Senator Kimberley Kitching speaks at AIWS Roundtable

United Nations 2045 Roundtable
United Nations 2045 Initiative – UNleashed 2045: The United Nations at 100
The United Nations and implementing standards and norms for peace and security in 2045.

Time: 8:00 PM EDT, September 23, 2020
This is a United Nations 2045 Roundtable

Keynote speaker:
Senator Kimberley Kitching, Chair of Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee, Parliament of Australia

Discussants:
Marc Rotenberg, Director of Center for AI and Digital Policy at Michael Dukakis Institute
Derek Reveron, Chair, National Security Affairs, US Naval War College

Moderator:
Ramu Damodaran, Chief of the United Nations Academic Impact

Agenda:
• 8:00 PM: Opening Remarks, Ramu Damodaran
• Introduction about United Nations 2045 Initiative, Keynote Speaker Senator Kimberley Kitching and discussants; Ramu Damodaran
• Keynote speech: The United Nations and implementing standards and norms for peace and security in 2045, Senator Kimberley Kitching
• Discussion: Marc Rotenberg, Derek Reveron
• Q&A
• 9:30 PM: Conclude, Ramu Damodaran

The United Nations 2045 Initiative:
The United Nations 2045 is an initiative of the United Nations Academic Impact with collaboration by the Boston Global Forum and AIWS.net.
The United Nations 2045 include roundtables, ideas, concepts, solutions, essays, and reflections looking ahead to the global landscape in 2045, when the United Nations completes its first centenary, in areas of these technologies, including artificial intelligence, cyber security and weapons systems, among others. Such a compilation which looks both to the horizon ahead and the role of the United Nations in making it beneficial and secure, would be timely.

Bios:
Keynote Speaker:
Senator Kimberley Kitching

• Senator for Victoria
• Parliament of Australia, Co-chair of Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC),
• Shadow Assistant Minister for Government Accountability
Deputy Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate
• Chair, Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee

Kimberley was born and raised in Brisbane and graduated from The University of Queensland with law and arts degrees.
Before being sworn in as a Senator in November 2016, Kimberley practised as a lawyer, worked as a manager in several private companies in information technology and human resources, was a senior adviser to the Treasurer of Victoria and the Victorian Minister for Industry, Trade, Major Projects and Information Technology, was a Melbourne City Councillor and the General Manager of the Health Workers Union in Victoria where she helped restore good governance and financial strength.
Kimberley’s most important job as a Labor Senator is job creation and reminding Parliament to look after Australian families and workers instead of special interests and lobby groups. She has also been a strong advocate for the adoption of Magnitsky-style laws in Australia.

She has been a party member for 27 years, has been a National Conference delegate, a member of the Victorian ALP Administrative Committee for more than a decade and a State Conference delegate for even longer.
Kimberley lives in the northwest of Melbourne with her husband.

Moderator:
Ramu Damodaran

• Chief, the United Nations Academic Impact
Editor-in-Chief of the United Nations Chronicle Magazine

Mr. Ramu Damodaran is Deputy Director for Partnership and Public Engagement in the United Nations Department of Public Information’s Outreach Division and is chief of the United Nations Academic Impact initiative, which aligns institutions of higher learning and research with the objectives of the United Nations and the States and peoples who constitute it. He is also the current secretary of the United Nations Committee on Information. His earlier posts with the Organization have included the Departments of Peacekeeping and Special Political Questions, as well as the Executive Office of the Secretary-General.
Mr. Damodaran has been a member of the Indian Foreign Service, where he was promoted to the rank of Ambassador, and where he served as Executive Assistant to the Prime Minister of India as well as in the diplomatic missions in Moscow and to the United Nations, and in a range of national governmental ministries.

Discussants:
Marc Rotenberg

* Director, Center for AI and Digital Policy at Michael Dukakis Institute
Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University
Co-Author of Social Contract for the AI Age

Marc Rotenberg is one of the leading experts on data protection, open government, and AI policy. He has served on many advisory panels, including the OECD AI Group of Experts. Marc helped draft the Universal Guidelines for AI, a widely endorsed policy framework for the regulation of Artificial Intelligence.
Marc is the author of several books on privacy law, open government, and AI policy, including the 2020 AI Policy Sourcebook. Marc has spoken frequently before the US Congress, the European Parliament, the OECD, UNESCO, and other international organizations.
Marc is a graduate of Harvard College, Stanford Law School, and Georgetown Law.

Derek S. Reveron,

* Chair, National Security Affairs, US Naval War College
Member, Board of Thinkers, the Boston Global Forum
Derek S. Reveron is chair of the National Security Affairs Department at the Naval War College and is a faculty affiliate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School. He specializes in strategy development, non-state security challenges and U.S. defense policy. Co-written with a computer scientist, his current book project examines security in the information age. As a serving officer in the Navy Reserve, he has commanded units in support of U.S. European Command, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, U.S. Southern Command and U.S. Naval Forces Central Command.

United Nations 2045 Initiative – UNleashed 2045: The United Nations at 100
Suggestion questions for Senator Kimberley Kitching talk:
– How does the United Nations maintain peace, security and common values in 2045?
– How to improve the United Nations to enhance its role in maintaining peace, security, and common values in 2045?
– What is the role of the United Nations in implementing Social Contract for the AI Age?