Davos Annual Meeting 2006 - Global Risks 2006: What Keeps You Up at Night?

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26.01.2006

Sadly, much of the world is learning to live with the "when, not if" risk of a terrorist attack. But the global risks that pose the greatest threat may be those we have not thought of yet. Directors of the world's leading intelligence agencies discuss the security concerns, worst-case scenarios and unknowns that worry them the most.
1) Which threats to geopolitical stability remain underexposed?
2) How do existing threats foreshadow the emergent risks of tomorrow?
3) How do strategic thinkers approach the identification and mitigation of threats to global security?
Michael Chertoff, US Secretary of Homeland Security
Mohamed M. ElBaradei, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna
August Hanning, State Secretary of the Federal Ministry of the Interior of Germany
Robert Mueller, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), USA
Gijs M. de Vries, Counter-terrorism Coordinator, Council of the European Union, Brussels
Chaired by
James P. Rubin, Presenter, World News Tonight, Sky News, United Kingdom

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