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Maj. Gen. Arnold Fields, USMC (RET)
Chairman, NAPA Standing Panel on International Affairs
 National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA)

Major General Arnold Fields is a Fellow and member of the Board of Directors of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) in Washington, DC. He is also a Special Government Employee and consultant with the U.S. Department of Defense. He retired from the United States Marine Corps in 2004 at which time he was serving as Deputy Commander of U.S. Marine Corps Forces in Europe and Africa. Previous military assignments included Commanding General of all Marine Corps Bases in Hawaii; Deputy Commander of Third Marine Expeditionary Force; Commander of U.S. Central Command’s Forward Headquarters; Inspector General of U.S. Central Command; Director of the Headquarters Marine Corps Staff at the Pentagon; Commanding Officer of all Marine Corps Embassy Security Guards in North Africa and the Middle East; and Commander of a motorized infantry battalion in combat during the 1990-91 Gulf War. Post retirement civilian positions included Chief of Staff of the Iraq Reconstruction and Management Office at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad; Deputy Director of the Department of Defense Africa Center for Strategic Studies; and Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) responsible for oversight of over $60Bn appropriated for Afghanistan’s reconstruction.


Keynote Speakers
Dr. Katherine Wanjiru Getao, EBS
ICT Secretary
 Ministry of Information Communication & Technology (ICT); Kenya



Speakers
Brig. Gen. (ret) Dan Bader (Panel Chair)
Chief Operating Officer
 ELTA North America

He earned an Astronautical Engineering degree in 1985 from the USAF Academy. He was assigned in the US, Germany and France, flying the OT-37, OV-10, F-16, A-10 and Mirage 2000. Dan earned a Master’s degree in 1996, and amassed 16 years of staff and executive leadership assignments in the Washington DC area. He has 27 years of military experience in flight operations, and executive positions in Safety, Requirements, Domestic Operations and Flight Test, and 8 years of defense industry experience promoting Border Security solutions across the globe. Dan joined ELTA North America 2015 where he directs Operations across all business units.
ACP Dinah Kyasiimire
Head of Police Component
 EASF Secretariat

Dinah Kyasiimire is a female Police officer serving in the Uganda Police Force with experience of 18 years in policing and also with a Bachelors degree in law from Makerere University in Uganda and a Diploma in Legal Practice from the Law Development Centre-Uganda. Dinah has served in different capacities as a police officer at national and international level. Currently, she serves as the Head of the Police Component at the Eastern Africa Standby Force, Nairobi Kenya. Previously, Dinah served in United Nations African Mission in Darfur as a Gender and Child Protection officer, and also in the United Nations Mission in Sudan as a Human Rights officer, and later as a Gender and Child protection officer. At the national level, Dinah has served as an operations officer as well as an investigator at the divisional level. She has been and still is a legal advisor and Human Rights officer for the Uganda Police force.
Cdr Tuemay Aregawi Desta
Head - Counter Transnational Organised Crime Pillar
 IGAD Security Sector Program (ISSP)

Tuemay is a former Ethiopian police commander. He has served with the Ethiopian government at various positions including head of the office of the Federal Police and Penitentiary Bureau, Police Reform, Deputy Director General of Ethiopian Customs Authority. He had also been involved with different regional and international organisations as senior expert and researcher/consultant including the UNDP, African Union, and Global Center on Cooperative Security. Tuemay has authored articles on human trafficking and smuggling, counter violent extremism, money laundering and terrorism financing. Tuemay has studied postgraduate study programmes - MSc in Organisation Development and Consultancy (Sheffield Hallam University, UK), Postgraduate Diploma in Security Sector Management (Cranfield University, UK) and MA in Managing Peace and Security in Africa (ongoing, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia). Tuemay has also developed border security and management curriculum to the AU Border Programme and has participated in the development of the AU border governance strategy. He also partnered with other colleagues in developing the Somali Inland Strategy and Action Plan to Counter Piracy which is now being implemented under the MASE project. Tuemay has an extensive experience in peace and security fields and particularly on transnational security threats in the Horn of Africa region. Since 2013 Tuemay is working as head of the Counter Transnational Organised Crime Pillar of the IGAD Security Sector Programme.
Sambujang Fatty
Commuity Policing Advisor
 UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS)

