Montreal International Security Summit 2024: An international Conference on China and the Indo-Pacific

MIGS hosted the second edition of the Montreal International Security Summit on 16 and 17 October. This year’s summit focused on China and the Indo-Pacific and promises to once again create engaging conversations and strategic dialogue. 

Speakers and Moderators:

• Vina Nadjibulla, VP Research & Strategy, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada

• Guy St-Jacques, former Canadian Ambassador to China
• Nadège Rolland, Distinguished Fellow, National Bureau of Asian Research
• Anne Tsai Bennett, Chief of Staff, National Endowment for Democracy
• Bonnie S. Glaser, managing director, Indo-Pacific Program, German Marshall Fund of the United States
• Melissa Chan, journalist, The Global Reporting Centre
  Sophie Richardson, The Hopkins-Nanjing Center, Stanford University

• John Packer, Neuberger-Jesin Professor of International Conflict Resolution and Director of the Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa
• Nury Turkel, American attorney, public official and human rights advocate
• Evan Solomon, GZero Media
• Robert Fife, journalist, The Globe and Mail

• Yaqiu Wang, Research Director for China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, Freedom House
• Terry Glavin, journalist, The National Post
• Francine Pelletier, journalist
• Sarah Cook, Independent researcher and author of the UnderReported China newsletter

• Margaret McCuaig Johnson, Snr Fellow, Institute for Science, Society and Policy and Senior Fellow, University of Ottawa
• James Andrew Lewis, Senior Vice President, Pritzker Chair, and Director, Strategic Technologies Program, CSIS
• Mercedes Stephenson, journalist, Global News
• Tomohiko Taniguchi, Specially Appointed Professor at the University of Tsukuba and Former Special Advisor to the Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

• Bay Fang, President and CEO, Radio Free Asia
• Joris Teer, Analyst, European Union Institute for Security Studies
• Elias Makos, CJAD 800
• Benjamin Tallis, Independent Analyst

• Jonathan Berkshire Miller, MacDonald-Laurier Institute
• Laura Thornton, Senior director of global democracy programs, McCain Institute 
• Chris Alexander, Former Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship of Canada
• Bob Pickard, Senior Fellow, MacDonald-Laurier Institute