On May 14, Neelam Deo, Co-founder and Director, Gateway House attended the 9th annual GLOBSEC 2014, a global security forum in Bratislava organised by the Slovak Atlantic Commission. The talking points for this year’s dialogue included ‘NATO, the West, and future military engagements; Populism, apathy and anti-Brussels tendencies: remodelling the EU; and The Balkan countries’ race for EU membership’. The talk also focused on the security considerations for former member countries of the Soviet Union in light of the recent crisis in Ukraine.
Launched in the year 2006, the GLOBSEC Bratislava Global Security Forum is a foreign policy and security platform – giving a central European twist to the strategic debate on transatlantic foreign policy, economy and security. The 2014 conference was chaired by Miroslav Lajčák, deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic, and his Hungarian counterpart, János Martonyi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary.
Neelam Deo has been the Indian Ambassador to Denmark and Ivory Coast with concurrent accreditation to several west African countries. She has also served in Indian embassies in Washington D.C., Bangkok and Rome. Her last assignment was as Consul General in New York.