Extended Interview
Nader Mousavizadeh, CEO and Graham Hutchings, Director of Analysis, discuss the consequences of the US 'war on terror' and the wider forces at work reshaping the global order in an age of volatility.
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al-Qaida on the ropes?
Philip Mudd, Oxford Analytica's Senior Global Advisor, draws on two decades of experience in counterterrorism and offers his personal reflections on the US campaign against al-Qaida.
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Ten years after 9/11 a new era of beginnings and endings is upon us. The Arab Awakening and Bin Laden’s death, the rise of China, the perils of Pakistan and emergence of Africa, the power of social media and the promise of a new global order all herald a world remade.
Hear compelling insider accounts combined with insightful analysis from former senior policymakers, intelligence officers and academic specialists and have a chance put your questions to them.
The Panel
RT HON DAVID MILIBAND MP
Foreign Secretary (2007 – 2010) and Senior Global Advisor, Oxford Analytica
David Miliband joined Oxford Analytica as Senior Global Advisor in 2011.
He has worked at the top of UK government and politics for 15 years. Mr Miliband was the youngest Foreign Secretary in thirty years from 2007 to 2010. As Secretary of State for the Environment he pioneered the world’s first legally binding emissions reduction Bill. As Minister for Schools he was recognised as a leader of reform. He led the policy renewal of Britain’s Labour Party under Tony Blair from 1994 to 2001. He is currently Member of Parliament for South Shields.
Mr Miliband studied at Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, where he obtained a first class honours degree in PPE. From 1988 to 1989 he took a S.M. degree in Political Science at MIT, where he was a Kennedy Scholar. He started his career at the Institute for Public Policy Research.
NADER MOUSAVIZADEH
Former Special Assistant to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, AND Chief Executive Officer, Oxford Analytica
Nader Mousavizadeh joined Oxford Analytica as Chief Executive Officer on 7 September, 2010. Mr. Mousavizadeh was previously founder and managing director of Archipelago Partners, a geostrategic advisory firm. Prior to establishing Archipelago Partners, Mr Mousavizadeh was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, working in the Financial Industries M&A group in New York, and latterly based in Europe with a number of global client relationships. Before entering the private sector, he served at the United Nations, where he was Special Assistant to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and a UN Political Officer in Bosnia- Herzegovina.
MICHAEL CRAWFORD
Former UK diplomat and Senior Global Advisor, Oxford Analytica
Michael Crawford joined Oxford Analytica in May 2011 as Senior Global Advisor. He has served the British Government overseas in Egypt, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Poland and Pakistan and worked on global issues, the Middle East, proliferation, terrorism and security in London. He was awarded a CMG in 2008. He previously took a First in Jurisprudence at University College, Oxford, qualified at the Bar, gained an MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies at St Antony’s, Oxford, and worked in a commercial law firm in the Gulf.
Crawford was a Visiting Fellow at the Near Eastern Department, Princeton University September-December 2009 and a Consulting Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies for a year from January 2010. He now runs a consultancy business. He has published on Saudi Arabia, proliferation, and non-state actors.
PHILIP MUDD
Former FBI Senior Intelligence Advisor and Senior Global Advisor, Oxford Analytica
Philip Mudd joined Oxford Analytica in May 2011 as Senior Global Advisor after a distinguished 25-year career with the US government, during which he advised policymakers at the highest levels on trends in global terrorism and the risks posed to national and international security. A career intelligence analyst specialising in South Asia and the Middle East, his service included a tour of duty with the National Security Council, and senior positions in the CIA's Counterterrorism Center. In 2005, he was appointed Deputy Director of the FBI's new National Security Branch before becoming the Bureau's Senior Intelligence Advisor. He is the recipient of many of the US government's highest awards for excellence in analysis.
PROFESSOR RANA MITTER
Region Head, Oxford Analytica
Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Cross College. Author of The Manchurian Myth: Nationalism, Resistance and Collaboration in Modern China (California, 2000) and A Bitter Revolution: China’s Struggle with the Modern World (Oxford, 2004), for which he was named Young Academic Author of the Year by the UK Times Higher Education Supplement in 2005. Latest book is Modern China: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2008). Director of a research programme funded by the Leverhulme Trust on "The Persistence of Conflict: China’s War with Japan and its impact, memory and legacy, 1931 to the present". Presents and contributes regularly to programmes on historical and political topics on television and radio, including on the History Channel, and Night Waves and The Sunday Feature on BBC Radio 3 in the UK. His general-reader essays and reviews have appeared in publications including the London Review of Books, Financial Times, and History Today.
SARAH MICHAELS
Deputy Director of Analysis, Oxford Analytica
Sarah Michaels joined Oxford Analytica in 2008, having served as a US Department of Defense Senior Analyst specialising in Russia, Ukraine and the South Caucasus. She is a former Navy Reserve intelligence officer and US State Department analyst in Tbilisi, Georgia. Her areas of specialisation include civil-military relations and post-Soviet conceptions of national security. She attended the George Washington University and the University of Chicago, and is currently writing her dissertation in the War Studies Department at King's College London.
