Speaker: Martin S. Navias, Teaching Fellow, Department of War Studies, KCL

Abstract:

This talk will address the key elements of the re-imposed sanctions regime targeting Iran in the wake of the US withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.  It will analyse the growing conflict between the US and the European Union as to the desirability of these sanctions and what the Europeans are doing to circumvent them. It will also review the second set of US sanctions that are planned for November and how various importers of Iranian products are preparing to respond.  

 Biography:

Martin S. Navias is a global banking and finance lawyer working in the city of London.  He has worked as a banking lawyer in Moscow, Beijing, Hong Kong, Prague and Vienna. He is a research associate in the Centre for Defence Studies and a former lecturer in the Department of War Studies where he focused on proliferation. He has taught global banking law at Sun Yet Sen University in Guangzhou, China and at the University of Tanzania in Dar es Salaam.  He also teaches Finance and Security on various programmes run by the Centre for Defence Studies in government departments in the UK and in the military. He commentates on military affairs in the media and has written on a range of security issues.