Imran Ahmad Khan President & Co-Founder

Imran Ahmad Khan is Transnational Crisis Project’s President and Co-Founder, principally responsible for delivery, key management, and strategic development. As a strategist, expert in transnational security, population-centric foreign policy, ideological radicalization and counter-radicalization, Imran has advised governments, groups and organisations in several countries and is called upon by policymakers, academics and journalists to share his insights. As Crisis Project’s President he frequently travels at the invitation of universities, governments and others to address audiences around the world. Born and educated in Great Britain to an English mother and a Pathan fathe... Read more...

Matthew R. McNabb Executive Director & Co-Founder

Matt McNabb serves as Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Transnational Crisis Project, principally responsible for cellular design and management, creative strategic vision, global operations, and policy swarming. As an expert in transnational security, with a particular emphasis on instruments and analysis associated with the ‘Global Jihadi Movement’, strategic swarming and popular mobilization, and transnational criminal enterprise, he has conducted field research in Bosnia, Egypt, Lebanon, Israel, Spain, Italy, Pakistan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Matt has also lectured widely within the United States and United Kingdom on key strategic indicators and modell... Read more...

Paul Ammer Principal for Enterprise

Serving as the Principal for Enterprise with the Transnational Crisis Project, Paul Ammer assumes responsibility for designing and managing the Crisis Project’s global financial strategy and cellular return on investment. He brings entrepreneurial expertise to the Crisis Project that helps to achieve and assure sustainability and efficiency. Paul has worked and interned with Conergy AG in Hamburg, Hereaeus Electro Nite in Shanghai and McKinsey & Company in Düsseldorf and Paris. He earned a Bachelor’s degrees in Philosophy and Economics from the University of Bayreuth (Germany) and a Masters in International Relations at King¹s College London. In addition to his corporate and academi... Read more...

Jim Williams Principal for Innovation

As the Principal for Innovation with the Transnational Crisis Project, Jim applies his background in opensource intelligence analysis and software concept design to oversee the development of the Crisis Project's networking and communications capabilities, infuses principles of nonlinear emergence and innovation to global operations, and assists particularly with the Climate Change & Security strand of substantive research. As a researcher at the International Centre for Security Analysis (ICSA), King’s College, London, he carried out research on nonprofliferation issues. Prior to making the transition into security analysis, Jim worked from 2004 as a software designer for the UK... Read more...

Alexander Ulster Programme Manager -- London Cell

Alex Ulster is the London Cell’s Programme Manager. In addition to the management of specific projects key responsibilities include devising and coordinating Crisis Project’s strategy for the United Kingdom and serving as deputy to the London Cell Leader. Formerly an officer in the British Army, Alex has operational experience in Northern Ireland, Kosovo and Iraq. Prior to joining the Crisis Project, Alex served in the British Headquarters in Basra with responsibility for Information Operations and public diplomacy. He also worked for Boris Johnson on his successful London Mayoral campaign. Alex was educated at Eton and Sandhurst and holds a degree in War Studies from King’s Co... Read more...

Syeda Abida Hussain Distinguished Advisor

Ambassador Syeda Abida Hussain was born on 17 March 1946 in Lahore, the daughter of the the Honorable Col. Syed Abid Hussain Shah and Syeda Kishwar Sultana. In February 1972, Amb. Hussain was elected a Member Punjab Assembly. In 1979 she was elected Chairperson of the Jhang District Council, the first women to chair a local council in Pakistan. She was re-elected Chairperson of Jhang District Council in 1983. In 1985 she became the first women in Pakistan's Legislative History to be elected Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan. She was re-elected Mmeber National Assembly in 1988. She was appointed Minister for Information in the Cabinet of Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi in 1990. In Oc... Read more...

Rustum Shah Mohmand Distinguished Advisor

His Excellency Ambassador Rustum Shah Mohmand was born in Peshawar in 1942. He graduated in civil engineering and humanities and then joined the civil service of Pakistan from 1968-69. He has worked as an Assistant Commissioner, Assistant Political Agent in Wana, South Waziristan and a Deputy Commissioner Chitral and Kohat. He has also been Political Agent Khyber and South Waziristan agency and Commissioner of South and North Waziristan agency. He was the Commissioner for Afghan Refugees from 1983-1985 and again from 1992-1996, the Chief Commissioner for Afghan Refugees from 1987-1989, and Home Secretary for the Frontier province and tribal areas between 1989-1991. From 1997-1998 Amb... Read more...

Syed Fakhar Imam Distinguished Advisor

Syed Fakhar Imam was born on 18 December 1942 in Lahore. Having received his basic education at Aitchison College in Lahore, Pakistan and Clifton College in Bristol, United Kingdom, he went on to graduate from the University of California, Davis. From 1968-1969 he served in Central Superior Services of the Government of Pakistan. From 1970-1974 he worked in private sector and was elected Chairman of the District Council in Multan where he served from 1980-1983. From 1981-1983 he served as Federal Minister for Local Government and Rural Development and was elected Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan in 1985 from Multan. 1985-1986 he served as the Speaker of the National Assembl... Read more...

Richard Barrett Senior Advisor

Since March 2004 Richard Barrett, OBE has been the Coordinator of a Team of experts appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General to advise the Security Council on the threat from Al-Qaida and the Taliban. He is based in New York. His work with the Security Council involves extensive contact with all Member States, but especially those that are most involved in addressing the threat from Al-Qaida and the Taliban. This takes him to all parts of the world and has allowed him to establish close partnerships with the international intelligence and security community in particular. His advice to the Security Council is based on these contacts and focuses on the effective implementat... Read more...

