Rohan Gunaratna
Rohan Gunaratna is a Professor of Security Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technology University, and founder of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research, Singapore. He received his master’s from the University of Notre Dame, USA, where he was a Hesburgh Scholar, and his doctorate from the University of St. Andrews, UK, where he was a British Chevening Scholar. A former senior fellow at the Combating Terrorism Centre at the United States Military Academy at West Point and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Dr. Gunaratna was a visiting fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. The author of Inside al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror, Dr. Gunaratna edited the Insurgency and Terrorism Series of the Imperial College Press, London. A trainer for national security agencies, law enforcement authorities, and military counterterrorism units, he interviewed terrorists and insurgents in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and other conflict zones. For advancing international security cooperation, Dr. Gunaratna received the Major General Ralph H. Van Deman Award.