International Conference on Countering Terrorism (ICCT)

Jean-Louis Bruguière is a leading French investigating magistrate in charge of counter-terrorism affairs. He was appointed in 2004 as the vice-president of the Paris Court of Serious Claims (Tribunal de Grande Instance). Bruguière studied at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and took part in the May 1968 protests. He continued his education at the École Nationale de la Magistrature. Possibly his biggest case (in terms of number of people involved) was that of UTA Flight 772 which was sabotaged over the Sahara Desert in 1989 with the loss of 170 lives. He was called as a witness in May 2007 by the defendants of a trial involving members suspected to have provided logistical support to the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (GICM), involved in the 2003 Casablanca bombings.

Dr Gérard Chaliand is an observer of insurgency warfare. For the past 40 years he has observed guerrilla movements in countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America and has had close battlefield contact with African, South American, Afghan and Vietnamese guerrillas among others. Read More

General VP Malik was born on 1st Nov 1939 at Dera Ismail Khan, NWFP, now in Pakistan. Alumni of the National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla and the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun. He was commissioned into the Indian Army on 7th Jun 1959... Read More

Rohan Gunaratna is an international terrorism expert. He is the head of the International Center for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He is a Senior Fellow at the Jebsen Center for Counter Terrorism Studies, Fletcher School for Law and Diplomacy and an Honorary Fellow at the International Policy Institute for Counter Terrorism in Israel. He has served as a consultant to the United Kingdom and United States law enforcement communities.

David Leppan is the CEO and founder of World-Check, the world’s leading provider of structured intelligence on heightened risk individuals and entities. Founded in late 2000, World-Check was originally established to meet the Swiss financial industry's... Read More

Shanaka Jayasekara is a Terrorism Researcher at the Center for Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism (PICT) at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He holds a M. Litt in International Security Studies from the University of St Andrews in Scotland,... Read More

Dr Saman Kelegama is the Executive Director at the Institute of Policy Studies, Colombo. He is a trade policy economist who also works on industrial economics, public enterprise reform, and macroeconomics. He obtained his doctorate, D.Phil (Econ) from Oxford University, UK in 1990. He has an MSc (Econ) from Oxford University and MSc (Maths) first class degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, India. He was a Government of India Cultural Scholar for his undergraduate studies during 1978-1983. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences of Sri Lanka. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Australia South Asia Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (1998); Government of India Distinguished Visiting Scholar (1998); Salzburg Fellow (1997); USIS International Visitor (1993); and Visiting Fellow, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands (1992/3). He has been (and is) a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Colombo, Post-Graduate Institute of Management (PIM), Sri Lanka, Bandaranaike Diplomatic Training Institute (BDTI), Sri Lanka and several other institutions. He has served as a consultant to the World Bank, ADB, UNDP, UNIDO, ILO, UN-ESCAP, Commonwealth Secretariat, among other organizations.

Mr. Shyam Tekwani

Dr. Shyam Tekwani is an Assistant Professor at the Nangyang Technical University, Singapore. He has nearly two decades of experience in communications, as a reporter and photojournalist. His works have appeared in publications such as The New York Times Magazine, Time, Newsweek, Le Figaro, Geo and Der Spiegel. He is a specialist in the areas of terrorism, media and conflict.

V. Anandasangaree is the leader of the Tamil United Liberation Front. He is an outspoken critic of the LTTE and advocate of a federal solution to the Sri Lankan ethnic conflict. In 2006 Anandasangaree was named as the winner of the 2006 UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence.