Keynote Speakers
Paul Gill
Paul Gill is a Professor of Security and Crime Science at University College London. His work focuses on the behavioural underpinnings of radicalisation and terrorism. His current work involves developing the evidence base for risk and protective factors for violent extremist outcomes, the development of measurements of violent extremism, the evaluation of risk assessment and management processes and countering insider threats. In the recent past, he has managed projects from a range of funders including the European Research Council, NCITE, the Home Office, and CREST. Past projects focused upon various aspects of terrorist behaviour including IED development, terrorist network structures, lone-actor terrorism, insider threat, domestic abuse, and school shootings. His doctoral research focused on the underlying individual and organizational motivations behind suicide bombing. This piece of research won the Jean Blondel Prize for the best Ph.D. thesis in Political Science in Europe for 2010. He has published in leading psychology, criminology and political science journals and his latest co-edited book on violent extremism risk assessment and management is published with University College London Press. In the past couple of years, Gill has provided briefings at the White House, Quantico, Public Safety Canada, the Home Office, Norwegian Extremism Commission, Association of European Threat Assessment Professionals, Europol, and the Swedish Police amongst others. He won the 2024 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals
Vidhya Ramalingam
Vidhya Ramalingam is Founder and CEO of Moonshot, an organization working to end online harms, applying evidence, ethics and human rights. Under her leadership, Moonshot has pioneered the development of new technology to rapidly assess threats of violence online, and operates a proven model to prevent targeted violence and terrorism online on behalf of the Governments of Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Moonshot has twice been named to Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies list, including as the 9th most innovative security company in the world. Vidhya is also recognized internationally for her role leading intergovernmental policy responses to terrorism. Following the 2011 terrorist attacks in Norway, she led the European Union’s first intergovernmental initiative on racially motivated terrorism. She has been recognized by Fortune’s Most Powerful Women, served as a Commissioning Panelist for the UK security and intelligence agencies, and regularly testifies before the U.S. Congress, House of Commons of Canada, and UK Parliament on threats to national security.