Introducing New Contributing Expert Michael Chandler
By Andrew Cochran
We are very pleased to welcome our first European-based Contributing Expert, Michael Chandler. Mr. Chandler was the Chairman of the U.N.'s Al Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Monitoring Group, where he worked with Victor Comras, until early 2004, and he was the co-author of seven reports to the UN Security Council, issued from June 2001 to December 2003. Prior to that, he was as a career officer in the British Army, in which he held command and staff appointments in numerous countries, and then held senior management positions in the oil and high-tech industries. He joined the U.N. in 1993 and was a senior official involved in the the UN Protection Force (UNPROFOR) in the Bosnia-Herzegovina area, where he established and oversaw the operation of the joint civilian/military logistics organisation throughout the mission area. From Janury 1999 until late 2000, he directed the establishment of the new State Border Service for Bosnia and Herzegovina, the countrys first substantive multi-ethnic and cross-entity institution with a single commander.
In February 2004 Mr. Chandler was awarded the Risks Management Solutions (RMS) Visiting Fellowship for Terrorism Research at Singapores Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies. He is called upon regularly to give presentations and participate in panel discussions at international gatherings and to speak on television and radio on matters relating to countering terrorism and the al-Qaeda network. He was a member of the 2004 Club de Madrid Summit Working Group on Terrorist Financing and is a consultant on a variety of matters relating to countering trans-national terrorism, including command and control and effective inter-agency cooperation. He is a member of the Advisory Council of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies in Singapore and the Advisory Board of the International Policy Institute for Counter Terrorism, Herzliya, Israel.
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