Dr Scott N Romaniuk is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Security Studies at the China Institute, University of Alberta. He received his PhD in International Studies from the University of Trento, examining the effects of Hungary’s counter-terrorism and security policies on civil society organizations in the post-9/11 period. He holds an MRes in Political Research, an MA in Terrorism, Crime and Global Security, and an MA in Military Studies (Joint Warfare). His teaching and research specializations include International Relations, Military and Strategic Studies, Security Studies, Terrorism and Political Violence, and Research Methods. He is a Senior Research Affiliate with the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security and Society (TSAS) and a member of the Conflict, Terrorism and Development (CTD) Collaboratory at Michigan State University.Prof Dr Christian Kaunert is Chair of Policing and Security, as well as Director of the International Centre for Policing and Security at the University of South Wales. He is also the Leader of the Cognate Research Group on Policing and Security at the University of South Wales. Previously, he served as an Academic Director and Professor at the Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, a Professor of International Politics, Head of Discipline in Politics, and the Director of the European Institute for Security and Justice, a Jean Monnet Centre for Excellence, at the University of Dundee. He was previously Senior Lecturer at the University of Dundee, Marie Curie Senior Research Fellow at the European University Institute Florence, and Senior Lecturer in EU Politics and International Relations, University of Salford. He has been awarded with a prestigious Jean Monnet Chair in EU Justice and Home Affairs Policy and EU Counter-Terrorism (2012, 2013, 2017 and 2018), and received a prestigious Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (from 2012-2016), the latter held at the University of Dundee. He is currently the Editor of the Journal of Contemporary European Studies, International Conflict and Cooperation, and the Edward Elgar Book Series ‘European Security and Justice Critiques’. Prof Kaunert holds a PhD in International Politics and an MSc in European Politics from the University of Wales Aberystwyth, a BA (Hons) European Business from Dublin City University, ESB Reutlingen and a BA (Hons) Open University.Amparo Pamela Fabe is a Filipino Professor of Financial Terrorism and Transnational Organized Crime at the Philippine Public Safety College and the National Police College. Professor Fabe helped write Republic Act 11479, known as the Philippine’s Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020, particularly the section on penalizing the material support for terrorism. She is a Visiting Fellow at the International Center for Policing and Security at the University of South Wales, and a Fellow of the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies. She completed the WayOut Certification Training for the European Union Integrated Exit Program for Prison and Probation Program of the University of Toulouse Jean-Jaureas and the Postgraduate Program in Hate Crime/Hate Speech at the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Center, Rome, Italy. Professor Fabe is the Philippine National Police Representative to the Secretariat and to the ASEAN Senior Officials’ Meeting on Transnational Crime (SOMTC). She is a Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism specialist of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. Fabe is a member of the United Nations Cryptocurrencies Working Group for Southeast Asia and a member of the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime Contact Group on Sulu and Celebes Sea. Her affiliations include the American Chamber Overseas Security Advisory Council (East Asia and the Pacific), and the International Corrections and Prison Association.
