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RUSI is the podium of choice for world leaders and senior policymakers, and is ideally placed to attract high-quality speakers and participants at its events. These vary in size and format from set-piece lectures to conferences and seminars.
Robert Hannigan on the Creation of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre
28 February 2019, 18:15RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
In 2016, Robert established the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). The NCSC acts as a bridge between industry and government, providing...
NATO’s Efforts in Projecting Stability: The Role of Allied Joint Force Command Naples
05 March 2019, 13:00RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
The NATO Allied Joint Force Command in Naples is focused on providing advice and assistance to missions in identifying the root causes of...
Learning to Fight Daesh
11 March 2019, 13:00RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
In June 2014, Iraq lost 40% of its territory to the Islamic State. Over the past four years, the Iraqi army has regrouped and fought a...
Fighting Fraud and Corruption in a Shrinking World
03 April 2019, 13:00RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
In this lecture, Lisa will explore the challenges posed by globalisation, the increasing sophistication of communications technology and...
Reflections on D-Day: The Battle for Normandy
30 May 2019, 17:30RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
The Normandy Landings that took place on 6 June 1944 involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking...
Combat Air Survivability Conference
20 March 2019, 9:00RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
The survivability equation is not simply a question of picking stealth or advanced kinematics, jamming or stand-off weapons, massed or exquisite platforms, but instead a mix of different elements to...
International Day of the Peacekeepers 17th Annual Conference: The Thin Blue Line
23 May 2019, 9:30RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
Now in its 17th year, the conference will focus on challenges and opportunities that face contemporary UN peacekeeping as the Secretary General’s Action For Peacekeeping agenda is endorsed by a...
Modern Deterrence Conference 2019
29 May 2019, 9:30RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
To deter modern warfare techniques and other emerging threats, Western countries need comprehensive defence strategies and plans. Given that hybrid warfare (also known as threshold or grey zone...
Breakfast Briefing: Thinking the Unthinkable
23 July 2018, 8:15RUSI Whitehall
Executive leadership faces new vulnerabilities. Many leaders privately concede them, but few are willing to talk publicly about them. ‘Unthinkable’ events since 2014 have revealed a new leadership fragility at the highest levels and the pace of...
187th RUSI Annual General Meeting
19 July 2018, 16:00RUSI Whitehall
AGENDA1. The Chairman’s Address and Director-General Update2. Financial Report3. First Resolution“That the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2018, as circulated, be taken as read and adopted”.4. Second Resolution“That Messrs BDO LLP...
SOLD OUT: Breakfast Briefing: Reflections on the NATO Summit: What Next?
16 July 2018, 8:15RUSI Whitehall
Please note this event is now sold out. All NATO summits seem to be meeting at times of 'critical choice'. The NATO summit in Brussels on 11-12 July will be no different, but more importantly, it will straddle some near-term and major structural...
The New Russian Empire: A discussion with Dr Agnia Grigas
11 July 2018, 17:00RUSI Whitehall
In 2016 Dr Agnia Grigas asked how Russia will redraw post-Soviet borders in the wake of Russian expansionism. In Beyond Crimea: The New Russian Empire Dr Grigas illustrated how —for more than two decades—Moscow has consistently used its compatriots...
The UK Modernising Defence Programme
09 July 2018, 17:30RUSI Whitehall
Throughout 2018, the Ministry of Defence has been undertaking a defence review to match resources to requirements. This supposes that the government understands the range of obligations it has, the sort of operations towards which it might commit UK...
The India-Pakistan Deadlock
09 July 2018, 17:00RUSI Whitehall
Please click 'Register Now' to book your place - if you are unable to do so, please register your attendance with Sajid Ali via SajidA@rusi.org. Please note, registration is mandatory for this event.Ceasefire violations, militancy, and diplomatic...
Prisoner's Voices in the Liberation Collection
09 July 2018, 15:00RUSI Whitehall
The Chadwyck-Healey Liberation Collection is a comprehensive collection of books and pamphlets in French on the Second World War, the occupation and the liberation, published during a period of just over two years, from August 1944 to the end of...
Defence, Industry and UK Prosperity: A Report by Philip Dunne MP
09 July 2018, 11:30RUSI Whitehall
The Ministry of Defence's formal obligation to contribute to national prosperity is several years old and the Secretary of state recently asked Philip Dunne MP to prepare an independent report on what the MoD is doing and might do differently in...
Antonio Giustozzi on The Islamic State in Khorasan
05 July 2018, 17:00RUSI Whitehall
So-called Islamic State began to appear in what it calls Khorasan (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Central Asia, Iran and India) in 2014. Reports of its presence were at first dismissed as propaganda, but during 2015 it became clear that IS had a serious...
Reforming the SARs Regime: Legislative, Regulatory and Technical Challenges
05 July 2018, 8:30RUSI Whitehall
The system for reporting suspicious financial activity in the UK is recognised as not fitting the needs of the 21st century. The global standards on which the regime is based are several decades old. The emergence of public-private partnerships for...
Think Tanks in the 21st Century: Engaging Youth and Use of Technology
03 July 2018, 14:00RUSI Whitehall
Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) is the world's oldest independent think tank on international defence and security. Founded in 1831 by the Duke of Wellington, RUSI has been providing forward thinking, free discussion and careful reflection on...
Rules for Modernising UK Defence: Enough of the Negativity
03 July 2018, 12:00RUSI Whitehall
The Speech Thank you also to RUSI – to Peter and all the others here who have facilitated this event today. I have, over the last week, thought at length over what I was going to say today. I am enormously grateful to be given the chance by RUSI to...
Money Laundering and the London Property Market
02 July 2018, 10:30RUSI Whitehall
At the global Anti-Corruption Summit in May 2016, PM David Cameron emphasised the need to “clean up our property market right here in London.” This turned attention to the role of professional services firms, especially lawyers, accountants and real...
Gallipoli Memorial Lecture: Fear of Abandonment - Australia’s Response to Changing Global Orders
29 June 2018, 13:00RUSI Whitehall
In its recent Foreign Policy White Paper, the Australian Government described how the ‘significant forces of change’ buffeting the international system are reshaping Australia’s region ‘in ways without precedent’ in its modern history.Drawing on...
Ministers Meet to Discuss Middle East in Warsaw Conference Beset by Divisions in the West
A New Generation of Intelligence: National Security and Surveillance in the Age of AI
Episode 8 – Janice Charette