Practitioner

Alan Edwards is a Deployable Civilian Expert with the FCDO in relation to combating organised crime.

Bryony MacLeod is an intelligence analyst with HMRC’s Risk and Intelligence Service (RIS) working on strategic and tactical assessment of fraud in the UK. She was previously based in the Fraud Investigation Service as an operational analyst.

Dr Bill Merrill took up post as the Head of HUMINT for the National Crime Agency (NCA) in December 2018. An experienced law enforcement senior leader, Bill started his policing career after a stint in the Parachute Regiment.

Nicholas is a policy analyst with a focus on the intersection between Security and Emerging Technologies at the United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth (UNMGCY).

Honorable Isak Barow Isak is a politican and experienced security expert based in Somalia with more than 10 years of extensive experience in the Humanitarian environment.

Daniel Steggles is a former Police officer and Public Order / CBRN instructor who has also spent time working in local CID teams. During these roles, he was involved in numerous large scale public order events in London including the July 2007 terrorist bombings.

John M. Sellar OBE CF has been connected with law enforcement for almost five decades; from 1973 in the Scottish Police Service, from 1997 with the United Nations and, since 2011, in an advisory capacity.

Following a career in forensic services within UK policing, Pete Easterbrook joined the Security Industry Authority (SIA), the UK government regulator of the private security industry.

Bruce M. Foucart is an intellectual property rights enforcement professional with extensive U.S. federal law enforcement experience.