Benedikt Franke on Security, Big Tech, and Open-Source Intelligence
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‘We need to put security at the centre of everything we do until the current systemic competition is won and until we can begin to rebuild the international governance mechanism.’
In this episode of the podcast, Manas Chawla speaks to the CEO of the Munich Security Conference Benedikt Franke about the re-conceptualisation of security to avoid one-sided dependencies and the importance of collaborating with big tech companies to ensure that freedom does not become a weakness in the Western defence strategy. Benedikt also talks about the value of open-source intelligence once its limitations have been taken into consideration.
Benedikt Franke is the CEO of the Munich Security Conference, a leading forum on international security policy. Prior to working for the Munich Security Conference, Benedikt worked as a senior advisor for strategic affairs for the German political party the Christian Social Union (CSU) and as a director for the Global Governance Institute. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge in Politics and a master’s degree from the John Hopkins University in International Studies.
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