Tuesday 23rd March, National Liberal Club

Victoria Clark, Dr Kristian Ulrichsen, Michael Ancram MP and Stephen Day

Victoria Clark is a former correspondent and Moscow bureau chief for The Observer. She now works as a freelance journalist and writer, contributing to The Times, Independent, BBC World Service, Radio 4 and 'Prospect' magazine. She is the author of 'Yemen: Dancing on the Heads of Snakes', due to be published on 22nd March 2010. Stephen Day served for seven years as a Political Officer in the Western Aden Protectorate; during the last six months of its existence he sat as British Adviser on the Cabinet of the doomed Federal Government of South Arabia. He then joined the Diplomatic Service and went on to be appointed Deputy Head and later Head of the Middle East Department, Ambassador to Qatar and Tunisia and Senior Trade Commissioner in Hong Kong. In 1986/7 he was specially attached to the Household of HRH The Prince of Wales as an adviser on Middle East contacts. Since taking early retirement in 1994 he has worked as a consultant, retained by two Gulf rulers and several international concerns. Dr Kristian Coates Ulrichsen is a Research Fellow at LSE Global Governance and Deputy Director of the Kuwait Research Programme on Development, Governance and Globalisation in the Gulf States. He has held this position since March 2008 and his main areas of research focus on the evolution of political and security trends in the Arabian Peninsula and the emergence of longer-term and non-military challenges to regional stability in the Gulf Cooperation Council states, and the transition toward post-rentier forms of governance with implications for the reformulation of state-society relations. He is currently writing a book entitled Insecure Gulf: The End of Certainty and the Transition to the Post-Oil Era and co-editing a volume (with David Held) entitled The Transformation of the Gulf: Politics, Economics and the Global Order, for Routledge. His first book, The Politics and Logistics of the British Campaigns in the Middle East, 1914-1922,' will be published later in 2010.

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