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Michael A. Innes is CTLab Founder, Publisher, and Director. He divides his time between Brussels and London, researching and writing about foreign policy, militancy, and the laws of armed conflict. From 2003 to 2009, he was a civilian staff officer with a large international organization(see disclaimer). As a scholar, he's affiliated with the School of Public Policy at University College London, the School of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the University of Leeds, and with the Institute for National Security & Counter-Terrorism (INSCT) at the University of Syracuse.
He has authored or edited numerous publications, including Denial of Sanctuary: Understanding Terrorist Safe Havens (Praeger, 2007), Bosnian Security After Dayton: New Perspectives (Routledge, 2006), and the forthcoming Making Sense of Proxy Wars: States, Surrogates, and the Use of Force (Potomac, 2009). He is currently researching a single-authored book on militant sanctuary, under contract with Hurst Publishers.
John Matthew Barlow, PhD, is Co-Director of CTlab, and teaches at John Abbott College in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec. His research examines notions of culture, history, memory, diaspora, and the urban landscape. From 1999-2006, he was a Research Consultant for a major research firm in Ottawa. He divides his time between Montreal and rural New England.
Eric Randolph, CTlab's London Editor, is a former journalist and video reporter from the UK who now works for a well-known defence analysis firm in London. He has an MA in International Relations from King's College London, with a special interest in terrorism, insurgency and the role of ideology and faith in conflict. In addition to his writing at Current Intelligence, he reports regularly on events in and round London for The Review.
Christopher Albon is a Ph.D. candidate specializing in armed conflict, public health, human security, and health diplomacy. Christopher could talk about them forever. He lives in San Francisco with his wife Jen.
Kenneth (Ken) Anderson is a professor of international law at Washington College of Law, American University, Washington DC, a research fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and member of the Hoover Task Force on National Security and Law. His research interests include the law and ethics of war, terrorism and counterterrorism, war robotics and the laws of war; he also teaches and writes in the areas of international business and finance law, with emphasis on nonprofit organizations and global NGOs, global civil society, and international development finance. His current writing is about targeted killing and drone aircraft, as well as the concept of proportionality in the law and ethics of war; most published articles available at his SSRN author page. Formerly director of the Human Rights Watch Arms Division and General Counsel to the Soros Foundations/Open Society Institute, he is a long-time editorial board member of the Journal of Terrorism and Political Violence and Telos. He blogs at the international law blog Opinio Juris and the law blog Volokh Conspiracy in addition to CTLab.
Martin Senn is currently employed as lecturer in International Relations/International Security at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. In his research he focuses on nuclear (non-)proliferation and counter-proliferation, arms control and ballistic missile defense. He blogs on these issues at http://www.armscontrol.at. A list of publications and his CV are available on his personal web-site.
Tim Stevens is an Associate Fellow of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation & Political Violence, and a doctoral candidate in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. His research interests fall within the broad field of the social uses of technology, in particular the use of the internet by state and non-state actors in conflict and terrorism, cyberwar, the conceptualisation of cyberspace, the relationships between virtuality and violence, and the nature of the technological 'accident'.
Marc Tyrrell teaches at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies (IIS) at Carleton University in Ottawa, and is a Senior Research Fellow at the Canadian Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies (CCISS) in Carleton's Norman Patterson School of International Affairs.
Marc’s research focus is on the practical and philosophical grounds of how sensemaking is possible or, in other words, how do people make sense of their lives and what do they use to do it? At the present time, Marc is engaged in several research projects including an examination of cultural aspects of "alliances", the relationship between music and ideology, the effects of cross-cultural misunderstanding on military operations and the process of radicalization-deradicalizaton. His most recent research deals with the application of sparse Darwinian evolutionary theory as a way to analyze asymmetric warfare.
In addition to teaching in IIS and his work with CCISS, Marc is a member of the Centre for Indigenous Research, Culture, Language and Education, a singer with the Ottawa Bach Choir, and Anthropologist in [Virtual] Residence with Insignia Research. He is also a blogger at his own site In Harmonium and an active member of the Small Wars Council.
Marisa Urgo is a senior open source intelligence analyst supporting defense and energy programs in Washington, DC. She was a senior counter-terrorism and energy security analyst at the U.S. Department of Energy from 2003-2008. She has also held counter-terrorism and management positions at the FBI and Raytheon Company. She's a professional librarian, holding a MS in Library Science (1995) and a BA in English (1991). Marisa blogs at Making Sense of Jihad, and is currently working on a manuscript for a guidebook on open source intelligence. She was co-author on “Al-Qa`ida’s Medinan Strategy: Targeting Global Energy Infrastructure” for the May 2008 issue of The Sentinel. She's also written for Political Studies Review and for SMU Science and Technology Law Review.