Advisory Board - Security and R&D |
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Dr. Rohan Gunaratna is Head, International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research, Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies in Singapore. He is also a Senior Fellow, at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy's Jebsen Centre for Counter-Terrorism Studies, Boston; a Senior Fellow at the National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism, Oklahoma; an Honorary Fellow and Member of the Advisory Council at the International Policy Institute for Counter Terrorism, Israel; and a Member of the Steering Committee, George Washington University's Homeland Security Policy Institute. He holds a Masters degree in International Peace Studies from University of Notre Dame, US, where he was Hesburgh Scholar and a Doctorate in International Relations from University of St Andrews where he was British Chevening Scholar.
Gunaratna has over 20 years of academic, policy, and operational experience in counter terrorism. He led the specialist team that designed and built the UN database on the mobility, weapons and finance of Al Qaeda, the Taliban and their Entities. He advised Risk Management Solutions, California, on how to develop their US and Global Risk Models. He is the author of 12 books including “Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror,” published by Columbia University Press, an international bestseller. He serves on the editorial boards of "Studies in Conflict and Terrorism" and "Terrorism and Political Violence," the leading counter-terrorism academic journals.
Dr. Adam Dolnik is Director of Research Programs at the Centre for Transnational Crime Prevention (CTCP) at the University of Wollongong in Australia. He formerly served at the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research in Singapore, the WMD Terrorism Project at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California, and the United Nations Terrorism Prevention Branch in Vienna.
Dr. Dolnik regularly lectures for various agencies and organizations around the world, eith audiences ranging from senior government officials to members of elite tactical units. He has also conducted field research on terrorist networks in conflict zones such as Afghanistan and North Caucasus, and is the author of two books as well as more than three dozen articles and reports in edited volumes and a variety of international journals.
Shawn Winter has 33 years of experience in the field of Special Forces, Anti Terrorism and Force Protection with the US Military - Federal Government Services and in International Business.
In 1980 he was assigned to the Joint Special Operations Command at Plattsburg AFB, during the Winter Olympics Games held at Lake Placid, New York, and in 1984 he was assigned to participate in the security during the Los Angeles Olympics. Since 1980, he has been assigned to 10 Olympic Games throughout the world and recently working for NBC News Television for the 2006 Winter Games in Turin and in Nigeria.
Before entering the private sector, he was the Anti Terrorism Force & Protection Director for Military Sealift Command-Europe for over four years.
Winter holds two-university Bachelors of Science (BS) Degrees and one Masters of Science Degree. His first BS degree was from the University of California at Berkeley in Industrial Engineering in 1982. Later,in 1992, he earnt a second BS degree from the University of California at San Diego in Earthquake Engineering. He completed his Masters of Science in 1998 for Human Resources Management at the Golden Gate University in San Francisco, CA.
Morten Hansen is a risk and crisis management consultant with experience from both the public and private sector. Morten has worked for some of the world’s leading providers of security consulting, crisis management and safety services, where he has advised multinational corporations, foreign ministries, NGOs and IGOs throughout the world.
His educational background includes graduate and postgraduate studies in international relations, political science, security studies and business administration. Morten holds a M.Sc. in Strategic Studies as well as an MBA, and he is currently pursuing doctoral studies at Korea University in Seoul. He has lectured at a number universities and think-tanks.
Before making his transition to the corporate security industry, Morten served as an NCO in the Danish Army, which included NATO peacekeeping operations in Bosnia and Kosovo.
