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The British-North American Committee (BNAC) is a group of leaders from business, labor, and academia in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada committed to constructive relations among the three countries and their citizens. Its members meet regularly to discuss major economic, scientific and policy issues of mutual concern with top policymakers, scientists and business leaders. While nonpartisan and supportive of closer economic and political relations on a broad international basis, the BNAC believes that close personal ties and cooperation among leaders from various spheres in the three countries will play, in the future as they have in the past, a special role in promoting global security and prosperity. The Atlantic Council is an umbrella organization for the Committee in North America. BNAC is also sponsored by the British-North American Research Association in the United Kingdom and by the Massey College of the University of Toronto in Canada. Alan R. Griffith of the Bank of New York and Sir Paul Judge of Teachers TV are, respectively, the North American and British co-Chairmen. Professor Thomas H.B. Symons, C.C., is the BNAC Executive Chairman. More information about BNAC can be found on its website.Cyber Attack: Risk Management Primer for CEOs
December 19, 2007
No business, government, nongovernmental, or other organization of whatever size is invulnerable to cyber attacks. Business owners and executives, including managing directors, cannot afford to put at risk the security and stability of their operating and financial systems, confidential information, intellectual property, and business transactions to cyber predators through lack of knowledge or initiative.
Cybercrime Wake-Up Call Needed
December 12, 2007
CEOs who think cybercrime is just the business of CIOs are like Enron’s shrugging off the companies books as something for the accounting department. Those provocative words from Dr. Paul Twomey, president and CEO of ICANN, highlighted an all-star panel discussion on the launch of Cyber Attack: A Risk Management Primer for CEOs and Directors released on December 12 by the British-North American Committee (BNAC) and the Atlantic Council of the United States, the U.S. sponsor of the Committee.
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Atlantic Council Chairman Named National Security Advisor
Atlantic Council Chairman General James L. Jones has accepted President-elect Barack Obama’s offer to serve as his National Security Advisor. Jones, respected on both sides of the aisle, brings more than forty years of military and diplomatic experience to the post.
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The Challenge of Somali Piracy
In a metaphor that the traditionally nomadic Somalis would undoubtedly appreciate, it was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Last Thursday, Somali pirates seized the Ukrainian-owned, Belizean-registered freighter Faina as it neared the Kenyan port of Mombasa.
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Atlantic Council Board Member Named UN Ambassador
Susan E. Rice, a member of the Atlantic Council Board of Directors, was appointed President-elect Barack Obama's U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations on December 1.
