On Wednesday 24th February, at Convocation Hall in Church House, Global Strategy Forum hosted seminar entitled ‘Iran, Saudi Arabia, Power Shifts And Sectarian Divides: The Challenging Geopolitics Of The Middle East’.
The following speakers participated:
Professor Michael Burleigh, Author and Historian; Research Professor, University of Buckingham; Lieutenant General Sir Graeme Lamb KBE CMG DSO, Former Director of UK Special Forces and Commander of the British Field Army; Sir Derek Plumbly KCMG, Visiting Professor of Middle Eastern Studies IMES; British Ambassador to Egypt (2003-2007) and British Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (2000-2003); 
Jonathan Rugman, Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Channel 4 News; 
Farouk Soussa, Chief Economist Middle East, Citi Global Markets; 
and the Rt Hon Jack Straw, Home Secretary (1997-2001); Foreign Secretary (2001-2006); Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and Secretary of State for Justice (2007-2010).
To download the seminar programme, click here.
To download the speaker biographies, click here.
To listen again to the seminar, please click here for the first panel and here for the second.
