Halifax International Security Forum
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| Founded | 2011 |
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| Focus | International security |
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Area served
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worldwide |
| Services | forum and network for decision-makers |
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Key people
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Peter Van Praagh, President Joseph Hall, Vice President Jonathan Weisstub, Chairman Jonathan Tepperman, Vice Chairman David J. Kramer, Treasurer |
| Mission | Advancing greater strategic cooperation among democracies to meet the world's most pressing security challenges. |
| Website | halifaxtheforum.org |
Halifax International Security Forum (also Halifax Forum or HISF) is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. It is a forum and network for international government and military officials, academic experts, authors and entrepreneurs. Halifax Forum addresses global security issues. The Forum is best known for its annual security summit in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The meeting brings together more than 300 delegates from over 70 countries and has been referred to by media as “The Davos of international security”. This summit is the only event of its kind in North America. The 9th Halifax Forum will be held from 17 to 19 November 2017.
Halifax International Security Forum was founded in 2009 as a program within the German Marshall Fund of the United States, with financial support from the Canadian government. Its annual meeting is held in Halifax in mid-November, usually the weekend before U.S. Thanksgiving. In 2011 the forum became an independent organization and was joined by Foreign Affairs as media partner.
Halifax Forum is an independent, nonprofit organization based in Washington, DC. The nonpartisan forum has an American-Canadian board of directors as its highest governance body. The President of the forum is Peter Van Praagh. HISF cooperates with institutional partners. The forum’s founding partners are the Department of National Defence (DND) and the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA). In 2011, after the forum’s independence, the Canadian government continued its funding, and Foreign Affairs joined the forum as media partner. In August 2012, HISF launched the Halifax Canada Club (HCC), a public-private partnership created in cooperation with the Canadian government and Calgary-based MEG Energy. HCC serves as a permanent body to engage the private sector in support of the Forum.
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