On this episode of Defence Deconstructed, Cmdre (ret'd) Kelly Williams speaks to Dr. Cynthia Cook, Matthew Zolnowski, Giles Ahern, and MGen Odd-Harald Hagen about defence industrial capacity and resiliency.

This episode is an excerpt from our annual procurement conference, Putting Canadian Procurement on a War Footing, which took place on October 25th in Ottawa. This event was made possible thanks to the support of the Department of National Defence’s MINDS Program, our strategic sponsors Lockheed Martin Canada, General Dynamics, Irving Shipbuilding, and Davie Shipyard; Silver Sponsors the Royal Embassy of Norway in Ottawa and Innovation Norway; Bronze sponsors ATCO Frontec, BAE Systems Canada, Bombardier, The Boeing Company, and PAL Aerospace.

Participants bios

Dr. Cynthia Cook is director of the Defense-Industrial Initiatives

Group and a senior fellow in the International Security Program

at the Center for Strategic and International Studies

Matthew Zolnowski concurrently serves as a Special

Advisor for Strategic Materials and a Portfolio Manager within the

Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III Program with the Office

of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy.

Giles Ahern is Head of Trade and Strategic Exports Policy

for the UK Ministry of Defence.

MGen Odd-Harald Hagen he has been Defense

Attache and Defense Cooperation Attache to U.S. and Canada since August 2021.

Hosts bios

Cmdre (ret'd) Kelly Williams is a fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute – https://www.cgai.ca/kelly_williams

Dr. David Perry is President of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute – https://www.cgai.ca/david_perry

Recording Date: 25 Oct 2022

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Produced by Charlotte Duval-Lantoine. Music credits to Drew Phillips