Professor Rohan Gunaratna's Book on Terrorism

Dr. Rohan Gunaratna

Professor of Security Studies

Head of International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research

Education: MA (University of Notre Dame); PhD (University of St Andrews)

Entity: ICPVTR

Email: isrkgunaratna@ntu.edu.sg

DID: +65 6316 8925

Professor Rohan Gunaratna is Professor of Security Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technology University, and Head of International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research, Singapore. He received his Masters from the University of Notre Dame in the US where he was Hesburgh Scholar and his doctorate from the University of St Andrews in the UK where he was British Chevening Scholar. A former Senior Fellow at the Combating Terrorism Centre at the United States Military Academy at West Point and at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Gunaratna was invited  to testify on the structure of al Qaeda before the 9/11 Commission. The author of 15 books including “Inside al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror” (University of Columbia Press), Gunaratna interviewed terrorists and insurgents in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Saudi Arabia and other conflict zones. For advancing international security cooperation, Gunaratna received the Major General Ralph H. Van Deman Award in June 2014.

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