Rohan Gunaratna

Professor Rohan Gunaratna is a threat specialist of the global security environment. Prof. 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, and founder, International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research, Singapore. He received his master's from the University of Notre Dame in the United States, where he was Hesburgh Scholar and his doctorate from the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom, where he was British Chevening Scholar. A former Senior Fellow at the United States Military Academy at West Point and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, he was invited to testify on the structure of al-Qaeda before the 9/11 Commission. The author and editor of 30 books including "Inside al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror" (University of Columbia Press), he 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, and other conflict zones. He was the architect of ASEAN’s “Our Eyes” initiative, a regional counterterrorism network modelled on Five Eyes. For advancing international security cooperation, Prof. Gunaratna received the Major General Ralph H. Van Deman Award.