Alexander von Rosenbach
Alexander von Rosenbach is Operations Manager at ICCT. Before joining ICCT, he worked as a Senior Technology Analyst & Project Manager for a New York City startup, managing enterprise-level business processes and technology solutions. He also worked for five years at Jane’s, a London-based open-source intelligence provider to militaries, governments, intelligence agencies and industry. There, he led a team of analysts and researchers assessing military capabilities and threats around the world.
As Operations Manager, Alexander brings more than 10 years of commercial and security experience to bear on ICCT strategy, finance, staffing and organizational design. He holds a Master’s degree in International History from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of British Columbia.
Introduction Academic research began to focus specifically on terrorism in the 1960s and 1970s, although it would take until the 9/11 attacks before the burgeoning field took on its current form and significantly increased output. From those early days in the mid-to-late twentieth century onwards, terrorism research has had a distinctly applied focus, with a […]
Introduction In Syria and Iraq, the general consensus is that Islamic State (IS) has been militarily defeated, but the terror group is now popping up elsewhere and breathing new life into its global caliphate. In an April 29 video, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi mentioned that pledges of allegiance from the Khorasan region had been […]
In Nigeria, current strategies for the rehabilitation and reintegration of violent extremist offenders—as exemplified by the government-initiated Operation Safe Corridor—have lacked the community support and assistance needed to ensure their success. Through a series of five workshops with traditional and religious leaders and government representatives, conducted across Bauchi and Abuja, as well as an intensive […]