National policies, governmental and corporate, read well on the page. Then they meet the ground, where competing priorities, thin resources, and local realities no framework anticipated stall them. Why does so much good policy fail in the delivery, and what separates the policy that holds from the policy that doesn’t? Join us for a candid hour on making strategy survive contact with the people who have to implement it and the communities who have to live with it.
Marc Ablong PSM is Managing Partner of Geostrategic Risk Partners and a Fellow of the Institute of Strategic Risk Management. He spent 31 years in the Australian Public Service, including six as Deputy Secretary Policy at the Department of Home Affairs and 25 years as a senior executive in the Department of Defence. Over the course of his service, he led major strategic policy developments in the national security, national resilience and related domains. In his post-APS career, he continues to work on closing the gap between national strategy and effective local delivery.
Nasser bin Nasser is Founder of Ambit Advisory and Senior Advisor to UNIDIR and TRENDS. He has worked across security, development and geopolitical risk in the Middle East, including as Managing Director of the Middle East Scientific Institute for Security and head of the Middle East Regional Secretariat under the EU Centres of Excellence initiative on CBRN issues. Earlier, he served in the office of His Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan, focusing on foreign affairs and regional analysis. A World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, he continues to advise on complex risk, regional security and the nexus between emerging technologies and strategic stability.