PETER SHAW, a banker with Standard Chartered Bank, was brutally kidnapped in the Georgian city of Tblisi. He will give a harrowing account of five months pushed into a dark hole underground in freezing conditions.
 Cramped, cold, wet and isolated, how did he cope with the mental and physical pressures while a demand of $2m was being made as ransom?
 A lesson to others as kidnapping is now on the increase world wide. This will be a truly motivational session for companies tasked with the responsibility of protecting employees from kidnap.

Psychologist, DR LESLEY PERMAN-KERR, a professional in supporting ongoing/post hostage, kidnap and other incidents, will look at the wider picture of preparing individuals for secondments in hostile areas abroad; and lessons learnt from other hostage experiences.

Introduction by DAVID BURRILL, OBE, expert in international security management

Date: Wednesday 7th May 2014

Venue: Naval and Military Club, 4 St. James’s Square, London, SW1 4JU

Dress Code: Black ties.

Time: 7.30 for 8 pm.

Ticket Price: £85pp made payable to the Defence and Security Forum and posted to 21 Cloudesley Street, London, N1 OHX.

Apply to Lady Olga Maitland at olga.maitland@virgin.net or tel. 0207 837 9212 or mobile 07778 917133.