Maritime Security in the Indian Ocean
| Date | Tuesday, December 1, 2009 |
| Time | 2:30-4:00 pm |
| Location | Stimson Center |
with
Rupert Herbert-Burns
Senior Security Consultant, Lloyd's Maritime Intelligence Group
Amit Pandya
Project Director, Regional Voices: Transnational Challenges, Stimson Center
The Indian Ocean is a region of increasing importance to world commerce, energy security, and environmental concerns, as well as one under threat from piracy, terrorism and resource exploitation. The countries along its rim, many of them in critical economic and political transitions, are important players in determining how these challenges will be managed. The Indian Ocean story reminds us of globalization’s effects on local developments, while local and regional dynamics have a global impact. What are current realities and emerging maritime concerns in the Indian Ocean region?
Rupert Herbert-Burns is a leading maritime security consultant for shipping, energy and analytic organizations in the UK, US and Europe. He also specializes in at-sea security surveys of merchant vessels and the provision security briefings and deployment preparation for crews working in high security-threat waters including in the Gulf of Aden/Horn of Africa, West Africa, the Persian Gulf and Iraq. Mr. Herbert-Burns also consults on wider, strategic-level security and geopolitical issues within the analytic and commercial petroleum sectors. On behalf of Lloyd’s MIU, he has worked on maritime security projects involving the US Government, US Navy, New York Police Department, UK Metropolitan Police (Marine Support Unit), Transport Canada, and NATO. Mr. Herbert-Burns is one of the co-producers of the Vigilance vessel security-risk profiling system of Lloyd’s, which is in use by governments and navies in Europe and Asia. Previously, he served worldwide as a warfare officer in the Royal Navy on surface ships and a submarine. He is currently a serving naval intelligence officer in the Royal Naval Reserve, and is a final-year Ph.D candidate at the University of St Andrews, completing a thesis on Petroleum Geopolitics.Amit Pandya directs the Regional Voices: Transnational Challenges project. He has previously been Counsel to the Government Operations and Foreign Affairs Committees of the House of Representatives, and held senior positions at the Departments of Defense and State and at the US Agency for International Development. He is a South Asia expert and international lawyer, and was formerly an ethnographer and teacher. He holds degrees from Oxford, Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, and Georgetown.
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