SYED HASSAN ZULFIQAR

Syed Hassan Zulfiqar is a Criminologist by profession and is serving as the Executive Director of the Global Center for Excellence in Criminology. He was born in Peshawar in 1996 and hails from Nowshera, a small town few miles away from the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. He has worked as an Independent Consultant for various Law Enforcement Agencies, Government and Inter-Governmental Organizations. He was a Jerry Lee Scholar and graduated with a Master of Science in Criminology from the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology at the prestigious University of Pennsylvania, the first and only university of the IVY League in the United States of America offering advanced research degree in Criminology.

                     He predominantly works and conducts research in the domain of counter-terrorism (CT), preventing/countering-violent extremism (P/CVE), anti-money laundering (AML), combat financing of terrorism (CFT), policing reforms and examining cult ideologies. He has been extensively involved and has over 6 years of experience in research, on both academic and professional grounds, alongside close-knit mentor-ship with award-winning and world renowned Criminologists, including Dr. Adrian Raine – the Modern Day father of Neurocriminology and Dr. Gregory Ridgeway, former Director of the RAND safety and justice program and National Institute of Justice, Department of Justice of the United States. Currently both are serving as professors of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to moving to the United States for professional graduate studies, he worked for 2 federal law enforcement agencies in Pakistan, including the National Counter-Terrorism Authority (NACTA) and Financial Monitoring Unit (FMU).

                     His masters thesis was on analysis of trends and patterns of infiltration, perpetration and cross-border terrorism causing insurgency and instability in the region of the most dangerous border in the world, the Durand Line. He has been analyzing and the Global Terrorism Database which is maintained by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States and has been extensively researching on various topics of terrorism by using modern statistical methods and data analysis tools. He is also a member and fellow of the American Society of Criminology and British Society of Criminology. He has also authored 3 books and a research paper in a peer reviewed journal.