ProfessorRohan Gunaratna is a threat specialist of the global security environment. Professor Gunaratna has over 30 years of academic,policy,and operational experience in national and international security. He is Professor of Security Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies,Nanyang Technology University,Singapore.
Kenneth Guy Lieberthal is an American professor and politician known as an expert on China's elite politics,political economy,domestic and foreign policy decision making,and on the evolution of US-China relations.
Paul Wilkinson CBE was a British terrorism expert and an Emeritus Professor of International Relations and director of the University of St Andrews Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV). Dubbed "Britain's leading academic specialist in the study of terrorism",he was a frequent commentator in mainstream British media and an advisor to the UK government.
Paul R. Pillar is an academic and 28-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),serving from 1977 to 2005. He is now a non-resident senior fellow at Georgetown University's Center for Security Studies,as well as a nonresident senior fellow in the Brookings Institution's Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence. He was a visiting professor at Georgetown University from 2005 to 2012. He is a contributor to The National Interest.
Robert Jeffrey Art is Christian A. Herter Professor of International Relations at Brandeis University,and Fellow at MIT Center for International Studies. He subscribes to the theory of neorealism,which argues that force still underlies the power structure in the modern world. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations,a United States nonprofit think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs.
Richard Kevin Betts is an American political scientist and international relations scholar who centers on U.S. foreign policy. He is currently the Arnold Saltzman Professor of War and Peace Studies in the Department of Political Science,former director of the International Security Policy Program in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University,and former director of the Institute of War and Peace Studies.
Richard A. Falkenrath Jr. served as deputy commissioner of counter-terrorism of the New York City Police Department from 2006 to 2010. He was the third person to hold this position. His predecessors were Frank Libutti and Michael A. Sheehan.
Bruce O. Riedel is an American expert on U.S. security,South Asia,and counter-terrorism. He is currently a senior fellow in the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution,and a professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He also serves as a senior adviser at Albright Stonebridge Group.
Matthew Levitt is the Fromer-Wexler Fellow and director of the Jeanette and Eli Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and an adjunct professor in Georgetown University's Center for Security Studies (CSS). From 2005 to early 2007 he was a deputy assistant secretary for intelligence and analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. In that capacity,he served both as a senior official within the department's terrorism and financial intelligence branch and as deputy chief of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis. From 2001 to 2005,Levitt served the Institute as founding director of its Terrorism Research Program,which was established in the wake of the September 11 attacks. Previously,he provided tactical and strategic analytical support for counter-terrorism operations at the FBI,focusing on fundraising and logistical support networks for Middle Eastern terrorist groups. During his FBI service,Levitt participated as a team member in a number of crisis situations,including the terrorist threat surrounding the turn of the millennium and the September 11 attacks.
Andrew Carrigan Kuchins is an American political scientist,academic,and former head of American University of Central Asia. He has held senior positions at several think tanks,including Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,Center for Strategic and International Studies and Carnegie Moscow Center. Kuchins has written numerous books,articles,book reviews. He has been interviewed on mainstream and academic outlets including as CNN,Politico,The New York Times,The Washington Post,Washington Times,The Moscow Times,Chicago Tribune and CS Monitor. Additionally,Kuchins has given testimony before the United States Congress on Russia,Central Asia and the Caucasus.
The Institute for Security Policy and Law (SPL),formerly known as the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT),is a multidisciplinary research institute based in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and the Syracuse University College of Law. SPL was established in 2003 by Prof. William C. Banks with the goal of support an interdisciplinary approach to questions of national security and counter-terrorism law and policy.
Steven Simon is a former United States National Security Council senior director for the Middle East and North Africa. He also previously served as the Executive Director IISS-US and Corresponding Director IISS-Middle East and as a Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute based in Washington,D.C. He was Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies,at the Council on Foreign Relations. He was a Spring 2008 Berlin Prize Fellow. Steven Simon is now a visiting professor at Colby College in Maine.
William C. Martel was a scholar who specialized in studying the leadership and policymaking processes in organizations,strategic planning,cyberwarfare and militarisation of space,and technology innovation. He taught at the U.S. Air War College and U.S. Naval War College,and performed research for DARPA and the RAND Corporation. He later become Associate Professor of International Security Studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy,a position he held until his death in 2015.
Rommel C. Banlaoi is a Filipino political scientist,security analyst,an international studies expert,counterterrorism scholar,and a sinologist. He was nominated and designated as a Deputy National Security Adviser with the rank of Undersecretary in July 2022 to lead in the transition process at the National Security Council Secretariat. But he has returned to his work as an independent scholar and a non-government subject matter expert on geopolitics,peace and security studies;counterterrorism research;and,China studies. He is a celebrity professor and policy influencer known for his scholarly works on international terrorism,South China disputes,foreign affairs and geopolitical issues. He is the Chairman of the Philippine Institute for Peace,Violence and Terrorism Research (PIPVTR) and President of the Philippine Society for International Security Studies (PSISS),both academic and non-governmental organizations.
Daniel L. Byman is one of the world's leading researchers on terrorism,Counterterrorism and the Middle East. Dr. Byman is a professor in Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service and Director of Georgetown's Security Studies Program He is a former Vice-Dean of the school.
James E. Baker is an American attorney,judge,and academic. He is the former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. He was appointed to the Court on September 19,2000,by President Bill Clinton,and became its Chief Judge upon the expiration of Andrew S. Effron's term on September 30,2011. He is currently a professor of Law and Public Administration at Syracuse University and Director of the Institute for Security Policy and Law. Baker is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.
Martha Crenshaw FBA is a political scientist who is prominent for her research on terrorism. She is professor of political science at Stanford University since 2007,as well as senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) and Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC).
The Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV),also known as the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence,is a research centre at the School of International Relations at the University of St. Andrews,and is Europe's oldest terrorism research facility. The CSTPV is "dedicated to the study of the causes,dynamics,characteristics and consequences of terrorism and related forms of political violence",while committed to rigorous,independent evidence-based scholarly analysis. In addition,the CSTPV investigates the responses of states,civil society,and international organizations to violent modes of waging conflict. As the basis of its work,the CSTPV maintains databases,manifestations,and consequences of terrorism and other forms of political violence.
Christopher P. Costa is a retired US Army intelligence officer with 34 years of service,culminating in his role as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterterrorism at the National Security Council,White House. He is now the executive director of the International Spy Museum.
