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Kristian Gustafson

Dr. Kristian Gustafson

Dr. Gustafson is Reader in Intelligence & War. He is the Deputy Director Brunel University London’s Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies. After an MA at the University of Alberta, Canada, he moved to the UK to take his PhD at Downing College, Cambridge. Before coming to Brunel, Dr. Gustafson was senior lecturer in War Studies at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He has served in the Canadian Army and as a Reservist in the British Army, and taught at the Joint Services Command and Staff College of the United Kingdom, and deployed to Bosnia and Afghanistan.

Dr. Gustafson has conducted consultancy and advisory work for the MOD’s Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre, including an integral role in developing UK Joint Intelligence Doctrine. He has provided other work for the UK Government and professional development courses to multiple Allied and partner organisations around the world. He has previously worked with the NGO Africa Parks, developing intelligence strategies to support counter-poaching across Africa. His publications focus on structured analysis and its application on a range of security topics.

Héni Nsaibia

Héni Nsaibia

Héni is the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)’s West Africa Senior Analyst. He leads the conflict data collection and analysis for the Sahel. He is also the director of Menastream, a research and risk consultancy that provides intelligence analysis and tailored services.
His research interests and expertise center around insurgencies and their various dimensions, and non-state actors in Sahelian countries. In addition to his research activities, Héni is regularly consulted by the media, government agencies, and various organizations on security issues in the Sahel and North Africa.

Héni has over 15 years of experience in researching the broader MENA-region. He is the co-author of The Islamic State in Africa: The Emergence, Evolution, and Future of the Next Jihadist Battlefront (Hurst Publishers). His work and commentary have been published in the CTC Sentinel, African Affairs, ISPI, Le Monde, Jeune Afrique, The Guardian, TIME, and Al Jazeera, among others.

Dr Alex Vines

Dr Alex Vines

Dr Vines was the inaugural Africa programme director at Chatham House for 23 years until September 2025. He has also been a member of the institute’s Executive Leadership Team as a research director holding various responsibilities for over two decades.  He chaired the UN Panel of Experts on Côte d’Ivoire from 2005 to 2007 and was a member of the UN Panel of Experts on Liberia from 2001 to 2003. Dr Vines was also a member of the Commonwealth Observer Group to Nigeria in 2023 (Mozambique in 2019 and 2024 and Ghana in 2016) and a UN election officer in Mozambique (1994) and Angola (1992). He worked at Human Rights Watch as a senior researcher on its Africa, Arms and Business and Human Rights programmes, and has served as a consultant including for the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC); JICA, DFID, USAID, the EU and for the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

Dr Vines is also an assistant professor at Coventry University and sits on the editorial and advisory Boards for the South African Journal of International Affairs, Africa Review (journal of the African Studies of India) and is an honorary fellow of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Lagos . Alex holds a PhD from Coventry University and was awarded an OBE in 2008 in recognition of his Africa work including founding and developing Chatham House’s Africa programme. He is co-author of Policy Response Options for West Africa’s Security and Democracy Crisis (IMVF, October 2024).

Liam Morrissey

Liam Morrissey

Liam is the CEO of MS Risk Limited, a British security and crisis response consultancy.  He is a former combat arms officer in the Canadian Armed Forces and intelligence officer with the British Army.  Previously he was the Head of Risk Management and Security for the international division of Tesco plc.  He formed MS Risk two decades ago and the company works in support of insurers, financiers and natural resources companies on an international basis.  MS Risk has worked continuously in the Sahel region for the last 18 years providing consulting, project management and crisis response services to clients.  Liam is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and in 2023 he was awarded a Doctor of Science (hc) by Brunel University for his crisis negotiation doctrine.

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Sylvain Savolainen

Sylvain Savolainen is the founding partner of SAVOLAINEN Avocats, law firm based in Geneva, Switzerland. He assists and defends clients in criminal, civil and administrative matters, in particular in litigation. His areas of expertise cover criminal law, international criminal law, white-collar crime and corporate liability. He also has extensive knowledge in human rights, in particular in Business and Human Rights issues.

Sylvain Savolainen is Vice-President of the International Criminal Defence Commission of the UIA (International Association of Lawyers), member of the Human Rights Committee of the ECBA (European Criminal Bar Association), member of the Advisory Committee of VOCAL (Victims of Crime Association of Lawyers), member of the Board of Prison Insider, and former member of the Human Rights Commission of the Geneva Bar Association. He has been consulted by the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights and by the Swiss Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research. He is regularly invited by universities and during seminars and congresses to give lectures and presentations. In November 2024, Sylvain has been appointed by the Swiss Federal Council to sit among the 15 experts of Switzerland forming the Swiss Federal Commission against Racism. He represents Mr Abd Rahim al-Nashiri, who faces the death penalty and who was tortured and detained incommunicado for four years in different CIA’s “black sites” around the world, then at the Guantánamo detention camp since 2006 where he is still detained unlawfully and without judgement. In 2022, Sylvain filed a Communication to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD). Opinion N° 72/2022 of the UNWGAD was rendered finding the US, Afghanistan, Lithuania, Morocco, Poland, Romania, Thailand and the UAE to be responsible for torture, violations of the hardest core of fundamental rights (jus cogens), arbitrary detention and serious violations of international law. In 2015, Sylvain Savolainen won the first prize of the prestigious Michel Nançoz trial advocacy competition organized by the Geneva Bar. The same year, he was awarded the third prize of the eloquence competition Prix Paris-Montreal de la francophonie. In 2012, the University of Geneva awarded him the prize for best Masters in Law thesis for his work on the corporate criminal liability. Before becoming a lawyer, Sylvain was a photographer and a reporter for ten years; he collaborated with the international press and various national radio stations (New York Times, GEO, Figaro Magazine, Herald Tribune, La Repubblica, La Stampa, El Mundo, L’Hebdo, France Inter, France Culture, RTS). In 2007, he received the Swiss Press Photo Award for the best feature of the year for his work on the post-war situation in Sierra Leone and international criminal justice.

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H.E. Berenice Owen-Jones

H.E. Berenice Owen-Jones is a career officer with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), she has previously served overseas as Australia’s Ambassador to Morocco and has had postings in Paris.

In Canberra she served as Director, Diplomatic Academy and Director, Diplomatic Security Branch. She also was a strategic analyst at the Office of National Intelligence.

Berenice speaks French and holds a Bachelor of Economics (1984) and a Diploma of International Law (1987) from the Australian National University.

Dr Gideon Peasah

Dr. Gideon Ofosu-Peasah

Dr. Gideon Ofosu-Peasah is an analyst on the GI-TOC extractives team and the Observatory of Illicit Economies in West Africa. His work focuses on extractive industries, illicit economies, and organised crime. Before joining GI-TOC, he was an expert panel member on the political economy analysis of Ghana’s extractive sector and a steering committee member of the Media Coalition against Galamsey. He received his PhD from the University of Energy and Natural Resources, Ghana.

John Moller

John Moller

Mr Moller has established his credentials over a 35-year period which includes 20 years in the Australian Army and 15 years working for a range of commercial enterprises, primarily in the oil and gas and mining sectors. Complementing his experience, Mr Moller holds a Master’s in Emergency Management, a Post Graduate Diploma in Operations Management and a Bachelor of Science in Security.

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