Panel 4 Speakers

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Moderator

Katherine Rossy

Associate Professor, Royal Military College of Canada

Dr. Rossy is Associate Professor of International History at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, and Deputy Director of Research at the CIDP. She completed her PhD in History from Queen Mary University of London in 2018, where she held a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Doctoral Scholarship before becoming a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Carleton University from 2019-2022. Dr. Rossy’s expertise lies in the Second World War and early Cold War eras, particularly the history of humanitarianism, human rights, and the laws of armed conflict. She is currently working on a monograph about the evolution of United Nations emergency humanitarianism in all theatres of conflict during the Second World War and its immediate aftermath (1943-48). She is the recipient of a number of awards, including the Alice Wilson Award from the Royal Society of Canada (2019) and the Young Alumna of the Year Award from Concordia University (2020).

Panelist

Yannick Veilleux-Lepage

Dr. Yannick Veilleux-Lepage is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Royal Military College of Canada. His research explores the intersection of technology, ideology, and political violence, with particular focus on terrorist innovation, online propaganda, and the use of emerging technologies by violent extremist organizations. He has published extensively on topics including the adoption of 3D-printed firearms by extremist actors, the role of technological convergence in terrorist threat evolution, and the use of evolutionary theory in understanding terrorist behavior.

Dr. Veilleux-Lepage is the author of How Terror Evolves: The Emergence and Spread of Terrorist Techniques (2020) and has co-authored numerous peer-reviewed articles and policy papers. He collaborates regularly with academic, intelligence, and law enforcement communities in Canada and internationally. 

Associate Professor, Political Science - Royal Military College of Canada

Panelist

Anna Nadibaidze

Dr. Anna Nadibaidze is a Balsillie Scholar at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark (SDU). She investigates artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in international security and the global governance of military applications of AI. Anna holds a PhD in political science from SDU. Her research is part of the Independent Research Fund Denmark-funded HuMach project, as well as the European Research Council-funded AutoNorms projects. Anna also played a leading role in the ERC-funded AutoPractices international project, which resulted in a toolkit of best practices for policymakers, military personnel, and developers to sustain the exercise of human agency in the development and use of AI systems. She regularly attends and speaks at key global events on military AI, such as debates at the United Nations or the Responsible AI in the Military Domain (REAIM) summits. Her work has been published in journals such as Contemporary Security Policy, Big Data & Society, Ethics and Information Technology, and European Journal of International Security.

Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for War Studies - University of Southern Denmark

Panelist

Branka Marijan

Senior Researcher, Project Ploughshares

Panelist

William Barry

US Army War College