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Conference speakers

The confirmed speakers for Biosecurity at the frontier are:

Hosted by Professor Hugh Brady
President of Imperial College London

Michael Adeogun
Head of Strategy, Life Sciences and Health, National Physical Laboratory

Professor Wendy Barclay
Regius Professor of Infectious Disease, Imperial College London

Professor Leon Barron
Professor of Analytical and Environmental Sciences, Imperial College London

Jonathan Black
Former UK Deputy National Security Adviser

Dr Janet Martha Blatny
Director, Total Defence, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI)

Professor Anthony Bull
Co-Director School of Convergence Science, Imperial College London

Professor Dr Andrea Büttner
Executive Director, Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering

Max Breet
Head of International, Perimeter

Kristof Bonnarens
Deputy Head of Unit, Directorate-General for HERA, European Commission

Chen Yeang Tat
Deputy Chief Executive (Operations), HTX, Home Team Science and Technology Agency of Singapore

Eric David
Operating Partner, Flagship Pioneering

Professor Neil Ferguson
Director, School of Public Health, Imperial College London

Dr Charles Fracchia
CEO, Black Mesa

Professor Azra Ghani
Chair in Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health

Dr Richard Hatchett
CEO, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI)

Professor Peter Haynes
Provost and Deputy President, Imperial College London

Professor Susan Hopkins
CEO, UK Health Security Agency

Dr Nicholas Joad
Director, Office of the Chief Scientific Adviser (OCSA), Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser, MoD

Jeff Kaufman
Director of Detection, SecureBio

Philip Keel
Director of Countermeasures and Response, UK Health Security Agency

Professor Paul Kellam
Professor of Viral Genomics, Imperial College London

Natalie Kempston
Deputy Director, National Security and Operational Response, Department of Health and Social Care

Maya Levin
Sciences Lead, Office of Eric Schmidt

Professor Dr Rune Linding
NATO DIANA Challenge Manager for Human Resilience and Biotechnologies

James Lovell
Biosecurity Integrated Security Fund Portfolio Lead, UK Cabinet Office

Jamie Marsay
Head of Biotechnology and Principal Investigator, Kromek Group plc

Professor Karen Polizzi
Professor of Biotechnology, Imperial College London

Hannu Rajaniemi
Co-Founder and CEO, Red Queen Bio

Rupert Shute
Professor of Practice, Imperial College London

Dr David Ulaeto
Senior Principal Scientist, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL)

Jo Wales
Senior Director and Lead, Regional Pandemic Readiness and UK Resilience, Moderna

Brian Wang
Programme Director, The Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA)

Professor Dr Henrik C Wegener
Project Director, Global Pathogen Analysis Platform, Technical University of Denmark

Amanda Wolthuizen
Vice-President (Strategy)

Edward You
Former FBI Supervisory Special Agent for WMD Directorate Operational Response Unit