Sambujang Fatty is a native of Jangjanbureh (Georgetown) Central River Region in the Republic of the Gambia. He possess a bachelor’s degree in Human Rights and in September 2018, he will graduate at Ruhr Universitat Bochum in Germany with a master’s degree in Criminal Justice, Governance and Police Science. Sambujang was enlisted in the Gambia Police Force in January 1994 and gradually rose to the rank of Superintendent of Police. Prior to his deployment to the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), Sambujang served as the Director of Gambia Police Force Peacekeeping Training Center. During his 24 years Police career, Sambujang had the opportunity to serve in various units of the Gambia Police Force such as Prosecutions, Criminal Investigations Department, Operations and more. Sambujang’s expertise are diverse having provided security, safety and protection services while serving with the Gambia Police Force and the United Nations Peacekeeping missions in Darfur and Liberia
Dr. Sonkor Jama Geyre
Director General
 Ministry of Defence; Somalia

Dr. Sonkor Jama Geyre currently serves the Federal Republic of Somalia as Director General of the Ministry of Defense and also, Procurement Consultant on the Public Financial Management (PFM) Project within the Ministry of Finance. Dr. Geyre has also served as Professor within the School of Business at Jomo Kenyatta-Savannah University in Mogadishu, and HRM consultant with the QUEST-MIDA (IOM) program attached to the Ministry of Planning & International Cooperation (MoPIC) in Garowe, Puntland-Somalia. He holds a Masters Degree of Internal Management from the University of Phoenix, Chicago, and a Bachelors Degree of Arts from the University of Somalia.
Paul Wells (Panel Chair)
Vice President & Chief Commercial Officer
 GovSat

Paul Wells is the Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer of GovSat. Taking on the role in September 2016 he is responsible for working closely with our customers to develop offerings that match their needs using GovSat-1. Before joining GovSat he worked for QinetiQ where he created, developed and grew several highly successful businesses in the Communications, Intelligence, Security and ISR domains for Defence, Security and Commercial customers. He also spent time working in Government on creating and delivering highly challenging technical programmes into operational use. He has over 34 years of experience in satcoms for Defence and Security applications.
Christo Myburgh
Chief Regional Security Officer - East Africa
African Development Bank Group (AfDB)

Mr. Christo Myburgh is a former South African Army Officer with post-military experience in security risk consulting and stabilisation strategies. His ten year military career included undergraduate studies at the South African Military Academy and service in 44 Parachute Regiment. Complementary to his military career, he successfully implemented stabilisation programmes for two years in Afghanistan. Christo worked for over four years as a Senior Security Risk Consultant for G4S where he provided comprehensive security risk consulting services to multinational and international public-sector organisations in various African countries. He was subsequently appointed as the Chief Regional Security Officer for East Africa at the African Development Bank Group. Christo holds a MBA (cum laude) from the University of Stellenbosch Business School.
Dr. Zabulon Yoti
Technical Coordinator - Health Emergencies
 World Health Organization (WHO)

Dr. Zabulon Yoti is a public health veteran with over 20 years’ experience in clinical and public health practice. He is best known for his leadership in coordinating public health response to disease outbreaks, natural and man-made disasters. Dr Yoti has provided direct field support to several African countries in responding to disease outbreaks.

Dr Yoti, from Uganda, works in the World Health Organization Emergencies (WHE) Programme in the African Regional Office (AFRO) based in Brazzaville, Congo. He is the Technical Coordinator for WHO AFRO WHE. From June 2014 to December 2015, Dr Yoti was re-assigned as part of WHO AFRO surge deployment for Ebola response in the West African Region with responsibility of providing technical leadership and coordination of the outbreak response. From November 2014 to December 2015, he was the WHO Deputy Head of Office for Sierra Leone where he successfully led WHO’s technical team and partners in responding to the Ebola Outbreak in Sierra Leone. He had previously participated in responding to several Viral Haemorrhagic Fever outbreaks in the African Region.
Jalal Abdel-Latif
Head - Governance & Human Security Cluster
 UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)

