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The 2nd Annual Montreal Climate Security Summit will be held on November 1-2, 2023.
Watch live and interact with panelists.
In person:
Panel 4 and cocktail reception: Nov 1, 16:00-18:30 EST | 600 De Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Suite 1700, Montréal, QC, H3A 0A3
The Montreal Climate Security Summit is an annual international meeting at the intersection of the security and environmental sectors. It specifically addresses climate change as not only an ecological emergency, but as an international security threat and risk multiplier. It brings together security professionals, scientists, senior public servants and policy-makers, and youth leaders from around the world.
The Value of Attending:
Expand your knowledge base of trends, policies, and strategies, and receive the most timely analysis to develop innovative policy and new business development strategies.
Bring your expertise and experience to bear on the conversation. This is an open forum meant to facilitate solutions thinking. It is an opportunity to engage with our speakers and ask questions that challenge the status quo.
We are highlighting young professionals.
All moderator roles at the Montreal Climate Security Summit are being taken up by students and young professionals. Our goal is to generate intergenerational dialogue and provide a space for youth to share their perspectives, ideas, and recommendations.
Our full speaker list will be announced shortly
Robert Mardini
Director-General of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Dr. Juergen Voegele
Vice President, Sustainable Development, World Bank
Lieutenant General Richard Nugee
Non-Executive Director for Climate Change and Sustainability, UK
Rob Chambers
Assistant Deputy Minister (Infrastructure & Environment), DND
Erin Sikorsky
Director, The Center for Climate and Security
MGen Simon Bernard
Chief of Staff, Canadian Joint Operations Command
Katarina Kertysova
Policy Officer, Climate Security, Emerging Security Challenges Division, NATO
Andrew McHardy
Partner & Decarbonization Hub Leader | KPMG Canada
Dr. Simon Dalby
Professor Emeritus at Wilfrid Laurier University
Dr. Yan Denghua
Director of Department of Water Resources, China Institute of Water Resources
Michel C. Doré
National Emergency Management Advisor, St. John Ambulance
Lieutenant-Colonel Dan Doran
Former Commanding Officer of 34 Combat Engineer Regiment, Canadian Armed Forces
Dr. Sandro Carniel
Oceanographer, Head of Research Division at Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation, NATO.
Irune Echevarria
Environment and Climate Action Specialist at Cuso International.
Dr. Lassi Heininen
Professor, Emeritus, University of Lapland
Alice C. Hill
David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment, Council on Foreign Relations
James Kuptana
Manager, Environment and Wildlife ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᑕᐱᕇᑦ ᑲᓇᑕᒥ / Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami
Dr. Aditi Mukherji
Director, Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Impact Action Platform of CGIAR.
Marisol Maddox
Senior Arctic Analyst, Polar Institute
Jane Nakano
Senior Fellow, Energy Security and Climate Change Program
Dr. Heather Exner-Pirot
Director of Energy, Natural Resources and Environment program at Macdonald-Laurier Institute
Diego Osorio
Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Programme, Centre for Int. Affairs, Harvard University
Dr. Andrea Charron
Associate Professor, University of Manitoba
Dr. P. Whitney Lackenbauer
CDA Institute Senior Fellow
Alain Vaillancourt
City councilor, Executive committee member, City of Montreal
Kristen Gill
SVP, RBC Partnerships & Aviva Direct
Mathieu Bussiéres
Director, Climate Change and Security Centre of Excellence (CCASCOE)
Adam Lajeunesse
Associate Professor, St. Francis Xavier University
Young Professional Moderators
Pauline Baudu
Fellow, CDA Institute
Daphné Beaudoin
Law student, Université du Québec à Montréal
Allison Brown
Visiting Fulbright Canada Fellow -- Queen's University CIDP
Dina Mirza
Science Policy Analyst at Defence Research and Development Canada
Michael Hosken
Policy Officer, Defence Reserach and Development Canada
Sofia Kabbej
Associate Researcher French Institute of International and Strategic Affairs (IRIS)
Larry Ibrahim Mohammed
UiT Arctic University of Norway
Megan Scheidl
Research Coordinator, CDA Institute
