Magnus Ranstorp

Swedish National Defense College

Research Director of the Centre for Asymmetric Threat Studies

+46 (0)8 553 427 87

Ph.D. St. Andrews University, International Relations, 1995

Graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College, 1985

Dr Magnus Ranstorp is the Research Director of the Centre for Asymmetric Threat Studies at the Swedish National Defence College, directing a large funded project on Strategic Terrorist Threats to Europe which focuses on both radicalisation and recruitment of salafist-jihadist terrorists across Europe and the critical issue of the convergence between CBRN and terrorism.

He is internationally recognised as a leading expert on Hizballah, Hamas, al-Qaeda and other militant Islamic movements. He has conducted extensive field work around the world, interviewing hundreds of terrorists as well as members of militant Islamic movements.