Prem Mahadevan

Prem Mahadevan is a researcher in intelligence studies. For almost nine years, he worked as a terrorism analyst with the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. In this capacity, he briefed Swiss and EU policymakers as well as NATO and the Global Counter-terrorism Forum on transnational threats presented by Pakistan-based jihadist groups. He advised Indian security agencies on best practices for responding to multiple ‘active shooter’ attacks and authored tactical studies on the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack for Indian and European security think-tanks. His books include Islamism and Intelligence in South Asia (IB Tauris, 2018) which summarizes 27 years’ worth of Pakistani media reports on state patronage of jihadist groups. The present ICCT paper was derived from research for this book, conducted entirely at the Center for Security Studies.