Jalal Abdel-Latif is currently the Governance & Human Security Cluster Head at the Capacity Development Division within the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in Addis Ababa. Jalal has over 30+ years of professional experience in international development, corporate social responsibility, peace and security studies and grant making project design and enhancing the capacity of no- profit organizations. He began his career as researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) African Studies Center. He then worked as Grant manager for USA for Africa (the We Are the World project) in California. He was a co-founder and CEO of the Inter-Africa Group, a regional think tank based in Ethiopia. He served in the Ethiopian Telecommunications Board of director for over seven years where he assisted in its modernization, migration from analog infrastructure to a digital one and its expansion.
Raymond Kitevu
Conflict Early Warning Expert
 Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Secretariat

Raymond Kitevu is the Conflict Early Warning Expert of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa which has its headquarters in Lusaka, Zambia. His responsibilities include coordinating the COMESA Conflict Early Warning Mechanism (COMWARN) conflict prevention initiatives towards addressing and resolving the diverse conflicts affecting the COMESA Sub-region in collaboration with the African Union, other Regional Economic Communities, NGOs, civil society, governmental institutions, international organizations and other relevant stakeholders. Before joining COMESA in 2014, Mr. Kitevu had over fifteen years of professional experience working in the field of peace and security with national and international NGOs in Kenya and Eastern Africa, as well as other institutions including IGAD, UNDP, and UN agencies.
BG (ret.) Amnon Sofrin (Panel Chair)
Marketing Director- Africa
 Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)

BG (ret.) Amnon Sofrin, from 1973 to 2003 with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), fought in the Golan Heights of 1973 and in many operations after the "Yom Kipur War". In 1977 he was transferred to the Intelligence Corps and was positioned in fighting units as well as an Analyst in the Military Intelligence Production Division. In 1990 BG (ret.) Sofrin was appointed as the CO of the Combat Intelligence & Reconnaissance School, later to serve as the G-2 of Israel's Central Territorial Command and in 1996, he was appointed as the head of the Tasking Division within Israel's Military Intelligence. His last assignment with the IDF was Chief Combat Intelligence Corps, which he established (2000) and commanded for 3.5 years and retired as a Brigadier General. After retiring from the IDF in 2003, BG. Sofrin was assigned to a senior position within Israel's Security apparatus as Head of Intelligence Directorate of Israel's Secret Service until 2008. BG (ret.) Sofrin has a BA in Political Science from Tel Aviv University and a MA in Political Science & Security Studies at Haifa University (1993). He is currently the Marketing VP, Africa in Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI).
Brig Gen Simon West
Senior Military Advisor - Defence Section,Rule of Law and Security Institutions Group (ROLSIG)
 UN Mission in Somalia (UNSOM)

A British Army Officer for 33 years, has served operationally in Northern Ireland, Sierra, Leone, Georgia, Bosnia, Irag, Afghanistan, DRC and for the last 14 months has been seconded to the UN as the Senior Military Advisor to the UNSOM. Prior to this operational deployment he spent 4 years in Southern Africa, delivering capacity building training for contingents deploying on UN operations and professional military education within African Military Academic Institutions. Holds a Masters in International Relations (University of Madras, India), lives in Edinburgh and is a member of the Royal Company of Archers, Queen’s Body Guard for Scotland.
Moussa Idi
PSSM Expert
 UN Regional Centre for Peace & Disarmament in Africa (UNREC)

Moussa Idi currently serves the UN Regional Centre for Peace & Disarmament in Africa (UNREC) as PSSM Expert - Physical Security & Management of Government Stocks of Weapons and Ammunition, and is also a Senior Officer of the Nigerian Armed Forces in Niger. As PSSM Expert for UNREC, Mr. Idi is responsible for the development of technical documents, popularize new standard operating procedures, evaluate rehabilitated sites, train officers, sensitize decision-makers, and any other required duty. Within the Armed Forces, Mr. Idi has previously served as Deputy Central Director of Armed Forces Equipment, Head of the 4th Bureau of Air and Land, Representative of the Ministry of Defense and Military Staff, and Training of equipment officers (logistics) to French military schools.
Aderemi Adekoya
Principal Coordination Officer
 African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID)

