Staff Profiles / Dr Rohan Gunaratna

Prof Rohan Gunaratna

Education

M.A. (International Peace Studies) University of Notre Dame

Ph.D. (International Relations) University of St Andrews

Research Interests

Terrorist organisations, terrorist operational and support networks, maritime terrorist tactics, technologies and techniques, suicide terrorism, and terrorism in the Asia-Pacific

Professional Activities

Head of RSIS’s International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR)
Member of the Steering Committee of George Washington University's Homeland Security Policy Institute
Senior Fellow both at Fletcher School for Law and Diplomacy's Jebsen Centre for Counter Terrorism Studies and the Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism, Oklahoma
Counter terrorism instructor for GIGN, CTSO, D88, US NAVY SEALS, Swiss Federal Police, NYPD, and the Australian Federal Police
Former Senior Fellow at the United States Military Academy's Combating Terrorism Centre at West Point
Litigation consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice, expert in the Jose Padilla trial

Selected Publications

Author and editor of 12 books including “Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror” (Columbia University Press), an international bestseller, Gunaratna is also the lead author of Jane’s Counter Terrorism, a handbook for counter terrorism practitioners. His latest book with Michael Chandler, former Chairman of the UN Monitoring Group into the Mobility, Weapons and Finance is "Countering Terrorism: Can We Meet the Threat of Global Violence?” He also serves on the editorial boards of "Studies in Conflict and Terrorism" and "Terrorism and Political Violence," the leading academic journals in the field

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