Dr. Alastair Reed is Acting Director of ICCT. Prior to this he was Research Coordinator and a Research Fellow at ICCT, joining ICCT and Leiden University’s Institute of Security and Global Affairs in the autumn of 2014. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at Utrecht University, where he completed his doctorate on research focused on […]

Mark Singleton is the GCTF Administrative Unit’s acting Team Leader. Prior to this role he led ICCT as Director from 2014 – 2016. Mr. Singleton is a career diplomat with 30 years’ experience in foreign affairs, development cooperation and security. Mark has worked in The Middle East, Afghanistan, East and West Africa, Georgia and Europe in a […]

Marco  de Swart is a Senior Portfolio Manager at ICCT. Marco is responsible for the oversight of both core (policy relevant research and dissemination) activities and externally-funded projects. He works closely with the Director (replacing him in his absence), supervises the programme managers, project staff, consultants, and ICCT Fellows to further the strategic direction and operational management […]

Eva Entenmann is a Programme Manager at ICCT. Eva is responsible for the preparation, implementation and monitoring of various ICCT projects and activities. Her areas of interest include foreign fighters, rule of law-related aspects of (counter-) terrorism, civil society engagement and rehabilitation of violent extremist offenders. Prior to her arrival at ICCT, Eva undertook a research assistantship […]

Karlien Lismont is a Programme Manager at ICCT and she joined the organisation in October 2014. As Programme Manager Karlien is responsible for the coordination, planning and monitoring of the Research Programme and numerous projects. Her focus is mainly on projects related to ICCT’s prevention pillar. Karlien has a background in International Development Studies (Utrecht […]

Meike Döring is a Senior Financial Officer at ICCT. Prior to the ICCT Meike worked 4 1/2 years for Staedion, mainly as project controller for Aardwarmte Den Haag. Since 2013 she is also working free-lance as expert administrating EFRO grants and since 2009 as accountant for Stichting Biblionef Nederland. Meike studied economics at the University of Aachen in […]

Johanna Pohl is a Programme Assistant at ICCT. Before joining ICCT, Johanna studied International Relations and Counter-Terrorism at the IDC Herzliya, Israel. She has worked at the International Institute for Counter-terrorism (ICT), as well as at QSchools, an educational start up in the Arab-Israeli sector. Currently, Johanna is studying towards her MSc degree in Crisis and […]

Anouk Boas is a Programme Assistant at ICCT. Prior to joining ICCT, Anouk worked at the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Nairobi, Kenya, where she helped set up the Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) dossier. Anouk holds a master’s degree in ‘International Peace and Security’ from King’s College London, with a specialisation in counter-terrorism and […]

Matteo Besana is an All-Round Intern at ICCT. Before joining ICCT, Matteo studied Journalism at the University of the Arts in London. He has worked both as a writer for the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) and as a radio broadcaster at Resonance FM, both positions were based in London. Currently, Matteo is studying […]

Melissa Novotny is a Research Intern at ICCT. Before joining ICCT, Melissa completed her Bachelor’s degrees in History and International & Comparative Politics from the American University of Paris in France. Currently, Melissa is in the process of completing her Master’s degree in Political Science: European Union in a Global Order at the University of […]

Edwin Bakker is a Research Fellow at ICCT, Professor of (Counter-)Terrorism Studies at Leiden University, and Director of the Centre for Terrorism and Counterterrorism (CTC) of that same university. He studied Economic Geography (Netherlands) and Political Geography (Netherlands and Germany). In 1997, he defended his PhD thesis on minority conflicts in Slovakia and Hungary. He […]

Wietse van den Berge a Research Fellow at ICCT. He studied political science at Leiden University, specialising in international relations and political philosophy. After graduating in 2002, he joined the Royal Netherlands Air Force and attended the Royal Netherlands Military Academy. A 12-month internship at the academy’s military science faculty followed completion of his officer […]

Sergei Boeke is a Research Fellow at ICCT. After completing Officer training for the Royal Netherlands Navy, he studied law at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, specialising in international and criminal law. After graduation he held several posts in the Navy, serving on different warships and with the Second Marine Battalion, deploying to Southern Iraq in 2003-4. […]

Dr. Bérénice Boutin is a Researcher in public international law at the T.M.C. Asser Instituut, working on an array of projects related to military operations, counter-terrorism, and human rights. Her research interests include general public international law, State responsibility, the law of international organisations, international human rights law, and international humanitarian law. She completed her […]

Dr. Grégory Chauzal is a Research Fellow at ICCT. In this capacity he is contributing to a project on the foreign fighter phenomenon and the relevant policies in the EU member states. Grégory is a Senior Research Fellow at the Conflict Research Unit of the Netherlands Institute for International Relations ‘Clingendael’. At the CRU, he specializes on the […]

Dr. Bibi van Ginkel, LLM, is a  Research Fellow at ICCT and a coordinator of the Security Cluster of the Clingendael Research Department of the Netherlands Institute for International Relations ‘Clingendael’, the no. 1 think tank in The Netherlands for International relations. As coordinator she is responsible for ensuring the high quality of research, the […]

Liesbeth van der Heide is a Research Fellow at ICCT. She coordinates the Centre’s activities on the rehabilitation and reintegration of violent extremist offenders. She is also a Researcher and Lecturer at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), Leiden University – Campus The Hague. In her research on de-radicalisation and reintegration programmes of violent extremist offenders […]

Tanya Mehra is a Research Fellow at ICCT, and a Senior Education Manager at the T.M.C. Asser Instituut.With a background in international law Tanya is involved in developing, setting up and implementing tailor-made trainings and summer programmes at the T.M.C. Asser Instituut in the broad field of international law for a diverse audience ranging from […]

