Day 2: Environmental Challenges Impacting Hemispheric Security

This event originally took place on Friday, May 10, 2024
The Hemispheric Security Conference (HSC) is an annual conference where experts from academia, governmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, and private sectors converge to examine the most pressing security challenges facing the Western Hemisphere.
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Panel
Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi of the IAEA assumed office as the Agency’s sixth Director General on 3 December 2019. In September 2023 the IAEA's 67th General Conference approved by acclamation his re-appointment to serve a second four-year term of office starting 3 December 2023. Mr Grossi is a diplomat with almost 40 years of experience in the fields of non-proliferation and disarmament. In 2013, he was appointed Ambassador of Argentina to Austria and Argentine Representative to the IAEA and other Vienna-based International Organizations. Before assuming office as the IAEA’s Director General, Mr Grossi was president-designate of the 2020 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), and from 2014 to 2016 served as president of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG).
Dr. Claudia Natenzon was born in 1952 at La Plata, Argentina. Married, one son. Geographer in 1975 at the Philosophy and Literature School, Buenos Aires University, Argentina. Doctor in Geography at the University of Seville, Spain, in 2000. With professional and research experience since 1977 in public and private institutions national and international in the following maters: 1) Catastrophic floods, risk and vulnerability; 2) Natural protected areas like development factor to the local population.
Dr. Paul J. Angelo assumed his position as Director of the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies on June 21, 2022, following his selection by the Office of the Secretary of Defense. His previous work at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) included roles as Fellow for Latin America studies and as an International Affairs Fellow. There he focused on US-Latin American relations, transnational crime, security assistance, and immigration. During his tenure as an International Affairs Fellow, he also represented the US Department of State at the US Embassy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, where he managed the ambassador's security and justice portfolio.
Minister Alexis Bethancourt is former Minister of Public Security of Panama, serving from 2016-2018. Prior, he was Director of the Financial Analysis Unit (UAF), with over two decades of expertise in financial security, and worked with the Ministries of the Presidency and Economy and Finance, among many other government positions. He graduated from the Colegio Militar de la Nación, in Argentina.
Ambassador Riyad Insanally is a Fellow at the Caribbean Policy Consortium. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Caribbean Initiative at the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center. He was Guyana’s Ambassador to the United States and permanent representative to the Organization of American States (OAS) from September 2016 to June 2021. He was also previously Guyana’s nonresident ambassador-designate to Mexico. As a career diplomat for over thirty-one years, he received Guyana’s third-highest award, the Cacique’s Crown of Honour in 2019 for his long and distinguished service in the field of diplomacy and international relations. He is currently an associate of the University of Guyana Foundation, an inaugural member of the Presidential Precinct’s Global Advisory Council in Charlottesville, Virginia, and an honorary associate fellow of the Centre for Caribbean Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.
MODERATOR
Dr. Maria Concepcion Donoso is presently coordinating the International Programs for the Institute of Environment at Florida International University (FIU). Dr. Donoso's research and professional interests are in integrated water resources management, air-sea-land interaction processes, and in climate change and variability impacts on the natural environment (with main interest in water resources) and society. Dr. Donoso has a BS and an MS in Civil engineering from the People's Friendship University (Moscow, Russia) and an MS in Ocean Engineering from University of Miami (Miami, Fl., USA). She has pursued doctoral (PhD) studies at the Rosenstiel School of Miami and at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education. Dr. Donoso has a Doctor Degree (Doctor Honoris Causa) from the Universidad Federico Villarreal (Lima, Peru).
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