Dr. Richard J. Chasdi is a political scientist who specializes in terrorism studies and counterterrorism, and who has published four books and over one dozen refereed academic journal articles and book chapters. Chasdi is a Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at The George Washington University. Prior to that, Chasdi was a Professor of Management in the Management Department at Walsh College, Troy, Michigan. His first book, Serenade of Suffering: A Portrait of Middle East Terrorism, 1968-1993 (Lexington Books, 1999) received Choice magazine’s “Outstanding Academic Title” in international relations in 2000. He completed a Fulbright Specialist Program in 2017 at the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR) at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2017. Chasdi serves on the editorial boards of both Armed Forces and Society, and Perspectives on Terrorism. He is a Senior Fellow at theGlobal Peace Institute (UK) and and Adjunct Senior Fellow at ICPVTR at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Chasdi has served as a news consultant for many televisions networks that include, but are not limited to, al-Jazeera, Asharq News, Al-Araby Television, China Global Television Network (CGTN), Sputnik Radio, and National Public Radio (NPR).
Dr. Yair Sharan is currently the director of the FIRS2T Group, Israel, a Col.(ret) in the IDF, who is active in the security foresight and technology fields, was a senior researcher at BESA, Bar-Ilan University, and was the director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Technological Analysis and Forecasting (ICTAF) at Tel Aviv University. Recent co-authored or co-edited publications include: Tripping Points in the Road to Outwit terror (Springer 2021), Identification of Potential Terrorists and Adversary Planning Emerging Technologies and New Counter-Terror Strategies (IOS Press for NATO, 2017), Lone Wolf TerrorProspects (2015), Lone Actors-An Emerging Security Threat (IOS Press for NATO, 2015), and Terrorism and the Internet (IOS Press, 2010).