Biography
Petra Regeni is a Research Analyst and Project Officer in the Terrorism and Conflict group at RUSI Europe, based in Brussels. Petra’s expertise encompasses radicalisation, extremism, and the prevention and countering of violent extremism (P/CVE), primarily in Europe and neighbouring regions, with a focus on tech and online spaces, malign foreign funding and influence, mis-/disinformation, and P/CVE policies.
Petra has a diverse portfolio of work that includes radicalisation in online gaming spaces, disinformation and AI influence (primarily Russian), and P/CVE policy and programming. She also acts as the coordinator of the Extremism and Gaming Research Network (EGRN) and supports RUSI’s Far-Right Extremism and Terrorism programme. Previously, she was part of RUSI Europe’s project and research team implementing the EU-funded Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) Policy Support project until August 2024, which aimed to provide EU policymakers with evidence-based data and analysis on extremism and P/CVE policy.
Prior to joining RUSI Europe in 2021, she worked in the research and analysis department at Hedayah and as a capacity building and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) officer at Trust Consultancy in Turkey. Petra holds a BA with Honours in Political Science from Dalhousie University, completed an exchange programme at the Australian National University, and an MSc in International Crimes, Conflict and Criminology at the VU Amsterdam. She was also an output lead for the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism's (GIFCT) 2023 Working Group on Legal Frameworks and is an alumna of the German Marshall Fund’s 2022 Young Professionals Summit programme.
