Foreign Policy - General: Debate: 'Is the World Economic Crisis our Biggest Security Threat? (audio transcript available)
Debate - Tuesday 19th May 2009
Oliver Kamm, Sir David Omand, Gideon Rachman
Oliver Kamm is a leader writer and columnist for The Times. He joined the newspaper in 2008, where he has written extensively on the financial crisis. He was previously European Equity Strategist for HSBC Securities, Head of Strategic Research for Commerzbank Securities and co-founder of a hedge fund, WMG Advisors LLP. Sir David Omand GCB is a Visiting Professor at the War Studies Department, King’s College London. He was first UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator as Permanent Secretary in the Cabinet Office, responsible for the professional health of the intelligence community, national counter-terrorism strategy and “homeland security”. He served in total for seven years on the UK’s Joint Intelligence Committee. He was previously Permanent Secretary of the Home Office, Director of GCHQ, and Deputy Under Secretary of State for Policy in the Ministry of Defence. He is a non-executive Director of Babcock International plc and of Finmeccanica UK and a Trustee of the Natural History Museum. Gideon Rachman is chief foreign affairs commentator for the Financial Times. He writes a weekly column on foreign affairs, as well as an FT blog. He has reported over the past year from the United States, China, Afghanistan, Georgia, Pakistan and the European Union. Before joining the FT in 2006, he worked for The Economist for 15 years in a range of jobs, including as a foreign correspondent in Brussels, Bangkok and Washington. Mr Rachman read history at Cambridge University and has been a visiting fellow at the Woodrow Wilson school at Princeton University.
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