Robert Bell, Senior Vice President of SAIC and former NATO Assistant Secretary General for Defense Investment will visit Warsaw and Krakow.

Robert Bell

Robert Bell, Senior Vice President of SAIC and former NATO Assistant Secretary General for Defense Investment will visit Warsaw and Krakow March 3-6, 2008. From 1993-1999, Mr. Bell worked at the White House National Security Council (NSC) as a Special Assistant to President Clinton for National Security Affairs and as the NSC Senior Director for Defense Policy and Arms Control. During 1999-2003, Mr. Bell was responsible for the promotion of NATO armaments cooperation policies and programs. He chaired NATO’s Conference of National Armaments Directors (CNAD) and its C3 Board (NC3B) and directed NATO International Staff activities in the areas of common funding, resource coordination, airspace management and airspace defense.

During his visit to Poland Robert Bell will be speaking about the history of missile defense deployments in Russia (and Belarus, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, etc.), current NATO missile defense program (ALTBMD) and whether it is possible that NATO and Russian programs can be leveraged to create a cooperative NATO-US-Russia missile defense architecture.
As a part of America Presents Program on Monday, March 3 at 17:00, Robert Bell will appear at the Biblioteka Publiczna m.st. Warszawy, ul. Koszykowa 26/28 (entrance III). He will speak on the topic: “Missile Defense in Europe: Past, Present and Future." Simultaneous translation will be provided.

Please RSVP to America Presents Coordinator at: AmericaPresents@state.gov or call: 022 504 23 95 if you like to attend.