Speaker Biograghy: With over 30 years' experience in the aviation, security and technology industries with airlines, airports, regulators, large system integrators and technology providers, Kris has been an ICAO advisor in revitalising Afghanistan’s civil aviation sector and in the redesign of India’s AVSEC regulatory oversight and services provisions now under way. Kris recently returned from her role as programme manager overseeing biometrics, backscatter and screening operations in support of the US State Department presence in Iraq. She serves on numerous industry and government committees in various AVSEC-related efforts, including new international biometric access control standards.


Day 1 - 10 March
Session: Aviation Security, Border Control & Facilitation

15:15 - 15:45 - Security solutions in disintegrated environments: lessons for aviation
Synopsis: Senior government executives must obtain a suitable calculus for gauging the economic impacts affecting airports when considering actions in response to terrorism activities. Alert levels and response assessments by security professionals based on risk management of situations do not address attendant outlays that may exceed the direct costs incurred from the actual events. Advanced research and analysis using a systems-based approach can provide realistic metrics in developing actionable policy recommendations as integrated with homeland security policies.

Audience will learn:

• The dynamics of employing operational countermeasures should be made in tandem with realistic gauges of the economic effects of closing or restricting civil aviation activities.