Witnesses Claire Clement (Director, International Law and Policy at British Red Cross), and Professor Marco Sassoli (Professor of International Law at University of Geneva)
Witnesses Adam Wagner (Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers), Adam Rose (Solicitor and Partner at Mishcon de Reya), and Sharone Lifschitz (Daughter of hostages taken in October 2023)
Witnesses Dr Gershon Baskin (Co-chairman at Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI)), Samer Sinijlawi (Founding Chairman at Jerusalem Development Fund), Dr Victor Kattan (Assistant Professor in Public International Law at The University of Nottingham), and Colonel (Retired) Miri Eisin (Senior Fellow at International Institute for Counter-Terrorism)
Inquiry Work of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Witnesses Sir Philip Barton KCMG OBE (Permanent Under-Secretary at Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office), and Mr David Lammy (Secretary of State at Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)
Witnesses Dr Nicholas Westcott (Former UK Ambassador to Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Togo and Niger; former High Commissioner to Ghana and Professor of Practice at SOAS, University of London), Dr Jieun Kiaer (Young Bin Min-Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Linguistics and Senior Research Fellow and Dean of Degrees at Hertford College, University of Oxford), and Martin Scott (Professor of Media and Global Development at University of East Anglia)
Witnesses Jamie Angus (former Director of the BBC World Service), and Baroness Helic (former Special Advisor to William Hague during his time as Foreign Secretary)
Inquiry Work of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Witnesses Sir Philip Barton KCMG OBE (Permanent Under-Secretary at Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office), Corin Robertson (Director General, Finance and Corporate at Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office), and Tim Jones (Finance Director at Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)
Inquiry The UK’s international counter-terrorism policy
Witnesses Stig Jarle Hansen (Norwegian political scientist, historian and author and Associate Professor at Norwegian University of Life Sciences), Jonathan Guiffard (Senior Fellow, Defence and Africa at Institute Montaigne), and Dr Nicholas Westcott (Professor of Practice at Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS)
Inquiry The UK’s international counter-terrorism policy
Witnesses John Deverell CBE (Independent Consultant at First Call Partners, and former senior military officer and Director of Defence Diplomacy at Ministry of Defence)
Inquiry The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa
Witnesses Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Minister of State (Middle East, North Africa, South Asia, United Nations and the Commonwealth) at Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office), and Stephen Hickey (Director for Middle East and North Africa in the FCDO)
Inquiry The UK’s international counter-terrorism policy
Witnesses Professor Alexander Evans (Former Coordinator, Al Qaida/Daesh/Taliban Monitoring Team, UN Security Council, Professor in Practice, London School of Economics and Political Science)
Inquiry The UK’s international counter-terrorism policy
Witnesses Aimen Dean (former MI6 agent and former member of al-Qaeda and Co-Founder and Director of Operations at Cruickshank & Dean Global Intelligence)
Oral Evidence
30 April 2024
Inquiry The UK’s international counter-terrorism policy
Inquiry The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa
Witnesses Baroness Ashton of Upholland (Former High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Former Vice President at European Commission), Sir Mark Lyall Grant (Former National Security Advisor), and Mike Singh (Managing Director at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy)
Inquiry The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa
Witnesses Ali Ansari (Professor at School of History, St Andrew’s University), and Behnam Ben Taleblu (Senior Fellow at Foundation for Defense of Democracies)
Inquiry International relations within the multilateral system
Witnesses Ms Emma Reilly (Former Human Rights Officer at Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)), and Richard Gowan (UN Director at International Crisis Group)