Team: Policy and Practitioner Fellows

Krystel von Kumberg graduated from Georgetown University with a Master’s degree in Security Studies (2020). Her Master’s thesis highlights the often overlooked and less explored pathway of individuals transitioning from…

Kesa White is a Research Associate at PERIL. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and a Master of Science degree in Terrorism and Homeland Security from American…

Dr Jessica White is a Research Fellow in the Royal United Services Institute’s Terrorism and Conflict Research Group. Her expertise encompasses countering terrorism and violent extremism policy and programming and…

Originally qualifying and practising as an industrial chemist, in mid-career Dr Waring switched emphasis to management and social sciences. In 1994, he gained a PhD from Westminster University for an…

Dr Craig McCann is a specialist in the UK Prevent Strategy, the UK Channel programme, state responses to right wing extremism, counter extremism, and international CVE/PVE programming from an operational…

Chamila Liyanage is a specialist on terrorism and political violence and has experience working primarily on three focus areas: secessionist conflicts, religious extremism, and radical right social movements. She conducted…

Jacob Davey is a Research Manager at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), a global counter-extremism organisation dedicated to powering new generations against hate and extremism. Jacob co-leads ISD’s research…

Michael Colborne is a journalist who has written extensively about the radical right. His current work focuses on the far-right in central and eastern Europe, with a special interest in…

Dr Simon Purdue is the Director of the Domestic Terrorism Threat Monitor at MEMRI in Washington, DC, where he leads a team tasked with tracking and monitoring far-right terror threats…