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Germany, the United Kingdom, China, Canada, and the United States. He can be
contacted at decastror@dlsu.edu.ph.
Rohan Gunaratna (Ph.D. St Andrews) is head the International Centre on
Political Violence and Terrorism Research and Professor of Security Studies at
the Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore. He was a former Senior Fellow at the United States
Military Academy’s Combating Terrorism Center and at Tufts University’s
Fletcher School for Law and Diplomacy. He interviewed detainees in
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Iraq, Philippines, Indonesia,
U.S. and several other countries. As a litigation Consultant for the U.S.
Department of Justice, he testified in the Jose Padilla case. He is the author of a
dozen books including Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror published by
Columbia University Press in New York.
Scott Helfstein is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and
an Associate at the Combating Terrorism Center at the United States Military
Academy at West Point. He has provided terrorism policy advice to the U.S.
Department of Defense and briefed Special Operations Command on various
aspects of terrorism. His work has appeared in Public Administration Review, and
has forthcoming articles in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism and Nonproliferation
Review. Scott completed a Joint Doctorate in Political Science and Public Policy at
the University of Michigan in 2008, where he majored in world politics. He also
earned a Master’s Degree in War Studies from King’s College London in 2004.
From 1999 to 2002, Scott worked as an investment banker focusing on mergers
and acquisitions at Credit Suisse First Boston. Prior to that, he worked at the
Federal Reserve Board of Governors in the Banking Supervision and Regulation
and Research and Statistics Divisions from 1997 to 1999. Scott also holds an
undergraduate degree in finance from the George Washington University.
Currently, his research addresses terrorism, nonproliferation, networks, decision
making, and grand strategy.
Joseph Chinyong Liow is Associate Professor and Associate Dean at the S.
Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore. His research interests are in the themes of Muslim politics and
international politics in Southeast Asia, and intrastate conflict. His most recent
publications are Islam, Education, and Reform in Southern Thailand: Tradition and
Transformation (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2009) and Piety and Politics:
Islamism in Contemporary Malaysia (Oxford University Press, 2009).
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