Gavin McNicoll Special Advisor

Gavin McNicoll is the Founder and Director of Eden Intelligence, a specialist provider of small scale, high-impact policy events and special projects within the international security field. Having researched terrorism and intelligence for over 16 years, Mr. McNicoll has established a substantial body of research, conference and consulting work teamed with significant academic institutions like King’s College London, St Andrews, Cambridge, MIT and Georgetown, and has become well known to senior policy and corporate security circles in the United Kingdom and United States. His projects, including the landmark annual International Terrorism and Intelligence Conference (ITIC), are designe... Read more...

Jack Spence Senior Fellow

Professor Jack Spence was Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Leicester, from 1981-1987, a Professor of Politics between 1973-1991, and Director of Studies at the Chatham House from 1990-1997. Since 1997 Professor Spence has served as a Visiting Professor at the Department of War Studies, King's College London and as an Academic Advisor with the Royal College of Defence Studies in London. Read more...

Rahimullah Yusufzai Senior Fellow

Rahimullah Yusufzai, a leading Pakistani journalist, is a senior editor and Peshawar bureau chief with The News and has served as a correspondent for Time Magazine, BBC World Service, BBC Pashto, BBC Urdu, Geo-TV, and ABC News. Mr. Yousufzai has interviewed Usama bin Ladin, Mullah Omar, and a range of other militants across the tribal areas of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Read more...

Anatol Lieven Senior Fellow

Professor Anatol Lieven is the Chair of International Relations and Terrorism Studies at the Department of War Studies, King's College London and a Senior Research Fellow with the New America Foundation. Prof. Lieven has covered Central Europe for the Financial Times, Pakistan, Afghanistan, the former Soviet Union, and Russia for The Times (London), India as a freelance journalist, and has also written for the International Herald Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, The National Interest, The Christian Science Monitor, Prospect (U.K.), and The Nation, among other publications. From 1986 to 1998 he covered the anti-Soviet war in Afghanistan, the Chechen war of 1994-96 and other conflicts. Fr... Read more...

Allie Wharf Senior Fellow

Allie Wharf has spent the last fifteen years working as a producer and director for BBC News and current affairs, working most recently as the BBC’s senior foreign producer on the daily flagship news and current affairs program, Newsnight. Ms. Wharf has worked extensively in Afghanistan, Africa, Iraq, and elsewhere in the Middle East, covering a range of core conflict, development, and economic issues. She reported on the ground in Iraq for the BBC both before and throughout the current Iraq war and in Afghanistan for the through November of 2001. In addition to journalism, Ms. Wharf conducted a four month secondment throughout Mozambique, under the auspices of the Commonwealth B... Read more...

Bilal Baloch Research Analyst

Bilal Baloch serves as a Research Analyst, based in the Washington DC Cell. Bilal closely assesses political and policy development, vis-à-vis US policy towards Pakistan from the Management Cell in Washington DC. Before joining Crisis Project, Bilal conducted research into quantitative confirmation theory, pertaining to the application of Bayesian statistics and probability theory in the philosophy of science, with a particular focus on scientific realism during the 18th and 19th centuries. In addition to his experience in academic research, Bilal has worked extensively with UK charities, such as Operation Christmas Child, UK Cancer Research and Islamic Relief. Bilal was duly the recipi... Read more...

Hans Tino Hansen Senior Fellow

Hans Tino Hansen is founder and Managing Director of Risk Intelligence. His areas of expertise are threats from piracy, terrorism, insurgency and organised crime, especially in relation to maritime security, military conflicts as well as intelligence and the future of intelligence. He has extensive experience in public speaking and presentation to diverse audiencesAs an expert on maritime security threats in general and on piracy in particular, he has been consulted by Reuters, AFP, AP, BBC, Bloomberg, Radio France, International Herald Tribune, National Geographic as well as Danish national TV, radio and newspapers. He has contributed to books including the forthcoming Lloyd’s MIU Hand... Read more...

Stephen Warwick Fellow of Practice

Stephen Warwick is a Detective Inspector attached to the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), Terrorism and Allied Matters (TAM). He specialises in policing international terrorism at the national level. He has additional specialist skills deployed whilst serving with the Metropolitan Police Service (London) specifically managing diversity within the police service and secondly, delivering policing of London’s diverse communities, by addressing their explicit needs. Stephen possesses an undergraduate degree in criminology/psychology and a graduate degree in criminal investigation. He is presently reading for a further graduate degree, Investigative Forensic Psychology (London S... Read more...

Oli Brown Fellow

Oli Brown is a program manager and policy researcher for the Institut International due Developpement Durable's Trade and Investment, and Security programmes. He also co-ordinates the Trade Knowledge Network - a network of developing country research organisations working on the ways in which trade and investment policies can promote and enable sustainable development. He joined IISD in late 2004. With a first degree in Social Anthropology and a Masters in International Relations, Oli spent two years in Nepal managing education and conservation projects and a year and a half as a trade policy researcher for Oxfam GB. He has completed consultancies for the UNDP, the International Organ... Read more...

J. Scott Taylor Fellow

Major James Scott Taylor Jr. was commissioned into the United States Army in January 1996 as a Field Artillery officer. He has served as a Fire Support Officer at every level from tank company to division headquarters. He commanded Battery E, 7th Field Artillery, 10th Mountain Division from August 2002 until June 2004. He twice deployed to Afghanistan as part of the Global War on Terror. Currently he is the Deputy Director of the Combating Terrorism Center and an instructor of American Politics, Policy and Strategy in the Department of Social Sciences, at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. Included among his awards and decorations are the Bronze Star Medal ... Read more...

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