Raffaello Pantucci is an Adjunct Senior Fellow with the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research, at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) based in Hong Kong. Previously, he served for around three years at a Senior Fellow at RSIS in Singapore. Prior to moving to Singapore he led the International Security Studies team at the Royal United Services Institute in London where is also currently a Senior Associate Fellow. Earlier in his career he has worked at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London, and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) in China (as well as holding associate positions at a number of other institutes). His work has focused on terrorism and counter-terrorism, as well as China’s relations with its western neighbours. He is the author of the well-received We Love Death As You Love Life: Britain’s Suburban Terrorists (UK: Hurst, US: Oxford University Press, 2015), and co-author (with Alexandros Petersen) of Sinostan: China’s Inadvertent Empire (Oxford University Press, 2022). He has provided advice to governments in Europe and Asia, testified before legislative committees in the US, UK and Europe and his work has been quoted in the UK’s Contest counter-terrorism strategy. He has published in numerous academic journals, in newspapers like the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Financial Times (amongst others) as well as presented radio and television documentaries for the BBC (and provided commentary elsewhere). For more of his work, please see: http://www.raffaellopantucci.com