Mr. Aderemi Adekoya is the Principal Coordination Officer in the office of the Joint Special Representative/Joint Chief Mediator (JSR/JCM) of the United Nations–African Union Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID). He is responsible for the provision of effective direction and integrated management of UNAMID's activities in line with the Mission’s mandate and the JSR’s strategic vision. Mr. Adekoya is charged with facilitating the translation of the Mission leadership's policy intent and direction into viable tasks and priorities by: providing strategic advice to the JSR on key management matters, including UNAMID’s exit strategy and various strategic assessments as well as the implementation of key recommendations and guidance from UN Headquarters and the African Union Headquarters. Prior to taking up his current position, Mr. Adekoya’s responsibilities within UNAMID included the role of Acting Mission Chief of Staff and Chief of Service of the Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Section. Mr. Adekoya joined the UN in 2002 and has served in three peacekeeping missions, including support to African Union in the deployment of AMISOM peacekeeping forces in Somalia. He also support the Darfur peace talks in Abuja and Doha through provisions of technical assistance to the parties on security arrangements and disarmament. Before joining the UN, Mr. Adekoya worked with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) for over four years and with the Ministry of Education, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for two years. Mr. Adekoya holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and is a certified project manager, with a certificate in Terrorism and Counterterrorism.
Brig. Albert Kendagor
Head of Peace Operations
 EASF Secretariat

Nelly Munovi
Senior Procurement Assistant
 UN Office in Nairobi (UNON) & UN Procurement Division (UNPD)

Mr. Yoram Zohar (Panel Chair)
Vice President - Sales & Business Development
 Verint

Mr. Zohar is Vice President Sales and Business Development for Africa at Verint. He is a retired captain in the IDF Special Forces. Mr. Zohar has worked for leading Hi-Tech companies for the last 26 years and for the last 5 years he has headed Verint's Africa activities. Yoram holds a BSC in Life and Computer Sciences from Tel Aviv University.
Hon. Adolf Mwesige
Minister
 Ministry of Defence & Veteran Affairs; Uganda

Honourable Minister Adolf Mwesige leads the Republic of Uganda's Ministry of Defence & Veteran Affairs, he was appointed so by the President of Uganda in 2016. Prior to this he served as a Minister of Local Government for 7 years, Minister of General Duties within the Office of the Prime Minister for 3 years, Minister of State for Justice and Constitutional Affairs/Deputy Attorney General also for 3 years. Hon. Mwesige has also served as a Member of Parliament representing Bunyangabu County, Bunyangabu District since 1996, and initially in his career, as a Foreign Service Officer, working in the Legal Department of the Ministry of Foreign affairs. Hon. Mwesige Bachelor of Laws (LLB) Degree, a Post-Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, Diploma in International Relations, and also in Human Rights Law.
Alice Friend
Senior Fellow,International Security Program
 Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)

Alice Hunt Friend is a senior fellow in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where she focuses on African security issues and American civil-military relations. From 2012 to 2014, she was the principal director for African affairs in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, where she focused primarily on North and West African counterterrorism policy. She joined the Department of Defense in 2009 as special assistant to the under secretary of defense for policy and also served as the senior adviser to the deputy under secretary of defense for strategy, plans, and forces and as country director for Pakistan. She has held previous research positions at CSIS and the Center for a New American Security in Washington, D.C., and has worked at the International Labor Organization in Geneva and with the Senegalese Association for Research, Study, and Aid to Development. Ms. Friend is a doctoral candidate at American University’s School of International Service, where she focuses on the civil-military relations of special operations, unmanned systems, and cyber warfare. She is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and holds a master’s degree in international relations from American University and a bachelor’s degree in government from Smith College.
Brig. Gen. Abdalla Abdalla Mohamed
Deputy Director General
 Somalia National Intelligence & Security Agency (NISA)

Mr. Abdallah has been working across Somalia in the field of intelligence and counterterrorism for more than 10 years. During that time, he has served as the Head of Counter Piracy Unit, Head of Investigations, and Director General Assistant in counterterrorism at the National Intelligence & Security Agency (NISA) of the Federal Government of Somalia. Since 2013, he has served as the Deputy Director of NISA. Mr. Abdallah's specialization is forensic science, where he studied Department of Forensic Biology (forensic DNA) at the Naif Arab University for Security Sciences in Saudi Arabia.
Lt Col Michael Diers
Deputy Chief Assessment Team
 UN DPKO Office of Military Affairs (OMA)

