcement Coordination Center. Steve…
Today we’re joined by Stine Lyshaug Olsen. Stine is currently a senior intelligence and operations adviser with the Norwegian shipowners mutual war risk Insurance Association, where she focuses on maritime security in and around the Gulf countries, and specifically providing threat assessments for shipowners operating and trading in the Gulf. She holds a master’s degree…
Today we’re joined by Phil Gursky, the President and CEO of Borealis Threat and Risk consulting. He’s also a program director for the security economics and technology hub at the University of Ottawa’s Professional Development Institute. He worked as a senior strategic analyst at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service from 2001 to 2015, where he…
