Terrorist Financing

We examine the evolving global counterterrorist financing landscape and seek to develop appropriate and relevant responses to the threat of terrorist financing.



Terrorist Financing

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RUSI’s work focuses on rethinking approaches to countering terrorist financing, including assessing the role of new technologies, the threat of lone-actor and small-cell terror finance and the crime/terror nexus. We also study capacity-building for both the public and private sectors.

We have a special focus on Europe through Project CRAAFT, an academic research and community-building initiative designed to build stronger, more coordinated counterterrorist financing capacity across the EU and in its neighbourhood. The project engages with authorities and private entities to promote cross-border connectivity and targeted research. Funded by the European Union’s Internal Security Fund – Police, the project is being implemented by a Consortium led by RUSI Europe, along with the University of Amsterdam, Bratislava-based think tank GLOBSEC and the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT), based in The Hague.

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    Tom Keatinge

    Director, CFS

    Centre for Finance and Security

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    Fellows


    David Artingstall

    Associate Fellow; Independent Consultant

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    David Carlisle

    Associate Fellow; Independent Consultant

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    Jessica Davis

    Associate Fellow; President and Principal Consultant with Insight Threat Intelligence

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    Justyna Gudzowska

    Associate Fellow

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    Olivia Kearney

    Associate Fellow

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    Anagha Joshi

    Associate Fellow; Independent Consultant

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    Olivier Kraft

    Associate Fellow; Technical Assistance Adviser with the International Monetary Fund

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    Professor Michael Levi

    Senior Associate Fellow | SHOC Network Member - Researcher

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    David Lewis

    Senior Associate Fellow; Managing Director and Global Head of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Advisory Practice, Kroll

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    Erin Lubowicz

    Associate Fellow

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    Andrew Mackay

    Associate Fellow; Independent Consultant

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    Robert Norfolk-Whittaker

    Associate Fellow; UN Consultant

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    Dr Marc Parker

    Associate Fellow; Counter-terrorist financing expert

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    Matthew Redhead

    Senior Associate Fellow; Financial crime consultant and researcher

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    Stephen Reimer

    Associate Fellow

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    Denisse Rudich

    Associate Fellow; Founder and Executive Director, Rudich Advisory

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    Sergii Rybchenko

    Associate Fellow

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    Dr Noémi També

    Associate Fellow; Independent Financial Crime Consultant and Researcher

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    Dr Timothy Wittig

    Associate Fellow - Expert on wildlife trafficking, illicit economies, and terrorist/threat finance

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