Lt Col Diers has over 25 years of service with the German Bundeswehr. During his career, he focused on asymmetric warfare, and integrated operations with humanitarian actors for Peace Enforcement and Peacekeeping. He served as chief military intelligence, UNMISS Force Headquarter in 2013/2014. Since December 2014 he is a seconded member of the UN DPKO OMA Assessment Team. For the past 3,5 years Lt Col Diers is holding the position of the leading analyst for Sahel and the East Africa region. In this capacity his team provides strategic political and security analysis, and advise to DPKO leadership on security and military related developments in Peacekeeping operation in preparation for anticipated/expected challenges. Prior to his work with UNDPKO, he worked in security, training, networking and analysis with most of his work experience with the German Bundeswehr, German State Department (Defense Attaché), and UNDPKO, in conflict zones.
Sosthenes M. Makuri
Regional Specialized Officer
 INTERPOL Regional Bureau for Eastern Africa

Sosthenes M. Makuri serves as a Senior Superintendent of Police of the Kenya National Police Service seconded to INTERPOL, also serving for the last three years as Regional Specialized Officer based at INTERPOL’s Regional Bureau for Eastern Africa in Nairobi, Kenya. He has 20 years of experience as an investigator in the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminology from Egerton University and has tutored for 4 years at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations Training School.
Travis Heneveld (Panel Chair)
Director - United Nations & International Accounts
 Motorola Solutions

As United Nations' Account Director, Travis Heneveld oversees the delivery of business critical communication solutions to peacekeeping, emergency response and development agencies worldwide. Prior to joining Motorola's Europe, Middle East and Africa Strategy team in 2003, Travis spent several years as a Strategy Consultant driving new product & marketing initiatives for Fortune 100 companies such as Levi's, United Airlines, IKEA and Ericsson. A global citizen with living experiences in Europe and Asia, Travis is currently based in Nairobi. He is a BA graduate of Pomona College and holds an International MBA from the University of South Carolina.
UNMAS Mark Connelly
Chief of Peace Keeping Support
 UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS)

Mark Connelly started working for the United Nations Mine Action Service in April 2005 as a Regional QA Officer for the UNMAS South Sudan office. Since then he has been employed management roles in several UNMAS programmes including Afghanistan, Abyei supporting UNISFA, and Somalia supporting UNSOS before being based in his current post in Nairobi. Mark has considerable management and operational experience within a diverse range of counties including Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Denmark, and Kosovo. Amongst his travels, Mark has had the pleasure to work closely with the Kosovo Defence Force, American Military, Afghanistan National Police, and the Iranian Ministry of Defence to name but a few.
Koos Joubert
Technical Advisor
 DCD Protected Mobility

Koos Joubert is the Technical Adviser at DCD Protected Mobility with the responsibility for technical support and development of Mine Detection Vehicles and Armored Personnel Carriers. Prior to joining DCD Protected Mobility, Koos worked at Armscor where he was managing all the Landwards Programs and R&D Projects on behalf of the South African Defence Force. Notable is his 42 years of service at Armscor, he was one of the pioneers to develop Mine Protected Vehicles in South Africa. Koos received a diploma in Mechanical Engineering at Pretoria Technical College in 1974 and has achieved many post graduate training in several Engineering disciplines and Systems Engineering in South Africa and abroad. As an officer in the then SADF, Koos also has extensive military operational experience and has firsthand knowledge of the performance of vehicle product systems in operational conditions.
James Nyirenda
Regional Security Consultant
 African Development Bank Group (AfDB)

Mr. James Nyirenda is retired Malawian Army Officer specialised in military aviation, military training, anti-money laundering, physical and electronic security. Since leaving the military, James worked for the Central Bank of Malawi, Paladin Uranium Mine and the African Development Bank Group. During his career, James commanded a sub-unit in combat, he has been instrumental in revamping the physical and electronic security for Central Bank of Malawi, as well as developing the Security Unit at the Paladin Uranium Mine in Malawi. James is currently supporting the African Development Bank Group’s operations in East Africa, with oversight over Somalia.
Lt. Gen. Johnson Okot Jekery Loyang
Deputy CDF for Administration & Finance,Chief of Defence Forces (CDF)
 Ministry of Defence & Veterans Affairs; South Sudan

