ZEUTHEN, Martine

Martine Zeuthen is an Associate Fellow in the Terrorism and Conflict Research Group at RUSI. Based in Kenya she focusses on extremism and radicalisation, countering violent extremism, programme management and research methodology. Martine set up RUSI’s operation in East Africa and led the ‘Strengthening Resilience to Violent Extremism in the Horn of Africa’ (STRIVE) programme and the follow on, STRIVE II as well as many other research-based CVE projects. She is a Danish anthropologist (BA and MSc) and currently studying a PhD in Crime and Security Studies at University College London. She became a Senior Fellow at Hedayah Centre of Excellence in February 2020 and is also a member of an International Consensus Guidelines Committee managed by the Canadian Practitioners Network for the Prevention of Radicalisation and Extremist Violence (CPN-PREV) as well as a member of the Danish Researchers Network specializing in extremism and radicalisation.

Professor Adrian Cherney is an academic criminologist in the School of Social Science, at the University of Queensland. He has received national and international funding for research on violent extremism. He is currently an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. His fellowship has two main programs of research: 1.The evaluation of programs aimed at convicted terrorists and individuals identified as at risk of radicalisation; 2. Analysis of risk and background factors of individuals who have radicalised in Australia and implications for the design of interventions and risk assessment tools. For instance, he is developing and testing metrics and methods to evaluate case-managed interventions aimed at radicalised individuals. He completed the first ever evaluation of the Proactive Integrated Support Model (PRISM) intervention in New South Wales, that targets convicted terrorists and radicalised inmates. Professor Cherney is involved in many Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) programs, such as data baselines and evaluation guidelines.

Paul Gill is Professor of Security and Crime Science at University College London. He has published more than 80 papers on the behavioural underpinnings of terrorism. He has received research funding (including co-applications) from sources including the office of Naval Research, Department of Homeland Security, Home Office, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Justice, the European Union and the North-West Counter Terrorism Unit. These projects exceed €10M in total.  These projects were all directly relevant to violent extremist risk assessment and management. Topics include lone-actor terrorism, mass casualty offenders, online radicalisation, risk factors, evaluation and risk assessment and management. They also span a wide range of threat groups including Irish Republican groups, extreme right-wing individuals, left-wing movements, lone actors, and jihadist-inspired groups and individuals.  He has extensive experience of teaching, developing, and publishing research that uses a range of methodological tools and theoretical paradigms.  He has worked extensively with and as a consultant for UK police forces and their crime reduction partners.

Dr Michèle Grossman is Professor and Research Chair in Diversity and Community Resilience at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University in Australia, where she also serves as Director of the Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies (CRIS) (www.crisconsortium.org) and Convenor of the AVERT (Addressing Violent Extremism and Radicalisation to Terrorism) Research Network (www.avert.net.au). She is an Associate Editor of Terrorism and Political Violence, an Editorial Board member of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism and a Robert Schuman (Distinguished Scholar) Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. Her research on various aspects of preventing and countering violent extremism has been funded by Public Safety Canada, National Institute of Justice, CREST-ESRC, Department of Home Affairs, CVESC-ANZCTC and Horizon 2020, among others. With Canadian colleagues, she developed the BRAVE measure for youth resilience to violent extremism (2017) and has pioneered multi-country research on intimate bystander reporting on violent extremist involvement (2015-2022)

Rohan Gunaratna is Professor of Security Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technology University, Singapore. He received his Masters from the University of Notre Dame in the US where he was Hesburgh Scholar and his doctorate from the University of St Andrews in the UK where he was British Chevening Scholar. A former Senior Fellow at the Combating Terrorism Centre at the United States Military Academy at West Point and at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Gunaratna was invited to testify on the structure of al-Qaeda before the 9/11 Commission. The author of 16 books including ‘Inside al-Qaeda: Global Network of Terror’ (2002). Gunaratna edited the Insurgency and Terrorism Series of the Imperial College Press, London. He is a trainer for national security agencies, law enforcement authorities and military counter-terrorism units, interviewed terrorists and insurgents in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Saudi Arabia and other conflict zones. For advancing international security cooperation, Gunaratna received the Major General Ralph H. Van Deman Award in June 2014.