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Rohan Gunaratna is a specialist in the field of the global threat environment, with expertise in threat groups in Asia, the Middle East and Africa. He is the Head of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR) in Singapore, one of the world's largest specialist counter-terrorism research and training centres. Professor Gunaratna is also Professor of Security Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, and he is a Senior Fellow at the International Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism in Oklahoma. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism in Israel, and a member of the Steering Committee of the Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University. He was also a Senior Fellow at the Fletcher School for Law and Diplomacy and at the Combating Terrorism Centre at the United States Military Academy. In February 2009, he chaired the inaugural International Conference on Terrorist Rehabilitation in Singapore.
Ustaz Dr Mohamed Bin Ali is Assistant Professor at the Studies in Inter-Religious Relations in Plural Societies Programme (SRP), S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. His areas of research include Islamic jurisprudence, Islamist ideology, religious extremism, inter-religious relations and rehabilitation of Muslim extremists. Well-versed in Arabic language and Islamic knowledge, Dr Mohamed obtained his Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Islamic Jurisprudence from Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt in 2002; a Master of Science (MSc) in International Relations at RSIS, NTU in 2007; and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Arab and Islamic Studies from the University of Exeter, United Kingdom in 2013. Prior to that, he studied Islam and Arabic language at Aljunied Islamic School in Singapore from 1990–1995. Dr Mohamed also graduated with a Specialist Diploma in Counselling Psychology from the Academy of Certified Counsellors, Singapore in 2006. Since 2003, Dr Mohamed has been involved in the rehabilitation programme of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) detainees in Singapore. He is the Vice-Chairman and a counsellor of the Religious Rehabilitation Group (RRG), a group of voluntary Muslim clerics who provide religious counselling to the JI detainees. Dr Mohamed has made numerous presentations locally and abroad, conducted courses and published widely on Islamic issues and issues of religious extremism and terrorist rehabilitation. He has also conducted field trips in many countries including Iraq, Pakistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Bangladesh, Indonesia and the Philippines. Dr Mohamed is also actively involved in community-related works. Currently, he is a member of the Syariah Appeal Board of the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (MUIS) and a member of the Khadijah Mosque Management Board. Dr Mohamed is a former President of the Singaporean Students Welfare Assembly in Cairo, former member of the Council for Asian Terrorism Research and counsellor at the Singapore Prison Department. He has also delivered lectures and sermons in many mosques in Singapore.