Lt. Gen. Johnson Okot Jekery Loyang is the Deputy Chief of Defence Forces (D/CDF), SPLA. He joined the SPLA in 1984 and acquired his military training in Ethiopia. He served as Assistance Chief of Defence Forces for Administration & Finance, SPLA, in the year 2017/2018. He once held a position of Director General for the Directorate of Policy Planning & Research in the Ministry of Defence & Veterans Affairs (MOD&VA) in the year 2016/2017 before he was transferred back to the SPLA GENERAL HEADQUARTERS for service. Furthermore, he served as a director in the office of the President and once as a director for Logistics, SPLA. He is also tasked to chair the Security Sector Review Committee of the Republic of South Sudan. Lt. Gen. Johnson Okot is a career soldier who held several command positions in the SPLA during the war and after independence of the Republic of South Sudan. Besides Military Career, Lt. Gen. Johnson had the opportunity to serve as a politician. He served as a Deputy Governor and Care Taking Governor of the Former Eastern Equatoria State in the Republic of South Sudan. In addition to both military and political work experiences, Lt. Gen. Johnson Okot is also highly educated. He is Phd candidate, holds Masters of Business Administration (MBA), masters in Security Studies and bachelor degree in Human Resource Management (HRM).
Brig. Gen. Bulti Tadesse Kittila
Chief of Staff Amisom,AU Peace Support Operations Division (PSOD)
 African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM)

Brigadier General Bulti Tadesse Kitilla accomplished basic infantry training, officer in 1993. Subsequently, he attended advance diploma, Arts, Science Electrical Engineering with specialization in Communication from FDRE, MoD Defense University College (Debra Zeit). He also graduated in Degree/Bachelor of Arts, Science Information Technology with BED degree in Electrical/Electronic Technology from Adama University Science and Technology, and in Masters of Art’s Degree in Diplomacy and International Relations from Ethiopian Civil Service university Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Currently, he is a “PHD candidate” in Peace and Security Studies at the International Peace and Security Studies (IPSS) at Addis Ababa, University. He has worked in different positions at the Ministry of Defense such as, peacekeeping main Department Human resource administration, Foreign Relation and military cooperation directorate, College Deputy Commandant. In January 2016, he was promoted to Brigadier General, and assigned to his current post in FDRE Ministry of Defense: Foreign Relation and Military Cooperation Centre, Director of Multilateral Relation in charge of Regional Affairs.
Peter Wood
Global Security Adviser
 Oxfam

Peter Wood is a Global Security Adviser for Oxfam, an International Non-Governmental Organisation (INGO). He is currently living here in Nairobi with a thematic security oversight of East Africa, as well as many other global functions such as internal reporting, systems and communication. Having previously lived and worked in DR Congo and Jordan, he has an in-depth knowledge of both East Africa and the Middle East with regards to current and ongoing security operations and how they relate to the humanitarian sector. As a former Captain in the British Army, Peter has over 15 years’ experience in the security sector both from a military and humanitarian view-point and has completed operational tours of Northern Ireland, Iraq and Afghanistan in roles ranging from peace support, close protection to providing support to the USMC and Estonian Army in Helmand province.
Moses Gatino Githinji
Regional Security Director
 World Vision International (WVI)

World Vision International Regional Security Director for East Africa. I oversee security in nine countries including Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda. I have over 15 years’ experience in humanitarian security management in Africa. I have extensive experience with International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs) conducting security risk assessment, risk analysis, risk management, asset protection, mitigation, security surveys, audits, capacity building, HEAT training and advising on business continuity and crisis management to ensure organizational resilience. I have worked extensively in challenging conflict and post conflict environments including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Liberia and Darfur.
Brig.Gen Abdihakim Sa'eed
Fmr. Police Commissioner
Somali National Police Force; Ministry of Internal Security

General Abdihakim Sa'eed served as the former Somali Police Force Commissioner and began his police career very early on in Somalia, having 41 years of experience. He worked within the
anti-smuggling, laundering and tax evasion arena in the northern regions before moving to head the security division of the same department in Mogadishu. General Saeed played instrumental roles during the Arta Conference and Transitional Federal Government and Counter Terrorism efforts, whereby great efforts and advances were made in recapturing the city and outskirts rom Al Shabab. He continues to be a focal point and influential leader regarding the complex security landscape in Somalia.