Richard is Director of The Global Strategy Network, a group of policy makers and practitioners working to increase social cohesion and community resilience against violent extremism. From 2004 to 2012, Richard worked at the United Nations in New York as Coordinator of the Al-Qaida and Taliban Monitoring Team. Before joining the United Nations, Richard worked for the British Government both at home and overseas. He has published several papers and articles, most recently on Foreign Fighters and the Islamic State.

Mak Chishty has an extensive career with the police force spanning across two decades. As the former Met Police Commander, Mak has demonstrated a remarkable understanding of the crime and security landscape, including serious and organised crime, intelligence, surveillance, special branch, forensic science, and countering violent extremism. Mak Chishty has significantly influenced global thinking on community relations and has become recognised for his expertise on the rule of law. He has worked internationally with the USA, Europe, Gulf States and Pakistan.

Between 2014 and 2018, Scott Wilson was the UK National Co-ordinator for Protect and Prepare at National Counter Terrorism HQ Scotland Yard. Until recently, Scott was a Detective Chief Superintendent and a Senior Investigating Officer with extensive working knowledge in homicide and counter terrorism investigations, having led over 50 murder and Counter Terrorism enquiries. As a SO15 Senior Investigation Officer and former head of Scotland Yard SO15 forensic management team, he is experienced in bomb scene management and disaster victim identification.

As a former head of the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command
(SO15) (2011-2015), Richard Walton has many years’ experience delivering successful counter terrorism and counter extremism strategies within a ‘rule of law’ framework. He has also worked internationally across the security sector delivering rule of law, stabilisation and capacity building in fragile conflict affected states.

Terri Nicholson MSc served for 30 years in the Police service, performing senior leadership roles in Counter Terrorism and Organised Crime at Scotland Yard, the National Crime Squad and SOCA.  Terri retired as Assistant Chief Constable - Deputy Senior National Coordinator for Counter Terrorism in the UK in June of this year.  She is now Vice President for International Security at Viacom – the multinational media conglomerate. She will join the SCTX advisory committee as one of the most knowledgable minds on counter-terror and security issues.

Commander Robert James Broadhurst, OBE, QPM was the 2012 Olympics Gold Service. He was formerly Commander for Public Order and Pan London Operational Support of London’s Metropolitan Police Service.

Alistair Bunkall is the Defence & Security Correspondent for Sky News,
covering global security issues from conflict to counter terrorism. This has taken him regularly to the frontlines in Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen, the closed-state of North Korea, NATO’s eastern border with Russia and to the scene of terror attacks in London, Paris, Norway and Denmark. Uniquely, Alistair has been given unprecedented access to some of the UK’s most secretive establishments: GCHQ, the Trident nuclear deterrent, the country’s highly secure air command bunker and the UK’s covert drone base in the Middle East. He has covered elections in Pakistan and Turkey, the Eurozone crisis across the continent and humanitarian disasters in South Sudan and the Philippines. He also writes a regular “Letter from…” column for the London Evening Standard on international affairs.