Hostage Aid Worldwide Launch Event
Mar 4 2021
WHEN:
Mar 4, 2021 at 2:00pm
WHERE:
Online
CONTACT INFO:
Carole Chedid
MORE INFO:
Special Event
This event is not sponsored or endorsed by The National Press Club. Inquiries should be directed to the contact above.
Hostage Aid Worldwide (HAW), in participation with the James Foley Legacy Foundation, invites you to its upcoming launch event that will host a number of renowned panelists and former hostages to discuss the increasing threat of hostage taking globally and ways to intercept the hostage business model with a focus on JCPOA and international hostage conventions.
Event Hosted by
- Nazanin Boniandi, Actress & Amnesty International UK Ambassador
Featured Keynote Speakers
- Senator Jeanne Shaheen
- Congressman Ted Deutch
- Diane Foley, President and Founder, James Foley Legacy Foundation
With the Participation of:
- Sam Goodwin, Former Hostage in Syria (2019), Hostage Aid Worldwide
- Kylie Moore-Gilbert, Former Hostage in Iran (2018-2020), Hostage Aid Worldwide
- Alen Gross, Former Hostage in Cuba (2009-2014), Hostage Aid Worldwide
- Nizar Zakka, Former Hostage in Iran (2015-2019), Hostage Aid Worldwide
- Tim Receveur, Director of Programs
- Carole Chedid, Hostage Aid Worldwide Board Member
Panel Discussions
Strategies to effectively strengthen and implement these conventions as a deterrent tool to end the increasing trend of hostage taking
- James C. O'Brien, Former Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs
- Dr. Carla Ferstman, University of Essex School of Law
- Dr. Tatyana Eatwell, Doughty Street Chambers
- Sara (Levinson) Moriarty, Daughter of Robert Levinson, longest held US Hostage
- Moderator: Ali Arab, Hostage Aid Worldwide Board Member
The global hostage business model and strategies to distrupt it
- Dr. Julia Nesheiwat, Former Homeland Security Advisor to President
- Ali Soufan, Former FBI Special Agent and CEO of The Soufan Group
- Maziar Bahari, Editor, Iranwire
- Jason I. Poblete, President, Global Liberty Alliance
- Moderator: Geoffrey Dive, Hostage Aid Worldwide Senior Advisor
Revival of the JCPOA and ways to prioritize the freedom of current American and foreign hostages in Iran
- Jason Rezaian, Former Hostage in Iran (2014-2016)
- Wang Xiyue, Former Hostage in Iran (2016-2019), Hostage Aid Worldwide
- Barry Rosen, Former Hostage, US Embassy Tehran (1979-1981), Hostage Aid Worldwide
- Richard Ratcliffe, Husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
- Jared Genser, Managing Director, Perseus Strategies
- Moderator: Siamak Dehghanpour, VOA Journalist