Magnus Ranstorp

Magnus Ranstorp
Magnus Ranstorp ; ( “terror expert”);
Born	13 March 1965; Hästveda, Sweden
Member of	Centre for Societal Security, Counter Extremism Project, Institute for Strategic Dialogue
Interests	• Hizballah; • Hamas; • al-Qaeda; • “radicalisation”
	Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence/Director
In office
	- May 2006
Employer	Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence
Succeeded by	Alex Schmid

Magnus Ranstorp is a "terror expert" who was director of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St. Andrews.

Career

Until 2006 he worked as director of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence. Later he was Chief Scientist at the Centre for Asymmetric Threat Studies at the Swedish National Defence College. He was CNN's principal consultant on terrorism before and after 9/11 ^[1] and in 2004 was referred to by The Herald as, "the most quoted British academic in the United States." ^[2]

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