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Keynote SpeakerSuzanne Raine

Master of Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, Formerly head of the UK’s Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre and Director of Counter Terrorism at the UK’s Foreign Office

Suzanne Raine is the Master of Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. She served for 24 years in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office on foreign policy and national security issues, including postings in Poland, Iraq and Pakistan. She was Head of the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre from 2015-2017 and Director... Read more

Biography

Suzanne Raine is the Master of Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. She served for 24 years in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office on foreign policy and national security issues, including postings in Poland, Iraq and Pakistan.

She was Head of the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre from 2015-2017 and Director of Counter-Terrorism from 2017-19.

Since leaving the civil service in 2019 she has engaged with academia through the Centre for Geopolitics in Cambridge and as a Visiting Professor at Kings College London. She writes and lectures on risk analysis, anticipation and warning.

Popular Talks by Suzanne Raine

  • Geopolitics, particularly in Europe, the Middle East and South Asia
  • Foreign and National Security policymaking in the UK and Europe
  • Terrorism and Counter Terrorism
  • Risk management from a geopolitical perspective
  • Resilience, Warning and Preparedness
  • Diversity for better decision-making
  • Crisis anticipation
  • Taking Geopolitical Decisions
  • Analysis and Understanding
  • Prediction and Forecasting