Rohan Gunaratna
Rohan Gunaratna is a specialist of the global threat
environment, with expertise in threat groups in Asia,
the Middle East and Africa. He is Head of
Singapore’s International Centre for Political
Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR), one of
the largest specialist counter terrorism research and
training centres in the world.
He is also Professor of Security Studies at the S.
Rajaratnam School of International Studies,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and a
Senior Fellow at the International Memorial Institute
for the Prevention of Terrorism, Oklahoma, USA. He
is Member of the International Advisory Board of
the International Institute for Counter Terrorism in
Israel and a Member of the Steering Committee of
George Washington University's Homeland Security Policy Institute.
Gunaratna was a Senior Fellow both at Fletcher School for Law and Diplomacy
and at the United States Military Academy's Combating Terrorism Centre at West
Point.
He holds a Masters in International Peace Studies from Notre Dame, US, and a
Doctorate in International Relations from St. Andrews, Scotland. Invited to testify
before the 9-11 Commission on the structure of Al Qaeda, Gunaratna led the
specialist team that built the UN Database on Al Qaeda, Taliban and their Entities.
He debriefed detainees in the U.S., Asia, Middle East including high value Al Qaeda
detainees in Iraq. He chaired the inaugural International Conference on Terrorist
Rehabilitation in February 2009.
Author and editor of 14 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 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, and on the advisory
council of “Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism.”
A litigation consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice, Gunaratna was United
States expert in the Jose Padilla trial.
Khuram Iqbal
Khuram Iqbal is presently Research Coordinator at Pak Institute for Peace Studies, Islamabad. A graduate in Strategic Studies from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Singapore, he was working as senior Analyst at International Center for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR), Singapore. Khuram Iqbal, the co-author of “Pakistan Terrorism Ground Zero” published by Reaktion Books London, carried extensive research on wide range of issues, particularly in the areas of radicalization and counter-terrorism. He is also the member of Council for Asian Transnational Threats Research (CATR).
As a trainer, Mr. Iqbal has been engaged in various initiatives aimed at the capacity building of PIPS research staff. He has also given briefings/lectures to policy makers, academics, journalists and international workshops/seminars on different security related issues. He has also appeared as an expert on international and Pakistani media including Bloomberg, CNBC, Voice of America, BBC World Radio, Hindustan Times, The Nation (Thailand), Straight Times(Singapore), and Rohi TV (Pakistan)
