Prof. Andrew Silke

Professor Andrew Silke has a background in forensic psychology and criminology and has worked both in academia and for government. His recent books include Prisons, Terrorism & Extremism (2013) and Terrorism: All That Matters (2014). He serves by invitation on the United Nations Roster of Terrorism Experts and is a member of the European Commission’s Radicalisation Awareness Network Centre of Excellence (RAN CoE) which works with practitioners to develop state-of-the-art knowledge to prevent and counter radicalisation to violent extremism.  Prior to this, he served both on the European Commission’s European Network of Experts on Radicalisation and on the Commission’s Expert Group on Violent Radicalisation. He has provided invited briefings on terrorism-related issues to Select Committees of the UK House of Commons and was appointed in 2009 as a Specialist Advisor to the House of Commons Communities and Local Government Committee for its inquiry into the UK Government’s programme for preventing violent extremism. He is a member of the UK’s Cabinet Office National Risk Assessment Behavioural Science Expert Group. He currently holds a Chair in Criminology at the University of East London where he is the Head of Criminology and the Programme Director for Terrorism Studies.