Rebecca Visser

Rebecca Visser joined the ICCT in July 2022 as the Radicalisation Awareness Network & Acquisition intern. In December 2022, she was appointed as a full-time Business Support Officer & RAN Policy Support Officer, then in December 2023 she became a Business Officer and Junior Research Fellow. In this position, she supports the management of key ICCT business processes, as well as conducting research and coordinating the capacity-building and knowledge-sharing activities of the Radicalisation Awareness Network Policy Support project. 

Rebecca holds a First Class Bachelors in History and International Relations from King’s College London, and graduated Cum Laude in MSc Public Administration with a specialism in International and European Governance. Prior to joining ICCT, Rebecca worked on the Research & Development team at Young Peacebuilders, which coordinates youth-led community-building projects in conflict contexts. In 2022, she published an article on the relationship between the ethnocultural logic and critique of liberalism in the influential ‘New Right’ text ‘Le Camp des Saints’. Her research interests include the conceptual and communal mechanics of far-right extremism, the use of new technologies in the financing of terrorism, and gender dimensions of radicalisation.