Dr. Christophe Paulussen LL.M M.Phil is a Research Fellow at ICCT, a senior researcher international humanitarian law/international criminal law and coordinator of the Public International Law cluster at the T.M.C. Asser Instituut, and coordinator of the inter-faculty research platform ‘International Humanitarian and Criminal Law Platform’. Christophe is also member of the editorial boards of the journal Security and […]

Alex P. Schmid is a Research Fellow at the ICCT, and Director of the Terrorism Research Initiative (TRI), an international network of scholars who seek to enhance human security through collaborative research. He was co-editor of the journal Terrorism and Political Violence and is currently editor-in-chief of Perspectives on Terrorism, the online journal of TRI. […]

Bart Schuurman is a Research Fellow at the ICCT and has worked as a Researcher at Leiden University’s Institute of Security and Global Affairs (formerly Centre for Terrorism and Counterterrorism) and PhD candidate since 2011. Bart has a background in History and International Relations. Past projects have included a study on potential “indicators” of terrorist intent […]

Dr. Tinka Veldhuis is Research Fellow at ICCT and Research Associate at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael’. In addition, she is PhD Fellow and Lecturer at the Sociology Department of the University of Groningen. Her research interests are radicalisation, violent extremism and terrorism. In particular, she focuses on detention and re-integration of terrorist […]

Daan Weggemans is a Research Fellow at ICCT and a researcher at the Centre for Terrorism & Counterterrorism of Leiden Unviersity/Campus The Hague. In his research, Daan Weggemans focusses on processes of (de)radicalisation and re-integration. He studied, among others, the radicalisation and preparatory processes of Dutch Foreign Fighters. Currently he is researching re-integration of (former) extremist […]

Sofia Zavagli is a Research Fellow at ICCT. In this capacity she is contributing to a project on the foreign fighter phenomenon and the relevant policies in the EU member states. Sofia works as Project Assistant in the Security and Terrorism division of the Clingendael Institute where she previously held an Internship position working on […]

Jeanine de Roy van Zuijdewijn is a Research Fellow at ICCT. She is also a Researcher at the Centre for Terrorism & Counterterrorism (CTC). Jeanine studied International Relations in Historical Perspective at Utrecht University and finished her degree with a thesis on foreign fighters (cum laude). At ICCT, she has continued this research on foreign […]

J.M. Berger is an Associate Fellow at ICCT and a Fellow at George Washington University’s Program on Extremism. He is a researcher, analyst and consultant, with a special focus on extremist activities in the U.S. and use of social media. Berger is co-author of the critically acclaimed ISIS: The State of Terror with Jessica Stern and author of Jihad […]

Max Boon was an Associate Fellow at ICCT from 2012 – 2015 and continues to be involved in the Victims’ Voices initiative as one of the founders of the Aliansi Indonesia Damai (Alliance for a Peaceful Indonesia, AIDA). He obtained his Master’s Degree in Southeast Asian Affairs & Management at Leiden University (2002), specialising in […]

Jessica Dorsey is an Associate Fellow at ICCT. Originally from the United States, she received her J.D. in 2008 while concentrating on international and comparative law (with distinction), before completing her LL.M. (cum laude) in public international law writing her thesis on the responsibility to protect at Utrecht University School of Law in 2010. After […]

Fulco van Deventer is Associate Fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague (ICCT) and the Co-founder and Deputy Director of the Human Security Collective (HSC). He has extensive experience in the fields of security, counter-terrorism, countering violent extremism, de-radicalisation, human rights, human security and resilience as well as justice and reconciliation. He […]

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross is an Associate Fellow at ICCT and a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, D.C. Gartenstein-Ross’s academic and professional focus is on the impact of violent non-state actors on twenty-first century conflict. Studies that Gartenstein-Ross has authored examine the economic aspects of al Qaeda’s military strategy; the radicalization process […]

Zack Gold is a Non-resident Fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, where he focuses on Egyptian political and security developments and US policy in the region. His work on Sinai security and Egyptian-Israeli relations has been published and quoted widely, including the 2015 Strategic Assessment article, “Sinai Militancy and […]

Dr. Haroro J. Ingram is a research fellow with the Coral Bell School, Australian National University (Canberra). His primary postdoctoral research project analyses the role of propaganda in the strategies of violent non-state political movements with Islamic State and the Afghan Taliban as major case studies. This three-year project is funded by the Australian Research […]

Peter Knoope is an Associate Fellow at ICCT. Since his departure as Director of the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague in August 2014, Peter Knoope is an Associate Fellow at ICCT. Until mid 2009, he was Deputy Director of the Policy and Strategy Department of the Dutch National Coordinator for Counter-Terrorism (NCTb). The […]

Seran de Leede is an Associate Fellow at ICCT. Her areas of interest include gender and terrorism/extremism and the modern history of Afghanistan. In her history master-thesis (2013) she looked at the role and position of neo-Nazi women in contemporary Germany through a historical perspective. In 2014 she concluded an exploratory assessment on Afghan women […]

Sulastri Osman is an Associate Fellow at ICCT, advising the local implementing partner of the Victims’ Voices Project in Indonesia on its research and outreach programmes. Sulastri conducts research on terrorism, counterterrorism and other security-related issues in Southeast Asia, with a particular country focus on Indonesia. Her research interests are in examining the multi-layered rationalities for militancy […]

Dr. Elaine Pressman is an Associate Fellow at the ICCT, involved in the Intake and Risk Assessment Project. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the Canadian Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada and a Subject Matter Expert and Senior Fellow in risk […]